THE WAR IN EGYPT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6485, 30 August 1882, Page 5

THE WAR IN EGYPT.

; BY GABLE. [reuter's telegrams.] THIS MORNING'S DESPATCH. CAPTURE OF AR ABI'3 STAFF. Londojt, August 28. The chief officers of Arabi's staff have been captured. THE HODT AT RAEMSES. Alexandria, August 28. Sir Garnet Wolseley reports that the enemy at Raemses fled in disorder towards Zagazig, leaving everything in the hands of the British. ALEXANDRIA THREATENED. Alexandria, August 2S. The Bedouins are massing troops in j the neighbourhood of this city, and their number is. daily increasing. They are now throwing up entrenchments near Fort Mex. SIR, GARNET WOLSELEY'S MOVEMENTS. Alexandria, August 28. 'No further movements- of importance have yet been made by the force under Sir Garnet Wolseley, and the j main body of the first division is still in the neighbourhood of Raemses. [special to press association] London, August 28. ENGINEERING OPERATIONS IN EGYPT. The whole of the work in connection with the repairing of the Suez-Ismailia railway is now completed. It is intended to overflow Lake Mareotis, or Marria, a salt lake situated in the north of Egypt, extending southward from the city of Alexandria, and separated from the Mediterranean Sea on the north-west side by a narrow isthmus of sand. The passage by which the sea found its way into thi3 lake was opened by the English during the war between England and France in ISOI, but was subsequently closed by Mehemet Ali, and since then it has been a mere marsh. The dimensions of the lake are about 27 miles long and 25 miles broad.