ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 30, 18 June 1877, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[BY ELECTRIC TEIMSAPH:] Auckland, June 16.. The following items of European news were brought by the English mail :,— MAIL NEWS. The Russian attacking fore© which captured Ardahan numbered eight thousand, besides several thousands in front of the town. Dnring tho Turkish flight the Eussian cavrlry inflicted a loss of seven hundred on th&]enemy. A force of fifteen thousand Bashi Bazoukes and Turks moved northwards from Lake Van to join the Turkish forces atKarakaVAiaa.- '' Eussian advance in Asia has been de>« layed by the difficulty of procuring provisions in Armenia. In an attack on Batoura the Turks de« feated the Bussians, with a loss of four thousand men. The Turks were entrenched- on the heights, defending the town with a fleet outside, and as. the Eussians advanced to attack, the Turks mowed them down by hundreds, by a well-directed fire of cannon and musketry. A sortie t>y the Turks, under eorer of a thick forest, outflanked the Eussians and inflicted a serious defeat. ] The courage of the BashUßazoukes is highly extolled.. The Eussians did not withdraw until midnight, and lost several cannon. A Eussian war steamer, which, had run the gauntlet from Sebastopol,. endeavored to place a torpedo under a Ttirkish frigate off Batoum, but the torpedo failed to explode, and the vessel was driven off: ! Admiral Hassam Prsha, with iron-clads bombarded Soukoum Ualcb, and landed a body of men. The Natives of Abrasia havofomeda union with, the Turks. The defeat of the Eusskms below Eeni was accomplished* by a reconnoitring force in boats. The Turks waited till they came within easy range, and then opened a destructive fire. The Eussians sunk torpedoes opposite Matautin and Galatz to harass the Turkish gunboats. Tbey also constructed a battery of heavy guns at GhiatiC) at the mouth of the Danube. Tho Turks have massed a large body of cavalry opposite Q-alahz. General XhokelbfF, with Circassian Cossacks intended to lead^the. adiv.ance< of the invading army Oil the Danube, passed through Bucharest. The Turks made three attempts to cross the Danube and construct a battery at Islatz, but were repulsed by EoumanianSi ; Tile Porte has notified to European Powers that Turkey 'has' blockaded all ports of the Black Sea. The Sarvians aue. making offensive preparations. : It is said that the Servian Government has received proof that a convention exists between Eussia and Austria. Kossuth has written urging an alliance between Hungary and Turkey, to protect their independence from their common e nemy~Eussia. All Hungarian papers urge action by Austro-Hungary. Large troop ships are ready at Portsmouth, and a thousand barrels of powder have been sent to Malta... It is rumored that Turkey will cede the sovereignty of Egypt to England for payment of the capitalised amouo-fc of tribute. All Musselmen in Herzgovinia and Bosnia between fifty and sixty years of age have been ordered to join, the army. Eussia reports that an English steamer while endeavouring to enter Kirtz was , totally destroyed by a torpedo. The centre Eussian army, forty thousand strong, under Milikoff, attacked Mukar Pasha fire miles outside of Ears. The Turks fought desperately, but the Eussians were supported by powerful artillery and dislodged them. Mukar called out his reserves, and attempted on the 30th- to- recovec lost grounds IJwJfcb sixty thousand men, but was driven back under cover of the guns of Ears; Russian losses were considerable ; Turkish, enor- , mous. Bulgarian refugees in Eou mania are being armed. On bombardment by Turkish monitors,, the inhabitants ot Eeni, Abrail, and Alenitz fled!.. Liutenant-General Sir John Simmom will be Commander-in-Chiei of the English army if seat to the seat of war.. Turkish forces sent to Sukbamkalch t» ; aid the Circassian! numbered ten thou« sand.. Kussiaa forces ia Eiouioania are esti« mated at two hundred and forty thousand. Turkish forces in, Balkan, umber two hundred and fifty thousasdk Turkish needle gwni ane aaid> to kate 1 caused the strengthening of this Russian army* Twenty-five thousand Northumberland coUiexs axe on, strike;

Great forest fires have occurred in Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and Newfoundland* by which several frontier towns were destroyed and many lives lost. " The revolt in Paraguay continues. President Bontesa and his brother have been assassinated. France has informed the Porte tbat she will not send an ambassador to Constantinople. A shipbuilders' lock-out at Glasgow affects twenty-five thousand men. Fifty thousand deaths from cholera have occurred in India.