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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 629, 25 July 1882, Page 2

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EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS

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ALEXANDRIA. Alexandria, July 20. Intelligence is io hand frorii Kafradow\r th:it Arabi is collecting and receiving the taxes from Ibe inhabitants of the district, and is, further, making extensive requisitions upon Uieui for money and supplies. A reconnaissance of Arnbi Pasba's position at Knfradow-'ir has been made, and it has been ascertained that the entrenchment is in a siluation of considerable military strength, and capable of being well defended. It is not yet known what steps will be taken to subdue the rebel army. The reconnaissance party furihei , nacerlaiued that Arabi Pasha lias cut ihe MaundooJich Can. , !, through which the supply for the city of Alexandria is bought, and the inhabitants are now suffering from a scarciiy of water. July 21. Notwithstanding the action of the rebels in diverting the water supply by cutting the aqueduct, there is sufficient water in the canal flowing to the city to last for some time. July 23. A party of British troops, while exploring the railway line outside Alexandria, mci a force of Arabi's cavalry. The latter declined an encounter, and made eff before the British could come up. Measures have been commenced by the British troops far the occupation ot Aboukir, an important strategetica] position ten miles north-east of Alexandria. Arafci has now been formally dismissed from the position of Minister of War. Malta, July 21. A further detachment ot 2100 British troops left to-day for Alexandria. London, July 20. The Times this morning publishes a paragraph stating that, in consequence or the hesitation of the Porle in replying to the request of the Great Powers for the despatch of Turkish troops to Egypt,

the English Government have to-day issued onleis tor the British expeditionary force which has recenLly been organised to proceed to Alexandria, On Monday nest vlie Hoo. W. E. Gladstone, as Chancellor of the Excboquer, will propose a vole of credit in the House of Oouimoos for the purpose of siceivjtheoiug the British forces in Egypt. July 21. The reply of the Porte to the identical note of the Powers, in which it states its willingness to send a delegate to the Stamboul Conference, is equivocal, and is generally regarded as equivalent to a refusal to send Turkish troops to Ejjvpt. Sir Garnet Wolseley has been appointed to the command of the English troops, in' Egypt. ■■' July 23. It is announced that the Duke of Oonnaugbt, Sir Archibiitd Allison; and Rir Evelyn Wood have beeu appointed to the command of ihe biigade of the English army in Egypt. The British force now being dispatched to Alexandria consists of 10,000 officers and menAn extraordinary war credit is <o be asked for by Mr Gladstone in the House of Cotnmons to-morrow. It will be for an amount of £2,300,000. Germany and Austria are holding aloof from all questions affecting Egypt at the present juncture.