REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1346, 24 January 1881, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. London, January 20. Total reserve iti notes and bullion in the Bank of England £12,875,000. Five Per Cent Load,. t 03.; Five Per Cent 1880 Loan, 108; Podr and a Half Per Cent, 1879-1904 Loan; 991. The Homeward Australian niail'l, via Suez and Brindisi were delivered kerb to-day.

January 21. News has been received from South America that the Chilians occupied the Peruvian capital, Lima. On Monday fast two sanguinary battles were fought between the two forces, and it is said that 7000 Peruvians were killed. The Chilian loss is - not. stated! - Owing to the defeat of his. troops and the occupying of the capital, Pierola, President of Peru, has fled.

January 22. The trial of the Land Leaguers at Dublin still proceeds, The case for the defence of the -defendants had closed, and the Judges summing up will now be gone on with. The debate on the Address in Reply was resumed iu the House of Commons towlay, and other amendments proposed by Iri'h members tVere rejected by over whelming majorities/ The Address was finally carried by an almost imam mods vote of the House. January 23. News has b‘eeh received from South America that the Chilliinfc haVO followed up theii success over the Peruvians at Lima, by nldrchihg Ort and occupying Callao. The capture Of thO town was made almost without Opposition. Obituary,—Mr E. A. Southern, the well-known actor, aged 51. THE SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD. London, January 22. The race between Hanlan and Laycock again cannot be rowed to-day, as arranged. The Thames is still covered with large masses of floating ice, and th‘e traffic on the river is almost suspended. latest Australian news. Melbourne, January 22. A terrible explosion of lithofracteur occurred last evening at the New Chum Mine, at Sandhurst. Seven men were severely injured, five of them very seriously. SYDNEY, January 2l; At to-day’s Conference the question of the constitution of the Federal Courfcil was discussed, but the debate on the subject was adjourned until Monday next. A telegram from Sir Arthur Gordon to Lord Augustus Loftus, replying to the decision of the Conference to appoint a committee to investigate the [towers of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, was considered, and a reply was resolved upon.