NEWS FROM EGYPT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 2946, 3 March 1884, Page 2

NEWS FROM EGYPT.

(Br Teleobaph.) (Per b.b. Wakatipu at Wellington.) [Special ro the Melbourne "Age."] London, Feb. 20. Adrices from Egypt aay that a portion of the British troops intended for l;ho relief of Tokar have arrived at 'J'rinkitst and are beinp disembarked ac rapidly as possible. MujorQ enpral Graham, wbo has also been diipntDhecl with reinforcements for the relief nf Tokar, is expected to arrive at Souakim on Friday with 5000 soldiers, should thin expectation be fulfilled they will reach Trinkitat on Saturday, and General Graham wili unite bis men with the British troops already arrived, and the attack on Osmau Digna and Che insurgents who arc investing Tokar will bo made on Sunday should those arrangements be oarried out. It is feared tbat the British troops are inadiiquately supplied with si ores. Major-General Gordon, who is now at. Khartoum has oonvenod a meeting of Arab chiefs and discussed thu whole subject of tln> robellion. General Gordon explained tbal British troops would evacuate the Soud»Q as soon as tile siege of Tokar had been raised or the garrison rescued. Ibis explanation was received by the Arabs with satisfaction. l'ha proclamation issued by General Gordon has been confirmed by thu Egyptian Government. Feb. 21. In an interview with the Arab chiefs, General Gordon assured them that domestic slavery ahould be protented. Acoording to the latest telegrams, Otmati r-igna has a forco of 30,000 insurgents m waiting to intercept the British troops sent to the relief of Tokar. Feb. 255. Admiral Hewitt reports that tho Nubiana among the Egyptian troops at Soualiim aro m a state of mutiny. Major-General Graham and Ilaker Pathn are at Trinkitat. Smallpox has broken out on board thj transport ship Thibet. The detachment of British troops at Trinkilat will advance on Tuesday or Wodnes:laj, with the objeot of burying the bo.lirs ol officers who were killed at the beninnin^ of February m the engagement whim Baksr Pasba was defeatod. It is reported that tho rebellion is spreading, and that the Arabs at Berber and Ehartoum havo revolted.