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[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] By Electiuc Telegraph—Copyright. >-.—< TRANSPORT OF TROOPS ALONG THE NILE. ACCIDENT IN CROSSING A CATARACT. TWO MEN DROWNED. SICKNESS AMONG THE BRITISH TROOPS AT DONGOLA. RETURN OF EARL NORTHBROOK TO ENGLAND. FROZEN MUTTON BY THE COPTIC. (Received October 1, 0.50 a.in.) Cairo, September 29. Detachments of the Royal Sussex Regiment are being conveyed by water towards Berber. Intelligence has been received here of an accident which occurred during the passage of one of the cataracts of the Nile. A boat containing two officers and thirty-six men was wrecked on one of the islands of the river, and two men lost their lives.
(Received October 1, 2.15 p.m.) September 30,
A report is to hand from Dongola that sickness has broken out among the British troops now stationod there, and that three deaths have already occurred. Earl North brook will complete his mission to this country by the end of October, when he will return to England.
(Received October 1, 2.15 p.m.) London, September 30.
The cargo of frozen meat on board the steamship Coptic, from New Zealand, has arrived in good condition.
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London, September 25. An English capitalist is willing to purchase Mr Chas. Fisher's Northern Toeritory property for the sum of £IOO,OOO in cash and £50,000 in shares.
September 26. M. De Veille, the eminent French jurist, has been despatched to Cayenne on behalf of the French Government, to inquire upon the suitableness of that place for the deportation of recidivistes.
The Times in an article urges the reductiou of hereditary peerages in favor of the creation of more life peers. The French vintage is very abundant this year.
September 27
It is reported that a constable will be despatched to New Zealand for the purpose of arresting William Sheehan, who is suspected of having murdered his mother, sister, aud brother at Castlcton, a township in the borough of Rochdale, Lancashire.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2582, 1 October 1884, Page 2
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