BRITISH AND FOREIGN

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2503, 29 March 1881, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

[REUTER’S AGENeT.J ; ■ An English Xiand lioague. London, March 26.Mr Parnell is how Engaged in. the formation of a Land Dengue in England, and* is organising branches in various parts of the, country through the medium of sympathisers with the Irish land agitation. EestatXiast, St, Petersburg; March 28,. The funeral of the late Czar took place to-day. A Despairing Effort. , , Constantinople, March- 28.' Xu view of the possibility of hostilities breaking out between, Turkey, knif Greece, the Sultan has asked the Khedive that a contingent of Egyjptfkn troops may be sent for service in Turkey if war is declared. Another Rising Dominion: Bucharest March 28. The two Houses of the Roumanian Parliament, the Senate and the ,Cham her of Deputies, have passed a resolution proclaiming the principality of Roumania a kingdom. End of the Boer War. Capetown, March 28. Sir Hercules Robinson made a,speech, to-day in the course of which lie said there was every pfOspecfe Of permanent peace being secured in the- Transvaal. Black-Bird Shooting Renewed. News has been been received to-day from Basutoland, reporting the resump-; tion of hostilities between the Basutos and colonial forces, 'A severe battle has been fought between the, latter, Jlndef' Colonel Carrington, ami the enemy, but without a decided success to either side. Colonel Carringtom . was somewhat slightly wounded during the fight.