SYDNEY.
Wednesday: , The Eastern, and Australian mail steamer Normanby has been stranded on .the Queesland' coast. All hands saved. Some Chinamen stuck up and robbed the police camp afc the Palmer Biver, and took two hundred pounds. The orderly m charge had his head and feet lashed to a post', with a rope round his neck, and his head m a bag. He was nearly killed. Two of the Chinamen have been -arrested. The following is the new Ministry: — Robertson, Premier ; Docker, Vice-Presi-dent of the Executive... Council; Long, Treasurer; G-arrett, Lands; Combs, Works ; Baker, Mines ; Dalley, AttorneyGreneral; Lackey, Minister of Justice and Education; Davies, PostmasterGren6ral. A." Sydney Morning He.rald's " London special, bearing date London . the 11th, says the "Daily News'" correspondent at Bucharest reports a wholesale butchery of the Christians south of the Balkans by the Turkish troops^ incited by the merchants and landed proprietors. In the Tchirpan district thirty churches and five hundred schools and colleges were burnt, and from twelve I to fifteen thousand Bulgarian fugitives I were massacred or burned m the houses. I The Turkish' Bey ruling the district I was personally engaged m the work. ! The account of the slaughter has-been '
confirmed by the London " Times," witii harrowing details.. <
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 87, 18 August 1877, Page 2
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