WITH BAKER AT SUAKIM.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1818, 1 March 1884, Page 4

WITH BAKER AT SUAKIM.

A t'onuiispoNOßNT ot the Times of India writes on Dec. 27 : — I armed huic t (Su.iliim) on Dec. 17, and found the Wood lark and Hanger both hcic ; they liad been tin owing shell over the town during the picvious night. Tlkmo is not the slightest doubt that if the ships had not been here the town v, oulcl li.iv o buen taken by the lebels, \\ lio would h.n e nuisMuicd every tangle soul. Ii you bjhe\e me, the rebels loiind this place number between thirty and foiey thousand mvu ; they have ri-cu to a man in lesponse to the Mahdi's appeal to the tiibes in the Soudan, after the disaster to (.-'oiilm.il flicks' ami}'. Now th.it tlie ships <ue huio the town is safe. The Kuiynlus and the otht r ships are all \) ing within a stone's thiow of town, cadi ship mooted head and stein. Su ildm piopui is on a .small lal.md connected by a causeway about JOO y.n iK long. At each aide of this cuueway a jjjunboit is placed. The lines outside the town extend about tuo miles and at the p.csent moment it is ".mi i ironed by tvLout WOO nidi b'ouakun is smioundcj by a i.ingc of hills, but up to the foot of tho hills, which are about I*2 miles oil, there is a flat plain, so of eoiuse the place can never be taken by suipiise These hills aic swarming with the rebels, and of eouise when the tioops iii.ii ch out fi om heie the enemy oan see winch dnection they aic taking, and the consc.jiicnce is that they coneentiate their lorees to the point vvhcie the tioops ate making for. About 40 inile3 from here theie are two places, Sinkat and Tokeh, in each of which theie is a garrison of Egyptian troops about 700 stiong. These two places aio besieged by tho enemy, who have completely hemmed these fellows in and cut them off from all cony mumcation. At Sinkat, which is the worst, there aie also a thousand women and children, and unless these places are relieved quickly, everybody in them will bo massacrul. The party that was cut up tvhen poor Moncrieff was killed was goimf to Tokoh, but the brutes all i an, headed by the Egyptian officer in command, w iio escaped on horseback, but he is ii)\v on his \\,tV to Cciio, to be tiled hy court iiiaiti.il. Then, on Dec. o, a I'let.n hmuit ot 709 nu»n wore sent from hue to lehevo Sinkat The 700 men mane up of about 30 tv\,>hy, about 100 1 ?a s ! i i Bd/oiik-, and the icmamder blacks (Nubian 1 -), splendid fellows to ii^ht Tins put}-, weie sm pi isod about 12 miles fioin hoe, the (runhy bolted pt once, the lcmaiudci' foiiuiit<; tqnare. Tlie Basin Bi/ouk,' side of the gave way, and they ian. The bl.io'»s fought back to buk tui some hoius, Imouct and but end ot the ntlo. Only 10 of tltcbo pom fellows escaped .line, and out of that 10 eight weie wounded. They ,1) lived hue on Dec. 7. I heai that about 1500 of the icbels weie killed on that oce-iMor. Bilcei Pasha ai rived here on Dec, 23 to take co.nmaid of t'u 1 aimy in the Soudan. He has a \ciy nasty task to undoi tako, ow in" to tlie niateiial he has to iii»bt with and tiust to, ami, as a j/ciiL'ial Ins icputatiun is at stake, so he will have to move with g'evit caut'on ; but theie is no doubt that lie is one of tho few men capable of the job. Even the tiaMi that the Egyptian Army is compose 1 »f line i.npboit f nth m B iker Paih.a To nionow Jiakei Pa&'ia and tho Admtial aio go'iig down to Massov\a'i in the Sphinx. Mi'-iiuah lh aliout 200 mil -. dov\ n the uM->t, and is gamsont'd )>y .iboutoPuO of tiicic blacks, and the (! neial (I'ii.ui) in tends sending as 'naiiv, as can be spaied up to iSouaknn, and th 'ii I thiu'v he will mile* a injve andielic.p thc^-e two places. In that ca*>e thi' sulois \ull land and takcch.uge ot the to'\u. Ma-isouali at pieseut is being thnateiiid by the Abyssiin.uis, but it is ,i stifiii o pl.ue ami I think 1000 men e.iuhl hold it ;ig,'inst any n.nnbcr. The Adii-nal h.\- s "ut the Co(ji\etle, gviuboat, to w iti'i l.g^ptian mtciests down thuj 'i'lio 11uil,'i'1 ]'>i\cs today foi iATos^owali, and then goe-> to Aden, to tuh'giaph lioiii'j ih % w«i anil al-o to biing up om mniU vve shall have t lcL'i.iplrc coinniuuieation v\ ith .Sue/and A'ian, a = the Ivhcdno is now in ikin^ a contiaet with th l'"ast(in Telegraph (ompi'iv. On Cliiibtm.is day the lienoial leviP^ed tlio tioop^ huio. I went and snv tliuni About "2300 paraded. You nevi»i in jom* life paw such cieatuics as the lnfanti j aic. Nine-tenth& of them really do not know how to use the lilic, or how to cany it, or anything else. Tho cav aby mustt'icd about 50i) thoy aie a little bettei, hut not reliable. Except one tioop of about 130, comprised of Tuiks, thi-othois «ue llasiii Bazouks and Egyptians Aliout throe day 8 ngo '-200 ot thoiu went out and made a lcco'iiiiiib^inrT. They went about twelve miles, nnd snw thousands ol these iolkls about SOO yaids off. They fcime act os the scene of the late bhujlitei, ,\ud ww all the dead bodies of tht^e poor blicks stabbed all over, hundieds of vultures hoveling lound. Liculenant Liinhay went out with the pai ty They had a long day ot it, and the i L »t day hitmen lioisea died. The whole, business is \viy senotis, und tlie M ihdi tannot be put down by the Egyptian (!o\ eminent, and my own idea is that bcloie lon^ v. c shrill see Indian t: 001)1 bciuu Li.hll(l at Sii ikini Oeneial Bakoi has been dulling the Amb ca\ahy to day and found them ah .stupid n > possible w htu anything not m tho dull book was jnopoicd. Geneuil Sil cot i us "> giadually ytting the iufantiy into oi < lor, but the <.nvaby h-i\e only just com" Oui ill ill pnncipally consists in making Tjuaies and advancing in that foimation, guaided by cavnliy placed at long distances in fiontaudon the sides. This latter is m hat the Eg} ptian cannot understand; their idea h to have the cavalry in roar of the infantry, with only a few infantiy, with only a few infant^' scouts in fiont (jencialSaitoiius has adopted (Jeneray Phaj'ic's formation of double company columns in echelon. ITc moves ina c oit of column of double company squares, and then forms up rapidly if attacked, in the above method.

