SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 555, 11 February 1878, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

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Speaking- at Edinburgh, the Secretary for- War said he thought great danger to peace arose from the large reserves, numbering millions of men, collected on the continent.

Five vessels sailed for Australian and New Zealand ports during the last two months with quantities of gunpowder varying from ten to 10.0. tons on board. The City of Berlin which brought the Australian mails via San Francisco, was 33 days crossing the Atlantic, owing to breaking her propeller, Twenty guineas premium was paid on her, The new fortifications in Germany arc being rapidly completed. The commercial treaty between England and Austria is to be prolonged.

The news of the fall of Plevna was received with the greatest rejoicings in Prussia, Boqmauia, and Servia. The Russian loss, it is officially stated, were 10 officers and 182 men killed, and 45 officers and 1200 men wounded. The Turks lost 40QG killed and wounded, and ten pashas, 128 staff officers, 2000 oftioers, 30,000 infantry, 1200 cavalry, and 77 field guns were captured. At an anti-Russian meeting at Pest.li, the attendance was about eight thousand. Violent speeches were made, and cries raised "Down witnj Andrassy," "Down with Tilla." Ortlctf was ouly restored by calling out the tvoufi&f t , . [ One hundred antf (four cannon were found buried in Plijrna. The flight of the ei-Khan of Khokand from Ormberg it is/expected will cause serious difficulty poj (foe Russians in central Asia. ; y

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