THE REBELLION IN THE SOUDAN News from General Gordon. [BY TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.] [REUTER's TELEGRAMS.] [Received September 19, 12.55 p.m.] Cairo, September 17.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1905, 20 September 1884, Page 2

THE REBELLION IN THE SOUDAN News from General Gordon. [BY TELEGRAPH. -COPYRIGHT.] [REUTERs TELEGRAMS.] [Received September 19, 12.55 p.m.] Cairo, September 17.

A DKt-PATCii from General Gorden, dated Khaitoum, August 26, has been received here by telegraph from the Nubian fronMer. In the despatch, General Gordon states that he is awaiting the arrival of British troops in the Soudan, and again requests that Zebehr Pasha may be sent to him and £300,000 sterling. Geneial Gordon also announces that lie commands the road from Khartoum to Berber, and that he intends to despatch a force to occupy the latter place in a few days from the date of his despatch. A Press Association telegram sayg :—: — General Gordon reproache3 the British Government for causing the present evils in the Soudan, and states that he intends to burn Berber and surrender the Soudan to the Sultan of Turkey when the Turkish troops arrive. The Nile continues to rise, and the first of the steamers intended for the transport of troops has successfully passed the second cataract at Wady Haifa. A telegram is to hand reporting that a battle has been fought near Suakim between the friendly Arabs and a tribe of rebel Hadendows, and the Utter met with a decisive defeat at the hands of the frieudlies.

" A Farmer's Wife" wants to know if we can recommend anything to destroy the "common grub." We guess the next tr»mp that conies along could oblige you, if the family can't stand your cooking. Thjb only thing that equals the apontaneousneas with which this country proposes a monument (remarks an American paper) is the unanimous cordiality wM wluob rtwu't tojttt.