TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 835, 25 October 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

THE WAR. EUROPEAN OALO&RAMS, [l}e,uter3s Telegfam,3.] .'\? ■. MOCTKTAR PASHA'S REPORT OF THE,LATE TUH-KISH DtiJFJ^AT. T " London, October 17. JVloUjkcar pasha, tqr. th,e m.ost part, gonaVnis the'report, stating that he lost 800 men, and that oii«3 and a half regiments surrendered. The Russian cavalry and four battalions of infantry vvere' completely destroyed. LORD SALISBURY r ON THE WAR. ' The Marquis af. Salisbury stated at Bradford that the result v of the wai ; had been to dispel illusions'with regard to Russia as an aggressive Power. He saw no prospect of peace. COLLIERY KILLED.

London, October 14. Therehas been a dreadful col Yievy explosion ut Wigan. Forty persons were killed. [[tEUTRIVa ESPECIAL CABLEGRAMS.] PLEVNA. Londoiv, October 14. Newspaper correspondents have been ordered to leave the Russian positions at Plevna. - Qhefket B,asha has entered "Plevna with further reinforcements. fr'eneral Gourko, with the'lmperial Guard, has been sent to the Turkish rear. The road between Plevna : arid Orkhanie is open. '■''" It ig re.jwetj' that 15,000 Rou mahians have died of disease in the last twenty days." Todleberi proposes to starve the Plevna garrison oub, RUSSIAN'S BO VIBA-RDINQ SULDfA, Lo.nd.on, October 15. The Russians are bombirding Sulina. The population has fled. Ohefket Pasha has defeated a number of foragers. THE BRIDGE AT i\ICOPOLIS CARRIED AWAY. London October IT. The. stqne bri Ige over the Danube at Nicopjlis has been carried away by the rising ot the Danube.