R UI/tt'AY EVPKXSKS IN KvUtAN'D. — It apuearsiroin a letuni which has bsen issued tli.it between 1 872 and 1882 the London and North -Western Company expended the almost uici edible sum of t(i 15,000, in law and Pai liameutav y expenses Dm ins the same pn iod the AJid]ftnrlsppnt£2](Cooo, the Gieat Western i'2l 1.000, and the South- Western £35,.")00, in promoting and opposing Bills lin Parliament. No wonder the English ia lways don't pay big dividends. Tiu:W r/s of Copiit Martial.— In 1579 a Miloi- named James, Plullpot was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour whilstsci ving off a foiei^n station. During his passage home to undeigo his punishment the Zulu wfii biolie out, and his ship received oidcis to piocced to Atnea. On an i ving there Phillpot was j^iven liislibeity, and allowed to volunteer for service ashoie. At the conclusion of the Marine bbip proceeded to England, and on aruvmg at Plymouth the crew weie paid off, but the Admiralty outhorities, finding that Phillpot still had four months of las sentence unexuired, ouleteil his leinoval to fici\ \[ prison for that term. Under the advice of the governor of the prUon, Phillpot petitioned the Admiralty, and in due course icci\ed a reply saying that, as it seemed lather a hard case, "my Lords would dismiss him from the service at the expiration of his sentence." Rats and Mice.— lf you wish to de stroy thorn jjet a picket nf llir r S Magic Vi'kmin ICir 1 1 r in packets, Od, 91, .md Is, to be obtained of all storekeepers, o<- from T. li H)li. by en closing an extia stamp. LIKK IN TIIJS BOhII— TJU'N" AKD NOW.— It is generally supposed that in the bush we have to put up with many discomforts .md privations in the shape oi food Formerly it was so, but now, thanks to T. R. Hut, who has himself dwelt in the bush, if food dops consist chiefly of tinned moats his Colon* al Saccl gives to them . a most dejectable flavour, making them as well of the plainest food most enjoyibie, and instead aS/hard biscuits and indigestible damper his Impkoved ColoxiAl Baking Powdkr Wfces the' \ ; cry best Jbroad,, scones, cakes, and pastry far ■ superior' and more wholesome th,an yeast or'oaven. Sold by all storekeeper! who can ob. taw^t trtjm »ny njotcbaiU in AueW*nd^ - «'• •