CABLE MESSAGES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 4068, 15 June 1882, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

[reuter's telegrams.] LATE RIOT AT ALEXANDRIA. Alexandria, June 14 (Evening.) Mr. C. A. Cookson, British Consul at this city, who was seriously wounded during the disturbance which occurred on the 10th June, is improving in health. The Imperial British Commission is still negotiating with the National party, with a view to effect a settlement of the political crisis. Arabi Pasha at present remains master of the situation. He has, however, during the interview with Dervish Pasha promised the latter that he will obey the commands of the Khedive, and maintain order among the natives. The Khedive, accompanied by the Chief British Commission and Dervish Pasha, has left Cairo for this city. ITALY OPPOSED TO ARMED INTERVENTION IN EGYPT. Naples, June 12. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day, Signor Mancini, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, declared in a speech which he made with reference to the state of affairs in Egypt, that his Government would absolutely refuse to assent to an armed intervention by England and France in that country.