NEWS FROM TURKEY.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1795, 18 December 1895, Page 2

NEWS FROM TURKEY.

i THE SULTAN AND THE KIAMIL i PASHA. : ' FIGHTING IN CRETE. CONSTANTINOPLE, DflC. 13. j The Sultau’fe'ent Kiamil Pasha a costly present of pearls, and assures him of i his great regard, and desires him to ! return to tho palace, j The Turks attacked the position of the Christian malcontents in 'Crete, but were twice' repulsed, losing 35. London, December 14. The second gunboats have arrived in the Bosphorus. Although sevoralof the Sultan’s staff liavo been dismissed the Palace ; clique still dominates. . , , f The'concerted action qf thq Powers only amounts to an. agreement that no separate action shall be taken with regard to Turkey until a common policy is found impossible. Constantinople, December 15. • After, tbe Sultan had yielded to tho demand of the powers for an additional gunboat in tho Bosphorus, H.M..S. Dryad was steaming through the Dardanelles when the Turkish forces prepared to open fire on her, and would not let her-pass till satisfied that the commander had received the Sultan’s authority. ' The Ivhurds are op mly selling the plnhd«B^ed ; in - capital, and so excited the lowest classes of Moslems that they are ready to attack the bazaars at the first chance they get, v . . The city is in a stato verging on panic, and even a street brawl causes shopkeepers to harracado their houses. Martial law is virtually being observed.