CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 82, 4 March 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] [Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, March 1. It has transpired that the Government have sent a communication to the United States Government complaining of the assistance afforded in America to dynamite plotters in England by the manufacture of infernal machines. Another machine identical with those already seized was found to-day at Ludgate Hill railway-station.

Telegrams are to hand from Souakim announcing. that the troops under MajorGeneral Sir Gerald Graham made an advance from Trinkitat yesterday morning, and came up with the enemy at noon, when orders were given for an attack in force to be made. At the time of the despatch of the message no further news had been received. Evening. An official telegram has just been received giving the news of a victory by the British troops under Major-General Graham over the rebels near Tokar. The message says that the enemy were attacked in force yesterday, and a general battle ensued. The fighting was very desperate on both sides, and lasted till nightfall. The British were finally suc•cessful at every point, the rebels being driven tfrom all their positions. Our loss was slight, and is set down at ten killed and forty wounded. The enemy suffered severely, and are estimated to have lost fully a thousand (1,000) killed. Later. Telegrams to hand from Souakim state that after the battle yesterday the British troops under Major-General Graham bivouacked at Elbeb, and to-day advance to Kar. Baker Pasha was wounded during the engagement. Accounts of the battle state that the rebels fought with great desperation, and only sucetrmbed after a hard struggle for victory. Midnight.

Major-General Graham telegraphs that the ei Jgagement yesterday lasted fully three hours, aad during that time the fighting was most severe. His troops captured seven guns and a quantity of war-material. .The British loss was 30 killed and 142 wounded. Among the latter were Baker Pasha and Colonels Burnaby and Barrow—all of whom suffered severe injuries. March 2. The latest news to hand from Souakim bring the news that Tokar has been relieved. The British troops left Elbeb yesterday morning, and marched to Tokar, which they occupied during the afternoon without opposition. The Arab rebels who had invested the place withdrew before the British arrived, and offered no check to their advance. Cairo, March 1. News has been received here from Kassala, | a town on the river Mareb, near the Abyssinian frontier, which has been in a state of siege for some time past, that the garrison of Egyptian troops recently made a sortie from the place. A strong force of rebels was encountered, and an engagement ensued, resulting in their defeat with considerable loss. Evening. Intelligence has been received from Khartoum that Gordon Pasha has issued a proclamation in which he rebukes the Soudanese for rebelling, and threatens that British troops will be sent to punish them. The statement that two British regiments would shortly go to Assouan, on the Northern Nubian frontier, is now again current.