THE CRISIS IN EGYPT.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1068, 13 October 1882, Page 3

THE CRISIS IN EGYPT.

( Prom our contemporaries ) London, October 5. The Holy Carpet. 13 to lie removed from Cairo to Mecca, and the troops at Cairo have been ordered to salute on the occasion. It is found very difficult to prove the complicity of of Arabi in the massacre and outrages at Alexandria. An Indian force is being organised in Alexandria, Alexandria, October G. An Arab force has made a raid on Tunis. The British have evacuated Tantah and Damanhour, the Khedive’s Governors of those towns being confident of their ability to prevent any fnrth ;jr outbreak or disturbance among the populace.. Tho mn'eteers’ transport service in Egypt has been ordered to remain, Lord Dnfferin protesting against thair withdrawal, which he considers to be premature. M. De Lesseps has wired to the Commission, before whom Ara’uis being,tried that Arabi protected the Canal. ■'r .1 European counsel in Alexandria decline to take up Arabi’s defence. The Germona are promoting unison of the Powers. Letters have been found which prove that M De Lesseps assisted Arabi. The Powers agree to allow Greece to join the Indemnity Commission. The Arab rising is principally confined to South Tunis. Tho hasty recall of the troops has been seveicly criticised. The French Press insist upon the conquest of M ulagascar. In Egypt there is a general feeling of hatred against the French. October 7. The increased emoluments which were accorded to officers of the Egyptian army under the terrorism which precedod the rebellion have now been revoked, and the former rates of pay will alone be granted. A revival of fanaticism has been manifested at Tantah, one of the towns recently evacuated by the British, and at several other places in tho interior. It is feared that further outrages may he perpetrated, and the Egyptian Notables are petitioning for a retention of the troops. October 9. Intelligence .is to hand from Cairo that an English counsel has been denied access to Arabi by the Egyptian authorities. Sir R. Malet, tho British Consul-General, will therefore communicate with the Egyptian Government with a view to obtain permission for counsel to visit Arabi. Constantinople, October 7. Lord Dnfferin, in replying to the request of the Porto that the Rrifisa Government would state definitely the date upon which tho British troops "-onld ho withdrawn from Egypt, has informed tho Porte that the English forces will leave tho principality as smm as the rcs'oratinn of order and the pacific ition of the country have been accomplished. October 9 It has transpired that the Porte in the recent communication to Lord DnfTerin remarking upon tho vagueness of his assurance that the British troops would be withdrawn from Egypt as soon as the pacification of that country was accomplished, further informed the British Ambassador that it required that the evacuation of the principality by the English army should be Completed within three months.

INTERPRuVINCI V.L. A fire broke out in a three-roomed cottage at Aveual, in the suburb of Invercargill, on (Sunday last at about 2 a.m., ami extended to the stable adjoining. Both buildings were old, and were consumed. They were the property of Mr T. Kemp, who holds an assurance of £75 in the Colonial office on the cottage, which was lot la--t week to Ricketeon, a shoemaker, recently from Oamaru, where it is said he was burnt out two months ago. Rickcrtson did not live on the premises and has not been seen since. A person calling herself his wife says he went oat of town on Saturday, and that the stock was insured, but she does not know in what office. A strange story comes from the Waimea district. Near Mandoville a farmer named Alexander, recently from Canterbury, has a homestead. He got into difficulties, and the bailiffs were sent up to take possession of the stock. On arriving Mrs Alexander drove them off with a double.barrelled gun, her husband supplying five rounds of ammunition. The party Iretreatcd for reinforcements returned nextday and took possession. Later on the chief bailiff returned to Gore, and in his absence Alexander, backed by his wife attacked about half a dozen men in possession and routed them. He returned to Gore on Saturday. Several of them are badly cut about and bruised Mrs Alexander is said to be a crack shot on the wing. Warrants are out against them for assault. It is supposed they have taken the opportunity to clear off' the stock The routed party returned very much crestfallen. After a lengthy hearing, eleven Maoris charged with pulling down a house at Omahu were discharged at Napier on the 9th inst. The affair arose nut of a tribal dispute. A half-casto named Broughton built a house on a certain block, but it was pulled down in a night. There was however no direct evidence to connect the p-isoners with the aff dr, though they were next day seen throwing parts of the house into the river. A breach of prnmi-e case Sweeney v. L yhourne, occupied the Supremo Court, at Wellington, all day on the 9th inst. The declaration set forth that on or about the mouth of December. 1881, the parties agreed to marry one another; that about May following the defendant refused ever to marry the plaintiff ; that until such refusal the plaintiff was always ready and willing to marry the defendant ; wherefore the plaintiff claimed £2OO damages. The defendant pleaded a general denial, and for a second plea said that after the alleged agreement and before th» breach thereof it was agreed between the parties that the agreement should be rescinded. The jury finding for the plaintiff, awarding £25 damages. The building temporarily used as an hotel at Little Akaroa was burned down on Tuesday, together with about £IOO worth of stock that was received only last Tuesday The work is that of an incendiary, as two letters were received by the proprietor, saying that the place would be destroyed it rebuilt. The original hotel was burned down just before the Akaroa fires, and at the time the cause was supposed to be a defective chimney. It is the intention of the New South Wales Government to build on the site of the late Ga- den Palace a permanent palace, which shall be a National Gallery of Art and Science for the entertainment and instruction of the people. The actual design of the new building has not vet been decided upon, but the idea of the Government is that the structure shall be a handsome one. that it shall be used tor the purposes of the present Art Gallery and Museum, and in other ways he available for purposes associated with an institution such as that a' ove mentioned. It is also probable that as sonic national demonstration will take place on he occasion of t’-e centenary of the founding of the colony of New South Wales in ISSB, the building will be so de igned that, with so ne addition in the form of an annexe, it will meet all the requirments of a great Exhibition. At the R.M. Court, Christchurch, Joubert and Twopenny sued a man named Parker for unlawful removal of the foundation stone from the exhibition ground, and obtained a verdict for Ll2.