LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 198, 3 March 1877, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

■ o ri’Kii Pit ess Aokxov.] ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. Auckland, February 26. A number of Basho Bazonks crossed the Danube and plundered Roumanian outposts. The commander of Siiistria is ordered to punish them. The cost of the relief works and measures to relievo t.io iamnio at Bombay and Madras is estimated at six and a half millions sterling. The Servian Gene.ial TchernayifT was received at Prague with incessant ovations favourable to Russia. The authorities interfered, and the police escorted him over the Saxony Iron tiers, and, as ho showed a disposition to resist, force was threatened. The British ship Ada liodalo, bound for Ban Francisco with coal, has been totally destroyed by fire. The crew, numbering twenty-three, set out for Marquesas island, over 2,000 miles distant. One boat capsized in a gale, but the passengers wore all saved but one. After being twenty-six days in open boats, and undergoing great sufferings, they arrived safely. Jn the event of war a split is expected in the British Parliament, the Liberals dividing under the opposing leadership of llartingtou and Gladstone, and the Conservatives dividing through known differences between Salisbury and Beacon sii eld. The Porte has warned Servia that no armistice would he granted beyond the Ist of March. The Countess Howe, through grief at

the death of her husband, throw herself 1 from a window ami was killed. A lire occurred at the Btoncball coni mine, Bolton, and fifteen are known to be killed. Commercial intercourse between Russia and China is suspended, owing to Chinese suspicions excited by a Russian expl uri ng e xpod i tio n. It is said that Turkey and Bervia agreed to accept status quo ante helium ns the basis uf treaty for peace negotiations. It is reported that Russia will not oppose the (Servian peace negotiations in order that should war arise Bcrvia may he invaded as a Turkish territory. The Porte has sent a dispatch to its representatives abroad, giving notice of thv appointment of three Christian Governors, and that reforms were progressing umvmilt ingly. The. steamers George Cromwell, from Hull, and George Washington, from Halifax, the form or with thirty ami the latter with thirty-one passengers, have been totally best. The Roumanians are erecting redoubts opposite the Turkish fortress at Widdiii. Prince Cortschakoff is dangerously ilk It is reported ho is likely to resign owing to the Emperor’s unwillingness to declare Avar. The American ship Dakota was struck by lightning and burned, The captain and his wife escaped after being in a boat four days. Freemasons have refused to recognise Negroes. A fight has occurred, whites against blacks, in South Carolina. American troops have again been defeated. Ti o Indian revolutionists deli ated the President’s troops in a bloody battle. The revolutionists arc expected to enter Quito.