CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1169, 7 October 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-(COPYRIGHT.) [eeuter’s telegrams]. Received October 6, 4.30 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 5. The Corporation of the City of London i has voted congratulatory addresses to Sir Garnet \\ olseley and Sir Beanchamp Seymour on the success of the British military and ; naval operations in Egypt. Mr Dillon, M.P. for Tipperary, has con- ! sented to reconsider the question of his in- 1 tended retirement from political life. October 6. I Sir Auckland Colvin, mho formerly occu- I pied the position of the British (’ontroller- ! General of the Egyptian Finance, is now I returning to Egypt. Hr has, it has triin- 1 spiled, been instructed to suspend the 1 resumption of his former duties of control. | and it is expected that these will now be i permanently abolished. ALEXANDRIA, Oct. 6. The British forces have evacuated Tantah j and Daminhar, the Khedive’s Governors of , those towns being confident of their ability | [ to prevent any outbreak or disturbance among the population. The customary ceremony connected with 1 the departure of an extensive caravan of I pilgrims for Mecca took place to-day at Cairo. A large body of British troops paraded for the occasion, and Sir Garnet Wolseley, the Duke of Connaught and other officers were present.