LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1129, 13 September 1882, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. )

London, September 11

The death is announced to-day of the Right Hon. Mr George Grey, bart, G. C.8., aged 83.

Sir Or. Wolsely reports that all has ! been quiet since Saturday afternoon. He further states that Arabi's force employed during the engagement that day numbered fully 15,100 men of all ! arms. They made a plucky and determined stand against the British ! troops, and their losses amounted to ! several hundred. The exact extent of | their casualities cannot be ascertained. The official statement of the .British loss gives 2 killed and 5-i wounded. In the engagement on Saturday the contingent from the enemy's garrison at Aalakiel numbering 15,000, men with a battery of Krupp guns attempted to out flank the British forces at Kassassin, but were, routed after an exceedingly stubborn .contest, during j which our forces managed to capture a i green standard. Fatal casualities on the British side numbered 64. Germany has advised a peaceful ' settlement of the Turco Greek j difficulty. ' • Mr Gladstone will address the Midlothian constituents in Dec next. Mutiny is rarifoant %in Arabis camp at Kafradowar.f Jfour officers who have deserted' hive Reached the Hritish line. , Baker Pasha ancl : Dervish Ijfasha, I with the ' urkish troops, had^feeeu ti<ii T><>tween Eu^w^affiiffiwßS^ffi absolutely signed. ; ' '& ' ' A rabi is expelling all Turkish and Circassians from Unseam p. he Highland \regirnents are being hurried to the froiijbj but hundreds are disabled by sun-staroke, and deaths are numerous. w olsely has abandoned Ismalia as his head quarters, and base of operations, and is pushing on to Cairo. The Khedive has, in defence to forcible remonstrance from Sir E. Mai- j let, the Biitish Consul General, at ' Alexandria, consented to abolish the practice of torture. The French war-ship Distress arrived to-day from New Caledonia. The Distress recently visitod the New j Hebrides group to punish the Natives ! for the murder of certain French tra- j dors. Espirito Santo Island, one of the principal native villages, was bombarded for two hous, and completely destroyed. The settling over the late Australian J.C. Spring meeting took place 1 to-day. The total amount of the i stakes amounted to =£6,033. The ' Sting, winner of the Craven Plate and Randwick Plate, was sold at auction to-day for £1,600 guineas. September G-20 p.m. The Egyptian force have advance on both sides of the Canal, driving the Bengal Lancers before them. The enemy have also been shelling Kassassin with thirty guns. A stampede has occurred amongst the animals in camp, resulting in some damage. Lowe's Cavalry succeeded in defeating a very dangerous flanking move merit attempted by the enemy, who advanced in spite .p£ the artillery tire , an^l *etJ£ed, m»goo£*< order. — •—- •• A baker^namecf -Dtmcan,', who accidentally set fire tp himafif about a week ago white^n a state ctf intoxication, died to-dtfT ?