LATEST TELEGRAMS.
{From our own Correspondent.) , Dunedin, March 28th. A wom.m named Weir has been arrested at Wellington for having left her six months old child at Martin and Watson's door-step' in Dunedin some weeks ago. Since she went to Wellington she haa got niarried. An earthquake shock was felt along the west coast of the North Island to-day. The weather for the past two days has been excellent for harvesting,- andnt is to be hoped we may have a continuance of it. ' ' ' . ' ' J .o/T There is every promise of the sports and tournament in aid of the Benevolent Institution to-morrow being a great success. Mr Roberts (of Murray, Roberts and Co.) has resigned the chairmanship of the Taieri County Council, as he is going Home for, six months.
(Beuter's Special.) New York, March 25th.
News has been received here that the Missouri (? Mississippi) has overflowed its banks, and that an immense tract of country near New Orleans is submerged. It is feared that many persons have been drowned.
London, March 26th. It is feared that the Sultan of Turkey is going mad.
Mr Gladstone has so far recovered that it is expected he will resume his meat in the house of Commons on Monday next. Cairo, March 25th. Telegrams from Souakim state that the British troops have advanced against Osman Digma'a camp. It is, however, rumoured that the rebel sheik has fled 'with hi 3 followers to the mountains, where pursuit will be a matter of very great difficulty.
Cairo, March 26th.
Latest telegrams from Souakim state that the British troops have commenced the march towards Osman Digma's camp in the hill country near Tamaneh. At noon the column had arrived midway between the latter place and Souakim, when a halt was called, 400 men being prostrated by the intense heat and the difficult nature of the road. The advance will not be resumed until daybreak. The cavalry had several skirmishes with the enemy, who were closely watching the movements of the British troops, and a number of Arabs have been killed.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1028, 29 March 1884, Page 2
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