CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1, 3 January 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Special to Star." beuteb's telegbams. London, January 1. Messrs Alexander Brogden and Henry Brogden, the well-known railway contractors, of Wednesbury, have filed petitions in insolvency. Tbe liability of each is set down at three-quarters ot a million sterling. Rival meetings of Parnellites and Orangemen having been announced to be held to-day at Dromore, County of Down, Ireland, the Executive has despatched a large force of troops numbering a thousand men to the scene, with the object of stopping any disturbance. Pabis, January 30. Despatches have been received from London stating that the garrison at Zezireh, near Berbeck, were recently attacked by a large force of rebel fanatics, but the latter, after several hours' fighting were repulsed with heavy loss.

i . Received January 3, 1.10 a.m. London, January 1. Canon Westcott, who proached a sermon at the consecration of Dr Barry, in reference to the ceremony, expiated upon the peculiar fitness of Dr Barry for the office to which he had been chosen. Arrived, at Plymouth, to-day, P. and O. Steamship Thames, from Melbourne, November 8, and Orient Steamship Chimborazo, from Melbourne, Nov 17. ' January 2. Great excitement prevails in Dromore, County of Down, Ireland, in consequence of the Orange and Parnellite meetings. The Orangemen, numbering fully 20,000, attacked the Parnellite gathering, but a strong force of troops present prevented a serious collision of the two factions. San Fbancisco, Dec. 31. The steamship Zealandia, with the homeward mails dated Auckland, Dec. 12, arrived here yesterday.