CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4704, 4 February 1884, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Beoteb's Teie&bams .

Caieo, February 2

News has been received here that Baker Pasha, after landing at Trunkitat, made a reconnaissance in force, and had a skirmish with the enemy, when the latter fled southwards. Baker's cavalry pursued the rebels several miles, and killed hundreds of them.

Colonel Gordon, recently appointed Governor of the Soudan, passed through £orosko yesterday, and entered the desert en route for Khartoum.

London, February 2.

It has transpired that Thomas and Sons, stock-brokers, who became defaulters for the amount of £800,000, have defrauded the London Chartered Sank of Australia to the extent of £120,000 _ by the wholesale appropriation of securities belonging to the bank's customers.

A Melbourne telegram states that according to London advices the back losses by the defalcation of Thomas and Sons will not exceed £90,000 more than is covered by the reserve fund, which 13 invested in console apart from the ordinary business.

[Specials to the Peess Association]

London, January 31. Bishop Barry's libary was on board the Simla, and has been lost. The reports about the French troops having been repulsed at Bacninh are not confirmed.

A Russian Envoy has left for Honolulu, in order to present a diamond decoration to King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Islands. *