LATEST NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3073, 3 May 1881, Page 3

LATEST NEWS.

San Francisco, April 13. Chili has presented terms of peace to conquered Peru, who must pay the cost of the war, and yield"~tbe provinces of Antofpgasta, Tarapaca, and .Tarna. The new Peruvian President Calderon took the oath of office oh March 12,'

I By the Bursting of a, dam near Meraz§l in Pesth, Hungary, the river Theiss Overflowed 10,000 acres.

■ It is now believed that throughout the Iwhole island of Chios, which contained 70,000 inhabitants, 6,000 or 7,000 were killed bytheearthquake, and twenty-five per cent, of the survivors wounded. Only ten of the inhabitants of Chime were kjlledj and but one man survives in the mines, and 30,000 people are without shelter.

Hobart Pasha has been ordered to prepare the defence of the Dardanelles against vessels creeping in at night. Evictions are going on largely in Ireland. In County Tyrone more than 2000 processes for ejectment have been served.

It is said that the Nihilists have notified the Czar that they will lay down, their arms in return,among other things,! for an amnesty for the revolutionists. In the meantime more mines been discovered near the Imperial palace. The Grand Duke Nicholas Conßtantine> Novildi, notorious in connection with the. theft of diamonds, has been arrested for political intriguing in favor of his father, the brother of the late Czar.

Overton and Craig, from the colonies, are playing with the Liugards, and have scored success in 'Frisco.