CABLE NEWS.
ENGLISH & FOREIGN. [eetjtee’s telegrams.] LONDON, January 1. Valuable DiscoveryNews has been received that a statue of Minerva by Phidias has been discovered during the excavations which wore being made at Athens’ Irish ReformsTho “ Times ” in a leading article today announced that tho Irish Land Bill which the Government propose to introduce supplements and repairs the defects in the Act of 1870. No new principles of land legislation are embodied in the measure. Trial of Leaguers. The trial of the Land Leaguers at Dublin, which commenced on tho 28th ult., was opened by the Irish AttorneyGeneral in a speech for the prosecution, which has occupied the last four days. Tho speech is based on the charges against tho Leaguers, chiefly on their utterances at different meetings throughout the country. Intense interest is taken in the trial, the Court being densely crowded. CAPETOWN, January 1. Another Victory. Intelligence has been received frem Basutoland that a severe engagement has taken place there between the colonial forces and tho tribe of Tambookies. Tho enemy were completely defeated, and a largo number of their sheep and cattle captured. Over eighty Tambookies were killed, and a number taken prisoners. Ths casualties on tho side of tho colonials only amounted to three.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2140, 4 January 1881, Page 2
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207CABLE NEWS. Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2140, 4 January 1881, Page 2
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