CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1151, 19 September 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-(COPYRIGHT.) [reuter’s telegrams]. Received 4 p.m 18th. LONDON, Sept. 16. Her Majesty the Queen has sent a telegram to the Khedive congratulating His Highness on the success of the operations of the British troops in Egypt. The Cricket Match, Australians v. North of England, was resumed to-day at Manchester. The visitors in their second innings scored 162. The Home Team requiring 28 runs to win went in, ai)d obtained 30 without the loss of a wicket, and thus won the match by 10 wickets. September 17. Obituary.—Dr. E. B. Pusey, aged 82. ALEXANDRIA, Sept. 16. The whole of the British army is now going to Cairo. Sir Evelyn Wood, who is at the head of the detachment, is now engaged in disarming the garrison at Kafradowar. All the principle colleagues of Arabi have been arrested. Abdellad, Arabi’s commander at Damietta, who holds the town with a force of fully 5000 black troops, has refused to surrender to the British forces. September 17. The garrison at Fort Ashlan, near Kafradowar, has submitted, and the troops at Aboukir are also surrendering to the British forces. Received Sept. 19, 3 p.m. ALEXANDRIA, Sept. 18. Sir Evelyn Wood, on his arrival at Kafradowar, found that the rebel army which had been stationed there had dispersed without waiting to surrender. The place is now occupied by a British force. Railway communication between Alexandria and Cairo has now been restored. In all twenty leaders of the National party have been arrested for complicity in the revolt. A decree has been issued by the Khedive wholly disbanding the Egyptian army. The decree further sets forth that all officers of the army who showed no sympathy with the Nationalist movement, will be tried by court martial at Cairo. VIENNA, Sept. 17. The Emperor Francis Joseph is now on a visit to Trieste, and intelligence is to hand that a man, with a number of bombs in his possession, has been arrested in the vicinity of the Imperial residence. It is supposed that an attempt on the Imperial lite was contemplated. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 16. Fresh difficulty has arisen in regard to the proposed Anglo-Turkish Convention, it is in regard to the relations of the British and Turkish commanders in Egypt. NEW YORK, Sept. 16. The International Rifle Contest, at Creedmoor, has resulted in a victory for the English Team.