CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3749, 3 January 1881, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

[Reuters Special.]

London, January 1.

The British revenue returns for the last quarter show an increase of £1,005,000 compared with last year.'

A Land-League meeting, to have been held in Ireland on Saturday and Sunday, has been prohibited, and a flying column is traversing the country to prevent night drilling by the Leaguers.

Latest intelligence to hand from the Cape state that the Boers have abandoned Utrecht, which place they reoently seized.

The British garrisons at Standeston and Wakkerstroom are strongly entrenched, and well supplied with provisions. Reinforcements of troops are daily marching to the front from Natal. Fiji Annexation. Information has been received at the Colonial Office that the chiefs of Rotumah have made a request to the Governor and officers of Fiji that the Islands should be annexed by the British to Fiji. The Turoo-Greek Question. The Porte is massing 100,000 troops on the Greek frontier in Epirus and Thessally in preparation for possible hostilities. London, January 1. News has been received that a statue of Minerva by "Phidias has been discovered during the excavations which were being made at Athens. •

The Times, in a leading article to-day, announces that the Irish Land Bill which the Government; propose to introduoe supplements- and repairs the defects in the Act of 1870. No new principles of land legislation are embodied in the measure. 4 Trial of Land Leaguers. The trial of Land Leaguers at Dublin, which commenced on the 28th ult., was opened by the Irish Attorney-General in a speech for the prosecution, which has occupied the last four day. The speech based the charges against the. Leaguers chiefly on their utterances at different meetings throughout the country. Intense interest is taken- in the trial, the Court being densely crowded. Capetown, January 1. Fighting in Basuto Land. Intelligence has been received from Basuto Land that a severe engagement has taken place there between the Colonial forces and a tribe of Tambookers. The enemy were completely defeated and a large number of their cattle and sheep captured. Over eighty Tambookers were killed, and a number, taken prisoners. The casualties on the side of the colonials amounted to three.