CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 76, 7 June 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Special to " Star." BKUTEB'S TKLEGBAMB. Received June 7, 1 5 a.m. London, June 6. The steamship Florida from Wellington, April 4th, with a cargo of frozen meat, arrived here yesterday. The House of Commons reassembled j yesterday after the Whitsuntide holidays. Telegrams from Nuakim, where the garrison has been reinforced by a body of British marines, state that Osraan Digna, with a following of 7000 Arab rebels, is now in the neighborhood and threatens to make an attack upon that town. Cairo, June 6. Reports have reached here to the effect that General Gordon left Khartoum and escaped southward up the River Nile on board a steamer. Madrid, June 5. Serious dynamite .explosions occurred at Barcelona where attempts were made to commit similar outrages last month. The explosion was caused by a dynamite cartridge which had been placed in the street. One person was killed, and the buildings on the spot were greatly injured.

London, June 6. An Anglo-Russian Commission is abont to be appointed to settle the demarcation for the northern frontier of Afghanistan. The wool sales were resumed to-day when a catalogue of 11,300 bales was submitted. A eood demand was experienced for the various lots offered. Tawhiao's mission to England has been placed in the hands of Mr I hesson, Secretary of the Aborigines Society, who I has requested an interview with Lord Derby on the subject. Earl Spencer, Lord-Lieutenant; of Ireland, insists that the meetings of the Orange and National parties in the North of Ireland 3hall be held on separale days.