LATE TELEGRAM. [Received in Oamaru at 1.51 a.m.] (REUTER' S— PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Capetown, Jan. 26.
News has been received to-day from Natal that the Governor-General, Sir Geo. Colley, who recently left Newcastle with a force of one thousand men, has crossed into the Transvaal, and has arrived at the Ingogo. Bodies of Boers have already been seen, and an early engagement with the enemy is expected, London, Jan. 27. Riots, which have arisen over the miners' strike in Lancashire, continue to occur in various places, and disturbances are spreading. The militia and police in the district are not strong enough to preserve order, and further reinforcements of troops are being despatched. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone has communicated to the press a denial of a report which has been generally cuirent to the effect that he intends to take a peerage. It is announced that the United States will in future pay to New South Wales and New Zealand onehalf thp cost of the overland transport of mails via San Francisco
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North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2688, 28 January 1881, Page 2
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173LATE TELEGRAM. [Received in Oamaru at 1.51 a.m.] (REUTER'S—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Capetown, Jan. 26. North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2688, 28 January 1881, Page 2
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