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[REDTBa'e TsLisaiufos per Pbbss Association.] Londok, December 17. Obituary i John Joseph Mechi ex Alderman of London, nged 78. The deceased was best known as the inventor of the rcaor strop bearing his uame. December It. Latest reports to hand from the Cape prove that the previous accounts of the disaster to the 94th regiment iv Transvaal have beeu greatly overstated. It is now known that the total causaltiea were only thirty, and that the remainder of the men were disarmed aud afterwards released. Mr Parnell has been elected Chairman of the Home Rulers in Ireland. Further diplomatic correspondence publisbed shows that Greece insists on the frontier line laid down by the Berlin Conference. Bkiikb, December J7. The President of the Swiss Confederation, who had but quite recently been elected to the position, committed suicide today in a street in this city. Constantinople, December I. It has transpired that the Porte intends to make a proposal to the Powers that another Conference should be held to settle the Turko-Greek question instead of the propoßed arbitration for the same purpose.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 263, 29 December 1880, Page 2
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