CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1621, 28 February 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Reuteu's Telegrams,

[by electric telegiupii—copyright.]

CAIRO,

February'2s. Telegrams from Sonakim state that the black troops in garrison there have become mutinous, and have threatened to join the Madhi,

A force of British marines will therefore, romain at Sonakim as a garrison and to preserve order, The advance of the British expedition now encamped near Souakim will, it has transpired, be delayed for some days. Much anxiety is felt at Souakim, in consequence of the disaffection among the Khedive's black troops,

LONDON, February 26. A destructive explosion occured at midnight of a Lirgo quantity of dynamite, which had been despo3ited as luggage at the cloakroom of tho Victoria citation, the terminus of tho London, Chatham, and Dover railway, Seven persons were injured, and great damage was inflicted upon the station buildings and the adjacent property. LONDON, ; , Feruary 26, evening. In the House of Commons to-day, A. W. Peel, (Liberal) M.P., for Warwick, was elected Speaker unopposed. A credit for half a million sterling to cover expenses of the British expedition to the Soudan is shortly to be asked for by the Government in'the House of Commons.

There is no clue to tho perpetrators of the explosion which occurred last night at the Victoria Railway Station. The police have in their possession, however, a Gladstone bag, which was burst open by the explosion of dynamite, and found in the. wrecked clcak room.