AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9383, 9 March 1898, Page 2

AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

(By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) (Por United Press Association.) (Received March 9 at 9.40 a.m.) London, March 8. The sittings of the Anglo-French delimitation commission have been discontinued in consequence of the illness of the members of tho commission. Major Lngard's expedition to Lagos, Hinterland, has left England. Colonel McCallum, Governor of Lagos, who is now m Hinterland, is proceeding to Okuta and Otuu, in the Boi-gu country. Paris, March 8. The Tomps asserts that the object of Colonel McCallum's movement is to isolate tho French posts in Kishikeinna and Paraku. It adds that this will have the effect of aggravating the situation, and will involve the risk of a conflict between tho British and tho French in West Africa. C^ino, March 8. The Dervishes aie transferring tl o camp and war material from Meternneh, which tho main body recently evacuated, to Shendy, on the opposite or the Berber side of the Nile. British gunboats captured several of the enemy's ves3ola and defeated the Dervishes along the river. Mahmud, a Dervish general, has burned Motemneh, and has concentrated his forces at Shendy. He has under his command eleven thousand riflemen and spearmen and two thousand horsemen. Osman Digna is slowly advancing with a considerable force against the British. ,