TELEGRAPHIC. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4208, 8 October 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(Special to Press Association.)

London, Oot. 6>

It is expected that £250,000 will bo raised in England towards (bo Imperial Institute, and that over £IOO,OOO will be forthcoming from the colonies.

A Perth Steam Navigation Company is projected, with a capital of £20,000 immediately. The Bishop of Newcastle, the Right Rev. J. B. Pearson, hap accepted the position of Coadjutor to Bishop Moorhouse, of Manchester,

Lord Randolph Ohurchill, addressing a meeting at Birmingham, said

that the basis of Imperial federation should be mutual defence, and not fiscal nnity.

Mr H. Chaplin is likely to replace Lord J. Manners ns Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Bishop of Bipon at the Church Congress, in alluding to the appointment of the Bev, F. F. Goe to the Bishopric of Melbourne, said that the church always sent the strongest and best men to the colonies. Hanlan and Boss are matched to row on the Thames for £IOOO. The allotment of shares in the company to purchase the Canadian mine at Charters Towers will be made on Saturday.

Sir Graham Berry is writing to Sir P, Ounliffe Owen that the committee of the Exhibition have not enquired into the most serious complaints made by the Vignerons Company in March, and that they have only partially redressed the wrongs.