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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 7, 17 November 1877, Page 4

The fund for the erection of a memorial to Sir Rowland Hill at Kidderminster now amounts to £BBI. The postal authorities have conceded to the committee permission to canvas the employes of the General Post Office, and among last week's subscriptions were thirty-one from postmasters and postmistresses. As a proof of the energy with which the work of Colonial defence is being taken in hand, it may be mentioned that Major Dowries, Royal Artillery, who will be gazetted lieutenant-colonel immediately, sails by the Hesperus, to take command of the volunteer force in South Australia; and Major Godwin, of the 103 rd Regiment, by the Uhimborazo steamer to Adelaide, as adjutant. A telegram from Alexandria says it is reported that the Egyptian Government has made an agreement with the Suez Canal Company to erect two forts commanding the entrances of tho Canal. The Khedive undertakes to pay the cost by instalments. A Bonapartist journal contradicts a report which has been published that Prince Louis Napoleon is about to proceed to the Russian headquarters to oner his services to tho Czar. The public debt of the United States was decreased dur'ng the month of June by 83,21U,000. The coin in tho Treasury amounts to 9115,000,000, and the currency to 87,980,000. The Russian Government, as is known, recently issued an internal loan of £30,000,000, but it is now stated, on undoubted authority, that all exertions have up [to this time failed to procure more than £10,000,000 of subscription. Men who never do wrong seldom do