CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 83, 23 December 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Special to Star." [rkutee's telegrams. l London, December 20. The cargo of frozen mutton ex steamship Doric was lauded in gcod condition. The Homeward San Francisco mails, dated Auckland, November lull, were delivered here yesterday. Tlio Oriental Bauk Corporation will made the calls on European sharuholcU rs payable as follows :— LIO in February, L 5 in April and July, 1885, and L 5 in January. 188(3. Shareholders abroad wilt require to pay a call of L 2) in July, 1885, and L 5 in January, 1886. Received December 23. 1.10 a.m. London, December 22. A fire occurred in the Parcels OIRVe, Windsor, last night, and after it had been extinguished an infernal machine was discovered among the debris On examining the machine it was found that the fuse attached, instead of causing an explosion, had ignited the box in which it was contained, and thus set firo to the office. Later. Further investigation has shown that the box found at the Windsor railway station fire was not an infernal machine. Despatches from Berlin give official confirmation of the German annexation of the northern portion of Heir Guinea. Capetown, December 21. Intelligence has been received here that a force of armed Boers, who have assembled in the Transvaal, are starting tor the Border. President Krujjer has declared he is powerless to prevent their departure.