ANGLO COLONIAL AFFAIRS. London, January 26.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 140, 6 February 1886, Page 5

ANGLO COLONIAL AFFAIRS. London, January 26.

At a meeting at the Mansion House on the question of State emigration, Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, and the Hon. J. T. Garrick, AgentGeneral for Queensland, stated that the colonies preferred to select for themselves the class of people that should be sent out. Sir Saul Samuel and Sir Daniel Cooper, formerly of Sydney, have been appointed Acting-Commissioners for New South Wales at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition. At the Exhibition it is the intention of Queensland to work a quartz battery. In an article upon the Victorian loan, the "Standard" states that the brokers consider the price a dear one. The loan is, however, quoted at 2£ premium. Sir Francis Dillon Bill, Agent-General for New ! Zealand, in a letter to the " Times," says that it is uncertain whether New Zealand will place a loan on the market before June. Sir Saul Samuel denies the statement that New South Wales will shortly place a loan of two millions on the market, A loan of half-a-million for the Melbourne Tramway Trust will shortly be placed on the market, Victorian stocks are now firmer.