TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 842, 8 November 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

THE WAR/ EUROPEAN CALOGRAMS. • [Router's Telegrams.] • OPERATIONS IN BULGARIA. ; BoMBAy/.Octolier 31. The Russians- have captured Sel okrie. on "the roa;d ; to "' Orchanie. They also took prisoner seven companies, a, pasha, ajid,, several officers. Three guns were also taken. ■ ( ! •" / ,i; ' '• ; : 'the war in asia// Bombay, October 31. f Mukhtar Pasha telegraphs that the Russians jir.eeiiQaiiiped at Azus, three hours' distance from where his army is placed. , ~ . RESIGNATION' OF THE FRE'NC t AIINISTRY. Bombay, l October 31. The French has reigned in •Oi'der . tp/.leave;, President MacMahon free. * ; THE PENGE ML T RDE,R. Bomb i xy October 31. "' A free paiMoii has been granted to Alice:Rhorles, condemned to death for the Penge murder. The sentence i

on Staunton has been commuted to penal servitude for life. [The following cablegrams are from the Australian- paper* by the Kotagtia.] - - J I*;! J-liiONDOX, October 17. after passing & third coiiyoy iiito J?levna with prpvisions and ammunition, was returning towards Orchanie, when he succeeded in capturing from the Hussians at" TSTicli large supplies of cattle. _ t ' :. • •■ .- ,

The Turkish army corps, while concentrating near the Danube, had a slight skirmish with the -Russians near Kadikoi.

The Egyptian troops have been sent to Varna. >

Sulieman Pasha's .positions have been bombarded from Russian floating batteries. 1 .-.-.-.. The Russians in the Hankoi defile have been 7 reinforced by two additional corps.

v JjOkdon, Oqtobev 17. There are three feet of snow in the Shipka Pass. Sulieman Pasha reports the roads unfit, for the movement of his troops. The contemplated visit ,of the Empress of Russia to Bucharest has been abandoned, in consequence ot the removal of the Russian headquarters to Sistova. London, October 21. ",'! Sir H. G. Elliot succeetis the Right Hon,Sir Sir. Andrew Buchanan as English Ambassador at Vienna. THE BLACKHEATH HIGHWAYMEN. London, October 24. The Blackheath highwaymen have been sentenced to seven yeara imprisonment. FRANCE. London, October 24. President MaoMahon presided at a Ministerial Council yesterday, when a message from the Chamber was discussed. 'Le Moniteur' says that, after the Council, the President told M. Fourtou that there cjuld be uo Ministerial changes for the present; that the De Broriie Cobiuet must meet the Assembly, and defend its policy. THE KAFFIR OUTBREAK. London, October 24. There has been a Kaffir outbreak 6n the frontier. Eight thousand Galekas attacked the Colonial Police and 2000 Fingoes, and were twice repulsed. The Cape troops and the Volunteers are movinsr to the front CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE. London October 24. Cleopatra's Needle, which was being towed to London, was abandoned in the Bay of Biscay on the 17th ult, in consequence of a heavy gale. It was recovered "on the ;24th.;