WAR IN EGYPT. WANGANUI.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 4126, 1 September 1882, Page 2

WAR IN EGYPT.

WANGANUI.

♦ ENEMY ENTRENCHING NEAR KASSASSINA. [rEHTER's TELEGRAMS.] Alexandria. August 30. —Lieut.-General Sir Evelyn Wood has assumed command of the garrison in this city. News is to hand that the enemy has commenced entrenching near Kassassina, the scene of the recent defeat by the forces operating under Sir Garnet Wolseley.

[TELEGRAPHED BY PRES3 ASSOCIATION.] September I.—The gas-holder at the gas works was blown over to-day, and the gas escaped. It appears to have been too full, and a gust of wind blew it off well. The town will be without gas to-night. The Customs returns for the month are £1,114 17s. 3d., against £1,352 9a. 3d. for the corresponding month last year. The falling off is accounted for by interrupted railway com rriunication through the collapse of the Raneitikei Bridge. The vital statistics for the month of Aueust are—Births, 30; marriages, 9 ; deaths, 5. The births are nearly double those of the corresponding month last year.

It is twenty years to-day since the s.s. Lord Worsley, on her passage from Nelson to New Plymouth, from some inexplicable cause ran ashore at midnight in Te Namu Bay, not far from the spot where Miss Dobie was murdered. The natives being hostile to the Europeans at the time, it waj feared that the whole of the ship•wTeckecl passengers would be murdered, but Wi Kingi, of Umuroa, and, we believe, Te Whiti, who was then a young man, used their influence, and the passengers, of whom there were sixty by the ill-fated vessel, were spared and sent to New Plymouth in bullock carte. Amongst £the passengers was Mr. Fretwell W. Hoyle, who, having been travelling through the Colonies, was on his way to England vid ' Sydney. This gentleman has recently returned to New Zealand to collect materials for a book, and being in the vicinity of the spot where the Lord Worsley was wrecked, has made it a point of visiting the spot on the twentieth anniversary of that disasterohs calamity.