LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2589, 9 October 1884, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. *—■ —< CAMEL CORPS FOR SOUDAN. ARAB SHEIKS TENDERING THEIR SUBMISSION. (Received October 9, 1.30 p.m.) London, October 8. Arrived, at Plymouth, the Chirnborazo, from Melbourne, August 22. Cairo, October 8. A camel corps composed of Canadians, from Alexandria, start to-mor-row up the Nile for Soudan. Several Arab sheiks between Shendy and Khartoum have arrived at Ambukol, on the Nile, and have tendered their submission to the commander of the British forces stationed there. [SPECIAL TO MELBOURNE AGE.] London, September 28. In diplomatic circles it is considered doubtful whether France, Germany, Austria, and Russia will insist on their recent protest against the collection of the Egyptian international public debt being vested as proposed by Nubar Pasha in the Egyptian Ministry, instead of the International Debt Commission, which has thus been set aside. The special correspondent of the Times at Khartoum has forwarded a series of letters on the movements of General Gordon and the operations in and around Khartoum during the past few months. He claims as an absolute necessity for the future peace of the Soudan that Khartoum shall be retained and strongly garrisoned. The Times announces that it has reason to believe that the French Government have determined to abandon the Recidivistes Bill. September 29. It is reported that an alliance has been arrauged between France and Germany, but no details of the arrangement have been published as yet. [SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.] London, October 3. The Marquis of Hartington, speaking at Lancashire, implied that a comprouiise was possible if the Marquis of Salisbury withdraws his opposition to the Franchise Bill after seeing that the Redistribution Bill was fair. Mr Forster and Mr Morley, M.Ps., addressed a meeting of seventy thousand people at Leeds on the Franchise Bill.