TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 407, 6 September 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondents.) WELLINGTON. September 4. Late English cablegrams s'ate that on the 19th August the Montenegro ns defeated the Turks at Kuloil. The Turks suffered great loss,, having no ariillery available, during the engagement. On August 25th, an engagement between the Servians and Turks was undecisive. Russian volunteer officers and soldiers have joined the Servians with the permission of Russia. Prince Milan has summoned the Consular body to his palace for the purpose of bringing about a joint mediation by the Great Powers; in the meantime an armistice has been proposed. Major Atkinson makes a Ministerial statement of the policy of the Government, to-morrow (Tuesday). It is generally believed that there is no material difference between the constitution of the two Governments. Counties are proposed to be larger, and the Act only to be brought into operation on the requisition of electors. The appointment of Vogel as AgentGeneral will be strongly opposed. The new Government is pledged to extensive retrenchment. NAPIER. September 4. There are fire candidates proposed for the three vacant seats in the Borough Council, namely, H. Williams,, Large, Holder, Lyndon and Lee. There is little interest yet taken in the result. The p.s. Mania is ashore at Wairoa heads ; she is, as yet, uninjured. Assistance has been sent to her from Napier. St. John’s Church is still without a pastor. The Rev. Mr Robinson preached yesterday to a large congregation. A memorial has been sent to the Primate, from the parishioners, in which Archdeacon Williams is accused of having exhibited a strong partisanship during the recent controversy, and the memorialists request the appointment of another Commissary, to make enquiries into the charges against Mr Robinson.