ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 18, 21 May 1877, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

Auckland, May 20. The San Francisco mail arrived on Saturday^and brings the following news :— Austria will occupy Bosnia if there is any disturbance. Servia ia preparing 90,000 men for immediate mobilization. 150.000 Russians marched on Galalz from Tantor Beemtor, and 50,000 more were to cross the river at Kemfcuaferen Leovva andNugheni. Tho Sqrvian Pressf is bost:le to Turkey. Ten thousand Turks, marched lrom Widen to defend the Danube between Silistrb ','iul Ismail. Tho Turlts made prat preparations f(.r di-fonding ibo D.inubn by irou-Clad-d,

The T t;rfcish troops ere in good i spirits but Buffer from dysentery. i T\w, Porto baa made a demand 1 on i Sorvia to prevent the passage of the i Russian troopa. 1 Tho Sultan haa seat to the Khedive 1 for troops- < A fire which originated in the Greek quarters at Stamboul destroyed 600 houses. Twelvo hundred mounted Cossacks passed near Bucharest on their way to Kaiaft. Von Moltke, in tlio Gorman Par* liament, an id that Erauce was ahead of G-ermany in her preparations for war, A motion in the TTouso of Commoas to enquire into Ireland's demand for restoration of her Parliament was negatived. German conscripts are ordered home. The Czar will not be present during tbe campaign. The Turks Lave destroyed tbe ltus« sian consulate in Greece, to prevent misunderstanding about Bagdad. The Persian army on the frontier has been removed. Tbe Russian fleet in the Atlantic and Pacific has been ordered to connect in the Mediterranean. The condition of the Turkish navy under Hobart Pasha is splendid. She has now fifteen ironclads in the Black l Sea. An international outbreak has occurred in Poland. Ib is said the Porte offers to code parfc of Herzegovina to Austria on entering Eoumania at the head of troop?. The Grand Duke Nicholas has issued a proclamation declaring that Russian friends were desirous only of further welfare of the Principalities. In an address to tbo army tbe Czar wound up his speech by giving^ his blessing and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. The Czarwitch remains with the army. Russia promises Koumania independence and a royal title. The Russian representatives abroad have been instructed to state that Eussia, although compelled by the course of events to take energetic measures, only intends to obtain guarantees for improvement and combinntion of Christians, and not territorial agrandisement Charles Bradlaugh and Mrs Amre Be?sant have been a.ue^ed on a charge of iasu'ng iinmor-:,! publications, Eradlaugh's oiTenco'wasi' the publication of a pamphlet by Di 1 Nolman on " Matin sian Theory.'' Plague continues in "Bagdad. The cattle plague is prevalent ia Middlesex. The most frightful calamity that ever befel St. Louis, has occurred in tho destruction by fire, of the Southern Hotel, with a loss of one hundred and seventy lives; The firo spread vapidly filling every room in tho hotel with lian-.e:j and smoke. The scene was of a m.-jst terrible <le:vripti'jii Frantic wriiimi end children ran through tho Lalls-, shrieking in a heartrending manlier, In wild, desperate efforts to escape, they rushed at the windows as a means of escape, bu'o the ladders were generally too short to reach the Gfth and -sixth storys, bat by resting some on a one story balcony on tho north side of the building, those at the windows were rescued, Skinner's fire escnp.j waa brought into service, and was the means of saving many lives. While the fire was raging some frightful scenes occurred.