Constables Simpsom and White house left the Mountain House at 12 30 for the summit to bring down the bodies. On their arrival they found that Mr Dingle, chairman of Egmont Boaid of Conservators, had a large party of volunteers awaiting them. Messrs Coxhead and Peters also accompanied the party. The bodies, enwrapped in rugs, &c, had to be " skidded " down to the vegetation line, from whence they were carried down to the Mountain House. Here Mr Dingle had a horse and dray in waiting. The bodies were immediately put in the dray, the police meantime sending a messenger to arrange for a conveyance to meet the dray at the corner of Stratford and Opuuake roads from whence the bodies were brought straight away to Hawera, where they arrived at 10.30 on Tuesday evening, only 11 hours having elapsed from the time the party started from the Moun tain House till the bodies had been placed in the morgue: The police are to bo complimented upon the ex peditious manner in which they car ried out their duties. Star.
THE SOUDAN.
BRILLIANT BRITISH VICTORY.
MAHMUD CAPTURED.
London, April 10. Advices to hand state that General Sir Herbert Kitchener, Sirdar of the Egyptian Army with 13,000 men, 24 guns aud 12 Maxims, after a wearied night's march had been conducted with perfect silence, halted a quarter of a mile from Mahmud's position on Friday morning as dawn broke. Fourteen thousand Dervish troops were located behind a zareba, which ■was concealed behind a labyrinth of earthworks and trenches.
The British immediately opened a fierce bombardment, which destroyed the zareba, killing many of the enemy.
