CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 21, 21 February 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

.*. Special to "Star." bectkb's tklkgbams. Kome, Feb. 18. An attempt was made to-day to wreck i a train by which His Majesty King ' Hum bort travelled to Conieta, a town 12 miles north of Civita Vecchia, by dynamite. The projected outrage was, however, a failure. London, February 19. In the House of Commons yesterday, Gladstone, replying to questions, said that he doubted whether the proclamation issued by Major • General Gordon at Kbnrtoum announced that ho impediment would be offered to froe traffic in slaves in Soudan. He believed that the abstract of the proclamation received by telegram was incorrect. A vote of 10,000,000 -fra cs has been placed on the French estimates for the purpose of giving effect to the p'ovisions of the Recidivistes Bill. ! It is considered unlikely that any of the present Australian i-overnors will be | appointed to succeed the Vlarquis of i .Normanby in Victoria, as it is desired to secure the services of a new and strong I man as Governor of that colony. Lord Derby has expressed himself | much gratified at the offtr made by the Victorian Government of their gunwatu for service in connection with Egyptian affairs. The homeward mails, via San Fran* cisco, from Auckland, January 8, were delivered to-day. Arrived at Plymouth to-day, the P. and O. steamship Shannon, from Melbourne, January 3.