CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 8, 19 January 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Special to " Star." bkuteb's telegbams. Caibo, January 16. The statement made yesterday that a colonel of the Egyptain army was about to raise a corps of Albanians for service in Egypt is not correct The latest news to hand from Soudan states that the insurgents hare cut off any possible retreat of the Egyptian garrison from Tenaar, and have blocked the river Nile below Derr. Rome, January 17. The Propaganda selected Bishop Moran as successor to the late Most Rev Roger Bede Yaughan in the archdiocese of Sydney. Recieved January 19 0.50 a.m. London, January 18. President Kruger, ot the Transvaal, has suggested a compromise in the matter of the modification of the Transvaal frontier line as proposed by the British Government in order that certain native chiefs might be afforded the protection of British rule. Madbid, January 17. The Spanish Ministry was defeated in the Cortes last night by a large majority and demanded a dissolution, threatening to resign unless an appeal to the country was granted. January 18. A new Ministry is being formed by Senor Canovas. The present crisis has arisen in consequence of a disunion having occurred among the Liberal Party in Cortes. Hong Kong, January 18. It bas transpired that yielding to British representatives, the ' hinese Government has suspended operations for blocking Canton River with torpedoes. The sum of £200,000 in gold has been wit drawn from the Bank of England for Australia, and it is expected further withdrawals will shortly beSmade.