CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 52, 3 May 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

♦- — Special to " Star." BEUTEB'S TELEOBA.MS. London, April 30. Telegrams from Havannah, the capital of Cuba, state that a terrible catastrophe occurred there. The powder magazine at the arsenal exploded, and the shock also caused the gasometer in the neighbourhood to blow up. Immense damage was done to the adjoining buildings, and a number of persons in the vicinity lost their lives. At the Newmarket spring meeting today, the race for the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes resulted as follows: — Scot Free, 1 ; St Medard, 2 ; Harvester, 3. Arrangements have been made with the Australian team for a match at Birmingham on the 26th instant and following days. Tobonto, April 30. A plot to destroy the Parliament buildings in this city has been frustrated. Several powerful dynamite cartridges with fuses attached ready for firing, were discovered this evening in the basement of the building apd promptly destroyed. The affair has caused intense excitement here. No clue to the guilty parties has been obtained. The wool sales have opened. Messrs Charles Balme and Sons and Messrs Jacomh and Co. issue well-assorted catalogues, comprising 8,600 bales. There was a good attendance of buyers at the opening sale, and cross-bred wool proved firm ; other descriptions were 5 per cent lower than the closing prices of last series. The arrivals to date amount to 354,000 bales, and the list remains open until it reaches 400,000. Received May 3, 0.55 a.m. London, May 2. Earl Derby, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has been created a Knight of the Order of the Garter. Despatches relating to the Soudan were laid before both Houses of Parliament yesterday. Among the latest was one from Lord Granville to MajorGeneral Gordon, dated April 23rd, instructing the latter to state what force would be required to effect the rescue of the garrison at Khartoum and other towns in the Soudan that were invested by the Arab rebels. The race for the one thousand guineas at Newmarket to-day resulted as follows : Busbody 1, Queen Adelaide 2, White Lock 3. Pabis, May 2. Li Fong, as ambassador in France, will at once open parleying with the French Government with a view of a pacific solution of the Tonquin difficulty. Madbid, May 1. The police have effected the arrest at Barcelona of an Anarchist, in whose possession was found a large quantify of dynamite. The prisoner sinr-e confessed that he intended to have used the explosive for destroying the railway line.