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Show ixNM.icnu ncrortrs. A l'orfajrnre A?ar hhlp hnlil fo Jlnte llcen nnlc. liisiwix, Oct. 13. Conflicting reports re-ports are received regardingUiesitu-aUon regardingUiesitu-aUon of alTairs at the mouth of the Zambesi river. One report alleges that one of the Ilritisu teniwhtel gunboats attempted to para up the river, to prevent which a IIlu of Portuguese gunboats had been anchored an-chored across the msuth of the river, wiUt instructions to passively resist the passage of the Untied vie-sels, vie-sels, and that she ran down and sank one of tbe Portuguese war ships. Anotherreporj: says the Eriti'h gunboats gun-boats hare not et started from Zan zibar. LoSDON. Oct, 13. Tlie Gflieia at Uie Admiralty and Foreign Office discredit the report that a British gunboat ran into and sunk a Portuguese Portu-guese gunboat at Uie mouth of tbe Zambesi river. |