Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 625, 11 July 1882, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

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(Redteh's Telegrams.) (Special to the Mail./ SHIPPING. (Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association.) London, July 8. Arrived—Ship Candidate, from Timaru, February 22; Cynosure, from Lyttelton, March 8 ; Loch Dee, from Lyttelton, March 29. THE EGYPTIAN TROUBLES. July 9. H.M. troop ship Malabar has left Portsmouth for Gibraltar, with two regiments of infantry to reinforce the garrison there. The Ist battalion of the Berkshire Reginaent (formerly 49th Foot) haa embarked at Gibraltar, and is now on its way to Egypt. Paris, July 8. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day, M. Freycinet, Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs, proposed a vote r>( credit of eight million francs to cover the expenses connected with the despatch of. the French fleet to Egypt. Constantinople, July 8. The Sultan has now finally declined the request of tne European Ambassadors that a Turkish delegate should be appointed to join in the Conference on the Egyptian question. July 9. It has transpired that Arabi Pasha has been formally nuuimmied by tin Sultan to Stamboul, but that the Egyptian Minister lias refused to ouey Hia Majesty's command. Alkxandria. July 9. Telegrams are to hm<l reporting that the Soudan rebels, under tlie leadership of the false prophet, have fought « severe engagement with t.io Egyptian troops. The latter were defeate<l ami completely crushed, and the rebels are now mardiini; upon Sennar, a town on the Bine Nile. 160 miles south of Khartoum. July 9. The work of arming and strengthening the forts commanding the harbor and city has be«*n resumed by the Egyptian troops, and Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour has therefore sent intimation to Arabi Pasha demanding the surrender of the forts a the allied Powers within twelve hours.