CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 12, 22 November 1883, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) London, Nov. 19. In the course of a despatch to the Imperial Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Major Sir Evelyn Baring, British Diplomatic Agent and Consul-General in Egypt, states that a force of 3,000 infantry, with six guns, will be sufficient as a garrison for Alexandria, and that the Egyptian Government have intimated their willingness to be answerable for the maintence of order in the country, a large organisation of the native army having now been completed by Sir Evelyn Wood, Com-mander-in-Chief. LONDON COMMERCIAL.

Consols have declined to 101£. New Zealand securities remain at last quotation, viz., 5 per cent 1840 loan, 105|; 5 per cent, 1889 loan, 104 ex div. ; 44 per cent, 1879-1904 loan, 99| ex div. j 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 100 J. The market for colonial breadstuffs continues steady. Adelaide wheat has further advanced by 6d per quarter, and is to-day quoted at 46s 6d, ex store. New Zealand wheat remains at 38s 6d to 45s 6d, ex store, according to quality. Adelaide flour, ex store, remains at 32a, Australian tallow is dull. Best beef, 38s ; best mutton, 395. Alexandria, Nov. 19. The report to hand last week that a detachment of Egyptian troops has been attacked and routed near Souakim, a port on the Red Sea, is now fully confirmed. The troops numbered 500, and were proceeding to reinforce the army in the Soudan when they were attacked by the rebel hill men. Mr. Moncreiff, the British Consul at Soua* kim, who was with the detachment, was killed. Only fourteen men escaped, and they made their way to Souakim, which place was subsequently attacked by the rebels, who were, however, repulsed by the The latest reports state that another attack on Souakim is imminent, and that the population is flying from the place, fearing that it will fall into the hands of the rebels. Nov. 20.—News has reached here from Souakim which gives currency to a report that the Egyptian forces under Hicks Pasha, operating against the followers of El Mahdi, the False Prophet, are short of provisions and are surrounded by the enemy. The position of the Egyptian troops is said to be critical. Genoa (Italy), Nov. 19, n»H Imperial lhgl»n«‘RM l-hr Grown I‘rinrc nf Germany arrived here «" da v bom Berlin. I?, pro eds to night to Valeinii, and ft thence to M drill, escovM ht the German Mediterranean Naval Sqi’nrlreu. P.vLOUADE (Ser.’in), Nov *2O. Tb/rm of thv leaders '<■ tlm rrcmt t'bil ’ton in thw country, «!’•■» were c? r ,j c . nr , ( ,q to death, have been shnt. TJ SPELT ALS? [Per Te Anad the Tr.rrr.’l ■ ... . | Jay :?: ii/vr’Gr- \v?.h /!•* ■» t o' i n .a ? i ) r-i j. • 'A ■