Second Edition Cable Messages.

Patea Mail, 25 September 1882, Page 3

Second Edition Cable Messages.

EGYPT—ANOTHER COLLAPSE. MORE PLUNDERING. (Received 25th, 12-45 p.m.) Alexandra, 23rd. Damietta was . yesterday occupied by British troops under Sir E. Wood. The bulk of the rebel garrison had previously deserted, and had made their way to Tantah, where they submitted to the British. The remainder fled before the arrival of troops, but only after they had looted : and plundered towns in every direction. ■The commahnef of the garrison, Abdellad, yielded to Major-General Wood on : the entry of the British. A grand parade of British cavalry took place to-day at Cairo. Since this idisplay, the attitude of the populace (previously insolent towards troops) hal become most abject, the parade having had an overawing effect on the people. Home Mails, London, 22nd.—Homeward mails via Sah Prancisco/ which left Auckland on August 15, were delivered here yesterday, four days-before contract time. Steamer Floated: Brisbane, 25th.—The steamer Ganges, bound from Melbourne to Calcutta, with horses, which went ashore, recently, on the Queensland coast, has . been floated, and has arrived at Cooktown. All the horses were lost. Greeks and Turks. Constantinoplej 22nd.—At the instance of the Russian Government, a conference of European envoys is to be held here for settlement of the difficulty which has arisen between Turks and Greieks at Arta, regarding the frontier lines. , ,'V