THE SOUDAN.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5005, 27 January 1885, Page 2

THE SOUDAN.

London, January 26.

Safety of Colonel Stewart.

The Arabs report that Colonel Sir Herbert Stewart has arrived at El Meteinneh. : ■ -■■■: ■ :•■- ■- ; -■' '■■■■ ; ..'-

(Received January 27, 3 p.m.)

London, January 26.

Lord Wolscley telegraphs from Korti that there is no cause for anxiety as to the position of Col. Stewart and his column. [Specials to the Psess Association] London, January 24. Sir Wm. McArthur has entertained the Hon. J. B, Thurston, Colonial Secretary of Fiji, at a banquet. Mr Thos. A. Welton, liquidator in the Oriental Bunk estate, offers to settle the Victorian claims by paying twenty -shillings in the £ without interest. January 25. The Observer states that England assents to the French proposals regarding settlement of Egyptian finances, with the exception of that relating to the immediate appointment of a Financial Inquiry Committee. The Government of the Transvaal have concluded a commercial treaty with Germany, i Sir Saul {Samuel, Agent-General for

New South -^Vales, will preside at the February dinner of the Empire Club.

Annexation Matters.

Lord Derby considesrs. that any future action taken by -England in connection with annexation will much depend on the liberality of the colonies in tbo matter. Sir Saul Samuel is urging the necessity for a complete jurisdiction being established over New Guinea,

Germany ban annexed North Sierra Leone, on the west coast of Africa.

Bismarck is opposing the stringency of the annexation rules as proposed by England to be brought before the forthcoming Conference on Pacific affairs.