Almost the sole topic of conversation daring the end of Inst week was the at-break of hostilities, and ax was only to be expected ramour has been rife. On Saturday afternoon Mr. G. Ros, the Acting Consul-General for Italy, received a dispatch to the effect that a state war bad been declared, bat beyond this the only news received regarding the developments of through the prest agencies.
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