WAR IN EGYPT!

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1187, 23 September 1882, Page 2

WAR IN EGYPT!

BV;ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT. • . Telegrams. Alexandria, Sepiemper 21, The rebel garrison at Damiotta have filially raluflod to surrender, and allow no sign of yielding. It is expected that ap attack-by the British troops and gunboats will.be madeforthwith. Further arrests of members of the National party and Arabi's partizans are daily being mado. A largo number of prominent persons have been made prisoners, -; Constantinople, September 21. It has beeu discovered that a plot has recently been formed among the adherents of the Albanian League to attack and maßsacre the Christians in Scu'ari, a town in the South of Albania.. The conspiracy was detected, laud * number of arrests have been made. (Received Sept. 22, 7.45 p.m.) Sydney, September 22. The Garden Palace was completely destroyed about an hour after the commencement of thoi fire. A few poitions of the brickwork are all that remain standing. ; There was no insurance upon the building or the contents, except the Art Collection, which was insured for i'3ooo. The loss ij incalculable, as all the papers relating to the late census, and plans and records of. railway surveys, together with the collections in the Technological Museum, • and . important Government documents, many of which cannot be re-placed. - •. : i i'! ■). , - -