BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
[Reuter’s ' Agency, j There Is no Place like Home.” London. Feb. 5. „ It lias 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. Ireland Becalmed. News to hand from Ireland during the past few weeks shows that agragrian 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.
The Asbantee Disturbance. Further news from Sierra Leone confirms the telegram to hand yesterday regarding the probability of an outbreak of war in the colony. It is now announced that the King of ’ Ashantee demands that a* refugee chief, ovho has placed himself under British protection in the colony, should be surrendered. Sir Samuel Rowe, Governor of Sierra Leone has refused the demand, and hence the threatened attack on the colony by the Ashantees.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2462, 8 February 1881, Page 3
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161BRITISH AND FOREIGN. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2462, 8 February 1881, Page 3
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