CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 74, 3 June 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Special to " Star." BKUTEB'B TEI/KGKAMS. London, June 1. Prime New Zealand mutton is now selling at s|d. ! The third series of colonial wool auctions will common C 3 on August 12th, and the fourth series on November 10th. A disastrous fire occurred last night at Glasgow, when the Tramway Company's stables were totally destroyed, and over 200 horses burnt to death. There is still no clue to the perpetrators of the recent. dynamite outrages. Both 'the provincial and London Press strongly condemn the Government for parleying about French demands for a multiple control and limited occupation of Egypt for two years. The Conference is to meet in London on the 23rd of June. The Pa 1 Mall Gazette re-asserts that Turkey has agreed to send 15,000 troops to Upper Egypt and the Soudan . Sir Henry Parkes is believed to have succeeded in the principal objects of his visit to England, but is delaying his return owing to some negotiations which are in progress relating to the investment of a large amount of capital in the colonies. Arrangements are being made for holding a universal Exhibition at Paris in 1889, to celebrate the centenary anniversary of the French Revolution. At a meeting ef the Suez Canal Company the arrangements concluded between Baron de Lesseps and the representatives of the English shipowners were formally approved. Arrived, the ship Loch Fergus, from Lyttelton, February 9. Caibo, Jane 1. Two more battalions of Egyptian regulars are now under orders to proceed to Korosko and Wady- Haifa, on the Nile « ____ '"'