CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 4, 10 January 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

♦ Special to "Star." FROZEN MEAT TRADE. MORE NIHILIST PLOTS. EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS. BEUTEB . TELEGBAMB. London, January 7. The car^o of frozen mutton by the lonic, from Lyttelton, arrived in good condition generally, but part was damaged by fire (siej. A quantity of the shipment was placed in the market to-day and realised 5f d per lb. 'ihe cargo of mutton ex steamship Chimborazo, from Sydney, is fetching 4fd per lb. It being feared that a Fenian plot is being organized to destroy the Midland Railway, extra precautions have been taken. Rumours are afloat that the Nihilists are again active, and that several attempts have been made on the life of the Czar. The report tbat .lablous, the leader of the plot at Sudeikin, had been arrested is as yet unconfirmed. Forty- four shillings and sixpence is offered for cargoes ot Australian wheat, but there is no recent business.. New Zealand wheat is a shade lower than last quotations.

Received January 10. 1.5 a.m. Caibo, January 9. Nubar Pascha, who has been charged by the Khedive with the formation ef a new Ministry, has declared himself a supporter of the policy of the British Government. Nubar Pascha has partially succeeded in forming a Cabinet, and no Europeans are included amongst those who have a' ready accepted office under his leadership. London, January 5. Lord Derby has agreed to a modification of the Transvaal frontier readjustment boundary line being effected, in order to secure the rights of loyal chiefs, and to protect them from molestation by tbe Beers, or by natives who have not accepted British rule. Hopes are still entertained that the steamship Duke of Westminster will be floated, although her position is somewhat precarious. Arrived at Plymouth yesterday, P and O. steamship, from Melbourne, Nov. 22.