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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3109, 4 February 1879, Page 2

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London, February 3.

British troops advanced into the Zulu country on the twelfth. Their advance so far has been without opposition as far as Sunday. The President of the French Councils of Ministers has resigned. M. Dufaur also persists in resigning, and M. Wadding ton is therefore forming a new.Ministry. . . : , f i Melbourne, This day; The .creditors of McClure, Valentine and Co., Melbourne, are chiefly local. The liabilities are now estimated at one hundred in* ted thousand X£l!l0,000). J

, ;;i iv London February 3J Arrived : The s;s. Cuzco. : The sentences on the Glasgow Bank directors are as follows:—Potter and Stronach, eighteen months each ; Taylor,! Inglis, Wright, Salmon, and Stewart, eight months' imprisonment each, Counsel urged that they 'Were not guilty of the false balances, as there was no motive for falsifying. ... .; Ceta way o failed to tender his submission, and war has been declared against him.; ' The New Zealand loan is one sper]cent. higher. All colonial securities buoyant Consols are 97. The market rate of discount is '2%: '-' The 1 Bank reserve is 12| =mjilion)j. .l ,- ;^ 1.-./^'.i „•:,- '!■'::,•( I" 1'" ; : San Fbancisoo, February li The Australian, with the London mails of the 2nd January, left San Frandisco on tjie 21st of January one day late^i/IJhe City of New York,' with the January colonial mails, arrived at San Francisco on the 29th January, one day in advance of contract time. ; \