THE SOUDAN.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4934, 1 November 1884, Page 2

THE SOUDAN.

Cairo, October 30. Intelligence has been received here from Dal announcing the arrival of Lord Wolseley and staff. (R ceived November 1, 2.5 p.m.) Caieo, October 31. Intelligence is to hand from Wady Haifa that the Canadians (?) have arrived there, and are now passing fifty boats daily over the second cataract, and the troops are proceeding up the Nile with the utmost despatch.

[Specials to the Pbess Association]

London, October 29. It has been decided that the bills accepted from the Oriental Bank at Mauritius before tne stoppage of payment by the bank was known there will be paid in fall. The Agents-General arc urging Lord Derby to press the French Government for the exclusion of recidivistes from New Caledonia. London, October 30. Five new peers have been created. SmalNpox is raging at Merai, a town a short distance below the fourth cataract of the Nile. England intends to punish the murderers of Bethel (sic), and to expel all marauders from Bechuanaland. The half yearly meeting of the London Chartered Bank of Australia was held today, the profits amounting to £56,000. A dividend of 6 per cent, was declared, and £20,000 was carried to reserve, making a total of £40,000 carried to that account on the year's transactions. The charter of the bank has been renewed for ten years.