CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 20, 19 February 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

«. Special to " Star." BEUTF.n*B TKLEGHAMSLondon, February 15. At to-day's wool sale the catalogue comprised 10,200 bales, for which there was good competition. Greasy fleece is now id to Id lower than at last sales. Sydney heavy fine crossbred* are very firm. Scoured wools in general have fallen to Id since the close of last auctions. St. Pbtebsbubg, Febuary 15. It is announced that Prince Osloff, Kussian Ambassador at Paris, will shortly be transferred to Berlin, and will be replaced by Baron Mohrenheim, the Russian Minister in London. Cairo, February 16. Major General Gordon has arrived at Sheendy, an important caravan station ■ in Nubia, and within one hundred miles I of Khartoum. I Telegrams from Souakim state that the rebels are massing in the neighbourhood of Tokar, and it is fully expected that on attempt will be made to capture the town before the British force which has been despatched to its assistance can arrive there. From inquiries which have been made into the circumstances attending the fall of Sinkat last week, it has been ascertained that, besides the uarrison of the town and the male inhabitants, two hundred women and the same number of children were massacred by the rebel fanatics. Eight hundred marines embarked in the steamer Poonah to-day at Plymouth. There was an imuien.se crowd of spectators to witness the departure of troops, and great enthusiasm was shown.