CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 43, 23 September 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Special to " Star." RIOTS IN / boUNT_M)OWN^ SEVKRAL RIOTERS WOUNDED. [beuteb's tblegbams.] Njbw Yobk, Sept. 20. A sharp shock of earthquake has occurred in the Western States. The disturbance was experienced over a large tract of ground, and a large number of buildings" were damaged, but ho Ibis 'of life has yet been reported. Hong Kong-, Sept. 20.

Independent accounts of the defeat of the Chinese forces at Kinpai by 2,000 French troops who subsequently occupied the town, have been received here, arid prove that the "success of the French ; was •• V. ■ »_ i' ' '■ i ''■ 1 considerably overstated.

Uaibo, Sept. '2l. "Further intelligence has been received from Khartoum contirmicg the telegram received from that town on the 17th insti The latest despatch states that General | Gordon twice inflicted defeat upon the rebels and repulsed them with heavy loss compelling them to retire and to raise the seige of Khartoum. The retreat of the followers of the Mahdi took place on August 30, since which time General Gordon has had complete command of the approaches to Khartoum and the surrounding country.

Received Sept. 23, 0.55 a.m. London, Sept. 22. Serious Nationalist riots have occurred at CastleWellan^County Down. Several of the rioters-were wounded by the police and the police barracks were wrecked by the mob. 'Many arrests have been made.

Per Merchant Shipping arid Underwriter's Association, London Sept. 20 — Arrived, .ship Norman McLeod, from Lyttelton,' June 19.