THE SOUDAN.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4991, 10 January 1885, Page 2

THE SOUDAN.

Cairo, January 8. The latest telegrams from Korti state that Col. Sir H. Stewart started to-day for Gakdul, with the 19th Hussars, camel corps, Sussex regiment, and naval brigade. At Gakdul the Sussex regiment returns to the old position to protect Wells Guards, who are now at Gakdul, they will then join the other troops under Col. Stewart, and his force will proceed to El Meteneh as previously arranged.

[Specials to the Puess Association 1]

London, January 7

The account of the Government of New South Wales has been transferred from the Bank of New South Wales to the Associated Banks.

Mr Archibald Watson, the Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy at Charing Cross Hospital, will sail for Australia by the steamer Pekin on the 29th. !

Lord Derby has written a very severe despatch to the German Government in connection with New Guinea.

January 8. Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of thr Prince of Wales, attained his majority to-day. The festivities incidental to the occasion were conducted privately.

Sir Thomas A. Welton, the official assignee in the Oriental Bank Corporation Estate, anticipates that he will probably be able to realise two and a-halt" million pounds, and that a dividend will be declared directly certificates of claims are granted by the Court.