ENGLISH & FOREIGN.
CABLE_NEWS.
[eeutee’s tklegeams.] LONDON, December 20. Telephone Post Office. The Telephone Company| lost the caseversus the Post Office on Die question of the legality of erecting wires. December 21. Another Complication* The latest advices from the Gape state that the Boers have occupied Heidelberg and formed a Republic. Curger has been elected President without violence, the citizens not using any resistance. The State of Ireland* Three hundred London constables are going to Ireland to assist in preserving order. TelephonesThe Postmaster-General is now pre pared to establish telephones. The Rebellion in the TransvaalFurther telegrams to hand from the Cape regarding the rebellion in the : Transvaal, announce that the telegraph lines between Heidelberg and Pretoria were cut before the Boers proceeded ta the former place. News of the outbreak was, however, soon received at Pretoria, and the Governor of the Transvaal, Sir George Colley, at once gave orders for all available troops in the district to be despatched without delay to Heidelburg, where the Boers are, as already announced, in complete occupation.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2131, 22 December 1880, Page 2
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172ENGLISH & FOREIGN. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2131, 22 December 1880, Page 2
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