CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 72, 29 May 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Special to " Star." BEUTEB's TELEGBAMB. Received May 29, 1.20 a.m. j London, May 28. i The Homeward mails, via Suez and Brindisi, per Orient steamship Sorata, from Melbourne, April 18, were delivered here yesterday. I Both Houses of Parliament adjourned last evening for the Whitsuntide holidays. The race for the Derby was run at Epsom to-day and resulted as follows :— Stgatien and Harvester, dead heat for first place ; Queen Adelaide, 3. Caibo, May 27. It has transpired that the Khedive has ' addressed a letter to Her Majesty Queen Viciona requesting that Baker Pasha (Colonel Valentine Baker) may be reinstated to his position in the British army which he previously held. Telegrams have been received from the Governor of Dongola stating that he has defeated the rebels in the neighborhood of Del beli and recaptured that town. May 28. It is announced that Zebehi Pasha has forwarded to the Government a letter he has received from General Gordon, in which the latter insists on his (Zebehi's) immediate return to Khartoum. Capetown, May 28. Intelligence is to hand from Zululand that the Boers have crowned Dimvzulet, Cetewajo's only son and heir, as King of Zululand. This action has been fully concurred in by Oham, Usibebuy, and other Chiefs. London, May 24. At to-day's wool auction 12,300 bales were catalogued. The demand was steady, but not active. A poor selection of wool was offered. In the House of Lords to-day, Ear' Granville, replying to a question, stated parleying between England and France in connection with the projected European conference was still proceeding, and the Government would inform Parliament of the result of the exchange of views before the meeting ot the Convention. A strong rebel force is now in the neighbourhood of Shendy, and they have captured Debbah. The project for the construction of a ship canal to Manchester has been authorised, and a capital of five millions has been subscribed to carry it out. The usual annual rising of the Biver Nile is taking place, and fears are entertained that serious inundations may follow. Capetown, May 27. The salvage from the steamer Bulli, which ran ashore at Paternoster Point on the Blh inst., realised £100. The wreck of the vessel has been sold for £7, all hopes of floating the hull having been abandoned.