THE SOUDAN.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4898, 20 September 1884, Page 2

THE SOUDAN.

Cairo, September 17. General Gordon, in his latest despatch, reproaches the British Government for causing the present evils in the Soudan, and states that he intends to burn Berber and surrender the Noudan to the Sultan of Turkey when the Turkish troops arrive.

[Specials to the Pebss Association] London, September 18. The Committee appointed to select a Professor of Music for the Adelaide University will meet on October 15. Mr J. F. Garrick, Agent-General for Queensland, is pressing Lord Derby to appoint a Commissioner for New Guinea, and it is believed that Mr John Douglas, C.M.G., formerly Premier of Queensland, will be an applicant for the position. The attempt made by the Bank of Scotland to form a syndicate for the purpose of floating a loan for the Melbourne Tramway Company has not succeeded. The Oriental Banking Company have appointed Mr S. H. Traille, manager of the staff of the old bank in Melbourne, and Balfour and Co., of Sydoey, to.carry on the business of the new bank in those cities, provided there is sufficient colonial business. The cholera in Naples is gradually abating. September 17. The Republique Franoaise predicts that Imperial federation will eventually ruin England. King Leopold, of Belgium, refuses to vote the School Bills.