REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1359, 8 February 1881, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. London, February 3. The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £14,125,000. The next series of wool sales will open on the 15th inst. Arrivals to date for the auctions amount to 190,000 bales. Total probable quantity to be offered 300,000 bales. February 4. The Daily News to-day publishes a telegram, stating that the Ashantees threaten to make war against the settlers and natives in the British Colony of Sierra Leone, on the west coast of Africa. Telegrams further state that in consequence of the attitude of the Ashantees a detachment of the Ist West India Regiment stationed at Freetown, has been ordered to proceed to the border to oppose any attack. The sitting of the house of Commons was closed this afternoon, the debate on the Irish Coercion Bill being further postponed. The proceedings after the expulsion of the Irish obstructionists were of an orderly character. February 5. It has been decided by the authorities that Michael Davitt, the League agitator who was arrested yesterday, shall complete the term of:;,penal servitude to which he was sentenced some time ago. Later. The death is announced to-day, after a lingering illness, of Thomas Carlyle, the eminent author; aged 86. News to hand from Ireland, during the last few weeks, shows that agrarian outrages have now almost entirely ceased.. This is attributed mainly to the prompt measures which have been taken by Government for the suppression of disorder.

Further news from Sierra Leone confirms a telegram to hand yesterday, regarding the possibility of an outbreak of war in the colony. It is now announced that the King of Ashantee demands that a refugee, who has placed himself under British protection in the colony, shonld be surrendered. Sir Samuel Rowe, Governor of Sierra Leone has refused the demand, hence the threatened attack on the colony by the Ashantees.