MAJOR-GENERAL SIR E. WOOD GONE TO GUBAT.
COLONEL BRACKENBERY SUCCEEDS TO THE LATE GENERAL EARLE'S COLUMN. Uaiho. HVb. 17. \ . Tho latest telegrams from Kort'i announce that Major-General Sir'E. Wood has gone Gubat oh the Nile, above Meteinneh, and Colonel Brackenbery ha!s conseqiieiitly succeedefl to the command of the late General Earle's column. XiOvDov, Feb. 18. ? The first batch of reinforcements has sailed for Soudan. - The Times to-day states that the opposition leader^ have decided .on the meeting of Parliament to propose a want of confidence m the Government m their Egyptian policy. . , It has transpired that the Government has decided to decline the offer of the Canadian and Victorian troops for the Soudan as ife is believed. . they could not ■ arrive on the scene of .operations m time to be of service.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 66, 19 February 1885, Page 3
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