CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 63, 5 November 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

BSUTEB'S TELEGBAMB.] London, November 3. A Ll»vd's telegram from Capetown announcei the arrival at that port of the Coptic with the lost of tyro blades of her propellor. The C«ptic left Plymouth on October 10th for Auckland. The returns in connection with the French elections shew that 200 member* pledged to aiti-Eepablic principles have been elected. The Grand Jury having considered the case brought against Mr W. Stead, editor of tke Pall Mall Gazette, for the abduction of the girl Lilly Armstrong , «n which charge he was committed *ftr trial at the preliminary investigation hag j found a true bill against the accused, and the ease will be accordingly proceeded 1 with at the Criminal Court. Mr Gladstone it announced to open hit electioneering campaign at Midlothian on November 18th. The Covhcil General of New Caledonia have petitioned the French Government to annex the New Hebrides. The latest news from the Soudam shows that the rebels are steadily advancing^ to the northward. Abw Hamed it now threatened by them, as well as Koresko, a town between the first and second cataract of the Nile. The result of the annual mamioipat •lectioßi show that the majority of those elected are Tories. Farther emigration of Germans to New Guinea will bo disoouraged after the end of this year. Cairo, November 3. In conseqnenee of the threatening attitude of the Arabs, the second battalion of the Durham Light Infantry have been ! ordered to proceed jap the Nil*. San Fbakcisco, November 2. ; The Pacific mail steamer Zealandia arrived here yesterday from Auckland. Received November. 5, 1*10 a.m. London, November 4. Arrived at Plymouth — Garonne from Australia. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters Association, arrived — Motley from Auckland, July 20. j Madbas, November 4. Major General Prendergast and the troops under his command, forming the second detachment '. of the expedition army force for service m Burmab, em-; barked to-day for Rangoon. ,