TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 182, 22 September 1876, Page 9

TELEGRAMS.

(From our Daily Contemporaries.) London, September 10. The Sultan Murad was deposed, and Abdul Hamid was proclaimed Sulban to-day. General Tchermajeff urges the insurgents to continue the war, as there is a marked improvement in the efficiency of the troops. The Servians report a successful attack on the Turks on the right bank of the Morava. Sydney, September 16. A London cablegram, undated, says : — The Turks -warmly attacked the Servian troops on the right and left of the Morava, turning the Servians' position. The Servians still hold Alexsinatz, but the town is destroyed. To prepare for the winter campaign, the Great Powers have made a peace proposal to the Porte. The Turks occupy the left of the Morava above Alexsinatz. The Turks have invaded Montenegro. England has proposed to the Porte a month's armistice. Popular indignation is expressed at the atrocities, which are increasing. In a letter Earl Derby states that the Government will seek to ascertain the exact truth of the reports for the purpose of doing justice, and to this end an armistice is proposed. In a pamphlet Gladstone has proposed the autonomy of the Provinces. Wellington, September 17. Private advices received here state that good alluvial gold has been struck at Mokau. Cheistchuech, September 17. On Uma De ilurska's appearance in Opera last night there was a crowded house. It was an immense success. After a short season here she plays at Dunedin. A good maay people are leaving hero for the Kumara rush. Auckland, September 19. I An extraordinary accident occurred in the Union Beach mine,. Coroniandel, which is flooded out through a defect in the pumpinggear, throwing sixty men out of employment. A man named Ecclestone, not a professional diver, volunteered to go down t heshaft and remove an obstruction which prevented the pump working. He had seventy feet of water to pass through in utter darkness. The professional diver had charge of the air-pump, and instructed Ecclestone as to signals. Ecclestone signalled for more air, again he did this, and again for the third time, when the airpipes burst with the report of a pistol-shot. Ecclestone was hauled up, and found to be swollen up to three times his natural size, the features of the face not being distinguishable. In his ignorance of diving he thought he wanted more air, when, in fact, he was overreached with it. He was blown out like a, bladder. Dr. Hovell was sent for. Ecclestone was insensible, and blood flowed from his mouth. After several hours' medical treatment, pulsation was restored to his heart, but he is still in a precarious state. Chbistchttrch, September 19. A correspondent writing to the ' Times ' to-day warns the public not to be carried away by the false glitter of the Kumara. rush. Auckland, September 20. In consequence of the high price of labor at Auckland, and the heavy railway charges on the line of railway from Newmarket to Auckland, the contractor for the Auckland docks Iris found it more profitable to obtain the necessary stone from Melbourne, where he has entered into a contract for obtaining about £30,000 worth of stone, of the same quality a3 that which could be quarried at Newmarket or Bangitoto. New Plymouth, Septuuaber 20. The Pariaka meeting has terminated. Over n thousand natires were present. Te Whiii was the centre of attraction, and was looked up to with almost adoration by the natives. He says that the Maoris t ore the lost tribe of Israel, and exhibited maps and plans showing the supposed route by which the present race originally reached Nevr Zealand. His knowledge of Scripture history, aad of lute researches in Palestine, is spoken of as astonishing. He eaid it was no use educating the Maori. Regarding the land, ho said each man could sell or keep it as he liked. He spoke of the proposed meeting of the Maori King, the Governor, and Sir D. M'Lean.