HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7552, 15 May 1890, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[PBB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] ; Beceived May 15th, 1 fern. , CABLE KATES. , , London, May 12. Sir John Pender, Chairman: of the Eastern. Extension Telegraph Company, has submitted fresh tariff proposals to the Agents-General. AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON. The Australian Squadron Will flail iv August. Received May 15th, L3O a.m. POSTAL KATES, London, May 13. Mr Cecil Koikes, the PostmasterGeneral, States that the present loss on the outward postal service to Australia, was £78,000, and that a reduction to a penny to India and Australia would be an additional £130,000. CONGREGATIONAL UNION. Dr. Brown, of Bedford, has been appointed Chairman of the Congregational Union. [The Rev. J. Brown, 8.A., IWX, is minister of the well-known' chapel at Bedford, known as " Banyan Meeting," which dates from 1650, and of which Dr. Brown has been in charge since I$H. Hβ is the author of a life of Bunyan, published recently, which is regarded as by 'far the most complete biography of the great allegorist yeD printed. Dr. Brown was, in 188 a Chairman of the , Bedfordshire Union of Independent and Bapciat Churches. His Congregational ministry began in 1855.] ■ CAPKIVI ON THE COLONIAL POUCY. Bbblut, May 13. . .In the Reichstag 5 CapriVi said he viewed the colonial policy with misgivings, but retreat now was impossible. Bullets' and Riblee, be said, must oivilize Africa.