BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2475, 23 February 1881, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Redtkb’s Aqency.j Another Ashantee War. London, Feb. 21. News to hand from the West Coast of Africa announces that the Ashantees have collected their army, and commenced an advance to Sierra Leone, with the view of the prosecution of hostilities against the colony, Parnell’s Policy. Mr Parnell addressed a meeting at Clare to-day, and exhorted his audience to adhere firmly to the programme of action which has been laid down by the League. The Boer Campaign. In the House of Commons to-day, Mr Gladstone, in replying to a question, made a statement in which he confirmed the previously announced fact that negotiations have been opened through the President of the Orange Free State to' bring about, if possible, a bloodless and honorable understanding with the Boers in the Transvaal. Cat?k Town, Feb. 21. ; , Telegrams from Natal report that Sir Evelyn Wood left Pietermaritzburg with a large body of reinforcements, and made a brilliant reconnaissance in force through the Ingogo district, where encounters with Boers have lately taken place.

News has been received from Bloemfontein that the Volksraad, or Parliament, of the Orange Free State has passed a resolution authorising the passage of the British troops through the State from Basutoland into the Transvaal.