CABLE NEWS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2049, 3 January 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN THE GREAT SNOWSTORMS. WINDING UP THE EXHIBITION. SIR WILLIAM JERVOIS LIKELY TO GO TJ MAURITIUS. Reuter’s Telegrams. London, Dec 30. Latest information rewarding the snowstorms shows that fully 70 per cent of the telegraph lines have been injured, and that it will take three months to repair them, The Commissioners of the several colonies have been notified that they will be required to remove all their exhibits from the Indian and Colonial .Exhibition building by 19th January. Sir P. C. Owen has returned to the Agents-General the colonial guarantee agreements. Sir Hercules Robinson, who was sent to Mauritius to hold an. en~ quiry into the disagreements existing between Sir J. Pope ILennessy, Governor of the Island, and Mr Clifford Lloyd,Lieutenant-Governor lias suspended the former for creating a breach between classes. Sir W. D. Jervois is mentioned as his successor. Received Jan 2 at 11 a, m London, Dec 30 Sir Saul Samuel has closed the New South Wales Emigration Office. THE IMPERIAL INSTIUTE FIZZLE COLDLY RECEIVED. Reutir’a Telegrams. (Received Jan. 2, at 11 a.m.) London, Dec. 30. The formal scheme for the Tm« perial Institute has beeu coldly received and it is doubtful, whether l the Prince of Wales wiil approve of the details as a whole. The Prince of Wales has tioini-. Bated Sir Saul Samuel to represent Australia and Sir Charles Tupper to represent Canada on the committee of the Imperial Institute.