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[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. >—< MORE AGRARIAN CRIMES IN IRELAND. NEWS OF GENERAL GORDON. (Received August 19, 0.55 a.m.) London, August 18. Several agrarian crimes of a serious nature have been committed in Ireland during the past few clays. Cairo, August 17. A letter sent by telegraph from Dongola by the Muclir lias been received from General Gordon, dated Khartoum, July 20. General Gordon states that Khartoum was tranquil at that date, and that he should continue to harass the enemy until relief arrived. [SPECIAL TO MELBOURNE AGE,] London, August 11. A cricket match, comprising a mixed team of Australians and Englishmen—smokers v. non-smokers—has been arranged to take place on Lord’s, Ground on September loth, 16th, and 17tb, for the benefit of the English Cricketers’ Fund. Lord Harris will act us captain of the smokers, and Mr W. G, Grace as captain of the non-smokers. France has threatened to seize the Pescadores, a group of small islands off the coast of Formosa. [SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.] London, August 14, Sir Evelyn Wood, who is to command the expedition to Khartoum in October has started for Assouan to make the necessary arrangements.
It has been ascertained that antiFrench Mandarins poisoned the late King of Anam.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2546, 19 August 1884, Page 2
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