CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 4, 19 June 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

■♦ Special to "Star."

bbuteb's telbqbams. Received June 19, 1 a.m. I -ondon, June 18. ; It is currently reported ip diplomatic circles that thoVparleying% regarding the neutrality of the Suez Canal, which ior . some time past has been progressing between the French and English Govern- . ments, is virtually concluded, and that a I satisfactory agreement has been arrived at. Constantinople, June 18. A serious outbreak of the the bubonic plague has occurred at Bagdad.

London, June 17. Telegrams have been received stating that King Johannes of Abyssinia has assembled 30,000 Gallas for the purpose of relieving the garrison at Eassala, a town some distance north of the Abysinian frontier, and now besieged by Arab rebels. The homeward mails via Sues and Brindisi, from Melbourne, May 6, were delivered on Saturday An amendment on the Franchise Bill by Mr Gray, M.P. for Northampton, has been withdrawn, Mr Gladstone having deferred the operation of the Bill until January twelve months. "Viscount Hampden, speaking at a festival ofthe Newspaper Press Fund, said , be hoped that tbe Press would pay greater attention to colonial affairs. Major Kitchener telegraphs that if Dongola should be captured by the M ahdi he will be almost certain to invade Egypt after capturing Ramadan. Signor Susini, the well-known Italian basso, has been killed in London by a street accident. Recent freshets have badly in j ured the Panama Canal work. The freedom of the County of Ayr has been presented to Sir Thos. Mcll wraith (Premier of Queensland) and Mr John Mcll wraith. Sir Thomas Mcllwrnith has expressed his belief tbat Lord Derby will shortly be compelled to annex New Guinea. San Fbancisco, June 16. The steamship Zealandia arrived here yesterday.