The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-10

We are always H-9UNtAI5. GSnSEdA
wrote to Wolseley IN December - have
Ave steamers and nine guns at Metemneh
awaiting your orders. I can hold out forty
days longer with ease. After that it will be
difficult. The loss of Colonel Stewart is
terrible. He had my journal from January
Sd to September 10th. The Mahdi is eight
miles from Khartoum. Seminar is all right
The garrison there is aware that you are
coming. Ny journal from September 10th
TO date is on board one Of the steamers
which you will find at Metemneh. I con-
tinue to have occasional fights with the
Arabs. Lupton Bey has surrendered. I
have sent out scores of messages in all
directions during the last eight months.
Do not send private letters t. me. The
risk is too great. Do not write me in
cipher. have no key and it is no use, the
Mahdi knows everything. Take the road
from Abullot to Metemneh. do not fear
the Mahdi. Both the Greek Consul and
the Austrian Consul are safe. The Mahd
has captured a letter from the King of
Abyssinia to me. Your expedition, as I
understand, is for the relief Of the garrison
at KhartOum, which failed to accomplish.
1 decline to admit that it is for rescue for
me personally" letter from Gordon
September 9th says: 1--WE have sufficient
money and provisions here at Xhartoum to
last four months. At the expiration of that
period we shall be much embarrassed.
Gordon also sent, December 14th, the fol-
lowing message TO Wolseley: Don't scatter
your troops. Bring plenty. The enemy Is
numerous. We still hold Omdurman. The
Mahdrs lines are beyond MunchO. The
Mahdists one month ago attacked Omdur-
man and disabled one of our steamers.
We disabled one of their guns. Fighting
was renewed on the south side three days
later and the rebels were again repulsed.
Come quickly; don't leave Berber in the
rear. Keep the enemy in the front. Don't
let the rumors of your approach spread"
In another letter he says Let the relief
expedition follow the right bank of the Nile
from Wadyhalfa to Berber, in the hope of
surprising Berber. If you find it impossible
to follow the Nile route, take the Massowah,
Taurkit and Kassala road. I would not
leave Khartoum if l could On August
oath General Gordon wrote to the English
naval commander at Massowah; 1--WE have
five months provisions. hope to get
more. Our country's role has not
been very noble in Egypt or the Soudan."
The troopship "Poonah is thirty-fve
miles off st. Ives, disabled. The "Poonah''
has troops for the Soudan.-The Italian
force at Massowah will be raised to 5000
effective troops and eighteen cannons.
They are increasing the earthworks about
Massowah and placing torpedoes in the har-
Dor Strong sea and land defenses are be-
ing cOnstructed.-A Vienna@ special says
The appointment of Prince Hassan as
Com missioner to the Soudan is considered
here as great blunder Hassan is both
hated and despised by the Soudanese, be-
cause he is member of the present Khedives
family.-At the auction sale of the tickets
for the Patti opera season, in San Fran
j IL
of premiums, above the regular price of the
seats, was nearly 500, 900, an increase of
% per cent over the sales for the last sea-
on.-Washington' birthday was observed
as q general holiday. The strain on the
Preside cable was so excessive that the
cable-wheel in the engine!house was broken.
Thousands of people, who had gone to wit
ness the sham fight, were compelled to
walk back to town.
February 25Ih.
Secretary Frslinghuysen, in a long letter
10 Senator Miller, says: We must not look
to nations inferior to US in wealth and popu-
lation for any marked enlargement of our
export trade, and that reciprocity treaties
are only profitable with such nations. In
proof of this he submits trade statistics of the
South American States, the West Indies
and Mexico. He believes the Inauguration
OF u system OF tTeRIleS Will nAIkOnS
worthy of the immediate consideration of
Congress. and says that for every dollar of
revenue surrendered by such q system, and
for every dollars worth of home trade dis
placed, we will receive an equivalent in our
exports and the impetus given our
various industries from field to factory and
from foundry to shipyard.-The British
navy estimates for 1886 are e12, 1856, 500.
This is intended to meet ordinary expenses
and to provide for the construction of Is
new vessels, including IL ironclads.-Budd
hopes to get the San Francisco Post-oftice
bill through the House this session. bill
$4,000 to erect public
building at Port Townsend, w. T., was
passed by the House.-On motion of Glad
stone the House of Commons yesterday
resumed the debate on Northcote's motion
of censure.-Wm. O'Brien (Home Ruler)
was suspended from the Commons for un-
ruly conduct. - The Commissioners ap-
pointed by the Canadian Government to
repCr TT on Chinese immigration report in
favor of the Mongolian infiux.-The wife of
J ohn L. Sullivan has sued for n divorce.
The steamer " Allegheny" from Cardiff
for Gale, is lost and her crew of 80 persons
steamship - Germany "
spoke the steamship City of Chester"
from New York for Liverpool, 400 miles
west OF taStneC, IN disabled cOnd1tlon.
The "City of Chester" did not signal
for assistance. dates of the 10Th
state that a sanguinary engagement had
taken place in the Jagua valley, Peru, be-
tween four companies of Government
troops and 1000 Indian monteneros. The
latter were defeated, leaving 800 dead on
the field.-The ice-locked steamer Mich
gan" has arrived within half mile of
Grand Haven.--A house at Cleveland, o.,
has been partially destroyed by dynamite.
Three ocean tramps the "CIandon,"
Preston" and "Fernwood," that sailed
last month from New York for England are
to have been lost; they were val
led at $3.50, 000.--The Pope, in reply to an
address of operatives, advised them not to
be influenced by agitators; Catholics ought
10 unite and work in concert.-The arrival
Of General Brackenbury's column at Abu
Hamed will become an event for the Brit
sh, since there will then be possible line
Of communication with Korosko, above the
second cataract. This line is go miles
long and there is only one point at which
water is found, but steps will doubtless be
.aken to forward stores of water to FL
Murad well in advance, and by forced camel
marches the distance can be covered in nine
days. At best this line is but an indiffer-
ent one, but is preferable to the isolation
Of the past several days. In a letter to a
friend at Cairo, December 14th, General
Gordon wrote: cit is all up with US. 1 ex-
ho Ir-ifhiV, fay, I,