THE LATEST. [Received November 5, 2.30 p.m.] The Mahdi Withdraws.
Cairo, November 4. Major Kitchener, telegraphs that information has reached him that General Gordon has refused the Mahdi's summons to surrender, , and that the Mahdi lias since withdrawn from Khartoum, and announced his intention of making no further attack on the place for two months. -
At the last sitting of the Giiborne Parliamentary Union, one of the members, Mr I". T. Morgan, asked whether, in view of the new regulation respecting payment of telegrams in stamps, the 'Government would provide a small boy, at a salary. at £100 per annum, -to stand at the Post-office counter, and lick the stamps?' The Commissioner ofA Stamps (Mr Carlaw /Smith) , said he had .been advised that the gum adhering to the stamps was of a poisonous nature, and that it .would kill small boys at the rate of one "a y?te\l, •-, As.,;* family man himself, he, co^ld n'op recdrimje^d guoH a provision, • (
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1925, 6 November 1884, Page 2
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159THE LATEST. [Received November 5, 2.30 p.m.] The Mahdi Withdraws. Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1925, 6 November 1884, Page 2
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