ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. (ROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT)

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 260, 2 May 1888, Page 4

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. (ROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT)

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London, March I'.^ Tin: story of the Oxfoid student who when asked during a rim rmv examination mi the l>ible to define the difference between the major anil minor prophets, replied that "it was his m■variablo rule ne\erto make in\ uhous distinctions ." lennnos me Mimewh.it of our friend, our mutual friend. Mis Gordon 1 >aillie. Asked w h<Mi unsvi upulous people wciv pulling her character to pieces in the " Star .md >% Vail Mail ' to refute their calumnies, the lady said she had b.-en taught as a child it was rude to interrupt \\ hen Mr Stead and 31 r O'Connor had unfolded to the full their budgets of gossip she ■would reply to them, significantly. This was a puzzling and elective retort, but it had not the effect intended. Neither "Star nor "Vail Mall" were m the least scared Stones of unexampled trickery and swindling earned through with lealh woiulerful daring kept pouring in upon them, the heroine on eM»ry occasion being the lady now known as Mrs Cordon Baillie. There is scarcely .i first-class watering-place in Creat Hi ham wheie liouse-agents, seivants. livery-stable keepers <md tradesmen, aie not thii sting for tlie adventuress" money . or if not her mone\ her uoi c. She never seems to have made the mistake of beginning on a small scale. Coveiness, servants, housekeeper, and sometime^ a coachman accompanied her ■whenever she descended on a new local, moivov er theie was geueralh an exhibition of a certain amount of leadymouey and this insphed confidence. AVithin six mmitih. howevei (sometimes le-s and <>nee oi twice a lit tit 1 raoie), Mrs Baillie leached the end ot her eiedit and vanished with hei Tamil\. leaving house. si>i\ants. <r<>ver ness, and tradesmen to take <.ue ol tili'iUM^X ( * Abi oacl sut u,iv lesst'oi tunate rh.tii at home. Two b.ule atlairs of th< above kiu<! m Floieme and Home le-ultcd in Mis-, land (as she v.is tln'n) boiuir sent to u.iol foi nine months ltibaiis aie sciisitixe to lteaut) in disiu'ss ,I'sd believed the f.nr Miss S < i> ie<l because (as she paHietitalh ■ issuied them ) she oouldn t help it. or the months would have been made v ears. |]\eivbodv is womlennir vvh,it it v\as nit sjioi t Mis (Gordon Hailhi's eiitetpiise in New Zealand >he letl I upland, h i- known mteudiULr to make a ]<rolon«_ced stay in New Zea 1-ind. and keep her " pot boiling with tiu j <tid of i hantable pel sons inteiested in the Crofter scheme. 1 know this because a friend, or rathei an actju lintauce. of mine recently met 3irs n.ullie'spieseut husband f M r I'iost) m the Temple and he admitted as much. Something mint have none wionu with Mis I' in hnnedin You will probably heai what n was now. The colonies ov\e Mi (Joscheii a deht of Lfiatitude He h.ifi not them in his mind when he piopounded his notable coin ersion si'heme, but ther<> can be little doubt that one re-nk of it will be the advance of all colonul stock. The Home authorities confess themselves rather aghast at New South Wales' dangerous expeiiniont. with AT. Pasteur's nnt'mh/"*, but do not see their way to intefere with the colony's action Mr Kaikes. in reply to a nuestiou from his perennial persecutor the inevitable Henuiker lleaton, explained the possibility of having a uniform postage stamp for the .British Umpire had been carefully considered and gone into by Mr. Fawc-ott. who finally came to the conclusion that it would not be practicable. The injuiy to poor Dates s tnes, which prevented his playing in Australia, will, it is feared, pi ov c pei jnanent. The report of the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce on the financial position and material progress of the Colony, v,*as a capital idea, and cannot fail, especially if backed over hei-f, as it should be, hy the Agent-Cenerah to have a most satisfactory eflect. It is a simple, lucid, and convincingdocument; just what A .vas wanted, in fact, to set the Colony right with certain sections of city folk, and to confound the Manitoba n agents who talk as if there were no yrass or fern land in New Zealand available for settlement. The ' Dail) News' lias already reviewed the report, giving its substance, and doubtless other papers will follow suit. It would he an excellent plan to se?id it to the editors of county papers in -ill agricultural districts (especially where depression exists), with a request to the effect that they would notice it, [ hope, too, the Emigration Bureau will circulate the report. Tt is worth cartloads of lectures at Kxeter Mall, or papers at the Colonial Institute. The collapse of the famous Disraeli mine h.'is been a terrible blow to believers in Mr. W. Vritchard Morgan,

