NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5338, 7 May 1878, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

SPECIAL TELEGRAM. LATEST WAR NEWS. .FIRM ATTITUDE OF ENGLAND. WARLIKE PREPARATIONS INCESSANT. THREATENED PARTITION OF TURKEY. London, April 30. Russia accepts Bismarck’s,. mutual' withdrawal scheme, and details are arranging between England and Russia directly. The Prince of Wales visited the Victorian Court at the Paris Exhibition, and complimented Mr. Casey.

' (REUTER’S SPECIAL TO PRESS'AGENCY,} London, April 30. 1 Mr. Gathorne Hardy, Secretary for War, says that the British Government takes its stand .On the treaty of 1870, and that the treaty, of San Stefano is without a single element of permanent peace. The interests of Mussulmans and Greeks must not be forgotten. England is resolved to adhere to the prin- ; oiplcs she has hitherto maintained. ' May 1, British warlike preparations are incessant and increasing. ■Russia is urging the Powers to agree upon a policy for the partition of the Turkish Empire. ‘ AUSTRALIAN NEWS Melbourne, Monday. ; The Alhambra arrived to-day in good condition, after a long passage, caused principally by want of fuel. OPENING OF PAMS EXHIBITION. RUSSIAN; PRIVATEERING. ■AUSTRIAN OCCUPATION OF BOSINA FIGHTING NEAR CONSTANTINOPLE. TODLEBEN THINKS WAR INEVIT- . : , ABLE. ‘ MUSSULMAN RISING CONTINUES. The following telegrams were received at the New Zealand Times Office at twenty minutes past three o’clock this morning:— London, April 25. , A large meeting at Manchester adopted resolutions . that the British Government were the obstacle to the maintenance of peace, and protested against the employment of troops from India in Europe. Paris, April 24. , The opening of the Paris Exhibition was a brilliant affair. ' " , ' London, May 1. ' The steamer Cimbria has arrived at a harbor in Maine from the Baltic with 60 officers and 600 men of the Russian navy, under the command of. Count Griffenberg. It is believed they are intended tor privateering. ■ Vienna, April 30. It is reported that there will be an early occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Constantinopms, April SO. There has been an affray between Turkish and Russian troops near Constantinople. - London, May 1. Tho Duke of Connaught has been betrothed to Louisa, daughter of Prince Frederick Charles of Germany. St. Petersburg, May 2. General Todleben has failed to arrange the withdrawal of the British ironclad squadron and the Russian army. He regards war as inevitable. , , " ~ The Mussulman rising continues. ;