TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 830, 11 October 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

THE WAR. EUROPEAN CALOGRAMB. SEIZURE OF ARMS IN TRAN- . V^YLVANA. [Reuter'a Special Telegrams.] Bombay, October l; 8.30 p. m. A seizure of arms (has been male in Transylvania,' causing an irrup- '•'■ : " :'• : - ::; ' ;-i ' r ' -" "" "' THS JASSY RAILWAY BEING DESTROYED. Bombay, October 18.30 p.m. •Tour hundred men.., are over the mountains, destroying the Jassy railway.,, > . N ' General Klapka at Constantinople disavows and' deprecates' • the movement. r ?; '' ; v RUSSIAN POSITION :." CRITICAL. Sulieman Pasha telegraphs to Constantinople that the Russian position critical- - 1; The revenue for the quarter shows a, decline of £IOO,OOO.

■,.,,, DEATH OF A BISHOP. London, October 2. .Bistiop" Mpriarty, of Kerry, died of paralysis;'"/ ' ! ■ • THE WOOL SALESLondon, October 2. The wool sales concluded to-night. 295,529 bales were catalouged. 2,000 were withdrawn. Foreign merchants took 120,000 bales, and there were held over to next series 72,000 bales. The sales showed unusual steadiness throughout. The home trade is the main support It was; remarked latterly that foreign buyers more freely iu fine parcels/ which realised, the highest price objainedjin May and June rates. ' Medium qualities were some what lower in price.

RUSSIA REFUSES TO ENTERTAIN PEACE PROPOSALS. REGULAR' SIEGE WORKS AT PLEVNA. THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL GUARDS ADVANCING. THE FIGHTING IN ASIA. Bombay, October 2. ;, .It is semiofficially stated that Russia refuses yip entertain peace proposals. , Regular siege works are now parried on at Plevna. Fifty thousand men of the Imperial Guard hare popupied Popokoi [? Ployesti]. :. ■, , ; A Russian official despatch Says that General Tergukasoff defeated Ismail Pasha on the 25th September with great loss. Mukiitar. Pasha reports that the Russians have been completely defeated, and have crossed the Kars .River. ■-,' ",- '", , . . . CABLE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. \. y London, October 1. • The 'Times'; reports that the Australian, Governments ; were riegotiaflirig for the purchase jof the Ea.stpr,n Extension Company's cable from" Singapore. The proposal is declared premature by Mr Michie andSiffJ. Vpsl*

TURKS FORTIFYING SOPHIA ROAD. ANTI-WAR FEELING IN ROTTMANIA SPREADING; SERVIA VACILLATES. FRENCH POLITICS. THE PENGE MURDERERS. , [Press Agency.] ■~ ~-... L Sydney, October 9. .... The ' Herald's \ : -- special from j London, dated the 2nd, says there is| a strong public agitation against the execution of the Penge murderers.' Mr Justice, Haw kin's summing up is , considered, unfair towards 1 the culprits. M. Rouher has issued a manifesto, identifying the Bbhapartists with i Marshal MacMahon's policy. Tha Turks are; fortifying'the | Sophia Road, along which they/, are I receiving supplies, despite Russian opposition. :.-■•■■■ ■■,-^'V;.?,-,-; i • The report that a battle took place at Plevna on September 25 th, with frightful * losses to the Russians, is discredited. The rains in Bulgaria have ceased. The Russians'are more hopeful. The anti-war feeling in Roumania is spreading. Servia istillr yacillates.