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Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 336, 4 March 1884, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

Reuter's Tklegrams — Copyright. (Received March 3, noon). London, March 1, evening. Telegrams from Souakim' state that after the battle yesterday the British troops under Major-General Graham bivouacked at El Teb, and to-day advanced on Tokar. Baker Paßha was wounded in the engagement. Accounts of a later date state that the rebels fought with great desperation and only sue-, cumbed after a hard struggle for victory. March 1, midnight. Major-General Graham telegraphs that the engagement yesterday lasted fully three hours, and during that time the fighting was most severe. His troops captured several guns and a quantity of war material. The British loss was 30 killed and 142 wounded. Among the latter were Baker Pasher and Colonels Burnaby and Barrow, all of whom suffered severe injuries, Cairo, March. 1.

Intelligence has been received from Khartoum that Gordon Pasha has issued a proclamation in which he rebukes the Soudanese for rebelling, and threatens that British troops will punish them. Tfoe statement that two British regiments 'would shortly go to, As,soman, on the northern Nubian frontier, is now again current. London, March 1. It has transpired that the Government have sent a communication to the U. S. pfovemment complaining of the assistance afforded in America tp 4/namite plotters in England by the manufacture of infernal machines. Another machine, identical with the others already seized, was found to-day at the Ludgate Hill railway station. (Received March 3rd, 1.30 p.m.) JjQ.NDON, March 2 (morning). The latest telegrams tp j+ancj. from Spuakim bring news that Tokar has been relieved. The British troops left El Teb yesterday morning and marched to Tokar, which they occupied, during the afternoon without opposition. -jPhe -Ar-ftb rgbels who had invested |he plape wf tftdresjr be£qre the arrived, and offered no checjfc t# their advance.. Albany, March 3. Arrived, yesterday, at King George's Sound— P. and O. steamer Mirzapore, with the English mails via Brindisi, dated London, 25th January. MsfcBOiTBNB, March 3. Thirty-one horses ran in the Newmarket Handicap on Saturday,