CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 50, 6 October 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[eeuteb's telegrams.] London, October 3. A project is now on foot for utilizing the Native Indian Army fer Imperial purposes. It having been suggested that the crew of the missing ship North Ameri- ] can may hare been cast away on some of I the islands en the route of ocean-going vessels, the masters of all vessels have been urged to keep a sharp look out for them. Ihe frozen meat by the Shaw-Saville and Albion Company's steamer Tainui has arrived in excellent condition. The system recently introduced of sixpenny telegrams has proved a great success. ' J Major Kitchener reports from Cairo that the fall of Kartoum was not due to treachery as alleged, bnt that the city was in a state of starvation, caused by the delay of the expedition sent to its relief. The wheat market is unchanged. One cargo has beon sold at 35s Hd. Caibo, October 2. Advices from Upper Egypt state that a large body of Dervishes encamped within 80 miles of the British outposts, and orders have been given for a regiment from Alexandria to proceed to the front as a reinforcement. Capetown, October 5. Shaw Savill Albion Company's lonic left yesterday afternoon for .N Z.