REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1381, 5 March 1881, Page 2

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

London, March 2

In the House of Lords to-day the Irish Coercion Bill was read a third time and passed.

March. 3,

The Coercion BiH has received the Queen's absent, and has become law. The Land League h;is ir-snod a, mnnifesto, expressing its defiance of the Coercion Act.

Capetown, March 1. Intelligence has been received that

the proposals which had been made to the Basntos by the Commander of the Colonial forces have remained unanswered, and that the armistice has accordingly ceased.

No further operations can be proceeded with in consequence of the heavy rains.

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Albanv, March 4,

The P. and 0. Company's steamship Bokhara, with the inward Suez mail, has arrived in King George's Sound en route for Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney.

Melbourne, March 4.

In the Legislative Assembly last night a Bill was introduced by Graham Berry for the Reform of the Constitution, was read a second time without a division. Murray Smith then moved that a conference of the two Houses should be held, to agree, if possible, to compromise on the measure. Berry objected to the proposal at the' present time, and denounced it as unconstitutional and unprecedented. Sir John O'Shanuassy, D. Gannson, and Wrixon, supported the motion but the debate was finally adjourned to next sitting A caucas of the Opposition members was held yesterday, at which Murray Smith and j. G. Francis were elected joint leaders of the party in the Assembly.

Adelaide, March 4. Three hundred volunteers in this city have offered to proceed to Transvaal for service.