SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4737, 10 December 1886, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

London, Dec. 6. The Government of Victoria have as,ked the Prince and Princess of Wales to visit the Melbourne International Exhibition. Sir Graham Berry writing to the Press on the subject of the Exhibition, states that it will probably foreshadow a closer union between New South Wales and Victoria than has hitherto existed. Dec. 7. Mr Charles Des Champs has been appointed manager of the British art collection to be exhibited at the Jubilee Exhibition. The site of the Imperial Institute has not yet been officially decided upon. The Dutch Government propose to suspend export duties in Java on sugar. Shares in the Ironclad Mining Company have been allotted. The bars at which colonial wines were sold during the Exhibition show a pro6t of over £400, whiph wi)l be divided pro rata. Mr Sutherland has stated that the Peninsular and Oriental Company will not carry the Australasian mails for nothing. Dec. 8. Two hundred and sixty recidivistes have embarked for New Caledonia, and ninetysix more are ready. The Times considers that England must find officers and military material for the colonies, while the latter must undertake to construct fortifications, build gunboats, and provide crews for their defence. The Standard suggests that a congress of colonial statesmen would be a worthy memorial of the Queen's Jubilee.