THE SOUDAN.

Thames Star, Volume xv, Issue 4767, 19 April 1884, Page 2

THE SOUDAN.

[Received April 19, 3 30 p.m.] Caibo, April 18. The Rebels Defeated. Despatches to hand from Gordon at Khartoum, dated 9th inst., announce that a prominent merchant at El Obeid reports to him that the followers of El Mahdi have been recently twice defeated by a force of local Arabs, and that the rebels are now surrounded.

Bombay, April 18. The police in this city and other towns of India have effected the seizure of large quantities of a printed proclamation signed by El Madhi, urging the Mussulmans to join his ranks. Calcutta April 18. Cholera is now raging severely in this city, and has already committed great ravages among the native population.

[Specials to the Pbess Association]

London, April 17. ; The leave of Mr Thomas Archer, Agent-General for Queensland, has been extended for three months. Mr Maurice Lyons is privately arranging to float a Northern Territory Pastoral Company of Australia. The Victorian gunboat Protector sails for Melbourne at the beginning of June. London, April 18. Mr Torrens, presiding at a meeting of the shareholders of the Bank of Adelaide, considered that the monetary pressure in the colony would not be removed until the value of the wheat crop surplus had been circulated. He further stated that there was no immediate prospect of a rise in the price of wheat.

Mr Murray Smith reminds the Times that a conflict with France would be imminent if the colonies prevented convicts under the Becidivistes Bill from landing. He deprecated the threats of warfare. The tenor of M. Ferry's note is endorsed and confirmed by the French Press.