TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1354, 29 September 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN [reciter's telegrams —copyright.] THE PROPOSED TESTIMONIAL.' London. September 37. The Prince of Wales has written a letter to the Committee which was formed for the purpose of presenting a testimonial to his Royal Highness for his exertions in connection with the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, declining a personal present, and requesting that the funds which have already been collected shall be devoted to the Imperial Institute. The Committee have acquiesced in this proposal, believing that the desire of the donors would be to act in the way most acceptable to the Prince.

THE COLONIAL EXHIBITION. The Exhibition will be closed ob November loth. IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. London, September 28. An important meeting in connection with the establishment of the Imperial Institute was held at the Mansion House yesterday, a Committee being formed for the purpose of raising the necessary funds for carrying out the project. OUTRAGES IN KERRY. Agrarian outrages have occurred in Kerry, where nineteen Moonlighters have been captured. HANLAJPS OFFER. Hanlan has offered to row Beach OB the Nepean River, near Sydney. NEW HEBRIDES. La France declares that the slave ring io New Caledonia is at the bottom of the agitation about the New Hebrides* and advises the - evacuation of those islands by France. MINING COMPANY.

A Company has [been registered, with a capital of to purchaie the Bonnie Dundee mine at Charters .Towers, in Queensland.