telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2080, 21 August 1896, Page 2

telegraphic News.

[By Telegraph.]

[from our own oorrkspondknt.]

Christghuroh, Ana. 20.

The football match Canterbury v Queenslend was won by Canterbury by 16 points to 14.

Brubanr, Aug 20.

The tick deleeates have returned. Mr Tozer, the Colonial Secretary, states that the principal result of the Conference was to enable the southern colonies' to ascertain the true facts in order to allay any unreasonable panic Personally, he said, the proceedings had fortified his own opinion that Queens land would have to play a lone hand, and that it was advisable to establish a stock institute for the colony. They could not expect much help from the other colonies, and the proper course therefore would be to establish an institute with the very best talent that the world could provide, Hβ had honed that this would have been made a federal matter, but his observations at the Conference taught him otherwise.

London, Atjo 19. Mr Cecil Rhodes arrives in London in Decemben

The Primate of England has invited the Anglican Bishops to a conference at Lambeth next July. The programme includes a discussion on the relation of colonial primates to Canterbury^

At a meeting of the McUracken Brewery Company of Melbourne, the proposals of the directors to reduce the inte'est on debentures from to 3 per cent., to extend the time for maturing till 1916, and to call up 5s per stare in four payments within 18 months, were discussed. The meeting wa* very hostile, and a committee of enquiry was set up.

The Surrey match was resumed to-day. The weather was fine, but the previous day's rain had rendered the wicket heavy. Tnere was a large attendance. At 2 pra, tha score was as follows : — Australians, first innings: Darling, c Thompson b Lohmann, 81 ; Iredale, c Hayes b Richardson, 38 ; G : ffen, c Wood h Richardson, 34; Trott, c Hayes b Abel, 32 ; Graham, l.b.w. b Tlinyward, 11.- Total for five wickets, 172. Later.—The Australians were all out for 223.