CABLEGRAMS.
[Reuter’s Special.] LONDON, Sept. 11. This morning an official despatch from Egypt dated last evening, has been published. In it Sir Garnet Wolseley reports that all has been quiet in the neighborhood of Rassassin since Saturday afternoon, and further states that Arabi’s force, during the engagement which took place that day, numbered fully 15,090 men of all arms. They made a plucky and determined stand against the British troops, and their losses amounted to several hundred. The exact extent of their casualities can’t be ascertained. The official statement of the British loss gives 2 killed and 54 wounded.
The death is announced to-day of the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart, G.C.8., aged 83.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1145, 12 September 1882, Page 2
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115CABLEGRAMS. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1145, 12 September 1882, Page 2
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