LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2326, 11 February 1884, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. PARNELL’S VOTE OF CENSURE ON THE IRISH EXECUTIVE. SUDDEN DEATH OF CETEWAYO. THE GARRISON AND INHABITANTS OF SINKAT. GORDON PASHA’S PROGRESS. BAKER PASHA RECALLED. ADMIRAL HEWETT IN COMMAND AT SOUAKIM. ARRIVAL OF GORDON PASHA AT BERBER. PREPARATIONS FOR OPPOSING EL MAHDI’S ADVANCE. (Received February 11, 1 p.m.) London, February 9. In the House of Commons to-dav the debate commenced upon the motion tabled by Mr Parnell for a vote of censure upon the Irish Executive • but the discussion was subsequently adjourned, without a division being taken. ■ Arrived, the steamship Tongariro, from Lyttelton December 21. (Received February 11, 1 a.m.) Capetown, February 9. Telegrams from Natal report that Cetewayo died suddenly yesterday, Cairo, February 9. Telegrams to hand from Souakim state that a messenger arrived there from Sinkat, the Governor of the latter town having sent urgent appeals for help, the garrison and inhabitants of the town being in extremity. It was, however, impossible to send assistance, and the fate of the town is considered hopeless. Traders from Nubia report having met Gordon Pasha between Korosko and Admovmed. He was then procceding to Khartoum. Baker Pasha has baen recalled from Souakim by the Khedive, and Admiral Hewett, of the East India squadron, has been invested with the command of the town and troops stationed there, and the town has been declared to be in a state of siege, (Received February 11, 11 a.m.) February 10. Authentic intelligence is to hand (o----i ay that Gurdun Pasha anived yesterday safely at Berber, a town on the

Nile above the Fifth Cataract, and is now well on the journey towards Khartoum. A full Brigade of Egyptian troops is now under orders to proceed to Assouri at the First Cataract on the Nile, on the Nubian frontier, where preparations will be made with the view of opposing the advance of the rebels into Egypt Proper. Should this be attempted, the troops, will be officered throughout by Englishmen, and a force will be despatched with the least possible delay.