Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 464, 4 January 1881, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

LATEST EUROPEAN.

[Reutek's Telegrams.]

[Special to the Mail.J

London, Dec. 31,

Owing to the excitement which is prevailing in Dublin in consequence of of the trial of the Land Leagueis, extra military preparations are being made in the city for tire preservation of order.,

The British revenue returns lor the last quarter show an increase of about £1,000,000 compared with last year.

Latest intelligence to hand from the Cape states that the Boers have abandoned Utrecht, which place they recently seized. The British garrison at Standestown and Wakkerstroom are strongly entrenched and well supplied with provisions. Reinforcements of troops are vapidly marching to the front from the Cape. Information has been received at the Colonial Office that the chiefs of Rotumah have requested the Fijian Government to annex that island to Fiji At the trial of the Land Leaguers,the Attorney-General made a speech, based on their utterances at different times The court was densely crowded. Jan. 1. News has been received that a statue of Minerva by Phidias has been discovered during excavations which were being made at Athens, The Times in a leading article today announces that the Irish Land Bill which the government propose to introduce supplements and repairs any defects in the act of 1870 no new principles, of land legislation are embodied in the measure. ' " Jan. 2. The land meetings which were to be held in Ireland on Saturday and Sunday have been prohibited. A flying column is traversing the country to prevent any attempt that may be made at night drilling.

perimental cargo of arrived We homeward - t^^^^^^^| Constantinople, Jan l^^^B The Porte is massing .100,000 men on the Greek frontier in Epirus and Thessaly, in preparation for possible hostilities.