THE SOUDAN.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4905, 29 September 1884, Page 2

THE SOUDAN.

€aibo, September 27.

Arrangements for despatching the British expedition to the Soudan are rapidly approaching completion, and General Lord Wolseley, who has been personally superintending the preparation has started for the Nubian frontier. Tkiffcy boiti which hare been equipped

for the transport of troops up the Nile, have arrived at Assouan.

[Sfeciais to the Pbess Association]

London, September 25Si? Saul Samuel, Agon!>General for New South Wales, has informed Lord Derby that the Government of New South Wales have no desire to hurry him in his decision regarding the Pacific. Mr Murray Smith, AgenuGeneral for Victoria, is endeavoring to arrange with the various Agents-General to act unitedly in requesting Lord Derby and Mr Gladstone to prevent foreign Powers from further acquiring territory in the Pacific south of the Equator, as such is both dangerous and annoying to the colonies.

September 26. Information to hand from the Cape states that Ueibepu declines to recognise the present location of the Zulu reserve.

The Times, in an article, urges the reduction of hereditary peerages in favor of the creation of more life peerages.

Au English capitalist is willing to purchase Fisher's Northern Territory property for the sum of ono hundred thousand pounds in cash, and fifty thousand pounds in shares.

The recent announcements of further large colonial loans being placed in the market have had a disturbing influence on the money market. M. de Veille, the eminent French jurist, has been despatched to Cayenne on behalf of the French Government, to inquire into and report upon the suitableness of that place for tbe deportment of recidiTJstes. ■

. The French vintage is very abundan this year.