AFRICAN EMBROGLIOS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1060, 23 June 1892, Page 32

AFRICAN EMBROGLIOS.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. EXPLANATION BY THE STANDARD. (press association.) Cairo, June 15. Tim remnant of the officers who served under Generals Gordon and Baker, 20 in number, have arrived in Egypt. They assert that 1000 Egyptian soldiers lately joined Captain Lugard in Uganda. Cairo, June 16. General Gordon’s officers who have arrived here, state that Selim Bey has joined Captain Lugard with 10,000 followers, and established a fort on the banks of the Albert Nyanza. They assert that Captain Lugard showed the greatest kindness to the Catholics and shelter to their missionaries. London, June 14. Captain Williams, in his telegram to the Marquis of Salisbury, expresses the hope of an easy settlement of the dispute with King Mwanga and his adherents,

The Tidies is glad that the Premier discourages a policy of leaving Uganda. The Standard asserts that ttie East African C mipany has received L 26,000 from the Chuich Missionary Society on condition that it remains in Uganda until the end of the present year ; also, that the native treaties leave Uganda within the British sphere regardless of the action which may be taken by the company to withdraw from the country. London, June 16. In the House of Commons Mr Balfour stated that the withdrawal ef the East African Company from Uganda did not imply the abandonment of the country by England, within whose sphere it lies. Oa the contrary, the survey of the railway line from Mombasa inland was rapidly proceeding. Paris, June 16. France has notified the Powers that she intends blockading the Dahomey coast.