WAR IN EGYPT!

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1152, 15 August 1882, Page 2

WAR IN EGYPT!

fEEnißß's^aiuMs.)! 3 {li ' ANOTHER SORIIE BY ARABI VIGOROUSLYJSPtyLSED. The Coldstream and GrenadieY Gaards have been quartered at the Royal | Palace at Ramleb, near this city. A body of the Rebel: ;E«yptiani troopi, commanded by Arabi in person, mado an advance to-day against Fort Mex.l Tn.oir approach however, .detected !by" the outposts, and a body of British troops ■from the fort was despatched i against them. The enemy was repulsed without difficulty, and retreated to 'the interior;,] '•'■ K )'<{■ "\ , ''' L ' i " OONSMNTINOPLE, AugUßtlß.':;;; .. The ;pfopojed military iconven ion between the.'British Government and.ihe. Porte; a draft of which was laid before the •Conference by Lord Dufferiq.-: y has,.not, aX'yet, been compieted; and, notwithstanding the concession which the BritißhGovernnient'hsS'offered'with retfard jtojthe command of the Ottoitiahi troops'in Egypt the Porte is still disin- i alined to accept the convention, and furith'eV 5 negotiations, arja, expected ltd" ■ r takV place, }■;>,:, •:•!.». ' )J Ur\ ;.; i;-p -•ioNDOir, Auguat,l3 M| it ia-proposed that the Khedive shall command the combined forces inJEgypt. ■■■> The Oopferenoe' jf Powers will disperse •m soon as the/oonyention l is signed be* [ - : J/. .-.!.■; :■ Arabi'•iß-'riporte'dito be very 'strongly !entrenoh«d. ! ' h.t< I ; o The.removßJiOf.laron siL»ssppii''frbln the presidency of thtlsisei oaiial'Oqmpany. is probable, and it is." likely that} he,frill. be succeeded either by the 'present' Eng-' lish Oonsul-General, E. B. Malet, E'sq.,' 0.8., or the British Yice-Oonsul.ißaphael Borg, Esq. ;■'■'■ It is not true that Germany is adding to her fleet of gunboats. / The Turkish Press hns been warnad not 1 to comment on the delay inllaadtif Turkish troops in Egypt. r . . ; : 7JW ?';