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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2382, 25 August 1886, Page 2

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United Press Association.

London, August-11, Mr John Palliaer has written to the Timos urging tlia British Government to mako' ocean aoundirigs between Equimalt onVancouvera Island and Honolulu, before aarooing to support any scheme for laying a cable from Vancouver's Island, off the coast of British Columbia, to Australia. August 12., The Timm considers that it ia essential that the initiative in the Imperial federation should bo taken by the colonies. . A petition for winding up the Queensland Steam Shipping Company ha« been dismissed with costs. : ,

' Miss Florence Nightingale and some other ladies have been admitted members of the Cobden Club.

Tke Guardian has expressed a hope that the report that Dr Kennion is to be offered tho vicarngo of Blackburn with a view to his appointment as Coadjutor Bishop of Manchester is unfoundod, It considers that the nomination of Dr Kennioii a# Vicar of Blackburn would be likely to weaken the connection between the Anglican Church in England and the colonios.

Considerable uneasiness has been created by tho publication of a report that General Ignatieff, the distinguished Russian diplomatist, has been, publioly denounced in Germany on the ground of his alleged ingratitude. General Ignatioff uttered a prediction that tho French and .Russian forces combined would shortly attack Gormany.

The Provost Marshal at Mandalay has been publicly reprimanded, on account of the cruelties which have lately been practised on British subjects in Burmah,