BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
[Reuter’s Agency.j Murder of a Bailiff. London, Dec. 9. News has been received of another serious murderous outrage in Ireland. A bailiff, while executing a decree for the eviction of a tenant from a farm at Cookstown, in the County Tyrone, was set upon by the tenant and a number of his sympathisers, and murdered by them before lie could escape. The African meat Trade. Cape Town, Dec. 8. News is to hand from the seat of hostilities in Basutoland and adjoining districts, that after several severe engagements between the Colonial forces and tribes of Pondos, the latter have, owing to a succession of defeats, been utterly routed. Acclimatised at £ast. Calcutta, Dec. 9 Frequent telegrams have come to hand from Allahabad regarding the state of the Marquis of Ripon. The latest bulletin reports that His Excellency is rapidly recovering from the effect of sunstroke, and is now out of danger.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2414, 11 December 1880, Page 2
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154BRITISH AND FOREIGN. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2414, 11 December 1880, Page 2
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