CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 62, 4 November 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

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[ekutek's telegrams. l London, November 1. Intelligence is to hand of the arrival at Meshed, in northern Persia, of MajorGeneral Sir Peter Lumsden and the members of the Afghan frontier Commission. The shipment of frozen beef ex steamship Tongariro is selling at 7£d per pound. Hong Kong, November 1. The Chinese aro massing largo bodies of troops at Shanghai and Pekin, with the view of the prosecution of active hostilities against the French. Cairo, November 1. Intelligence is to hand from Wady Haifa that the Canadians have arrived there, and are now passing fifty boats daily over the second cataract, and troopß are proceeding up the Nile with the utmost despatch. Pabiß, November 1. Earl North brook, who has arrived here on route for London, has had an interview with M. Ferry. A serious outbreak of cholera has occurred at Nantes and fifteen fatal cases are reported. Receiyed November 4, 0.35 a.m. London. November 3. In the House of Lords to-day Lord Granville took occasion to deny a statement current that the Khedive had wired to the Queen that Khartoum had fallen, and that Gordon had been made a prisoner. The report to that effect is generally disbelieved. Lord North brook arrived in London last evening. The report that his lordship had had an interview with M. Ferry while in Paris is proved to be without foundation. In its issue to-day the Daily News publishes a telegram from a correspondent in Soudan stating that a terrible battle had taken place betweon General Gordon's forces and the followers of Mahdi. The latter numbered over 25,000 men and they fought desperately for eight hours, suffering enormous losses and temporary reverses, but continually returning to the field in increased numbers. Caibo, November 3. Intelligence has been received that the Mahdi is gathering his forces around Khartoum, and has summoned General Gordon to surrender.