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[RBOTSa'fl T_3_.EGP.AMB PEB PfiBSS Association."] London^ becember 23. ; The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank amounts to £13,250,000. 'Five per cent New B .aland loan 103; five percent 188^ loan lDt_£; four and a half per cent 187!) 1904 loan 97£. A ship named tbe Juno, from America, with a cargo of arms, has beense.Bed off the mouth of the Shannon, on the West Coast of Ireland where it is presumed her cargo was to be landed. The capture was affected without difficulty, but the occurrence has caused great excitement in the districts around the Shannon. The death "of " George: Eliot,*! the well known authoress is announced to»day. Capetown, December 23. A telegram received from Durban, in Natal to-day. states that a report had been received there from tho Transvaal, that the' Boers had inflicted a serious defeat on the British troops at Middlebufrg, The engagement is stated to have been most severe, and tbat the British were outnumbered aud lost 200 in killed and wounded and tbat fifty officers and men were taken prisoners. No official telegrams have yet been received here or in Natal confirming the above report.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 261, 27 December 1880, Page 2
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