CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 70, 19 February 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] [Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, Feb. 16. At to-day’s wool-sale the catalogue comprise 10,200 bales, for which there was good competition. Greasy fleece is now 4d. to Id, lower than at last sales. Sydney heavy fine cross-breds are very firm. Scoured wool generally has fallen |d. to Id. since the close of the last auctions. St, Petersburg, Feb. 16. It is announced that Prince Orloff, the Russian Ambassador at Paris, will shortly be transferred to Berlin, and will be replaced by Baron Mohrenhem, now Russian Minister in London. Cairo, Feb. 16. Major-General Gordon has arrived at Standy, an important caravan-station in Nubia', and within 100 miles of Khartoum.

A telegram from Souakim states that the rebels are massing in the neighborhood of Tokar, and it is fully expected that an attack will be made to capture the town before the British force which has been despatched to its assistance can arrive there. Increased activity is being manifested among the followers of El Mahdi in the South East, and Kassala, an unimportant town near the northern frontier of Abyssinia, is being invested by the rebels. From enquiries which have been made into the circumstances attending the fall of Sinkat last week, it has been ascertained that besides the garrison of the town and the male inhabitants, 200 women and the same number of children were massacred by the rebel fanatics.