CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 14, 5 February 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Special to "Star-" BHCTKB'S TKI.KOBAMB. L . '/ **' CiißP, February 2. News, has -been -received here that, Baker Pasha, after landing at Trinkitat, ' made a reconnaissance in force, and had a skirmish with the.' enemy. The latter' fled southwards. Baker's cavalry pursued the rebels for several miles, killing hundreds ot them. Colonel Gordon, who was recently appointed Governor of the Seudou, passed through Eorosko yesterday, and entered. the Desert,, en route to Khar-, tpum. London, February 1. The wool market is steadier. Arrivals to date for next auctions amount to 200,000.

Received February^s, l.ls a.m.' Caibo, February 3. News is to hand from Sinkat, where the garrison is without provisions, to the effect that the foraging parties which were sent out to obtain supplies were out to pieces by the Arabs." Washington, February 3. The Tariff Bill, which is now before the Congress, provides for a general reduction of Customs tp the extent of 20 percent. The proposed reduction- will be applied to woollen goods. The death is announced of Wendell Phillips, the well-known American orator, aged 73. London, February 4. The wreckage belonging to that illfated ship Simla has been washed ashore on the Sussex coast.. . „. . It has transpired that .the Government has decided to apply to Parliament for the sum of £2,000,000 to be devoted to defences at Home and abroad. Pabis. February 3. . M. Eugene Rouher, formerly President of the Senate, died to-day, aged 70.