SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XI, Issue 2863, 26 February 1877, Page 2

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

~^« >„. ■■*.„ — -AueK'LA^D^'Feb.-M.^'" A. number of^'Bashi Bazouks crossed the Danube and plundered Roumanian dntpbsfs.' The commander of Siles^ria' is ordered to' punish them. The cost, of the relief works and nieasures to relieve the famine at Bompay and ,Madras is estimated at six and a, ha,lf f milUor,s- sterling. ,, , \ ' '[ ' '„' I The Servian General Tcn'e'rhayiff was received at Prague with- incessant ovations favorable t&'ltussia. The authorities interfered, and the police escoijted hi no/ "over the Saxony • f 'roil timers, anxL as he showed a, - disposition to resist, force was threatened. . , , ' ' ' The British ship 'Ada'] redafeV bound for San Francisco with ,coal, has been totally' destroyed ' by fire. '_' Tie Wew, numbering twenty-three, ' set out J for Marquesas Island, over 2,000 miles 'listant. One boat capsized in a r g;ale, but the pnsseng'ers were all saved ibuj: one. After being twenty-six days in open boats, and undergoing great sufferings, they arrived safely. [ In the event of war • a 'split is expected in the British Parliament, the liberals dividing 1 under ;the opposing leadership of- Hartiugton and Gladstone, and the Conservatives dividing through known differences between Salisbury and "Beaconsfield. Tho Porte has warned Servia that no armistice would be granted beyond the Ist of March. ■ -The Gountess -Howe* -through grief at the death of her husband, threw herself from a window and was killed. A fire occurred at, the Stonehall coal mine, Bolton, and fifteen are known io be killed. Commercial intercourse between Russia and (Jhina is suspended, owing j to Chiueso suspicions excised by a Russian exploring expedition. It is said that Turkey and Servia agreed to accept status qxio ante helium as the basis of treaty for peace negotiation's. It is reported that Russia will not oppose the Servian peace negotiations in order that should .war arise Servia may be invaded as a Turkish territory. The Porte has sent a dispatch to its representatives abroad, giving notice of tho appointment of three Christian Governors, and that reforms were proceeding unremittingly. steamers George Cromwell from Hull, and George Washington fromHalifax, the former with thirty and the j latter with thirty-one passengers, have been totally lost, The Roumanians are erecting redoubts opposite the Turkish fortress j at Widdin. Prince Gortschikoff" is dangerously ill. It is reported he is likely to resign owing to the Emperor's unwillingness to declare war; The American ship Dakota was struck by lightening and burned. The captain and his wife escaped after being in a boat four days." I Freemasons have refused to recognise i negros. _ - | A fight has occurred, whites against blacks, in South Carolina. American troops have again been defeated The Indian revolutionists defeated tho President's troops in a bloody battle. Tlie revolutionists are expected to enter Quito., „