SOUTH AMERICA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2077, 26 July 1890, Page 4

SOUTH AMERICA.

Moittb; Video, July 22,

The Exchequer is empty and a local loan has failed. The forced paper car. rency is a complete failure.

July 23

The Customs duties of Uruguay will probably bo raised 10 per cent payable in gold for the redemption of paper. 'oiuatemala., July 22.

San Salvador claims to have routed 9000... Guatemalan troops, and is advancing to besipgo the capital. .Honduras and Guatemala have declared war on San'Salvador, July 23.

The President of Guatemala h»s appealed to the United States of America to prevent ;Mexico, from intervening iu the present dispute on behalf of San Salvador.

In the rpcpnt battle with the troops of San Salvador two hundred of the Guatemalas were billed. The States of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Guatemala have allied to re-establish order in Sun Silvador, 1( ... Buenos Ay*es, July 22.

Business in the. city is paralysed. Four thousand troops and three thousand police are quartered in the capital, TheGqveinment buildings are gunrded | by the cavalry, , 1 It is alleged that tfie plot discovered for the overthrow of the Government was instigated by the President for political ends, ; ; .Disturbances in Cbili are still continuing, and five thousand nitrate strikers sacked and burnt peveral shops in Valparaiso, As it is feared further depredations will be committed the troops have beer, summoned, and the banks and most of the business premises and private houses bave been closed. Daring the melee one shopkeeper and several rioters were killed. An ironclad fired on : the rioters in Iqujque, a seaport town in the north of Chili. July 23.

Affairs are quieter. Guatemala is desirous that San Salvador should join the federation of Central American States,

Steam is a servant that sometimes Mows up it^master.