BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1030, 5 April 1884, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(Renter's Special.) London, March 30th. Mr Gladstone's health is improving, and he is now enabled to take out-door exercise. The King of Abyssinia, at the head of an army of 25,000 men, has met and welcomed Admiral Hewitt, wbo recently proceeded there on a secret mission. Major-General Graham distrusts the sincerity of the professed friendly Arabs, and is not in favor of a British advance being made on Berber. New York, March 30th. Serious' riots have occurred at Cincinnati. An immense mob, indignant at the leniency of a verdict returned against a prisoner who was being tried on a charge of murder, attacked and burned the prison in which the convict was placed. A force of United States troops was called out to, protect the prison, and a serious conflict ensued between the military and rioters, who exhibited desperate courage, and refused to yield until a large number had been, shot down. Fully 100 persons were killed, and 300 are suffering from wounds of a serious nature. The emexite caused much excitement and alarm throughout the. city and neighborhood. : . • March 31st. The recent rioting in Cincinnati has ceased, and; order has been restored in that city. ■ -* , -, .-- Caiko, March 30th. . ' Telegrams -from Soudan state that Gordon Pasha made a' sortie: from Khartoum' on the 16th inst., at the head' of .a strong force of Egyptian' troops/ > 'The latter proved perfectly untrustworthy, and fled \ at the first charge of the Arab cavalry, 1200 being killed. Marsh, 318^ Telegrams to hand from Khartoum state that Gordon Pasha is adopting 'stringent measures io suppress the disaffection amo^ng £he Egyptia/a troops forming- the garrison of that town, and has caused to be executed, iwp Soudan pashas -for treachery'during ' the disastrous sortie on the 16th mat. General Gordon reports that he has received supplies, and is hopeful that his measures for the suppression of the rebellion will meet with success. Reports nave reached him to the effect, that the enemy ard greatly in want of provisions, and that numbers of them are in a famish* ing condition. April Ist. Three more British regiments hav£ received orders to return to their tfatibns from the Soudan, and were embarked at Souakim to-day. j Telegrams from Souakim state that Admiral Hewitt will start on his journey to Abyssinia to-morrow. '■; Information has been received from Souakim that Osman Digma, with 1000. followers, among whom are many irMffential sheikhs, is now encamped near Tamaneh, and preparing to fight the tribes in the neighborhood who are friendly io the British.