'FRISCO MAIL. (From the 'Frisco Mail of July 13th.)

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 217, 27 August 1887, Page 7

'FRISCO MAIL. (From the 'Frisco Mail of July 13th.)

Orn London correspondent, writing via 'Frisco, on July tho 31st, says: -"The ceremonies in connection with the laying of the foundation stono of tho Imperial Institute came at the fag end of a long course of Jubilee rejoicings, mul just when everyone from Her "Majesty downwards felt sick of state and pageantry. Probably this was N\hy thoie was hardly any enthusiasm, either along the lino of the Queen's route from Paddington to South Kensington or within the Institute pavilion itself, and why the whole atlair struck most of v* as iiat,,* dull, and unimpressive to a degree. The pavilion contained about 1 1^000 people, and was far froir crowded. Tickets,in point of fact, though nominally difficult to obtain, were being offered right and left to people on Saturday and Sunday. The usual mob of royalties ambassadors, and members of the (Government of course put in an appearance, but the company a-s a whole were not half ro smart as on the occasion of the opening of the Colindies. The Queen looked (as she doubtless felt) hot and tired. Her face was very red, and something seemed to have strained the royal temper. Mr Lewis Morris's ode ieads -well, but Sir Arthur Sullivan has scarcely been so successful with the selling as he was with Tennyson's exhibition stanzas. Ncvei theles-s the musical portion of the ceremony was far the most exhilarating. We cheered Her Majesty, ot course, but decorously, and without any of the ecstatic fervour that marked the popular greetings on Jubilee Day.

The Late Conference The published repent of the proceedings of the Colonial Conference was laid before Parliament, lust week, but will not be on sale to the geneial public for borne time to come. It is not a \ erbatim note, but rafcliei a free and easy veMunc of "\\ hat occuned. I Tue banquet to Sir H. Holland and Mi j (Stanhope, in recognition of their services with regard to the late Conference, came oft'at WilbSV Room^ on Wednesday evening and \s-.\s a jjreat succc»<«. Sir William Fit/herbert wa^put up with ISfi- Osboine j ISloijran to rt^pond to the toa^t of "The Unity of the Empiie,"' and made the be-t speech of the evening next to Loid Roseberv.

The Projected Two Million Losuj. City iolk* me almost unanimous in piophe^in^ disaster it jimr projected twomillion loan ib peiftibtcd in. Already New Zealand stock* ha\e suilered by the uunour anrt the financial pnpei- me full of letter remonstrating' and diau ing attention to the colony's, aheady e.\ee*-i\c indebtedness,. Loul and Lady Abeideen ani\ed home from tlu-ir Au.-tialian tour to-day. Both aie in capital health. The '" World" saj.>. Lord Porelicfeter will accompany hi- father and mother on their tour ot the Austi alias. After much piomptin^ on the part of the I'rince of Wales the f,)ueen has contiibuted LI, COO to t he funds of the lmpeiial Institute. An inmicn-e sum i- still requhedto complete the building. The iii-t stone has (as "Tiuih' oliser\c>) been laid, but fiom all appeal ances a lonj; time nniht cl.ipse before the la.st one is laid

Personal and GeneralThe mo^fc impoi taut vi^itoi^ to jour part of the woiid thi-> autumn will be Lord and Lady Canvm on, who lea\c England for Australia eaily in August. As an oxColonial Hecretaiy, and as a statesman who has always taken the keenest interest in Antipodean questions, the noble master ©f Hifhelere ehould meet w ith a warm w elcome. Mr James Mason, C.M.G., who repiesented Fiji at the •' Coliudie* " and is wellknown in Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand, has succeeded Mr Egmont Hake as Gencial-Xupeuntendent of the Liverpool Jubilee Exhibition. It X a poor '-how, and has from the iir-fc been a ghastly failme, but that i? not Mr Ma^-onV fault. In his capacity of Colonial Commis-ioner he did what he could to inspire the moiibund enterprise \\ ith life and \igour, and the fact of his being chosen to Mipei-ede MiHake at lea'-fc shows that his ellorU ha\e been appreciated. The Impei ial Federation League appears to be in a bad Avay. At the annual banquet last Wednesday, Loid Itosebery announced that if Ll,00() per annum could not be rai-ed to defray working expen.-e*, the League would ha\e to go to the wall. No doubt tliirf would be a misfoitune, but I cannot quite agree v, ith His Lordship that fcsolution of the League Mould do more to throw back the work of Imperial fedeiation than all it.s pie\ious action had done to hasten it. Unquestionably, though, the coin will be easily laibed. JSlr C H. M. Haughton, of Punedin, sailed for New York la*t Saturday by the Etruria, en route for New Zealand. As he will be with you a« soon as this letter, I need say no more. The late Mayor of Dunedin (LieutenantColonel Reeves') is in London, tfght-seeing and visiting. He was at the primatis garden party at Lambeth J\dace, on the 23th ulto.,and also at Lady Burdett-Coutts'.s reception. fur (George Bowen is not after all going out again to Hongkong. He means instead to enter English political life. A society paper remaiks that if mere talk qualifies a man for the House of Commons your exViceroy should prove a huge success. It adds that an irreverent Australian struck by his never ending speech christened him « 4 Sir Jaw Bone." Lord and Lady Stafford are home again. The Marquis was delighted with his Australian experiences-, and has formed strong opinions on moro than one colonial question.