CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5202, 30 September 1885, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

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[Received September 30, 1 30 p.m.] Constantinople, September 29. Fighting in Albania. Intelligence is to band from Albania of a farther engagement between Albanian forces and the Turkish troops despatched to suppress the rising in that province. The Turkish troops sustained a decided defeat, and were completely surrounded by the Albanians, Calcutta, September 20. Severe Floods in India. Disastrous floods are reported from many parts. In the Bengal Presidency it is estimated that fully 3500 square miles of country are at present under water.

London, September 29. Earl Punraven, speaking at a public meeting at Stockport, advocated the taxing of foreign imports, and admitting colonial goods free of duty.

[Specials to the Pbess Association.]

London, September 27. The Tories sympathise with, and Court influence strongly favors, Prince Alexander of Bulgaria. The Marquis of Salisbury has joined the Powers in accepting the position of affairs in Roumelia. and it is untrue that he has demanded that matters should be restored to the status quo. At the preliminary examination of W. W. Stead, the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, in connection with the abduction of the girl Lily Armstrong, that gentleman cast grave reflections upon the King of the Belgians and upon leading members of the Government and Opposition. The Magistrates ruled that these remarks were irrelevant. September 28. At the battle of the Brio the Turks lost 200 men killed and wounded, while the loss of the Albanians was 1000 killed and wounded. The liquidators of the Oriental Bank Estate have declared a further dividend of 2s 6d in the £ The Land and Pastoral Company of Adelaide has been voluntarily,wound up.