CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 79, 6 December 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

« Special to "Star." RIOTS IN IRELANJ). FROZEN MEAT TRADE. UNITED STATES CONGRESS. CONVERSION OF NEW ZEALAND BONDS. BIUTEX'O TKLBG2AXS. London, December 4. Serioas faction riots between Orangemen and P*rnellitie» hare •ccurreii at at Newrj, and also at Wcxford. Numbrri of both bocietics assembled ii large numbers, and continuous rioting, lasting Bereral hours, occurred in both towns. Orient steamship Lnsitania, froJi Melbourne, October 20, with a cargo of 4500 carcases n utton on board, has arrived. Letters hare reached Kordofan, rep irting^thut, im the recent engagement agninst El Mahdi, oaly a third cf General Hick's army were killed, including the English officers. The remainder of the troops are said to be encamped at Bahad awaiting reinforcements. In this morning's issue, the Daily Telegraph, in referring to the Intercolonial Conference now sitting at Sydnej, kails with acclamation the union of the Austra* lasian colonies, and wishes good speed to their proposed federation. It is reported that Tennyson, the poet Laureate, will shortlj be raised to a peerage. WaßHiicgtoic, Dec. 4. The United States Congress was formerly opened to-day. The enstomary message announces that the Budget shows a surplus of $39,000000. Theiconreraioii of New Zealand bonds has proved a most decided success. The amount applied for is fire million three hupdred and eighty nine thousand pounds, which much exceeds anticipations. Further information from the Soudan states tha General Hicks was killed by a lancer upou the third daj of the battle after all his cartridges had been exhausted. , Soldiers were offering $4 for a drink from their comrades' flasks. O'Donnell was removed from the dock, shouting ''Hurrah for Ireland" and " Down with Queen Victoria."