CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 32, 28 August 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Special to " Star." | BEUTEI-i's TKLEGKAMS. London, August 26. The wool market continues firm. 10,800 hales were catalogued at to-day's auction. The French troopship Aveyron has been totally wrecked at Cape Guardafin. All on hoard were rescued. j The New Zealand Land Corporation ' will pay their creditors in full, also re- ' turning L5 on paid-up shares. Sir Stafford Northcote and Lord Carnarvon hare addressed over 100,000 Tories at Wakefield. Sixty-three deaths from cholera occurred in Italy yesterday. The Austrian Government will shortly ' despatch four cruisers round the world I to seek for opening up of trade with that country. One of the vessels will visit Australia and the Pacific. Berlin, August 26. Prince Bismarck is despatching Dr Busch, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to Egypt on a special mission, to report upon the state of affairs i in that country. Paris, .A ugust 26. The French Press generally, in their leading articles, angrily resent the criticisms >>f the English papers on the French bombard ment of Foochow arsenal which they have described as merciless in character.

Received August 28. 0 50 a.m. London, August 27. General Lord Wolseley will leave for Egypt almost immediately, and on his arrival will assume supreme command of the British troops in that country. The cricket match at Brighton concluded to-day. The Cambridge eleven in their second innings were only able to put together 94 runs, and the Australians thus won by 141 runs. General Lord Wolseley and Earl Nortlibrook. Secretary of State for India, start for Egypt on Sunday next. Hong Kong, August 26. Reports to hand state that fully one thousand Chinese were killed, and over three thousand wounded, during tbe bombardment of Foo Chow arsenal, by the French fleet. Caibo, August 26. Major Kitchener reports from Dongola that spies have informed him that Gordon obtained a decisive victory over the rebels who surrounded Khartoum on the llth instant, und that during the engagement two prominent rebel leaders were killed. Berlin, August 26. It has transpired that the announcement that Dr Baschunder, Secretary of Foreigh \ffairs, was about to proceed to Egypt is without foundation, but it is officially announced that Dr Heinre'ich Karl Burgsch, the eminent philologist and Egyptologist, has been entrusted with a special mission to Teheran.