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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 79, 13 December 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.,

— ♦ " Special to Star." [bEUTEH'B TELEOBAMS.I London, December 10. It is currently reported here that Earl Granville, British Minister of Foreign Affairs, has announced to the Powers that he has abandoned the attempt to mediate between France and China. No Official information, how* ever, has yet been published. Vienna, Dec. 10. A violent hurricane passed over this city to-day, and caused a considerable amount of damage to property. New Yobk, Dec. 10. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association :— Ship Irene, from, Auckland, September 1. Received December 13, 12 40 a.m. Pabis, December 12. An official telegram from Madagascar has been published, white states that the French forces captured a fort containing five guns at South Vohemar, and that in the euagement which took place 200 Hovas were killed. The Senate agreed to an additional forty-three million francs for French operations at Tonquin. In the Chamber yf * Deputies last night the I'reuainr, Ferry, made a |siatemenl regarding the Franco-Chinese difficulty, in which he announced that the attitude assumed by the Chinese Government had defeated Granville's efforts towards a mediation between the two countries, and the parleying which had been proceeding was now ended. M Ferry added thai the Government intended to pursue energetic measures in prosecution of hostilities against China. London, December 12. Arrived, at Plymouth, steamship Doric from London ; steamship Potosi from Melbourne.