LATER EUROPEAN AND AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 107, 24 August 1876, Page 2

LATER EUROPEAN AND AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Pee. Ejngakooma at the Bluff.] ♦ Bluff, Thursday, 3.30 p.m. The Bishopric of Calcutta has b« pressed upon Dr. Mooreliouse, the Bisk Designate of Melbourne. The official enquiry into the loss of t! Strathmore criticises the mode in wM cargo was stowed ; disapproving of tl shifting of the boats from their origij position. ••The survivors do justice to ti memory of the captain. Mr. George Dixon has resigned his » for Birmingham, and Mr. Joseph Chai bei-lain has been elected in his place. The Queen is at Windsor. The Prince of Milan, in his War Mai festo, says : —"Further moderation on I part of Servia would be nothing less & cowardice." He justifies entering in his army into Bosnia, in order to pad the insurgents of the province. There has been severe nghting on Ik sides, but the accounts are very conflicA On July 18 the Servian army, on the j Timoku, attacked General Osman's p tion at Tzvor. The Servians were repd with great loss, and were pm-sued by ! Turks into Servia.

A Parliamentary Blue Book of B patches, on the Eastern Question, I been published, showing the intentioß Russia are pacific, and that she was as ous throughout to avert Avar, and to ad concert with other powers. Russia dei to maintain the political statu qw Turkey, and suggests the forming the; surgent provinces into tributary states, A Servian despatch;. states that I Turks, on July 21, attempted to di Olympus across the Dwhia, but werei successful. After obstinate fighting, I Servians refused to cross, and retired Belina. Other reports declare the S vians to have been.Beaten. Heavy i retards the movements of the main as Pierrepoint, the newly - appoin American Minister, has arrived London. Thirty-four persons were killed, i fifty-three wounded, by the explosion' boiler on board H.M.S. Thunderer, her trial trip at Spithead. Lord Henry Lennox has resigned position in the Ministry, in conseqw of his connection with the Lisbon Tc ways Company. Negotiations are proceeding between American Minister and Lord Derby fc new Extradition Treaty. The Duke of Decaze's speech before' Chamber declared the policy of France be solely domestic and pacific, and ovt non-intervention in Eastern affairs. _- Austria has closed the pass of Klek. . The Daily Telegraph has received left from the Stanley Expedition in Ars dated April. Sir Salar Jung has been presented i the freedom of the City. Colonel Stokes' report on the condii of the Suez Canal states that the chat in its present slate is ample for m years. There is talk in Ceylon of proW against Sir Arthur Gordon being pointed Governor, in view of his failu" Mauritius. The occupation of Egypt by n? troops from India has .been deteW upon in the event of a general war l break xip of Turkey; - Great preparations' are being mm India, and Snider rifles have been stf out to all the native cavalry.