THE SOUSAN.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5015, 7 February 1885, Page 2

THE SOUSAN.

[Received February 7, 11.30 a.m.]

London, February 6.' London Press on the Situation.

The Loudon papers, referring to tbe British position in the Soudan, are unanimous in declaring that retreat js impossible. Mostof the journals advise that strong reinforcements, consisting partly of Indian native regiments, be despatched to Souakim, thence to open a road to Berber.

A Cabinet Council will beheld to-day to consider the Soudan position.

Sir Chas. Dilke, President of the Local Government Board, speaking at Paddington last night, announced that Lord Wolseley telegraphs that there is no cause for anxiety as to the position of the British troops at Gakdul and Metemneh.

[Specials to the Pbess Association]

London, February 5. England is likely to contribute to the cost of annexation in New Guinea, but has delayed making any statement as to the amount pending the adjustment of boundaries.

The death is announced of Mr James Winter, of Melbourne, from nflammation of the lungs.. j

Twenty-five thousand shares having been taken up in Mr .Reginald Brett's Financial Company, of Adelaide, it will probably be floated.

The shipment of frozen meat ex E.M.s.s. Kaikoura is realising 4|d per lb. Lord Sherbrook,whose wife died in the early part of November, has re-married. .