IN THE SOUDAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3426, 21 September 1885, Page 3

IN THE SOUDAN.

n Despatches of 16th cays Osman Digna had c forsaken lits followers niid iled to Kordofnn, the result being that many of the Sheikhs 't iire going to Suakim and offering their sub- - 5" mission to the British commander. 10 A civil war has broken out nt Khartoum. "> Tho treasury was sacked and the Mahdi's successors and other officials were killed. 0 England and Italy arc negotiating on the <1 basis of the continuance by Italy of the IC Soudan campaign, England to evacuate 11 Suakim, nnd guaranteo Italy possession '- of Eastern Soudan. This statement is doubted, however, but it is evident that "° some negotiations nro on foot be- ■' tween tho two Government?. It is reported " from another source that Ituly desires to send '1 20,000 troops intotlio Soudan tosccuro the Kcd Sea coast fromSuakim, at present held by the '• British, to Assab Bay, aloug which are "most 0 of the possessions of the Italians on the s Coast. The Italian scheme contemplates tho 'f securing of control over Eastorn Soudan, with ; 1 Khartoum as the capital, General Fallona is n named to command tlio Italian Expedition m 0 the Soudan. Lord Salisbury is not inclined k to accept tUo Italian overtures m this respect, c CHOLERA. '1 Reports from Spain of August lilh say :S cholera was increasing fearfully there. Tho popular agitation against sanitary interference ■® has been ronowt'o. la SovilJ© tlio local nu- ;' tiiDvities aH resigned, shops wero closed, !io business done. In Granada whole- streets were infected with tlio scourge, and cntiro fumilies had been carried away. It is estid mated 6500 persons have fled from Spain, and v up to August 20th nearly that number had .- perished by the scourge. The epidemic had y decreased slightly on tho 16th. Tho existence o of cholera within the Bpanish lines was if ollleially declared at Gibraltar on the 15th, c and the disease spread rapidly. The Governor y of Gibraltar refused, however, to shut off t communication with Spain, and panic reigned t on the '■ Kock." At Marseilles tho disenso v was very fatal. It died out at Gibraltar I, on tho 22nd, but m tho former city it f hus assumed a. form that defied alto- " gcthcr tho skill of medical men. Tho ii patients died suddenly, and two hours 3 after death tho body became black. The t situation is alarming. Fifty persons died m d Toulon during twenty-four houra ending I. August 24th and 26th. On tho 25th tho c diseaso broko out on tlio squadron anchored o near Toulon. Thero was a auddeu increase •- of mortality at Marseilles on tho 27th a August. At Toulon on tho 27th the theatres t wero closed, and tho shops and hotels closed. •. People wero very despondent. Deaths from n cholera avo reported m all tho surrounding i, villages.