GENERAL.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1352, 27 January 1898, Page 33

GENERAL.

Calcutta, January 18. A loan in Indian Treasury Bills has been subscribed tenfold. The Zakka, Khels are now the only powerful tribe on the north-west Indian frontier remaining unconquered. Capetown, January 18. Moiketsi, the chief cause of the tribal trouble in Basutoland, has surrendered, but Masupha, his father, still remains obdurate, though surrounded by his enemies. Pretoria., January 19. The Transvaal Government has exiled Mr Lionel t hillips, of Johannesburg, one of the National Reform prisoners who was released on condition that he refrained from taking any part in politics in the Transvaal. Mr Phillips broke his oath by discussing in an article contributed by him to the Nineteenth Century the state of politics in the Transvaal. Capetown, January 19. Mr Lionel Phillips explains that he promised not to interfere in the Transvaal pontics, but such promise did not refer to discussions on politics. Cairo, January 20. The Egyptian troops repulsed 200 Dervish raiders at Atbara, and received the plunder stolen by them. Cairo, January 23. Sir Herbert Kitchener, Sirdar of the Egyptian army, states that the scare is past, and there is no prospect of an advance until the Nile waters rise. Calcutta, January 22. The Council of the Governor-General of India has passed a Bill introduced by Sir James Westland) providing for the issue of currency notes against gold paid to the Secretary of State for India. Pretoria, January 21. In the course of a speech at the opening of a new fort, President Kruger said the only way to secure peace was to be prepared for war. Havanna, January 23. The Spaniards have captured Esperanza, the rebel seat of Government in Cuba.