WAR IN EGYPT!

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1176, 12 September 1882, Page 2

WAR IN EGYPT!

.(Redter'sTeieoeams.) LnNpoN, September 9. A despatch has \ been receiveil. to-day from Sir Garnet Wolseley, timed noon, regarding the engagement fought this morning -iuear; Kassassin; Sir Garnet oef oiia'v.t'hat' the enemy -iti' great force were observed recounoitering the British outposts at day break. Tlia.urder was at once given for them to' be attacked, and after a somewhat hripf eflgagement they; werpiepulßedwith vpryheavy losb, and four guns were captured. The loss bn : our side was slight. After their defeat . the enemy retired to; the lines at Telelkekir, .'their artillery meanwhile firing at, .long range upon the British forces. The .latter have since returned to Kassasin, where the head quarters of the army now are. v.; - .•■-.•. .<■■ . 1 ; Sept. 11. • Tbiß'morning an official despatch from Egypt; dated last' evening, has been published. In it Sir Garnet Wolaeley reports that all has' Been quiet in the neighborhood of Rassassiti since. Saturday afternoon; He further ."states' that Arabi's torce, employed on that occasion numbered -fully 15,00 ft men, all armed, They made 1 a plucky and determined stand, and their loss amounted lo several huhdrfrL ■ ' : : : '- ''■'. The 'exaot exient.of.thoir casuaiiies cannot be aaceriamed. The official statempnt.ofthe.British loss gives 2.kiliedand 54 wounded. ;', ■ The death is afjiiounced of the Right : Hoii. Sir George Grev," Bart. G.C.8., agedß3, . ~.„■■■■"'>;., ' ■" : ",," ' . • 'AiEXANnau,- September 8.. An Arab friph.to-day attaqkedand overpowered the guard, and "forcibly removed, frW'the gallows the bodies' of the murderers of Messrs Dobson and' Richardson, who were puhlioly hanged here yesterday.