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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 30 October 1882, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

(by electric telegraph. — copyright.) (reuter's telegrams,) (Received October 4,40 p.m.) ALEXANDRIA. i _ October 2G. The evidence of an officer whe wn~ guarding the Courts of Justice at Ales andria at the time of the bombardment inculpates Arabi in the burning of the city. October 27. " Intelligence is to hand that two British officers named Gill and Charrington and Professor Palmer, who were sent in August last into the interior to purchase camelßhavebeen massacred by Bedouins. Two of the bodies' of the victims have been recovered.. H.K.H. the Duke of Connaught has started On his return to|England. (BTECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.) . {Received October 25th, 5.40 p.m.) LONDON. October 25. In the House of Commons Mr Gladstone is pressing on the new rules of procedure, leaving the decision in the hands of the House. Ths Government have stated that they will be unable for a few weeks to come to absolutely define a scheme for the future management of Egypt. '• Judge Lawson's sentence on Mr Gray, M.P., has been discussed in the House, and the matter referred to a committee to consider. . Mr P. Wbdehouse Currie, 0.8., One' of the senior clerks in the Foreign Office, ; succeeds Sir Julian Pauncef orth. as legal Assistant TJnder-Secretary. The Boers are attacking Mapoch. A revolt has occurred in the vicinity, of, Qabul, and the Governor of that place' has:been killed. October 26: . . The British Government has intimated that it is prepared to receive tenders fdr| the supply of Australian frozen meat to. the army. - . •