whoso luck seems suddenly to h;i\o turned the corner, and its back. We no longer hear a Axord about gold in Wales. The papers are silent, and Morgan no longer swells \x ith satisfaction o\er his groat disco-wry. Not that the indomitable little man will let a few ivwtsos daunt his matchless enterprise. Sullhans liasco with Mitchell has put an end for the time being to his Australian scheme. Jem Mace, how- . e\er, is most anxious his ]>rotege, -lorn Smith, should go for a tour 1 the Melbourne Inhibition is on. During her stay in London, Lady Broomo (who will bo bettei 1 known to \o\\ bv her former name of Lady Barker, author of "Station Life in Now Zealand,' Arc), has been busy i-omploting. or rather reusing, the late Lady ljrassey's diaries of her colonial tour, for publication. When her end was approaching. Lady Brassox e\piessi'd a hope that her old friend would undertake 1 the task, and Lady Broome \ei v gladly did so. Uis now .it end, though the book will not, I understand, bt> published till the autumn. Lads Broonio leaxes to lejoin her husband forthwith Mr -lames McChio, one of the surm\ois of the li Derry Castle " which wrecked on the Auckland Isles in Match last, aimed home by the Oh/aba. As the colonial papois h,i\e been full of his adventures I will oulv say th.it lie has been mterxie\,ed h\ Mr Cl.uk Russell, who will doubtloss turn him into "copy presently The Onzaba has alreadx well niirh justified Mr Andersons boast that one of their liners would, within the M'rir. make the tun from Adelaide to Ph mouth in a month. The ()n/aba s passage A\as.">'J days '.\ hours, the fastest on record H.M gunboat Stork has sailed for the Australian station to replace the Lark. .Mr if Thomson and Mr Kockkoek are tlnou^h passengers for .Auckland, ,uul Mis-, (.'oh ill and Mr Fulton for lhmedin, per ()ro\a, -winch sailed last Thursda\ Mi- and Mrs Gaynoi .nul Mr Cod hei , ue tin otiijh passengers for Auck land b\ the P and ( ). Britannia . also Mr ,1." () Libs foi Bin!]", and Mr P.itoison toi Ihmeriin. Mr Fioudes "Bow of I'lysses has Hi\en e\en olVence in the est Indies than his " Ocean. i did in your part of the woild Naii\e andEuiopean papes alike complain of not mereh of i^l.ii itiir inaccuracx, but of debhei ate ]iei \ el sion. All Austi :ha will be relie\cd to learn thattlie .11 raugenients w Inch poor old Loid "(>lb\\ Loft us lias made with his ti editor- wib on Saturday last a})pro\ed by Mr Ueyistrar Ha/letr. and that tin bankiuptc) })K»ccedintis iia\i> been annulled. His ance--toi>, etc . are in consequence no loiii, r ei tuiiiin^ m their graxes. <i]i(] (lie i^rand old name of Loftiis teniams unsuiui ( lumi [ The snow storms of this last week J li.ne (bminished the Su>{eh supplies of j mutton, and tio/en meat is consequent 1\ lilinei Srot( h, Is Id 10 js S(l • Knulish, Is to 7> Id* (Jerman. -Js lid to :>s 10d . \ew Zv,\\,\nd, "Js Sd to :»s lli\ er Plato, to 'Js 'M\ ; Sulnoy. Js i)(] to "Js S<l At ihe histitllti ot ('i\ll FiUUineeis ban(|iiet List Nat in da\ e\ euin^ Admnal Sir Aithur Hood, destribiny the steps the Ad?iiiraM\ we»w e» etakingtost 1 eu^lheii the n.i\\, iii< ident.ilh