CABLE MESSAGES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2640, 8 October 1877, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

EUROPEAN TELEGRAMS. [BMJTBb'3 TBLRGHAU3 TO PBESS AOBNOX.] AUSTRIA. NEUTRAL. Bombit, September 28. Austria still continues her neutrality. RUSSIANS MASSING TROOPS ON THE RIVER LOM. , Mehemet AH is retiring on Cara Loin , owing to the Russians massing on the Lorn. BAD WEATHER. Bad weather. SnppHes difficult; roads impassable. ATTACK ON BIELA. Suleiman Pasha co-operates wiib Mohemefc AH in attacking Biela in pursuance with orders from Seraskeriai. EARLY AND SEVERE WINTER EXPECTED. \ ■' , Bombay, September 29. There are signs of an early and severe winter. Two inches thick of snoware on the Shipka Pass raonntains. '' CAMPAIGN BELIEVED TO BE EN2ED. It is believed that the campaign in Balgaria is rirtually ended. Theßassians remain entrenched for the winter. 14,000 \TOUNDED TURKS AT PLEVNA. The Sydney Morning Herald's special dated the 27th September, says that fourteen thousand wounded Turks ire &t Plevna. - ' KEEPING ROAD OPEN;

Chefkt Pasha is forming a fortified camp at Guikhario, with a view to keeping open the road between Plevna and Sophia, and organising another relief force for Plevna. MOBILISATION" OF THE SERVIAN AIIMY. Mobilisation of the Servian army continues. Two million of francs for that purpose have been received frcm Russia. AGENT-GENERAL'S TELEGRAM. The Cable Company have kindly forwarded, for the New Zealand Press, the following from the Victorian AgentGeneral :—: — NOTHING NEW FEOM THE SEAT OP WAR. London, Septembar 27. Nothing new from the seat of war. RELIEF OF PLEVNA CONFIRMED. The relief of Plevna is confirmed. INDLVN FAMINE. The Indian Famine Fund has reached £270,000.