IS GORDON DEAD?

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7626, 25 December 1886, Page 3

IS GORDON DEAD?

Probably tlife possibility of the reappearance of this hero will crop up ever and anon, and linger for years as a kind of tradition till time itself will, by mere lapse, place his reappearance beyond the limit of possibility. His brother, Sir Henry Gordon, it is known, is dissatislied with the evidence of his supposed murder, but little question really lingers in the mind of anyone else. However, a rumor has again arisen that Gohdokori, in the equatorial Soudan, is still holding out in a determined, but seemingly hopeless, resistance, and the conclusion rather wildly jumped at by some one is that the spirit of 'this forlorn liope must be the great general himself, that he must have escaped up the Nile under cover of the general confusion at (he sack of Khartoum. Our continued occupation of Egypt is said to he causing considerable heart-burnings amongst our neighbors across the Channel, and threats of physical force to be employed in turning us out have been indulged in, only, however, to be emphatically repudiated by the cooler heads ot the Government. Turkey is believed to have been sounded, but" she returned a cold answer and admits that our rule at Cairo is producing satisfactory results. Meanwhile our statesmen are pursuing a steady course in promoting agriculture and irrigation and reclaiming waste, with the very satisfactory result that there is a surplus in the assigned revenue of a quarter of a million. This is' the most hopeful and cheering news received for a long time, and evacuation will not take place until the general improvement of the country is much more advanced than it is at present.