The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-04-09


known, but the heavy engagement lasted
i've hours. The Arabs carried off all their
dead and wounded. Numbers of Osman
Dinga's men are DESERVING. The Arabs
maintained steady rifle fire, retiring slow
~ from each position held by them and
avoiding close quarters The Indian troops
charged the Arabs position, but were out
hanked by an unsupported body of Arabs,
who succeeded in getting behind their lines
The Indians found themselves between two
Hres and fed. They were closely pressed
by the Arabs, who hamstrung their horses
and gpeared the riders. The Bengalese fell
back in confusion upon the English infan-
try and the Guards, who had been formed
In a hollow square, aud the square leisurely
retired, while Arabs were yelling that they
had regained their lost position. The artil-
lsry came to the rescue. and q brisk FIRE of
small SHOT from the machine guns and
shells from the Krupp field mortars drove
the Arabs from their positions. The ma
rInes maintained steady firing but the
honors of tie. dity are due to the Irish Lam
GERS who changed the tide of battle by n
desperate charge and retrieved the fortunes
OF General Graham'S command when they
seemed almost hopeless The Guards were
perfectly cool. joking among themselves
until the moment of charge. The rebels
showed admirable courage. but appeared
bewildered The British followed the fee
ing Arabs, pouring hot FIRE at every point
and never allowing them time to concen-
trate The rebels contested the ground inch
by inch Our attack was scattered and r.
regular with brisk fusilade in all direc-
tions and the artillery Smelling the enemy
from various positions General Graham
telegraphs to General WoIseIey that the re-
suit of operations has been to establish
strong position commanding the Hasheen
valley and protecting the right flank OF the
line of communication in the ensuing oper-
atoms against Tamai. All portions of the
force, he says, worked admirably and gal
lantly ON very difficult ground, covered
with high thorn bushes and occupied by an
agile and determined enemy, thus showing
the troops were able to master the Arabs IN
any position The total loss of the British
was IL killed aud - wounded. The British
troops have returned to this point Osman
Dinga sent re-cnforcements, numbering
900. to Hasheen on Thursday night to as
sist In opposing the British. The rebels
have returned to BERT and Shukuk pass and
foftifying those placcS.- The name OF
the new prophet is Ell Santaosi. The latter
has accused I'll Mahdi of disobeyiug the
Koran. Ell Mahdi quarreled with and dis
missed his principle chief, Abdullah, and
installed his own uncle in his place. The
late chief Of the tribe has since deserted the
Mahdi. The rebels are reduced to eating
the pith Of palm trees. The people of Kar-
toum are famishing and on the verge of
starvation Sheik Salabat has collected a
force of 5000 men. mostly Abyssinians, at
Fedarff to oppose the Mahdi.
march 22nd.
KoHALA PASTOR.
Il Reverend H S. Jordan, pastor of the
PRESBYTERIAN church Shelbyville, Ind. has
received call to become pastor of the for
eiRn Presbyterian church of Kohala, at q
A. oil thn coll NrrQG
panied by draft for 200 for expenses
incident to removal. Mr.. Jordan recently
declined an invitation to the pastorage of
the Westminster Presbyterian Church,
Chicago He has not yet determined to &C
cept the latest invitation. he is so years of
age an earnest, plain-spoken and eloquent
man and has been very successful.
THE WIDE WORLD.
Mrs. E. B. Crockef has given a fine
building for museum at Sacramento and
$1O,O0Oif conditional 800, 600 befupd SUBJ
scribsd.-A portion ag che Statehouae %
Trenton, n. j., was destroyed by fre.-The
Sultan Of Turkey viii send special com"
mission TO Berlin TO confer the Grand Cor
don of the Order Of Niehani-Imtiag upon
the Crown Prince and Bismarck. Hitherto
this honor has been reserved for sovereigns.
"A Wellington, N. e., dispatch states that
the authorities have received an official
copy of an Act passed by the Samoan Par
lament for the annexation Of the Samoan
Islands to New Zealand.-The British
steamer Rhonddah has been sunk in the
English channel by the British steamer
Brooklyn City, from New York.-The Gov.
ernor of Panama is recognizing and
strengthening the police force. The ex-
element has Gained down and business has
resumed its usual aspect.-An Anglo-Rus-
sian company has started to compete with
the Americans and Australians in furnish
ing England with meat.-The Russian mil
itary organ advises the occupation OF
II art.-The Russian Minister ct Con-
stantinople is working to secure a secret
u atty between Russia and Turkey.-1t is
believed that Gladstone viii withdraw
from Office at the close Of the present
session of Parliament.-Great distress pre-
walls on the Arran islands, OF the coast OF
Ireland.-The report that China has made
overtures for peace is discredited in Paris.
General Graham has received the pipe
line apparatus necessary to furnish his
army with full water supply during the
march to Berber.-The friends of the
exiled Egyptian leader Zebehr Pasha, are
threatening to take the life of the Khedive,
FOR what they call the betrayal of his coun-
try.-The British Government now urges
the United States to retain the Alert as q
memorial of American heroism.-The COM
manders OF all the British men-of-war in
African waters are ordered to show the |
greatest respect to the German flag when
ever meta sack filed with what was sup
posed to be seeds exploded in the postofice
in tho city of Temesvar, Hungary, and dan
gerously wounded two persons. The bag
contained dynamite, sent through the mails
from Germany. >
March asa.
HOUNDS HUNTING.
Disgusting details are given of the watch |
set upon General Grant by the press of New !
York. The General is supposedto be dying |
and house, opposite his residence, has
been engaged for literary hirelings who
eagerly obtain, or concoct, sensational items
REGARDING his diving da vs. and vie with each /