"Age" Specials.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 41, 15 March 1884, Page 6

"Age" Specials.

London, February 27. A poktuatt m oil by Mr Dowling, R.A., of the lale Lord Melbourne, the first Prime Minister under Queen Victoria, has been purchased on behairof Sir W. J. Clarke for pre-cntati( n to Melbourne National Gallery.

The police have thoroughly searched the principal railway stations of London, having received intimation that a plot was m existence to destroy the whole of the termini of London. At the South Western Railway Station, Charing Gro.-s Station, and thu Greao Western Railway Station at Paddington, bags containing dynamite were discovered, m each of which there were clockwork infernal machines. The dynamite is of American manufacture, and it is believed that the bags were left at the several stations last Monday, and were intended to explode simultaneously with the one which caused the damage at the Victoria station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway.

The County Krain-hise Bill was introduced into the Hou*e of Commons last night. It leave faggot votes untouched, but abolishes the .l'sO rental and £12 rating qualilk'ai ion, and gives votes to all persons occupying houses or land of £10 clear rateable value per annum.

London, March '2. — The Australian delegates, representing the several Chambers, will postpone taking any action m reference to bills of lading until the amending Merchants Slapping Acbis passed,

Late intelligence from llio .Soudan is to the effect that I lie Arabs, after their defeat at El Tcb, beat, a retreat into the mountains, where they are now hiding. During the battie afc El Tcb, deserters from the Egyptian troops at Tokar worked the Krupp guns placed m position behind the earthworks which the British stormed. The insurgents were very badly armed. Amongst the thousands who fought only 100 were armed witli rifles, the remainder having spears. So far as can be ascertained, 2,ooo Arabs were killed. Baker Pasha was wounded m the face, and Colonel Burnaby m the arm. The garrison at Tokar, which submitted to Osnmn Digna on the l(3th ult., has rejoined the British troops.