said that fi\ (> \e|-\ possei hll el Uisers and tw o speu.ilU \ speech toipedo lioats weie beim, f built tot set sk c in the \usti.ih.m w.ifei^. I ;i]u\ would be iiiaint. lined iointlv bv ! the colonies and tlw old lounhy. | Fiom .1 paia^iaph in lust Sunda\ s ■• Keteree. J u.itluM' that the Kugby I nion has decided 1 hat the ex-members j of the football team, now in Australia, aie piofessionals. or rath* r ha\e l>y \ irtue of their an angements with the jn'omoter of the tour become so. Ainatouis. it seems, must gi\o- iheir time and ser\ ices fioeh, accepting neither maintenance, nor free tra\elhng, nor lecompense for loss of time which is \oluntarily sullered. Si^nor Tesseio has arrhod home, his mission boinu to anaii^e foi the \isit of M. Cotjtielin and ;>, l'>eneh company to the Colonies. Mr C F. Watts splendid portrait of Lord Tennyson, has been purchased for the Melbourne, National (J.ilh'ry. Mr vVilliam Sonioi ( JJedspiuner) of the 'Daily News and the ' l''ield has a new \oltime of colonial e\])eriences in the press called l Near and Far.' Messrs Sampson Low are also publishing the 'Antipodean Notes' collected by the well-known sporting writer 'Wanderer" (Mi- Ed. 11. D'Airgdor) during a nine months 1 ' tour of Australia and New Zealand, and a new work en- ! titled. 'Lights and Shadows of Melbourne,' by Mi ,Jno. Freeman. ! The current numbei of "Illustrations contains an article on "Australian Poets, " with portraits of Adam Lindsey Cordon, etc. X S. Smythes new star, the massix c, pious, eloquent, and adorable Lydia Yon Finkelstein, sails for Australia by the Onzaba on the 29th instant. As a lecturer, at once serious tuid sensational, she has few equals and no superior. " Tim Star of the Sabbath Schools ' is her cognomen, and \h:v title to honour. Miss (ienevieve Ward and the inex i table " Forget-me-not " are back in London. Miss Ward xvill occupy the Lyceum during the xveek inteixening between the close of Miss Andersons

season and the commencement of | Tunics. ! Kn/iit ' Miss Anderson is engaged to a young man who is "something in the city. " He goes about with hoiex cry where, and tho. engagement has not been denied, as usual Lord Head ley, who was declared bankrupt last week, has resohed to emigrate eithei to New York or Queensland. Mr Y. H Cowcn has, it is thought in Anglo Colonial circles, acted un wisely and ungenerously in asking an additional C'J.")O (o\er and abo\etlie \ £.*>ooo lie gets as musical conductor) for an inaugural cantata for the Melbourne exhibition, and the authori ties ha\e doni* right in refusing it. Apart, howexer, from e\ery otluM* consideration, the music on this ocea sionshouldbc w i itten by an Australian 'The largest sum e\cr gi\en for the Austral. ).sinn rights of a pla\, ha\ebeen paid b\ -Mr Inland Holt to Mr Wilson n.mvtt. foi " Tlw (Joldcn Ladder. It is a good pla\ initsw.u, l>ut noUiini; phenomenal. Miss Lingard is in London again >c hearsing "C\ mbeline," which she means to play on through the pro\ mc-s th's summer. Linganl is still pursuing his })rosj)erous way with Leeoc<| s •• IVpita ,uid the «'\(M-gre<'n u K'llka."