CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 152, 9 June 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

n Special to Star." [bRUTEBS TKLKGRAM.O London, June 7. In the Hoase of Commons, the Marquis •f Hartington, Secretary for Stale for War, stated, in reply to a question, that i lie hoped the detention! of the Guards at ■ Alexandria would onlj be of brief duration. . The directors of the New Zealaad Grain Agency Company recommend that tke company should go into liquidation. The death v announced, at the age of eighty years, of Sir Julius Benedict, the eminent musical composer. During tbe coarse of the ereaing, the Bight lion. Mr Childers, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that consider- ! able modifications had beei made ia the budget since he made his financial statement, owing to the fact that only aiae millions of the vote of credit had already been expended. Mr Childen stated that the increase of spirit* would only be one shilling, instead of two as proposed, but that the shilling duty on wines of thirty degrees proof would be adhered to. The Oaks was run for yesterday, and resulted as follows :— Lonely 1, Helpa 2, and Cipollmer 3. Constantinople June 6. News to hand from the island of Crete states that serious disturbances hare recently taken place among the populace. Further details to hand in regard to the disturbances in Crete xhow that a number of Cretan deputies boarded the steamer which was bringing Saras Pasha, the New Governor, and attempted to prevent bin landing; declaring that he had been appointed contrary to the wishes of the Cretan people. Boxbav, June f. The earthquakes is the pronnee of Ca»hm2re still continue with great severity. Great damage to property has taken place, and many houses hare been swallowed up by fissures in the earth.