EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1012, 3 October 1882, Page 1

EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS.

London, Sept, 28. The Corporation of, the City of London has resolved-io present it freedom to General . Sir Garnet Wolseley and Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour. The former will also receive a gold casket, and the latter a sword. Lord Dufferin has, on behalf of .Fh»s has giwn steh assurances us have entirely satisfied the Port" as to the'intentions of England in Egypt. Sept. 29. Sir Garnet Wolseley and Sir Evelyn Wood are reported to he better. It has been decided to leave twelve thousand troops in Eyypfc, and a portion of this force will consist of Mahommedan Indian troops. Several Arabs have been arrested for firinr, on Turks. The Ordnance and Hospital establishments at Cairo were totally destroyed by explosion which occurred there, and which was caused by sparks from a locomotive falling on the ammunition. The explosion was terrible and. caused the greatest alarm in the city, the inhabitants imagining that they were being attacked by some new enemy. The 60th Rifles narrowly esccped destruction by the explosion at Cairo.

The Porte lias abandoned its note asking for the withdrawal of the British troops from Egypt, and appears now willing to wait the close of events. 3.9 p.m. Seventeen persons were killed by the Cairo explosion. The whole of the 60lh regiment were in the immediate neighborhood, and had a very narrow escape. Notwithstanding the explosion, traffic is still maintained on the railway. The extent of loss and damage,--, wrought by the spoliation of Alexanfound on investigation to have been considerably underrated in the * original estimates.

The uatiy.es around the c'ty are hostile and menacing. Constantinople, Sept. 27. The Porte has addressed a note to Earl Dufferin, the British Ambassador, thanking England for hairing restored order in Egypt, and expressing a hope that the close friendship of England and Turkey will continue. Alexandria, Sept. 28. A goods train exploded with ammunition exploded while standiug at the railway station at Cairo. The British officera were holding a race meeting in the vicinity at the time, and a large number of Arabs and Europeans who

were standing near the train were blown away by the force of the explosion, thirty persons being killed. The station and the ne'ghboriug buildings are in flames. Explosions of a similar nature continue to occur. The cause is attributed to the intense heat, It is estimated that material to the value of fully £IOO,COO was destroyed. Sept. 29.

Further particulars which are to hand regarding the explosion at Cairo, show that ten days' vations and 0113 hundred trucks of war munitions have been destroyed by fire. The loss of life was not so great as at first stated. Five persons only were killed, but twenty suffered severe injuries. The official account attributes the explosion to the accidental bursting of a shell. Sept. 30.

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oiilits ti> r.'tuni. an! \v 11 i !■ av ■ at onrfi for .India. The tiuavds do not leave liyypt unit! Octo'xT SOlh. Cairo, S.jit. i)0. lho review of the g irrison troops, niunberiinr ■#. >U ), l>y ('if Khedive was a great sii'-cess. The Dnt'sli and Indian conting<u>N elicited general admira'ion. especially the latter, who, from taeiir spleiidii nhysiquv, showed to advantage-. Lu suldilion to the Egyptian colors flyingover the Kin dive's pavilion were the [ioyal Standard and the Union Jack. The review was witnessed by an immense crowd, and among those f resent were a large number of diplomatic tnem~ bers.