LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2587, 7 October 1884, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] I' y Electric Telkoraph—Copyright. SUSPENSION OF THE OAISSE AND THE LAW OF LIQUIDATION. RETURN OF GENERAL GORDON TO KHARTOUM. WRECK OF A STEAMER IN THE NILE. COL. STEWART AND HIS PARTY ATTACKED BY BEDOUINS. SUBSIDENCE OP THE CHOLERA. SHIP ARRIVALS. (Received October 7, 0.55 a.m.) Cairo, October 4. In reply to the piotest lodged by the Powers interested in the Law of Liquidation against the suspension of the Caisse, Nubar Pasha stated that the suspension was absolutely necessary in the new situation of the Egyptian Treasury. October 5. Telegrams have been received here reporting the arrival of General Wolseley at Wady Haifa. Earl Northbrook is now on his way to Assouan. (Received October 7, 2.30 p.m.) October 7. Intelligence is (o hnnd that Gordon has returned to Khartoum from Berber, which place he recently recaptured from the rebels. News is received here that the steamer in which Colonel Stewart was proceeding down the Nile from Berber towards Abu Hamed struck on a rock at Wad El Khomar (the Fifth Cataract), and sank shortly afterwards. No lives were lost, but it is reported that Stewart and his party were on reaching the shore attacked by a band of

Bedouins, and that the Colonel was killed. The news requires confirmation. Madrid, October 6, The cholera epidemic has now entirely ceased in this country. Rome, October 6. The number of fresh cases of cholera at Naples and other towns has materially lessened during the last few days. Hopes are entertained that the spread of the epidemic has been permanently checked.

Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriter’s Association:— London, October 4. Arrived—from Lyttelton, the ship City of Sparta, June 7; and Riniac, June 24.