CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 87, 13 March 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) [Reuter’s Telegrams.) THE SOUDAN. ANOTHER BATTLE IMMINENT. LATEST TACTICS. Cairo, March 10. Telegrams to hand from Souakim state that it is expected that Massowah, a town on a small island belonging to Egypt, situate off the East Coast of Abyssinia, will shortly be proclaimed a free port. Osman Digna, leader of the rebels in Eastern Soudan, has refused to surrender to the British force, and has announced his determination of fighting General Graham. The troops will advance against the rebels to-morrow, and it is expected that a battle will then take place. Telegrams have been received from Gordon Pasha stating that he is unable to make arrangements for relieving the garrison at Khartoum without the aid of a military force. March 11. The latest intelligence from Souakim is to the effect that a battle between General Graham’s troops and the followers of Osman Digna is expected to take place immediately. The British force will afterwards advance to Sinkat. DEATH OF AN EMINENT JOURNALIST. London, March 11. The de.a.th is announced of Wm. Blanchard Jerrold, the author and journalist, aged 50. The cargo of mutton per s.s. Potosi, from Melbourne, has arrived in excellent condition. The Chinese Government has given a London firm a large order for torpedos. INDISPOSITION OF MR. GLADSTONE. Mr. Gladstone is suffering from a severe cold, and is at present confined to his house. RUSSIA AND THE AFFGHAN FRONTIER. A debate has taken place in the House of Lords on the subject of Central Asia, and occupation of Merv by Russia. In the course of the debate Earl Kimberley, Secretary of State for India, made a speech in which he announced that parleying is now proceeding between the English and Russian Governments with a view to definitely fix the lines of Russia on the Afghan frontier. The House of Commons has passed a vote for a credit of half a million sterling to cover the expenses of the British expenditure to the Soudan. The Marquis of Hartington, Secretary of State for War, speaking to the motion, stated that the Government deemed it essential that the Red Sea Ports should be held by the British force, and added that the Government accepted the full respoasibility of any polick that may be pursued by the Egyptian Government during the time the British occupation lasts. THE FRANCO-CHINESE WAR. ADVANCE AGAINST THE ENEMY’S POSITION. Paris, March 11. An official telegram from General Millot, the French Commander in Tonquin, states that the force under his command is now advancing against the enemy’s position at Bacninh. Ottawa, March 11. Threats emanating from Fenians having been made against the life of Lord Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, the guard at Government House has been doubled and other precautions are being taken for the safety of his Excellency* New York, March 11. A snow slip has demolished the works at the Emma Silver Mine, and caused the death of twelve workmen, besides serious injuries to several others.