CABLE MESSAGES'

Thames Advertiser, Volume X, Issue 2711, 27 August 1877, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES'

' (PUB PBESS AGENOY. i . THE W A K, IUiiEISE REPULSE. AT SKIFKA PASS—4O,OOO EN GAGED. MIDNIGHT ATTAOK--EIGHTJtf& CONTINUED. A VICTOEY FOll MMEMIiT ALI. London, August 24

Tho latest Eussian official despatch says that all the attacks by the Turks at the Shipka Pass were repulsed, and the Eiissians maintained their position. They have been reinforced, and fighting continues.

The Turks sufforod 'an enormous loss, but the' Russian loss was relatively slight. Many officers were killed. Eussian official reports proclaim a' victory at Selva. :A Turkish unofficial report sajs that Mehemet Ali achieved a brilliant victory at Eski Pjuma.

(fbomthe auckland 'stab's' special LONDON COBBESPONDENT.) London, August 23. '' Under cover of night, forty thousand Turks, commanded by Suleiman Pasha, attacked the Eussian position at Shipka Pass. The fighting continued from dark till daylight. 1 The Turkish troops, with indomitable courage, repeatedly assailed the enemy s lines, but were repulsed with great slaughter. It was a fearful engagement, tbe Turks, from their exposure, losing very heavily. August 24 Further falls have ocourred in the Wallsend coal mine, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Several houses have fallen in. Sydney, Augt 25.' Commebcial.—There is no material alteration since last quotations. The ' City of Sydney' sailed yesterday for Auckland. The ' Wakatipua' leaves this afternoon.