TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 184, 6 October 1876, Page 9

TELEGRAMS.

(From our Daily Contemporaries.) London, September 19. A. meeting was held at Guildhall yesterday to protest against the alleged atrocities by the Turkish forces in Bulgaria. The Lord Mayor presided. A. large number of Russian volunteers, chiefly soldiers, are joining the Servian army. General Tchernayeff has proclaimed Prince Milan, King of Servia. The Sultan, on receiving the Austrian Ambassador, Count Frechy, expressed a desire to close the war so as to bring about reforms. The English cricketers proceeding to Australia, played IS men at Chichester, before leaving, and beat them easily. Trickett has left London for Sydney, via America, but will not row there. Wheat, unchanged. Sydney, October 3. The steamer Bowen arrived at Cooktown yesterday with 330 Chinese and other passengers. On the voyage between Penang and Malacca, the passengers and officers saw a sea-serpent about 250 feet long and 50 feet broad, with a square head and yellow stripes. The Bowen brings London, dates to August 18. Sir Charles Dilke, in addressing his constituents at Hotting Hill, read an important letter from an official, which stated that the accounts of the Bulgarian outrages were not exaggerated.