CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1817, 7 April 1886, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

THE COMBINED SQUADRON AT SUDA BA¥. TRADE DISTUHBANCES IN MELBOURNE. j MOB MEETING IN MELBOURNE. THE RINGLEADERS ARRESTED. I London, April 4. The English and Austrian Squadrons pow stationed at Snda Bay, Crete, are being reinforced, with a view to the possibility of caerciop being used against Greece. M. Delyanui-i, the Greek Premier, proposes to raise a large loan, not however, he explains, for the purposes of carrying ont a war policy. The Pail Mall Gazette advocates the establishment of a cheap slow post between England and Australia. April 5. Tiie death is announced, in his 68th year, of the P.ight Hon W. E. F orster, M.P. Athens. April 5. M. Dellystiiiis, the Greek Premier and Minister of Finance, has brought forward in the Chaml>er of Deputies a proposal for a loan of one million to increase the strength of the army and navy.

InELBOCBNE, April 5. The operation of the Factories and Shop? 1 Act is being followed by continually in 1 creasing nightly disturbances in the Colling- • w.k,J and t itzroy districts. A number of shop assistants and larrikins resenting tbe keeping op>-n of those shops which, in accordance uua the Municipal By-laws are exernptei from the provisions of the Act, assembled ot Friday and Saturday nights, and getting to getljsr a large crowi, paraded the streets it t c sui uri'S named, smasiiing the windows 01 lae ( I iioxn.us Irudssmett, and generally behaving in a riotous manner The polici were greatly outnumbered, and were powerles* to prevent the outrages. A large crowd collected at Collingwood this evening but no breach ot the peace has oc carred. At the time o! telegraphing (10.SC p.m.i, everything is quiet, April 6. A crowd of some ten thousand people assembled in Smith-street, Collingwood, las! night, but no serious damage was done, a few stores only having their windows broken Tbe police arrested seven of the most pomineut leaders.