LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 737, 20 August 1878, Page 2

LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

[reutep.'s telegrams per press agency.] London, August 17. The Royal assent lias been given to the Fiji Marriages Bill. The assassin of Gail Misaitigne, Chief of the St. Petersburgli Private Police, has escaped. Austria is still further mobilising her troops. The relations between Austria and Turkey continue unsettled. No convention has yet been signed.

Great military preparations continue in Bosnia.

Three Austrian regiments refusing to advance were decimated, and, continuing mutinous, more executions followed. Th"se remaining were then sent prisoners to Austria.

A Servian loan of seventy four millions francs has been negotiated with a Paris banker. A Th£ t -Moniteur antipunce,d a Egyptian Ministry'-to-day. "The administration of the country is taken entirely out of the hands of the Khedive. Mr. Rivers Wilson is Finance Minister.

The presentation, of an ultimatum, by Germany to "the Porte is discredited. • ■ Hoedel has b°en beheaded.

Colonel Stanley stated in the House of Commons that the news from Cyprus was favorable, but did not explain, the difference from the Daily News' account, which says the efficiency of the corps is paralysed by fever, two-thirds of the medical staff down, very ill. and that five deaths have occurred.

Constantinople, Aug. 18. The Russian troops at Stefauo will embark to-morrow, and the British fiee,t in the Sea of Marmora leaves immediately afterwards.

The evacuation of Batoum takes place in a fortnight. Vienna, Aug. 18. The Austrians gained a complete victory over the Bosnians at Delilovas.