CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 84, 18 December 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

« Special to " Star-" EGYPTIAN WAR. EXECUTION OF O'DONNELL. MORE TROOPS FOR TONQUIN. HEOTEH'B telegrams. I Received December 18. 1.5 a.m. London, Dec. 14. ! PerJJjMerchant Shipping and Under- j writers "Association : — Arrived — Ships, I Waimate from Timaru. September llth; Auckland from Port Chalmers. Sept. j Bth. Barque— Orient from Lyttelton, ' September 7th. Caibo, Dec. 16. A n eye witness who escaped from the battle of El Obeid, when the Egyptian army was annihilated, confirms the statement that Hicks Pasha was destroyed (sic) when his troops were routed, and denies the truth of the telegram received from the Governor of Donssta to the effect that Hicks Pasha is alive and at Birket. Pabis, Dec. 16. In addition to the force of 3000 men which will embark for Tonquin within a week nnder • General Millst, another body of troops of the same strength will be despatched during the month of January. The fortress at Bacminh will, it iB stated, not be attacked until the arrival of these reinforcements December 17. A despatch is to hand from Tonquin, which states that six thousand French troops were being landed near Son Tay. and that the attack upon that place is expected to be made on the 12th of January. The enemy are 20,000 strong. December 17O'Donnell, the assassin bf James Care, was hanged this morning.