LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 262, 7 February 1885, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. - LONDON PRESS ON AFFAIRS IN SOUDAN.. MEETING OF BRITISH CABINET COUNCIL. MESSAGE FROM GENERAL LORD WOLSELEY. REMINDER TO GERMANY ON ANNEXATION. (Received February 7, 11.30 a.m.) London, February 5. London papers referring to the British position in Soudan are unanimous iu declaring retreat impossible. Most journals advise that strong reinforcements, consisting partly of Indian native regiments be despatched to Souakim, and thence open the road to Berber.

A Cabinet Council will be held today to consider the Soudan position. Sir C. Dilke, President of the Local Government Board, speaking at Paddiugton last night, announced that General Wolseley telegraphed there was no cause for anxiety as to the position of the British troops at Gakdul and Metemneh.

Sir Charles also stated that Count Munster, German Ambassador to London, was on the 26th January, instructed to convey the British Government's protest against the German annexation of north New Guinea as being contrary to the promise made by German Governments to England.

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Loxdox, February 3. Italy has occupied Massowah, a seaport town of Abyssinia, situated on the Red Sea. Baron Reay advocates the appointment of Colonial members to the House of Lords. Sir John Henry Lefroy succeeds Baron M'Leay on the Council of the Royal Colonial Institute. The case of O'Donovan Rossa is considered hopeless. Rossa asserts that the woman had complaiued to him that the recent dynamite explosions in Englaud'had proved harmless, she desiring that people should be killed, and for the furtherance of this object offered him her purse. Further precautions against dynamite outrages have been taken hero. Lord Derby has accepted the offer of the Wolverene for service in New Guinea, the New South Wales Government undertaking to .refit her. Sir F. Dillon Bell, AgeiH-General for New Zealand, has invited, the other

Agents-General to male*? objection to Austria's proposal to establish penal colonies, so far as the Pacific is concerned. February i. It is expected that Italy will occupy Souakim, a town on the Red Sea. Portugal has seized the banks of the Congo. The Chinese outworks at Kelung have been captured by the French, with a loss of eleven killed and fifty-three wounded. The Hon. G. J. Goshen, speaking at Edinburgh, said that the union of the colonies was essential to the Empire. Mrs Dudley, the woman who shot O'Douovan Rossn, is regarded as a heroine in the United States. Up to the present Rossa's medical advisers have been unable to extract the ballet.