REUTERS TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1339, 15 January 1881, Page 2

REUTERS TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN, LoKson-, January 12. Consols are unchanged at 98|% The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone is suffering from cold, but itot one of a serious character* Jantiary 1&. Heavy snowstorms have been 'experienced throughout England during the past few days. Hanlan is favorite for the race witn Laycock for the sculling championship of the world, which takes plate ovev the usual course on the Thames on Monday next, 17th. Betting is now 5 to 2 on Hanlan. Berlin, January 12. A huge meeting of the electors -of this city was held to-day, at which resolutions were passed protesting against the anti-Jewish agitation which now exists in Germany. Capetown, January 12. Intelligence has been received frowi Transvaal that the Boers have occupied Bristiania. News from Natal announces that the Governor, Sir George Colley, has left Pieteroaritsburg and has proceeded to Newcastle, a town of importance, near the border, between Natal and Transvaal, where he will conduct the military operations against the Boers. ♦ LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, January H. The wreck of the ship Hereford, as it lies at Cape Patten, will be offered at auction here to-morrow. Sidney, January 14. The first sitting of the adjourned Intercolonial Conference was held here yesterday. The representatives of all the Colonies, except New Zealand, *vere present. The business transacted was purely of a preliminary character, the programme of the proceeding of the Conference being alone dealt with. SkuthOrpe further telegraphs that he has in his possession the telescope which Was presented by the Governor, on behalf of the C ilonists, to Leichardt, the explorer.