CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1115, 5 August 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

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’ ; . ■ ’ ?! August 3. ; Two-regiments of Household Cavalry and the first and second Life Guards sailed ;to-day for Egypt. , ■ j , Sir Garnet Wolsely embarked today at Marseilles, for Egypt; to assume eommand of .the British ferop* in •thatUouniliryl Cetewayo, formerly King of the Zulu tribes, has arrived-here, and hopes are freely expressed that he will bp reinstated by the British Government. .Cfensols continue (te PR r ' The market rate of discount has been reduced' The Bank rate remains trt' 3 per .cent. New Zealand Securities : Five per Cent; 10-40 Loan advanced to 1071, and Five per Cent. 1889 Loan to lt>7; Four-and-a-Half per; Cent. 1879-1904 Loan’ IOIi. Colonial bteadstuffs continue quiet. Adelaide Wheat s2s ( New Zealand ditto, 80s g. Adelaide Flour ex warehouse, 378. J, Australian Tallow unchanged at 44s for best beef, and das.gd forhest mutton. Scotch pig irqn upchafiged : COKSTANTLNaPLa; ; Jll '• -jJi ..August 2. The Conference of European, Am- ■ bactadbrs is oontinuing;.ttB sitti(ig > ;Tho Poftd has sent a communication ic the; Cotiference asking its approval of a proposal that the issue of a proclamation declaringArabi a,tbbm agplUst Imperial Authority, should be defer/ red---until the Turkish trdb'ps ' Havp, landed in Egypt. Lord Dufferin in replying to the communication reiterated hia declaratiutf that the iinhSi' Tif Etisaiiu in i

Egyii? were cntireljMiselfish, and jtateiilthat the, sßritm Government insisted that ould be proCl»inieu a’rebeKby,'/We Sultan, and tffigffiMjwkation of the Ottoman troops. The British Ambassador further declared that unless the Porte agreed to these terms the British Government would adopt measures to prevent ih» landing of the troops -hr—w’ ‘ ~rii AW*--’ It has transpired that the. .proposal—submitted to the Conference by the Italian Ambassador that the neutrality of thle Saez Canal should 'be.: secured by collective naval protection, has been ■discussed by powers. The plerripufefftaneS Of tierBntiSh Aq»bae^q».^vq 0 not, it is understood, yetgiven any decision upon Jhg point.;, 0 u sjit a t 3 u Further, acccunts mre to-hafid ns— 1 garding the recent attaek 'of toe BCdouias upop, the Ramleh. The statement: that the outpost retreated in disorder is incorrect,,,, The picket, ns previously stated wks taken by surprise, and'fell'baelt/biiV’ in perfect order.' Tjie Arabs fllid'tm arrival. qf,, reiuforcemejita ,frqm, | |he i damp. I August 3. A cdpsiderable force of British troops' ■ has been despatched to Suez and hae odcupied that place. . . .