CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5116, 10 June 1885, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

I" Skuter's Tbleobams 1

[Received June 10, 11 a.m.]

EXPECTED RESIGNATION

OF THE GLADSTONE MINISTRY.

London, June 9.

The debate on the financial proposals of the Government were brought to a close at an early hour this morning, when a division was taken, with the result that the Budget was rejected by a majority of J 12, notwithstanding that Mr Gladstone announced that Government would make its acceptance a Cabinet question. An amendment, proposed by Sir M. HicksBeach, condemning the proposed increase in duty on beer and spirits was then carried. In consequence of the adverse vote, the resignation of ■ Ministers is expected. In the House of Commons yesterday, Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that Government hoped for a renewal of negotiations with Spain for the Commercial Treaty between the two countries. Constantinople,, June 9. Intelligence from Crete states that all the Christian officials on the island have resigned their positions, owing to the appointment of Savas Pasha as Governor.

London, June 8. Consols have improved \ to-day. Colonial breadstuff's are unchanged. The market rate of discount is 1 per cent., Bank rate 2 per cent. At the wool auctions to-day 11,700 bales were offered. Sale steady,- but cot active. June 7. The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s Ruapehu sailed from Plymouth last night for Port Chalmers and Wellington, calling at Teneriffe and Capetown.

[SPECIALS TO THE PfiESS ASSOCIATION.]

London, June 7.

The Germanic Lloyd's Shipping Co. at Bremen have secured the mail subsidies voted for the establishment of a Germancolonial line of s'eamers.

The Mount Kemble (N.S.W.) Coal and Oil Company's new steam collier has been successfully Inunched. Mr George Lloyd, formerly M.P. for Newcastle, N.S.W., will entertain Lord Derby at a banquet. London, June 5. Cholera has broken out in the town of Murcia, in the south-east of Spain. Old Dongola has been evacuated by the British troops.