CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3844, 25 April 1881, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

[Reuters Special]

Calcutta, April 22. News has been received from Candahar to the effect that the evacuation of the city by the British force which was stationed there, has been completed. The town and district are now under the control of the Ameer's Government. Constantinople, April 22. Despatches have been received from Dervish Pasha commanding the Turkish troops in Western Koumelia, stating that the advance of his troop 3 has been forcibly opposed by a body of insurgent Albanians at the River Vardeu, and that an engagement has taken place at Usking resulting in the defeat of the rebels. '

Constantinople, April 23. Four domestics of the Tcheragau Palace have confessed that the Sultan Abdul Aziz, who,was believed to have committed suicide, on the 4th June, 1876, by stabbing himself with a pair of scissors, was murdered by themselves. The confession of the assassins implicates several prominent public officials in this city. Athens, April 23. A difference has arisen in the Greek Cabinet, and the Minister of War has resigned. M. Voltmos has been appointed to the vacant portfolio.

London, April 23. The Homeward Australian and New Zealand malls, via San Francisco, which left Auckland on the first of March, were delivered here to day. The Bey of Tunis has addressed a communication to the Powers in which he disclaims any responsibility for any outbreak of fanacticism which may take place in the principality in the present excited state of the people over the action of the French in Algiers.