CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3786, 15 February 1881, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

[Eeuteb's Special.]

London, February 14, The Championship. Hanlan won the boat race against Laycock easily. London, February 12. Arrived : Ship Gemma, from Oamaru, July 14; steamship Durham, from Lyttelton, December 15. Capetown, February 13. BASUTO LAND. Negotiations-for the cessation of hostilities between the Cape forces and Basutos have recently been proceeding, and a week's armistice has been proclaimecT throughout Basuto Land and Transkei. London, February 12. EEINFOECEMENTS FOE NATAL. In accordance with an announcement made on Saturday by the Secretary of State for War in the House of Commons, two regiments of cavalry and one thousand infantry have been ordered to proced to Natal to further reinforce Sir George Colley in the Transvaal. THE COEECION BILL. A meeting took place in Hyde Park to-day in opposition to the measures proposed by the Government for the settlement of the agitation in Ireland. A considerable number of people were present. Several violent speeches were made, and copies of the Irish Coercion Bill were burned on the platform. " THE LADIES." The Ladies' League, which has recently been formed in Dubliu, has for its object the furtherance of the agitation for the settlement of the question of ownership of land in Ireland. Constantinople, February 13. News to hand from the Island of Crete reports that the inhabitants are at present much disturbed over the possibility of the island being ceded to Greece in partial settlement of the Turco-Greek difficulty. AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, This day. The Government has decided to make a " call" on the House for the la 6of March, when a division on the second reading of the Eeform Bill will be taken, Large Wool Increase. Messrs Goldsborough and Co.'s review of the past wool season shows thi': 165,C00 bales have been catalogued, and 122.C00 bales sold in Victoria during the season. The total shipments amounted to 285,000 bales, being an increase of 25,000 on last year. Melbottbne, Monday. News has been received of the death of Col. Charles Whybrow Ligar, formerly Commandant of New Zealand Militia, aged 72. ;