CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 33, 20 March 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Special to " Star." ANOTHER AUSTRALIAN LOAN. FROZEN- MEAT TRADE. SPANISH OFFICERS _& TROUBLE. OUTBREAK OF SMALL-POX. FRANCE AND CHINA. FURTHER FIGHTING. beuteb's telegrams. Received March 20, la. m. Pabis, March 18. Official despatches from Tonquin state that the Chinese troops have been utterly routed at all points, and that General Millot is now returning to Hanoi, having established a line of outposts in the neighborhood of Bacninh, which is now occupied by a French garrison.

Madbid, March 18. Three general officers have been placed under arrest for complicity in the recently discovered military conspiracy.

Vienna, March 18.

The Imperial Austrian authorities have addressed a formal protest to the Swiss Federal (Government, complaiumg of the countenance which is being given by the Republic to Anarchist conspirators, who are permitted to find an asylum and to carry out their intrigues in Swiss territory.

London, March 18.

Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriter's Association, London, March 18 : — Arrived, at Plymouth, the P. and O. steamship Carthage, from Melbourne, January 31st; and steamship Victory from Wellington, January 19th, with a cargo of frozen. mutton.. .

Tenders are invited by the Western Australian Government for a loan of £154,000, bearing interest at 4 per cent. The minimum is fixed at 96 j. Tenders close on Monday next. In the House of Commons last night. Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, Under-Sec-retary for Foreign .Affairs, stated, in reply to a question, that the Government did not intend to protest against the action of tbe German Government in stationing a man-of war in the South Seas during the labor season.

The cargo of the steamship Aoranei from New Zealand, consisting of about 12,000 carcasses of mut on, arrived in good condition. The first" portion was sold to-day at s|d per pound. -

Seven hundred Anarchists have been expelled from Vienna. Anxiety is being felt at Cairo regarding the safety of General. Gordon. It is rumoured that Earl Granville has received information that the rebel tribes at Khartoum have iisen in rebellion.

A number. of disappointed Spanish officers, including two generals, have been arrested on a charge of conspiring in conjunction with King Zorilia, against King Alfonso's Government.

The majority in the Cabinet, it is understood, desire lo declare a protectorate over Egypt for a fixed period, but Mr Gladstone and Lord Derby are opposed to such a proceeding. The struggle between the two parties is said to be of an acuie character.

A severe attack of small pox has broken out at Madr-s. A large number of cases are reported, and c-m-'iderabie alarm is felt at the spread of the disease.

News has been received that the French troops have entirely routed the Chinese at Thuthung, and that standards and a number of guns fell into their hands.