CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1601, 5 February 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Reuter'b .Telegrams,

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH,—COPYRIGHT.

CAIRO, February 2. Received February 4, 0.50 a.m.— News has been received hero that Baker Pasha, after landing atTrinkitafc, made a reconnaissance in force, and had a skirmish with the enemy. The latter fled southwards, and Baker's cavalry pursued the rebels for several miles, killing hundreds of them.

Colonel Gordon, the recently appointed Governor of. the Soudan, passed dhrough Korosko yesterday, and has entered tho desert en route to Khartoum. ■

LONDON, February 2. Et has transpired that Thomas and Son, sbarebrokers, who-have become defaulters for the amount of £BOO,OOO, have defrauded the London Chartered Bank of Australasia to the extent of £120,000 by the wholesale appropriation of securities belonging to the bank's customers,

MELBOURNE,. February 2, The Melbourne office of the London Chartered Bank of Australasia states that, according to its London advices, the bank's losses by the defalcation of Thomas and Son will not exceed £Bo,ooo'more than is covered by the reserve fund, which" is invested in consols apart, from ordinary business, ! : BRISBANE, Monday, Received February 4,12.30 p.m.— It has been ascertained that no loss of life occurred from the hurricane recently experiehced in the North. Tho 'freezing works near Bowen were completely destroyed, and it is feared there has been-a'wreck on Gloucester Island, off Edgecumbo Bay. ! Tho storm had a most extensive front, and serious floods are reported in many parts of Northern- Queensland. Over a hundred persons at Bowen ; are in a state of destitution;* "- I .':','