AMERICAN NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 405, 25 September 1889, Page 6

AMERICAN NEWS.

News from Hayti, up to Auguab 19bh, is fco the-eilecb that things look black for Legitirne. A large part of his army had turned againsb him, and he was cooped up closer than ever in Port-au-Prince. Jacmel and Aux Cayes, in Southern Hayti, have rebelled. Pork is selling for 75 cents per pound in Port-au-Prince, ' Petroleum in large quantities has been discovered in bhe Sbate of Chiapas, Mexico. ' Smelting furnaces are being erected in the State of Nuevo Leon, in consequence of the imposition of duties upon lead ores carried into the United Sbate3. Wheat is beginning to be exported to England from Sonora, Mexico. The State Government gives a bounty to all producers who export wheat. The Santa F6 Copper Mine, in the State of Chiapas, Mexico, has been sold to English companies— one called the "Mexican Company of London, and the other the Chiapas Copper Company — for $125,00,0 gold, and several thousand dollars in shares, the new Companies putting in $450,000 as working capital. This is one of the largest transactions made in Mexico in many years. Another Company — the Santa Fe Prospecting Company, of London, with'a capital of $300,000 gold — will at once explore the country that has been acquired by the purchase of a concession there for the original holders here. The aggregate capital of the English companies going im operate the copper properties of Chiapas is $2,500,000.

A HEAVY BATTLE, A Cairo despatch of August" 3rd reports an engagement at date .between General Greenfell's forces and the dervishes, in which the latter were routed. The dervish chief and 1500 of his followers' were killed or wounded. The British and Egyptian loss was about fifty killed <?r wounded. Wad-el-Jutni and twelve emiijs were killed. Greenfell marched out of T.pski at' 5 a.m. with a strong reconnoitering • forte of cavalry and " camelry, "\ and advanced close to the dervish camp. .Making a^eint of retreating he drew th,e' enemy within four miles of Toski. • Here the Egyptian 1 infantry were in * readiness, and a! general action began at»pnce.' The^derviphes made a gallant defence, 1 but i weWidriven^ftfein" hill to hill; the Egyptian cavalry maiie'suc-' cessful charges. The -■ crisis of the,; battle - was reached *ivheh ! th6 dervisJieSj attempted to turn the extreme' leffc,of the^Egyptianß. The Steadiness of the latt^r^yas^admi^ajble,and the cavalry swept, trough, the' lines o£ th'e'enemy, breaking them up., "No prisbners are ' reported' taken. *' The! cavdlry ■ pu'r^Ued the retreating rebels. 1 for, miles. * Th^e dervishes refused quarter/ '"but General Greenfell ordered^the^urftfoats to piekJuD the fuffitiv'esand wounded.-,*' 1 ' \" > x ~\