CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 80, 8 December 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Special to Star." THE WAR IN MADAGASCAB. CALCUTTA EXHIBITIONS. WAR PEEPAEATIONS IN CHINA BEUTEB'S TELBGRAMS. Pajbis, December 5. Parleying has bpen resumed between the French and Chinese Governmnts with a riew of averting the threatened war. London. December 6. Wool sales. — At to-day's auction 9,400 bales were catalogued. A firm and active demand prevailed. The ship Loch Fyne, which Jeft Lyttelton for London on May 14, and has not since been heard of, has been posted at Lloyd's as missing. It is announced that the Bight Hon. Sir Edward SuDiTan, -Master of the Bolls in the Irish High Court of Justice, Ims been appointed to succeed the Right Hon. Hugh Law as Lord Chancellor for Ireland. At the opening ef the Calcutta Exhibition his Excellency the Marquis of Bipon expressed a hope that the Exhibition would tend to promote the establishment of a large trade between India and Australia. The weather was wet, and the ceremony generally prored a failure. Transports capable of embarking 12,000 troops hare been ordered by the French Admiralty to rendezvous at Algeria. The Chinese Admiral has notified foreigners in Canton that war is imminent and has warned them to preserve strict neutrality. The chiefs on the British reserre in Zululand are clamouring for Cetewayo's remoral. A.J the tribes of the Southern Soudan hare risen in rebellion.