TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 156, 21 April 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

EUROPEAN G AW OR AMS * [Press Agency.] London,' April 16. The wav feeling at St. Petersburg is intense. : The.Czar is, going to the camp at Kichenev. The tumour about Persia claiming Bagdad is denied. A debate occurred in the House ' of Lords on the Protocol. Earl Granville criticised the action of the Government. Earl Derby vindicated the Ministerial action as being the best step the Government could take under the present - circumstances, to say nothing of the future. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS* [Press Agency,] Dunedin, Thursday. McLaren and a lot of loafers, encouraged by a paragraph in the * Guardian ’ and the ‘ Evening News,’ held a meeting this afternoon, and intend presenting a petition to the Governor asking for employment. Auckland, last night. SCABBY SHEEP. . At the Police Court, Malcolm Bailey pleaded guilty to causing five hundred sheep to be driven to Newmarket sale yards, infected with scab. He said he had paid sixpence per head to have them inspected at Onehunga, but afterwards several were found infected. ■ Inspector Lewis said this was true. Baily was fined £5. The steamer Australia arrived from San Francisco, with the mail, after the most rapid passage on record, 22 days 9 hours. A girl four years old, at Onehunga, got hold of a small phial of strychnine used for killing, rats, and swallowed the contents. Dr Boss applied the stomach pump successfully ENGLISH NEWS BY STEAMER AUSTRALIA. Basin Bazouks- have repeated in suppression of tl)o new ..Bosnian insurrection—more atrocities, On Monday, 500 Bashi Bazouks foil upon tho village of Otchievo, where returned refugees were rebuilding their dwellings, and burned the partly restored houses, and murdered ton of tho refugees, perpetrating nameless horrors upon their victims. Others fled across the frontier at Claraosk. There another butchery occurred. A Greek of the orthodox church had celebrated his marriage with guests of tho same faith. The bridal procession was stopped by Turks, who cut down and beheaded

four of the guests, and exposed their heads on a pole. The bride died from outrages inflicted. Russian semi-official Press" loudly complains at the refusal of to coerce the Porte, and that if war breaks'Jtft, it wiljbf se|the fault o£ Englandl§iloae;; fp Alexandra, a nevV irioticfadjl Jgijj' Portsmouth to join thfl^Med^ f terranean fleet. - v *v:' v ' V •;

In reply to Lord Bel moire, Lord Carnarvon stated that kidnapping in the Southern Seas had greatly diminished; *"€hWu'gn "the *' of the British squadron. Serious difficulties have arisen befcwpeiv Germ.any_apd -fche v annexed;: provinces of Alsace and Lorraine.

Great commercial depression in Germany, and labour riots.

>The'Pope is in very state of health. His expected dealih'has caused considerable speculation and scheming. v ■.-..■• • •

i Small pox is still prevalent in London. '■>■ '

Lee, the Mormon of the Mountain"' Meadp f w-.,, Massacre, was shot, and made y a /confession, implicating ; and the Mormon Priesthood, which has caused' great excitement at Salt Lake. < . ...,,.

Graiumstown, last night. Sales: Moariatairi, £8 Tss, £9; Cure, 6s 6s, 6s 9d, 7s;, Queen of May, 225; Alburnia, 265, 24s 6d; City of London, 13s 3d; Piako, 16s 9d, 15s;' Waitekauri, 18s 6d. ' ty Sellers : Moanatiri, £9 ; Kuranui Hill, 29s ; Red Queen, 4s 6d; City of Ljndon, 14s; Piako, Iss 6df Waitekauri, 19s. - Alexandra, Friday, 3 p.m. ■ ■>■ THE NATIVE MEETING.

The native meeting at Kaipiha is still going on. The Kingites are desirous that the friendlies should go farther' into the King Country.' They, on the contrary, think Tawhiao should have been present to meetthem. A letter has been sent to him to that effect.-^

THE MEETING AT ALEXANDRA '■

Tomorrow, a large meeting of natives will take place here in the Government paddock, at 2,p.m., tp consider the extension of the railway to this place, which they consider desirable. •'■-";.

Wanganui, last uight. The natives captured Moffatt, and brought him in a prisoner. The . Titnaru barque Isabella, Bidley was driven ashore and one man drowned.