Arab Atrocities.
Osman Digna has retired from Souakim, and abandoned the attacks upon the town. The neighborhood is now free from hostile Arabs. News, however, has been received from the inland districts of Northern "Nubia stating that Osman Digna is now harassing friendly tribes, and has mur dered a large number of women and children belonging to them.
[Specials to the Phsss Association]
London, October 7.
The Melbourne Gas Company's loan of £197,000 ot 5 per cent., and the Melbourne Tramway Company's loan of half a million, will probably be placed on the market shortly. October 8.The cholera has broken out in Barcelona, a town in Spain: Sir Joseph W. Chitty will adjudicate on the claims against the Oriental Bank estate on December 8. The object of the Meridian Conference, at present sitting, will probably be rendered fruitless in consequence of the French representative opposing the acceptance of Greenwich as the standard meridian. Sir Saul Samuel has been instructed to join with the other Agents~General in the proposed interview with Lord Derby on the Pacific question. The Agents have requested Lord Derby to appoint an early date for the interview.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4915, 10 October 1884, Page 2
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190Arab Atrocities. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4915, 10 October 1884, Page 2
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