TELEGRAMS.
ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London. Feb. 21. News to hand from the West Coast of Africa announces that the Ashantees collected their army, and commenced an advauce to Sierra Leone, with tiie view of the prosecution of hostilities against the colony. Mr Parnell addressed a meeting at Clare to-day, and exhorted bis audience to adhere firmly to the programme of action which has been laid down by the League. In the House of Commons to-day, Air Gladstone, in replying to a question, made a statement in which he confirmed the previously-announced fact that negotiation has been opened through the President of the Orange Free State to bring about, if possible, a bloodless and honourable understanding with the Boers in the Transvaal. Capetown, Feb. 21. Telegrams from Natal report that Sir Evelyn Wood left Piotermaritzburg with a large 'tw.cry —of—reinforcements, and made a brilliant reconnaisance jq force through the Ingogo district, where encounters with Boers have lately taken place. News has beeD received from Blomfontein 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.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 356, 24 February 1881, Page 3
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193TELEGRAMS. Temuka Leader, Issue 356, 24 February 1881, Page 3
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