CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1194, 7 November 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS]. DY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—(COPYRIGHT.) ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 4. Legal proceedings in connection with the trial of Arabi, and other rebel officers is being pushed forward by the Commission, but the preparation of a mass of evidence which has been taken Juts caused delay in the commencement of the trial, English Counsel have been retained to conduct the prosecution. November 5. Preparations for the despatch of an expedition to Soudan to subdue the Arabs, who have taken up arms under the false Prophet’s flag, are progressing rapidly. A considerable body of troops is being organised, and a large number of officers who fought under Arabi and were subsequently amnestied are enlisting. LONDON, Nov. 6. Mr Anthony Trollope, novelist, is seriously indisposed. CAPETOWN, Nov. 5. The Hon. T. C. Scanlan, premier, made a speech last night, in the course of which he took occasion to deny the truth of the statement current last month that the Cape Government had decided to withdraw from Basutoland. He added that failing a settlement of the difficulty in that territory, the < Government would rely on the people of the Colony and not on England to carry out the measures necessary for the maintenance of order and obedience to the laws.