"AGE" SPECIALS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1588, 21 January 1884, Page 2

"AGE" SPECIALS.

(pRES« Assqar^TiQN.) LOW. January 9. A brother-in-law of El Mahal, the false prophet, has been captured by the Egyptian troops, He states that the Malrii will not oppose the Turkish Government if tlioy take supreme control over the but both he and his followers are determined to expel all foreigners from Central Africa, Baker' Bashawho, wjio was despatched to Soukin at the head of an expeditionary force, has arrived at Mis.sowah, a town on the Weßt Coast of tho Red Sea, and is now holding a papjey ]yith the King of 'Abyssinia,' who has ajso marched ijpfjn tjje place, Th.o report that a treaty of peace had been conolude'tl between France and Madagascar, by which the former secured possession pf the Northern portion of the island lei not confirmed, and is now regarded as very doubtful, LONDON, , January 13. Fears are entertained that the revolutionary forces of El Mahdi, the false prophet, will overtake and massacre the fugitives from, Khartoum. The evacuation qf Khartoum of Egyptian troops is pvp/jee&ing.-''" The projected commercial treaty betweed Spiiin ijnd Greaj; Britain, which the Spanifh Council, pf Ministers refused to ratify, has 1 been submitted to the Cortes, and favorably received, It is ijow officially announced that Canton, river has beon effectually blockaded by the' Chinese authorities with torpedoes.