CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 53, 6 October 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

; Special to " Star." j HIiUTEH's telegrams. j London, October 4. The report current yesterday that the Pope was seriously ill i< now proved to have been unfounded' It is announced I I from the Vatican that His Holiness is in \ good health. , Latest intelligence from Madagascar) is to the effect that the Hovasare miking I aenvc preparations for a renewal of hostilities. The French forces are stated to be numerically weak, and their position is somewhat precarious. Ho so Kong, October 3. Intelligence to hand from Canton states that much alarm is felt hy the Europeans in that city on account of the i excited and threatening attitude of the J natives. Fears are entertained that an attack will be made upon the European j quarters, and six guul.oats have arrived! iv the river and are in readiness to afford j protection to the Europeans and there i property in case of necessity. j Received Oct. 6, 1 p.ui.'l London. Oct. 3. Tenders for the Melbourne Municipal debentures to the amount of 1/200,000 at il per cent interest nnd minimum par, \ were opened to-day. The total umount ; offered was found to be L349,-'OO. Ten- j tiers at L 1"0 7s 6d and upwards will '. receive allotment in full. ! Mad , id, October 5 It has been transpired that the Spanish j Covernment has sent a conmunication lo | the French Geve nment demanding satis- j faction for the treatment accorded to I Kng Alfonso by the Parisians during his recent visit to the French c pital. Pauis. October 5. | It is announced to-day that General Thibandin has resigned the position of j Minister of War in the French Cabinet. J