LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1120, 23 August 1882, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

(FROM OUR OWN CO-RESPONDENT. ) London, August 21, 8.50 am. Turkey is prohibiting the exportation of mules. Lord Bu fibrin has declined further discussion with the Porte with regard to the proposed convention. France has invited Losseps to moderate the criticism indulged by him reference to Canal matters. A force of Highlanders and Marines lias attacked and routed 3000 of the enemy, who occupied an entrenched position at Colonif. Our loss was

.slight, but 10^ of the enemy were killed ar.d wouiided. Albkandhia, August 20. Cherift* Pashs has been charged by' the Khedive with the formation of a new Ministry, in which he will hole} the Premiership, The whole of the first division of the British force about to be despatched to co-operate with the fleet in the attack on Aboukirj and to land at tbat place, has now been embarked on board the transports, wliich are ready to sail. Three regiments of British troops remain here as a garrison for the city. August 19. Sir Garnet Wolseley and Sir John A dye, chief of the staff, have embarked on board the troopship Salamis, for Aboukir. The former will control operations for the attack upon that place. Admiral Sir R. Seymour does not accompany the fleet, but remains at Alexandria. Later. The transncgjfrAvr.th the Baitish First Division have-eft' port, and are now steaming tothe eastward, bound for Aboukir. The whole of the vessels are full of troops. August 19, (Night). A continuous and heavy cannonade has been distinctly heard this afternoon in the direction of Madmudich Canal, but thecause of the firing, as yet, is unknown. Further particulars bo hand regarding the skirmish which took place yesterday between General Hamley's force and the enemy, show that the latter ofiered but slight resistance during the engagement. The guns of the enemy at Nefich, 'for a time, shelled the British positions. All is, however, now quiet in the neighborhood. The Khedive's Governor . at Port Said has been reinstated in his position, and placed under British protection. .* In a skirmish which took place near Port Said between some gyptians and a body of British sailors, the commander, H. C. Kane, of H.M.S Northumberland, who was in command of the landing party, was slightly wounded. : The Egyptian position at Nefich was taken in the recent engagement, and is now held by a British force. The Suez Canal is guarded by British gunboats, in order .to prevent any attack upon the Canal or upon passing ships by the Arabs. The troop _-iips which arrived at Port Said last night, have now entered the Canal — it is believed with the object of landing the troops at Ismalia, whence they w|ll march upon Cairo. The stoppage of traffic in the Canal by the order of Sir G. Wolsely, was adopted as a temporary precaution during the passage of the fleet past AboukTr forts. The fleet past, however, without an attack being made. 21. It is now definitely known that it is intended to despatch a Britirh force via Ismalia to Cairo. The object of the movement is to take A rabi in the rear, and to cut off the enemy's letreat from the projected attack on the front of Arabi's positions. The British troops will proceed from Ismalia along the fresh. water Canal, running .from that place to Belbes, and then march to the interior. The 1 .ritish fleet and transports have as yet made no movement from Port Said, and it is not known when the attack on Aboukir will take place. MELBOURNE, 22. An attempt was made yesterday on the life of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, by a man named R. A. A. O'Farrell, formerly practising as a solicitor, a brother of H. J. O'Fari'ell, who shot at the Duke of Edinburgh in Sydney in 1868. Arch-bis-hop Goold was riding along the Brighton road, near Melbourne, early last evening, when O'Farrell fired two shots at him from a revolver ; one took effect and wounded the Aroh-bis-hop slightly in the fingers. O'Farrell made off, but was captured after a long cliase, some resistance, O'Farrell lias an equity suite against the Archbishop, and recently applied for a warrant against the latter for perjury, the application was however refused. The news of the outrage has caused considerable excitement.here. August 22. O'Farrell fired at Archbishop Goold from a distance of only two yards; the shot did not hit the Archbishop, the first alone took effect, as already stated. When O'Farrell made off, he evidently believed that he had succeeded in his murderous attack, or would have made further use of bis revolver. When his pursuers came up with him he threatened to shoot them, but was ultimately secured. Fifty bullets were found in his pockets. It is clear tbat the attack had been fully planned, and that the Archbishop had a most providential escape.