LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1542, 1 May 1885, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

FT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT. (PBK RIUTM'B AOKIfCT.) FURTMER RUSSIAN AGGRESSIONS. WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS FROM EGYPT. AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENT 808 INDIA. WAR Df MQTRHT. Received April 29, 9.30 p. m. MnK>AitK,29. The Government have notified tbe different Marine Departments of the various Colonies that in the event of war Ueing declared the Point Longsdale, Qoeenscliffe, and West and Soath hannel light* will be extinguished and the Uo pilot schoontn witldrawn. • (Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters Association. Los»ok t 29. Arrived : Ship Canterbury, i.yttelton, Jany, 17, with 9000 carcasses of mutton. Otawa, 2R News from the Baskachewaa district 'states the care of the wounded, aai difficulty of transport is delaying Major-General Meddlrton's advano*, and in the mcautiiae the rebels hat* rapidly retiied. Loicnox, S9. It is efßcially announced that the offer made by the New Sooth Wale* Government of the Colonial Soudan. Contingent for service in India » accepted. Received April 30, 11 %.m. Lovdov, 39. In the House of Commons last nigkt Lord Ed on and Fitzmaorice, Undersecretary fsr Foreign Afiairs, a»DOBBced that Ihe Govern meat had received a telegram from Lnmsde* T dated Sunday, April 26th, in which it is s ated that the Russian troops ver» advancing up the valley of the Harghab, and had occupied Marachnk. Caiso, 29. The Botpkore Egyptienn^i&cvMj has been amicably settled, Nabar Pasha having apologutd to the Frenob Cousalar agnnt, and the issue of th* journal having recommenced. Received April 30. 0.45 a>m. Lohdok, 29. The Standard this msrning publiskes a t*>l« gram from its special oorresponI 4«nt with Gewral Lom«d«D %o the I effect that Russian troops have oceoj pied Marachuk, a position on the river Murghab, twenty miles south Of Penjdeh. No details, however, aro given with regard to the occurrence. Received April 30th. 1.40 p.m. " . Suakw, 29. (Fr*tn> Reotcra Special Corrwpoad— t.) It is aonennced that the garrison t» be retained hero will consist of the i Berkshire and Surrey regiments, tf> j getlier with the Indian Contingent.