HOME AND FOREIGN.

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 3757, 29 October 1886, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

( renter's telegrams. ) Received 0. tober 28, at 10.15 p.m. London, October 27. A meeting of the Agents-General, convoked by Sir Graham Berry for the purpose of compiling a telegram to their respective Governments with reference to the Imperial Institute, was held to-day. The message, which haa been despatched, states that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales wiaheß the exhibits to the Colonial Exhibition to remain at home to form a nucleus for the Imperial Institute, and requests the permission of the Colonial Governments for this purpose. It is announced that her Majesty the Queen will open the Institute in person in June next. A committee has been formed, under the Presidency of H.K.H. the Prince of Wales, which includes Sir Henry James, Mr Goschen and three other English representatives, besides colonial members. Consols are one-eighth lower. The market rate of discount is 3J per cent., or § below the bank rate. The New Zealand 5 per cent. 10-40 loan is quoted at 101£; per cent 5.30 loan at 99f ; and the 4 per cent, inscribep Btook at 97.

The prices of colonial breadstuffa are unchanged. Received October 29, at 1.30 a.m. London, October 28. The metropolitan police authorities have forbidden the procession of unemployed, organised by the Socialists to follow the Lord Mayor's show, on the 9th November. In reply tc this intimation the Socialist leaders have demanded on what authority the procession is forbidden. The inhabitants of Natal have demanded that the British Government shall assume a protectorate over Zululand. The Hon. Edward Stanhope, Secretary of State for the Oolonies, has, however, expressed his dissent from this view.

A sweeepstakea of LIOOO each between The Bard, Melton, Bendigo, and Ormonde, which had been arranged to take place at Newmarket, has been abandoned. Capetown, October 26. The Kaffirs of Pondoland, who had assembled on the borders of Xesibeland (sic), threatening an invasion of that district, have now quietly dispersed. Calcutta, October 28. Sir West Ridgeway has left Cabul for Peshawar.

(special to press association.) Received October 28, at 8 p.m.

London, October 27. General Boulanger, French Minister of War, demands a credit of three hundred and ninety-two million francs. The Belgian Government will shortly discuss the advisability of granting a money rate for official representation at the Jubilee Exhibition.

It is reported that Sir Satnuel Wilson and Sir Daniel Cooper will be members of the Imperial lastitute Committee. Sir Saul Samuel suggests that the Institute should oonsist of paying members, and should absorb the present Colonial Institute, and that the public shonld be admitted free on certain days. Received October 29, at noon. London, October 28.

Beach Is very indignant at Hanlan's pretensions re the sculling championship, and offers to row him on the Paramatta river for LSOO, or upwards. Matterson has thrown out a similar challenge to Hanlan.

Matterson and Kemp have been matched to scull, on the Paramatta, in May next foe L4OO aside. The Queen will lay the foundation stone of the Imperial Institute on Jone 28. The emigration bureau has announced that it ib willing to accept a trade and labor report from the colonies. Females constitute one-eighth of the number of the first gang of recidivistes to be sent to New Caledonia.

Sir A. Clarke gives a donation of LSOOO towards the Imperial Institute Fund.