CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 32, 18 March 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Special to "Star." bkuter's TELKOBAMS. Received March 18, 0.55 a.m J^/ Madrid, March 16. sA Republican conspiracy, haying rami> fications throughout the couutry; has been discovered, and numerous arrests have already been; made of persens. suspected of complicity, in the movemehtV ~ ' London, March 17. The death is announced of General Sir Arthur A T. Cunnyngham, C.8., aged 72 - ■.:.,--,--.r..-^-^,,~.^ „--. Pabis, March 16. The latest despatches . from Tonquin j announce that the French commander ! h ad gi ven'^order JT "for v an ad VanccT t o~bS'\ made on the enemy's position to the westward of Bacninh, and that two columns of troops had made forward movements in the direction of Hunghaow and Thainquyin. J

London, March 15. Hon Eveiy Ashley, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, replying to a question, announced that the Government would shortly nominate a High 'Jommissioner for the Western Pacific.

Sir Charles Dilke, President of the Local Government Board, in the House to day made a statement to the effect that if t'e Opposition succeed in forcinjj a dissolution dfrParliament, the Govern ■ment will take the case 'of appeal td th*country, not upon their Egyptain policy alone, but upon their policy generally.

The wool sales closed to-day. 30,000 bales were sold during the series. 26,00 are held over for next auctions. Unwashed Australian wools closed at a hai penny lower than at the ct se of theDecember - auctions. " Good medium Australian and good qualities of fleece generally and medium to good scoured have closed in good demand. Pabis, March 15. Telesrams from tonquin announce that the French troops are following up the recent victory, and pursuing the Chinese, and driving them from various positions in the neigbourhood of Baeninh. The press generally urge that the troops* should advance towards the Chinese. frontier. . Vienna, March 6. ! The r police' hf Buda-Pfstjt effected fiie* aYresfof Iliirty"-six 'ineh'on V charge of plotting to incite anarchy iiii that city. !