CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 66, 6 November 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Special to "Star s? BKUTSS'B IKLKfSBAMSPabis, November 3. A despatch from Tonquin has been received, announcing lliat Admiral Combet is now at Hanoi, and preparing to attack Bac Nina without delay. The force will eonfsisfc of three thousnad men, including artillery with thirty A report hns reached here fi'om Madagascar that the .VTalafrasy envoys, who rpceat'y returned there from Europe, hare been strangled. Beehx, Nov. 3. A Russian was srrested to-day at Dirsclian, near Dantzig, Prussia, having confessed that h<? was in Germany on a Nihilist mission to murder Prince Bismark.

Received November 6. 1.5 nTm. Lcndok, November 5. A fire broke out in a timber yard at Hnsjgerstone, Morth London, tyro days ago, and was burning furiously the whole of that time, all efforts to stop the pror gress of the flames being ineffectual. The conflagration spread to the adjoining premises, and twelve small houses were completely destroyed. Sebvia, November 5. A serious insurrection movement has commenced at Scernareki (sic), and a considerable force of Servian troops has already been despatched to the scene of the rising, with the object of promptly checking the satsc. JjoiißAY, November 4. I?ew» has beea received here that the rebels uucler the leadership of Imam's brother, Mho were besei^'in^ Aluscat, have fled from their position. The shelling by the guns of H.M.S. Philomel proved very disastrous) to the beseigers and effectually dislodged them.