THE EAST.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 907, 19 July 1889, Page 25

THE EAST.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Bombay, J uly 11. Disastrous floods have occurred, owing to the overflowing of the river Scinde, and it is reported that fortylives have been lost at Larkana, 145 miles N. W. of Hyderabad. Aden, July 11 f Two of the Messageries Maritime® Company’s steamers, the Anadyr and Oxue, engaged in the Indie?, China, and Japau trade, collided off hate* The Anadyr sank Thursday Island, July 17. News from the East states that a>-south-west monsoon did great damage to the shipping at Bombay. The dispute between the Dutch and the Achencse still continues. In a recent engagement the latter lost 300 men. The Dutch lost one captain aud three soldiers. AFRICAN. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION'.) Cairo, Juiy 11. Six thqusand Dervishes, with 800» camels, are reported to be encamped 30 miles to the northward of Wady* Haifa. Cairo, July 15. The dervishes are still at Abu Limbel. They have lost about ninety men in tlie skirmishes recently. Yesterday some 1500 more appeared in. the neighbourhood of Sarras. The Irish regiment hast reached Assouan, and the Egyptian troops have been ordered thence to Korosko s further up the Nile. Persistent rumours are afloat in this city.of the combined advance of the Anglo-Egyptian force on Dougola in the autumn. Cairo, July 15. The dervishes reported at Sarras yesterday show a disinclination to advance. SPECIAL. (per press association.) Cairo, July 11. Colonel Wodehouse is at Adendan and General Grenfell at Assouan. The Dervishes are hemmed in between their forces, and a decisive battle is imminent. Cairo, July 14 General Grenfell has issued a proclamation threatening to punish with death any natives convicted of dealing with the dervishes. Zanzibar, July 14. Captain Wiseman, German commander, has bombarded and occupied Panju.