LONDON, March 4.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1657, 6 March 1884, Page 3

LONDON, March 4.

In the Hbtise * of Obmmdns last

night, Mr Gladstone, replying to a giiestioaj^stated that General Graham had beeri. ordered to relieve Tokar, and added that he had already (sic.) effected that movement. The Premier further declared that the maintenance of the security of Souakim was necessary botK for peace and humanity j butsthat4he:town would be abandoned ! when the obligations of England, in connection with the. Soudan, had been fulfilled.:': The Government did not propose to undertake the occupation of the Soudan by British troops, and would not sanction any distant ex■p^pdition into the interior. ' f-The police have obtained a clue to the perpetrators of the recent dynamite qutrages^and to the depositors of the infernal .^machines at the various Metropolitan railway stations. Three Americans are believed to be the parties, and the police are endeavouring to find their whereabouts. In the House of Commons to-day, Sir Vernon Harcourt,' the Home Secret tary, made a statement regarding the dynamite plots whicH have been dis-" discovered j and that rigorous measures should be pursued against aiiy fbreigri dynamite emissaries who. may, be arrested. The Government have offered a reward of £2,000 for the arrest of perpetrators of the recent attempts to wreck the various Metropolitan railway termini by dynamite. \ - ; •;-