TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 799, 31 July 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

THE WAR. EUROPEAN CALOGRAMS. [Press Agency.] • INVESTMENT OF SILISTRA. Bombay, July 28, 12.55 p.m. l The Russians have invested Silistria. Suliman Pusha encountered and defeated Karabunar. AMERICAN RIOTS: LOSS OF LIFE. AGITATION IN SAN FRAN-. > CISCO. SmaAVOiiE, July 29, 10, 37 p.m. There have, beea serious riots in Chicago'. The military were called out and fired on them, killing and wounding 130.; An agitation has commenced in San Francisco against the Chinese Vigilance Committee. ' . THE RUSStfriS ' REPULSED .'". ;/" L AT &LISTRJA. VENGEANCE FOR RUSSIAN ATROCITIES. Bombay, July 26, The Russians have been repulsed at Silistria, - A dispatch from Lord Loftus, Ambassador at St Petersburg, to Earl Derby, says, that" fears are entertained of a terrible vengeance on the part of. Mussulmen for Russian atrocities. THE RUSSIAN COMMUNICATIONS THREATENED. THE TURKISH LANDVVEHR CALLED OUT, Singapore, July 28. A Turkish army corps, concentrated at Plevna, threatens the communications of the Russians with Rouuiania. * Tlie Turkish Laudwehr is calledout. SCENE IN-THET ENGLISH PARLIAMENT. Bombay, July 37, 10 a.m. Obstruction in the House of Commous' by a few members, culminated in an unprecedented scene, Mr Farrell was ordered to leave the House,- and was suspended until Friday, when Sir Stafford Nortlicote will, submit a motion to alter the rules to facilitate business. At an anti-Russian demonstration in Hyde: Park, 15,000 persons were present. A Resolution was passed denouncing Russia and condemning the atrocity, agitators.-' The entrance q£ European volunteers into -the ■..Turkish army is .meeetiiig with great opposition. The people are disrrus* fal of everything European, and rbe war is . taking more and more a religious character, in which all Islam wishes to t»ike part. . The gifes of money which are arriving from all quarters, and parjfrojn .the piasujmana of

India, reached a very considerable anioiiut. London, July 27. The Russian force have crossed the Balkans at" Iron Grand Pass, and reached Jarabodi. Suliuian Pacha remains at Adrianople. " -,.'.', The Turkish troops are evacuating and the gravest fears avo will be massacreed in Stamboul. The ssveral Consuls are applying to Ambassadors of the Powers,,to intervene.