ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ.
[By Electric Telegraph.]
(FKOil OUR Offlf COBBESPOJTDEST.) ROUEN, DIEPPE, AND HAVRE,, TAKEN BY THE GERMANS. EXPECTED ARRIVAL OF GERMAN REIJN FO RCEMENTS. PARIS NOT YET BOMBARDED. CONGRESS ON THE EASTERN QUESTION. SORTIES EROM PARIS REPULSED. DUCROT AND YINOY OUTSIDE THE EORTS. REPORTED ERENCH VICTORY IN THE NORTH OF FRANCE. Hokttika, "Wednesday. The s.s. Raugitoto arrived at Hokitika, from Melbourne, at midnight on Tuesday. The mail telegrams were received in Melbourne, via Adelaide, on the moruiug cf Tuesday, the 17th. The Avoca with the mail arrived in Hobson'a Bay at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, the 18th.
GENERAL SUMMARY.
The latest dates are to Christmas Day. The situation of the belligerents is little altered, and the Kussian difficulty is so far settled that a conference to re-open the Eastern Question was to meet in Loudon ou the 3rd of Jan.
The war continues to rage with great slaughter. Great sorties from Paris have failed, and the Jariny of the Loire has been thoroughly beaten at all points. The Germans occupy Eouen, Havre, and Dieppe, while the French fleet are actually blockading their own ports.
The French Government has been removed to Bordeaux, and Tours -was taken after a severe battle.
Phalzbourg, Montmedy, and Blois have surrendered. Fifteen thousand men of the new Landwehr are arriving from Germany, aud marching to tho scene of operations.
The bombardment of Paris is delayed as famine is beginning to pinch them. Hats, cats, donkeys, and other animals are being eaten, whilst hundreds of waggon loads of provisions
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 768, 26 January 1871, Page 2
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