LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 64, 27 February 1877, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Special to the Mail.] Dunedin, February 26. It is intended to open the raihvay line through to LaAvrence on the 7th of March. An alleged case of garroting took place at an hotel in George-street. Two men are arrested. Considerable interest is taken in the forthcoming cricket match. Local players are busy practising. A petition is in course of signature in Dunedin district, calling on Vincent Pyke to resign his seat in the Assembly, on the ground that the electors haA r e lost all confidence in his political honesty and integrity. Greymouth, February 26. The Governor and party Avere conveyed across the bar this morning by the tug steamer Despatch, and transhipped to the Hinemoa, Avhich sailed at nine for Westport. "Wellington, February 26. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency have received a London cable message, which reports re avool sales that

12,000 bales have been sent to manufacturing districts ; that sales opened at an average decline of Id. to Hd. on last sale prices ; that greasy has declined one Id.; scoured and superior combing washed have declined to 2d. since close of last sales. Auckland, January 28. Arrived—Zealandia. She left Frisco on the 3rd, and is three days late. Captain Ferirs died of heart disease five days after leaving, and had been sick several days in San Francisco. Passengers for New Zealand—General Bridge, John Hyde Harris, Sir Matthew Wood, and Mr. Wainwright. The Rotorua not having arrived from Sydney, the Tara'naki will leave with Frisco mail this afternoon. MAIL SUMMARY. A number of Bashi Bazooks crossed the Danube and plundered the Roumainia outposts. The commander of Salistria was ordered to punish ihem. The cost of relief Avorks and measures to relieve the famine of Bombay, is estimated at six and a-half millions sterling. The Servian General TolenuatiefE was received at Prague with incessant orations favourable to Russia. The authorities interfered, and the police escorted him over the Saxony frontier, as he shewed resistance, force was threatened. The British ship Ada Tredale, bound for Frisco Avith coal, was totally destroyed by fire. The ctcav, numbering 33, set out for the Marquesas Islands, over two thousand miles distant. One boat capsized in a gale of Avind, but all vrere saved but one, ai'ter undergoing great hardships in open boats. The Porte has warned Servia that there Avill be no armistice granted beyond the Ist of March. The Countess HoAve, through grief at the death of her husband, threAv herself from a Avindow, and Avas instantaneously killed. Commercial intercourse betAveen Russia and China is suspended, owing to the Chinese suspicions of the Russian Exploration Expedition. It is said that Servia agreed to accept " statu quo anti bellum," as bias of treaty for peace negotiations. It is reported Jthat Russia will not oppose Servian Peace negotiations, in order that should Avar arise, Servia ma3 r be invaded as Turkish Territories. Porte sent a dispatch to its representatives abroad, giving notice of the appointments of three Christian Governors, and that reform Avas proceeding unremittingly. The Steamers, George CroniAvell, from Hull ; and George Washington, from Halifax ; the former with thirty, and the latter thirty-one passengers, Avere totally lost. The Roumanians are erecting redoubts opposite the Turkish fortress at Waddorn. The American Ship Pakola Avas struck by lightning and completely burned, the captain's Avife escaping in an open boat after four days exposure. The Freemasons refuse to recognise negroes. The American troops have again defeated the Indians. The Revolutionists of Ecuador have defeated the president's troops in a bloody battle, they are expected to enter Quito.