CABLEGRAM.
(Special to Australian Papers.)
LONDON
March 29
The casualties and losses of tbe besieged garrison of Potchestroom amounted to 1100 of all ranks. Scantiness of food was the cause of the garrison being compelled to surrender to the Boers. The Ashantees are quiet, and there is no alarm with regard the threatened war.
Several indecisive skirmishes have taken place between the Basutos and the local forces at Maseru. Major Lawrence has been killed at Lerida. The Basutos are entrenched at Balken, and a battle is imminent.
The will of William Moore Bell late of the firm of Banks Brothers, Bell and Co., Melbourne, has been proved at £100,000. The deceased leaves a sum of £250 each to eleven Melbourne charities.
The will of Sir William Parker, formerly Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, has been proved at £141,000.
The case "of Lawson v. Labouchere has resulted in the jury being unable to agree, and they have been discharged. Sir William Vernon Harcourt, the Home Secretary, repudiates the suggestion that he has been instigated by foreign states to prosecute the editor of the Socialist paper Die Friechit. April 1. The Boers are plundering the inhabitants of the Transvaal who during tbe recent war remained loyal to the British crown. Twelve new baronets have been created. The County of Cork has been proclaimed a " proscribed district" under the provisions of the Coercion Act. Mr Powell, the Conservative member for Wigan, who was elected iD Jauuary last in the room of Lord Lindsay, has been unseated on petition. Conflicts have taken place between the people of Tunis, adjoining the French settlement of Algiers. In the fighing which occurred a number of the combatants were killed.
The French expedition formed for the purpose of carrying into operation a scheme for a railway across the desert of Sahara to Timbuctoo, has met with a serious disaster. The natives treacherously administered to the party a deadly poison, from the effects of which sixty died.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3055, 11 April 1881, Page 3
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