CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 64, 8 November 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(beuteh's tklegbams.) BeceiTed November 8. 1.15 p.m. London, November 7. The meeting oF the Agents General and the Executive Commissioners of the Colonial and Indian Kxluoition was held for.the purpose of discussing the e.-tab-lishraent of the Imperial Institute. Sir Cunliffe Owen announced tiiat he hud j received the different col*uie*' coniribu- ■ tions to the Exliibition which would be j retained for the Imperial luutitnte. London, November 3. Messrs Hazell and Hodgkins, members of the committee of emigrants from the emigration office, which has been established under the supervision of her Majesty's Government, will sail for Australia and New Zealand oh. the 1 lth instant. The object of their visit is to make inquiries into the emigration question, the establishment' of offices, and the appointing of correspondents. The Royal Commission, under the presidency of the Duke of Cambridge, appointed to further the objects of the South Australian Jubilee Exhibition, has been gazetted. The P. and 0. steamship Kaiser-i-Hind came into collision with a barque in the Straits of Gibraltar. Lord and Lady Rosebery and the Duke and Duchess of Manchester were on board .the steamer, but were not injured. It is reported that Sir F. Napier Broome, Governor of Western Australia, will succeed Sir G. B. Strachan as Governor of Tasmania, and that Sir .G. W. Des Voaux will be appointed Governor of Western Australia. | The Mercantile. Bank, Melbourne, has opened an office here.. Sir Graham Berry is Chairman o»f Directors, and Messrs Hardwood and Bobtei have been appoiuted directors. Mr M,, W. McCallum,- M.A., Professor of English language and Literature at the University College of Wales Aberystwith, has been appointed Professor of Literature at the Sydney University. Mr McCailum was highly commended by Lord Aberdare and Sir James Caird. New Zealand new 4 per cents, are very depressed. : , The wool sales committee will, tomorrow, discuss the propriety of not admitting steamers with vroul cargoes for sale, whose arrival may be telegraghed from Madeira or Gibraltar on the day of closing the list. The Pall MaU Gazette has paid £200 in settlement of the libol action brought against them by the parents of the girl Eliza Armstrong in connection with the abduction case.