THE SOUDAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 89, 18 March 1885, Page 3

THE SOUDAN.

(electric tece&haph. — cppyright) (reuter's tkleGbams.) , „..-,,•• Sydney, March I 0. 1 : The recent action of the Government is by no means meeting with unanimous . approval., A meeting was. held jut Newcastle for the formation of a patriotic fund. An amendment, to the proDosal was carried by a large majority, opposing the despatch of the Contingent. The Lord-Mayoi. of London sent a telegram to the Governor as follows:— '" Hearty congratulations to your noble, Colonies for patriotic support to the Old Country, Your eloquent and spirited, address to the troops lias given immense satisfaction to the citizens of London." News has been received o£ the arrival.,' of the Iberia and Australasian at Backstairs' Passage on Saturday last, ■ with tho Sydney Contingent, after a roiiaiu passage, • during which som« of ; the horses sustained l injuries i Many; pro-. ( minent person went aboard, and nuirferr our presents of printed books were? sent to the troops.— ["Backstairs Passage, referred to is situated between 1 Kangaroo' Island and the mainland, m the Gulf f of St. Vincbnt.T •. -...-; i<> j !; SouAKtMi Alnirch jl3i Lieut'.-General, Sir Gerald GrabanV commanding the expedition tio operate m the direction of Berber, a nil his ; staff, • and a liatnllion of the Grenadier Guards, have arrived at this port; : . . '• Sydney, March.; 14. 1 The Government have received a teie- r gram 'from the Agent-General stating that nearly , the whole of General GralmtnV force has r now reached Souakim, and that it will niiihber. altogether about 12,000, men, including the Now South. Wales contingent.,. j . .;.. ; , j; ,]yiarch;l7. The New Sruth Wales'Parhamejit was op'eneu to-day by Lord' Augustus Loftus. The Governor, m a speech to the ;inemT>ers of the Legislature, said, they were called together to take necessary . steps to give the Legislature the sanction to the course adopted by the Ministry m conveying to England an offer of jissistauce m the Soudan. Tho Government,, m making the offer, considered that it was necessary m the critical state |of affairs that help should be immediately available, as any delay would hjave , 'a bad effect, and rendering it useless. "His Excel'ency expressed the highest .gratification m the course pursued, which' ■ had awakened the strongest feelings : .of v loyalty m .ill the Australiaan colonies,; and had evoked sentiments of admiration and gratitude m the Another Country. ; : '.■•:■- ■ ■■■• :■':. - .*■" ; ■ - -.;<■■■; ' ■■' -Later,,. 'In the Legislative' Assembly this! after,- , noon; 1 Mr Badgery moved the . Address . m Reply to the Governor^, Speech, aha Sir Henry Clark moved au; wnendmeut to the effect that the action' of thb Government was unconstitutional. He regretted that the doty of proposing the r amendment had not fallen into ;btjttel',i hands, but as S|r John .Robertson had expressed his intention to support ,jhe Government m the matter, he hap been chosen by a number of Opposition! members: The division on the motion' is not likely to take place before morning, j..,;: , .-..:• ■ „..,..■; ■■ ■• \ i ■'■ > Oaieo, March ;ls. ; 'Zebehr Pasha and his s&ti and. thr.ee other prisoners Ifave' been taken by H.M.S. Iris to Cyprus. . '■'■'■ Reports are current here that Kassala has.been taken by .tho. rebels, and the > Egyptian garrison massacred; also', that a rebellion has broken out m Kordofan, And the Mahdi has sent troops to quell it. 'i .•;!■•■■ -„: ...; '..•, .■, ,!:..'.' : ,;. .'. ..: . .■:: :•{ London, Mai>6h'l6. The absence of water .transports^; delaying ttoe advance of Lieu.-General Sir G erald Graham. T ; ' ' March 17. At the meeting of the Colonial Institute, last evening, the Prince of Wales presiding over the -meeting, made a speech m which he said that offers of droops for Soudan were proof bf the loyal attachment of the .colonies to the Crown. : ■' : ' ; - • •:'•■■' " ( '•' '■''"' ■ : In the House of Lords last night on the motion ofCarlWemyss'resolut^onwas adopted, conveying an address 'to the Queen,.tihankirj!r Her Majesty for accepting the loyal offer of New South Wales and expressi u3 satisfaction 'that aimilar, offers from the other colonies would bo accepted. at fhe right time. -The iWotion was warmly supported by Lords jDer'by! 1 and Salisbury. ' '. X ' I ! • ' t 'Melbourne, March I?' „ It, ia skated that , the Indian Government has engaged forty-niuesiearriers r>f BritislV India, ; arid four of the Pen[iiisula and Orient Oonipany's boats, as ; transports. ... >■.: ;■'•■■■ • i- !.'■•■■ '■ .!(.■.•■•. : "" '