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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 146, 9 October 1876, Page 2

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[per press agency.] __ 4> Auckland, October 8. 5 p.m. The Australia has arrived from San Francisco with the English and American mails. She left on the 13th Sept. ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS. GENERAL SUMMARY. London, Sept. 12. The Great Yorkshire Handicap was won by Bosagher. A letter from Stanley, dated May 19, on Lake Victoria, Nyanza, says nearly a hundred lives have been sacrificed to hardship. The hop crops are good. The steamer Arbitrator, from New Orleans to Liverpool, struck on an iceberg, and foundered in twenty minutes. The crew were saved. The Liverpool ship San Raphael has been burned off Cape Horn. The crew were saved after fearful sufferings. The new tunnel at Bishopgate-street has caved in. Five workmen were injured. Several failures have taken place in the iron trade at Cleveland. At Dundee there is great depression. Struberg and Co., tea merchants, have filed. In the case Solomon and Co. v. The Governor and Government of New Zealand, an appeal by Macreal against the service of a writ on the ground that the Governor and Government were not a Corporation, Justices Mellish, James, and Bagally held that substitution of service on Macreal's appeal be allowed with costs. The Government of Spain are sending reinforcements to Cuba. The Government claims the credit of impartiality in suppressing public religious manifestations. Particulars are now given of the attempted assassination of Prince Gortschakoff by an elderly lady belonging to the best society. Her object was probably to revenge political persecution of her family. The Marquis Guiseppi Montegeorgo, who forged Victor Emmanuel's signature to a bill of exchange for 200,000 (? florins), has been sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. AMERICAN ITEMS. Yellow fever is prevalent in New York. At Salt Lake all Brigham Young's vehicles and stock, worth 10,000d015., has been seized to pay dues to Ann Eliza. At Kansas, a religious sect called Cobbities, crazy from frenzy and starvation, committed atrocities. A quarrel has taken place between Moody and Sankey. Moody appropriated over 6,000 dollars. Thank-offerings from converted sinners gave Sankey 1,000 dollars. The latter threatens law proceedings. The Chicago Committee is endeavoring to hush up the matter. A huge water-spout in Kansas destroyed life and property. Beecher's counsel has served a notice for change of venue for a new trial in Moulton's case against Beecher, for malicious prosecution. Tweed has been arrested in Vigor, Spain, at the request of the American Government, under the Extradition Treaty. He had escaped from Santiago under the name of Decor. At the Centennial Rowing Match, London beat New York in the professional four-oared shells, by sixteen seconds; Bagley beat Green, of London, in the single scull race. A fire in San Francisco destroyed property worth 70,000 dollars. The Sioux campaign is ended, and the troops have gone into winter quarters. The Rev. Charles Clarke is lecturing in Nevada on " Charles Dickens." TURKISH WAR NEWS. London, September 12. Inquiries of British Commissioners show that the reports of the atrocities in Bulgaria have not been in the least exaggerated. Children have been roasted alive, and the flesh thrust down their parents' throats; pregnant women were ripped up, and women and girls were violated by thousands ; men were impaled, skinned alive, flogged to death, and tortured in every conceivable manner—not alone by Bashi-Bazouks, but to a greater extent by regular troops, who were rewarded instead of punished foif their cruelty. The English Secretary of Legation (Baring) and the American Secretary (Schuber) sent to investigate the matter, report 60,000 Christian non-combatants murdered. The American Secretary sug-

gests that; the foreign Commissions Baould see that the leaders .of these outrages ait hung. Thousands of bodies were strewn about in every direction,; gnawed by liogy, and in a horrid state of "with, a few half-starved women sitting in the' midst of them, bewailing the fate of their dear ones. One woman was found moaning over three skulls with hair clinging to them, which she had in her lap. These revelations caused intense feeling throughout England, and meetings heldin all the chief centres have passed resolutions calling on the British Government to stay these atrocities. Canon lidden, from the pulpit of St Paul's said :—" While they were listening in that sacred building, the loud cry and bitter wail of anguish and despair wai rising to heaven from thousands of desolated homes ; from mothers and daughters, whose whole future life would only be one long memory of agony and shame. "What made his voice falter in speaking of the; subject was that the Government to which Turkey was turning for support was free, humane, Christian England. If God was the same as He had ever been, He hated cruelty, and would punish those who enact and those who abet it." John Bright stated, in a letter to a public meeting at Rochdale, convened to protest against these cruelties, that England was the sole cause of these cruelties and the Servian war, as, but for her sup. port, Turkey dared not have been guilty of them. .