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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 20, 7 September 1888, Page 5

The "reliable news" from Khartoum discloses a terrible picture of the state of that mystcrirus city. The Sisters of Charity are selling beans cooked in oil at the Mahdi's front door ; Lupton Bey is the Mabdi's coiner ; Slatin Bey is the Mabdi'e footman ; Keufeld is used aB an experimental dummy for the Mahdi's hangman, spending the interval in chains. These are enly a few items which are interesting to Europeans. HaDging md murder are every day occurrence?. He who smokes or sells tobacco, he who trade', he who keeps his cash, he who stores his corn, is immediately done to death. So much for the message from Khartoum which has been brought down the Nile by native messengers. Down the Congo Mr. Ward has sent news which confirms the rumour that Stanley, the master of surprises, was marching to the relief of these miserable captives who have fallen into the bands of the great ogre of the desert.