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(FROM OUR OWN, CORRESPONDENT.) • Auckland, Wednesday. A correspondent at Plevna' telegraphs the following concerning Osman Pasha’s reception by the Russians: —The Grand Duke Nicholas rode up to Osman’s carriage, and for some seconds the two chiefs gazed into each others faces without the utterance of a word. The Grand Duke stretched out his hand and shook hands with Osman Pasha heartily, saying, “ X compliment you on your defence of Plevna; it is one of the most splendid military feats in history.” Osman smiled sadly, and rose painfully to his feet in spite of his wound. He said something which I could not hear. He then reseated himself. The Russian officers all cried “ Bravo, bravo,” repeatedly, and all saluted respectfully. There was not one among them who did not gaze on the hero of Plevna with the greatest admiration and sympathy. Prince Charles of Roumania, who had arrived, rods up, and repeated unwillingly almost every word of the Grand Duke, and likewise shook hands with Osman, who again rose and bowed, this time in grim silence. Osman Pasha wore his loose blue cloak, with no apparent mark on it to designate his rank, and the red fez. He is a large and strongly-built man. The lower part of his face was covered with a short black beard without a streak of grey. He has a large Roman nose and black eyes. “It is a grand face,” exclaimed Colonel Gaillard, the French military attache. “ I was almost afraid of seeing him,lest my expectation should be disappointed, but he more than fulfils my ideas.” “It is the face of a great military chieftain,” said young Skobeloff. “ I am glad I have seen him ; Osman Ghazi he is, and Osman the Victorious he will remain, in spite of his surrender. Later special telegrams to the New Yorh Herald state that it is generally believed at Bucharest that Osman will be tried by a military court of the highest jurisdiction for the slaughter of the wounded after the great battle of July 31, at the fight before the Gravitza redoubt of September 11, and several other minor engagements. Discoveries made by the Russians since occupying the fortifications of Plevna, information gained from Turkish officers, and above all the absence of Russian prisoners, although several hundreds have been captured during all the engagements, leave no reasonable doubt ' that the Turks under Osrnan .Pasha have been guilty of deeds which will render' his now illustrious name for ever infamous. ' It will be remembered that in August, 1865, a special military commission sat at Washington to try Wertz, charged with destroying the lives of soldiers confined in Andersville Military Prison, crimes of which Wertz was convicted, and for which he was afterwards hanged. These crimes were less offensive to the code of modern warfare than those imputed to Osman Pasha. Every day brings to light some new horror at Plevna. News from the mining districts in the north of England and Wales and the Forest of
Dean are very unfavorable. Many families are in a state of semi-starvation, and saffenn 0 treat privations. The present land laws have much to do with this state of things. The recent favorable decision for the Key. Mr Tooth has led to another uproar. Ihe Communion was celebrated at St. James s, Hatchain, on the 2nd inst., by the reverend Gentleman, and afterwards the service was celebrated by his successor, the Rev. Malcolm "Nicoll. At the close of the service ap- rson named Evenden endeavored to do some damage to the chancel gates, and a scene of dwcrder ensued in which several persons were roughly handled, and the police were called in to quell the disturbance. Evenden was fined £o, and was also ordered to pay for the repairs The Rev. Mr. Simp-on, minor canon of Car lisle Cathedral, has been appointed to the ■Rectorship of Ooldbeclc, worth £6OO a year. The telephone is attracting much attention. Experiments have been UPSS and Wick, a distance of 1-0 miles, -i P °r e- ,1 qtplmersdale has been nominated m nr ry Tmde has awarded a gold JSJSSA.IO- Grace Russell a red dent of Western Australia, in recognition o her bravery on the occasion of the stranding of t 0 Archibald Forbes, the war correspondent of the Daily Aews, at WUlis’s Rooms, by bis brother journalists and personal friends. George Augustus Sala preBk Superintendent Kernon has been appointed superintendent of a division of the London P °Colonel Stuart Wortley has obtained a divorce from his wife on the ground of her adultery with his cousin Captain Drummond. Lord Arthur Sydney Pelham Clinton has obtained a divorce, with costs, on the ground of his wife’s adultery with Sir Claude Scott, hart, with whom she, after being placed in a convent, eloped to the Continent. Mrs. Denis has obtained a divorce from hei husband, a captain in the 14th Hussars, on the grounds of adultery and desertion. ■ Captain French, of the 19th Hussars, has obtained a divorce from bis wife on the ground of adultery with an architect named Wilson. A farmer named Dewes has been charged with causing the death of a new-born child by dashing it on the floor in a fit of rage on learning that it was a hoy. nud not, as he had wished, a girl. He has been sent for trial for manslaughter. . Q , . A destructive fire occurred at Mount Stuart House,'the residence of the Marquis The main portion facing the Frith of Clyde is completely destroyed. The Cape mail steamer European ,was lost oS TJahant. The crew and passengers, and also the mails, are safe. • ; ■
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5253, 24 January 1878, Page 2
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