ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. [From Our London Correspondent.] London, July 24.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 120, 19 September 1885, Page 5

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. [From Our London Correspondent.] London, July 24.

A delegate from New Zealand will attend the International Telegraph Conference which meets at Berlin on the 10th prox. The proprietors of the patent medicine called St. Jacob's Oil are advertising Tawhiao's testimonial to its efficacy. Lord Garrington was entertained at a farewell di-mer by the past and present officers of the Royal Horso Guards on Satur- ! day evening last. H.R.H. the P ince of Wales presidtd. Sir Samuel and Lady Wilson entertained at dinner on Thursday evening last, at their residence in Großvenor Square, Earl Cairne, the Earl and Countess of Mar, Sir Philip Duncombe, Mr Spofforth, Hon. Victor Bethell, and Lord Beaumont. Mr Walter Speakman, who, I fancy, wellnigh commenced his histrionic career in New Zealand, is now developing into a "star "of some magnitude. He has been selected by Mr Wilson Barrett to play the part of Wilfred Denver during the fifth provincial tour of the still popular "Silver King." Mr Dick-Peddie, M.P. for Kilmarnock, and the leading advocate in the House of Commons of the disestablishment of the Scotch Kirk, will leave town in a few days en route for Australia and New Zealand. He travels, I understand, for pleasure, for health, and for business. He has commercial interests in the antipodes. Several Scotch gentlemen have successfully cultivated plants of New Zealand flax in their gardens. Mr P. Dudgeon, of Cargen, Kircudbrightshire, writes to the "Glasgow News" this week, announcing that he has two plants coming into flower, so that I pre-ume there must be something I remarkable in the fact. Apropos of the recent revelations of the 11 Pall Mall Gazette " re the eemi-forcible seduction of young girls.a provincial journal (the "North British Daily Mail") remarks that the metropolitan police authorities might well take a' hint from their brethren at Wellington, New Zealand, who instruct officers on duty to take down the names and addresses of any youths or younej girls observed about the streets at night time under suspicious circumstances. Mr Gerald Baldwin was at Goodwood Races on Tuesday. He sails for Dunedin today by theTongariro. Captain Baldwin remains in London for some months longer. He has taken a house in South Keneington for the recess, and means to devote time and Jpains to investigating the possibilities of electricity as applied tv tramways. A number of Australian, New Zealand, and regular trans- Atlantic passengers, who recently crossed to Liverpool by the Gunard s.s. Galiia, have presented a protest to the Chairman of the Company, complaining against the growing abuse of the smokingrooms on the Galiia and other vessels of the line, by the gambling practices of some of the passengers. The memorialists asked the directors to suppress this, demoralising practice. There is not, however, much chance of anything being done. Captain Stuart, of the Arawa (Shaw, Savill, and Albion); denies the, truth of the statement of Captain. Bone, of .jbhe Tongariro (New Zealand Shipping, Company), that ! he really sailed from, Wellington^fQur hours before the time he. named. ; He did not sailatthe.adverti&edc.time, butiour hours later., in: proof- of .which he: ia prepared to submit his log and adduce, the; evidence of passengers and crew, { No wonder Captain Stuart is anxious to. establish this, for the steaming / record M jthe j Arawa, being so astonishing, no point of. it ehould be open tOflUSpioiQIK <>■ r :'.v,.. "tcii *- v ' -'y.