TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 795, 21 July 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

THE WAR EUROPEAN G A LOO-RAMS. THE RAISING OF THE SIEGE OFKABS. . MELLIKOFF's ARMF TO BE ATTACKED. BOMBARDMENT OF SOMEROPOL. THE BALKANS CROSSED. A RAILWAY LINE CUT. [Press Agency.] SiNGAPOEE, July 1.9, 4.3G p.m. The Russians have raised the siege of Kars.

Mukhtar Pusha and the governor of Kars are preparing to attack General Mellikoft's army. Russian reinforcemeuts are pi'oceeding by forced marches to Armenia.

A Turkish frigate has bombarded Seinoropol.

• Eighteen battalions of Russ r ans have crossed the Balkans and arrived unuppoaed at TJnisiphia. The Russiaus hay<s arrived. a,b

Itasorah, cutting the railway line - between Varna and. Huslchuk. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS* [Press Ageucy.] CAPTURE OF A PIRA'IE BY TURKISK WAR SHIPS. BRUTALITY oJTtHE RUSSIANS. .Auckland, last night. By Suez mail cornea intelligence of an engagement which occurred off' the Peruvian coast between the British warships 'Shah' and the ' Amethyst' and the ' Hensea (?) turret ram. The latter escaped' after dark, but was bo damaged as to Deforced to surrender to the Peruvian sguadron. Her crew had joined the revolutionary president, and. committed I piratical acts on British subjects. A German surgeon from Ardahan reports that after capturing tke fortress, the Russians plundered every house, violated every woman, and set fire to ihe hospital, burning the wounded Turkish soldiers alive. The Waiteraata County Council's motion to pay members a guinea a sitting was lost by four to three. ° . - In consequence of striking gold in the new reef, Caledonians ro3edb 102s. Produce sales :—Fowls, Is Bd* 2s 2d ; turkeys, 3a 101; geese, 4,1 ; Provincial , butter, 7d; eggs, 2i per dozen; hama and bacon, sd, 6d, Is 2J. Heavy gale blowing all day: A cargo, boat was smashed in tho harbour, but no ; other damage. Balojl>utha, last nights Cheeseman, a labourer, was appreV hended, his wife having died during the night, under suspicious circumstances. She leaves eight children. The husband had beeu drinking. Wellington, Wednesday. ('Herald' Correspondent.) RUMOUKED CHANGES IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM OE THE COUNTRY. The Government have prepared a series of law bills, which are certain to come to grief in their infancy. One of the measures provides that all judges of the Native Lands Court shall have equal power with the Siipreme Court, except in two instances treason and capital offences. A considerable portion of the business of the' Supreme Court is to be removed to the District Court, and its judges are empowered to have all the powers of the superior Court in districts where no circuit sitting takes place, and to hear and • determine civil cases where the amount involved does not exceed £SOO.