TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 337, 6 January 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. Londok, Jan. 1. New* has been received that a statute Minerva by Phidiag__haa__bee^ - dis^

covered during the excavations which were being made at Athens. The Times in a Fading article to-day announces that the Irish Land Bill which Government proposes to introduce, supplements and repairs the defects i i the Act of 1870. No new principles of hind legislation are embodied in the measure. The trial of the Land Leaguers at.... ’ Dublin, which coniitn need on the 28th ult;, was opened by the Irish AttorneyGeneral in a speech for the prosecution, ' which has occupied the last four days. ' The speech based the charges against the Leaguers chiefly on their utterances at different meetings throughout the country. Great interest is taken in the trial, the Court being densely crowded. Jan. 2. New Zealand securities, five per cent 10-40 loan, 103 ; five per cent 188SPV loan, lO'^'g. Jan. 3 The Times in a leading article to-day, states that the Coercion Bill which the Government intended to introduce will propose the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act and the suspension of trial by jury in Ireland, and will, moreover, restrict the sale or possession of arras. Jan. 4. The Great Powers still continue to urge Turkey and Greece to agree to European arbitration on the frontier question, but a favourable r~sult is not, so far, expected to be arrived ',. at. Cape Town, Jan. 1. . Intelligence has been received from j Basutoland that a severe engagement M has taken place there between the colonial h farces and tribes of Lambookis. The enemy were completely defeated, and a large number of their cattle and sheep J captured. Over 80 Lambookis killed and a number taken prisoners,while the casulties on the side of the colonists only amounted to three. Jan. 3. Intelligence has been received that the Boers in the Orange River Free State threaten to jJn in the rebellion in the Transvaal, though no actual outbreak has yet occurred. Commuaicatioubetween the Transvaal and Natal is now completely cut off by the Boers, and no news has therefore been received from the seat of hostilities for some days.

Constantinople, Jan. 3. It has transpired that the Porte has decline ' to arbitrate for the settlement of the Greek frontier question, and has now made a proposal to the Powers that a conference should beheld at Stamboul, to which Greece should send delegates, as well as the Powers and Turkey.