CABLE MESSAGES.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 337, 10 July 1878, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

[Reuter’s Telegram to Press Agency.}

LONDON.

July 4. The Channel Squadron has left for an indefinite port under sealed orders. The Chief Justice of Hong Kong received an address from the Aborigines Society. In replying he referred to a visit to New Guinea, and expressed a hope that Britain would colonise the island C DNSTANTINOPLE. July 4. General Tobleben is preparing for the withdrawal of the Russian army to Adrianople. BERLIbi. July 6. The Turks have accepted in principle the Austrian occupation of Bosnia ami Herzegovina, and demand that a limit be fixed as to duration, and stringent regulations ns to area occupied. The navigation of the Danube has been opened to all nations. Difficulty is expected in reference to Baton in. [Special to Press Agency.} LONDON. July 7. Russia pledges itself to dismantle the Batoum forts, and to make the Port commercially free. England has concluded Defensive Treaty with Turkey, and assumes the Protectorate over Asia Minor, guaranteeing the integrity of the Sultan’s Asiatic Realm. England occupies Cyprus. Lord Nurthcote met with slight accident at his official residence, probablydisabling him for a few days.