ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. (From our Special Correspondent.) London, September 7.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 309, 20 October 1888, Page 5

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. (From our Special Correspondent.) London, September 7.

THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING GO. AND TYSBR AND CO. I It would have been odd if the arrangement referred to in my last, by which Tyser and Co. henceforward become managers and brokers for the New Zealand Shipping Co" (working in harmony with Shaw, Savill and Co.). had not caused considerable gossip in city circles. For some time past it has been an open secret that the New Zealand Shipping Co. were, to put the fact mildly, doing far fronj \\ ell One had only to l know the price at which their shares were i quoted to learn that much. Various pro- ] babihties were piedicced after ohe last general meeting ; but all, curiously enough, wido of the mark. The move that ha* been taken is generally pronounced a good one. Mr Tyser is a shrewd, clever/ man, whose knowledge and experience will ' be as valuable to the Company now as they weie dangerous in opposition. He will have most of the staft ot the N.Z.S. Company to assist him, and likewise takes over their offices or in other words the going concern the transfer havingeilect from 15th inst. Another rise in freights ot 5s per ton is said to be imminent. Altogether the prospect, is more promising than it has been for &ome time, and if L were a ehareholdei I should decidedly hold on.

SIR JULIUS VOttEL'S NOVEL. Vogel i,s wiiting a novel. I heard &o and mentioned it to you some six weeLb or more ago, but when Sir Julius was taxed with the fact he denied the soft impenchment. Ho now confesses that the report was not without foundation. The scene of the story will not be laid in New Zealand, as you might think, but in England about 200 years hence. Sir Julius proposes in fact to follow in the footsteps of Bulwer Lytton, Walter Besanb and other lesser lights, and to give us his notions of the coming race and what the world will be like in the year 2,000 a. p. Amongst other things, I hear he proposes to paint women as admitted to the suilrages by then, and to pourtiay for us a "sweet girl Premier."' There will be no prosecution for debt in the year 2,000, and Canada will have annexed the United States. The big Atlas scheme remains in abeyance for the present. There is no public money in London foi juch avtnture. A firm of publishers have, howexer, promised to run the business when Sir Julius can guarantee. 3,000 £K> subscribers in New Zealand. The syndicate will doubtless have to pay down £15,000 or so beforehand, and guarantee the balance. Sir Julius Vogel has also an elaborate cable company scheme/?/ nubibus, fvovn. which he hopes great things.

IMPORTANT GIFT TO DUNEDIN. The Bishop of Dunedin tells me that ho proposes to leave for New Zealand in December, and pass through Italy en route, availing himself of the latter opportunity to visit the districts in which Count Campello and his companions are working for the establishment of an Italian church. The widow of the Rev. ArdverneShoutts, 8.D., has presented the library of her late learned husband to the diocese of Dunedin. This most valuable gift to a colonial church compiises a collection of Fathers, Schoolmen and Canonists, many of the volumes being unique. There are also works on the Eastern tongues, earliest editions of the claries, including matchless Elyoviis and 'Aldines, besides manuscripts on many subjects and a fine collection of modern authors. The library will undoubtedly be the finesb of its kind in tne colony, and should be useful in educating New Zealand youth in early English literature. At present, I imagine, there are not many cornstalks who could define the precise difference between an Elevir and an Aldine.

MORGAN GOLD. The most indefatigable Anglo-colonist; iti Europe is unquestionably ray ledoubtable friend Mr Pritchard-Morgan. Having sold his Welsh gold-mine for the substantial sum of £200,000, he can ac last afford to gratify his ambition to enter Parliament, and is now one of the many candidates fighting Methyr-Tydvil. I fear it somewhat militated against his chances to begin with that he openly expressed indifference whether he stood as a Liberal or Tory. Either political " i-aeket " would, he considered, suit him equally well. Eventually, however, W.P.M. came out as a full-blown Liberal and ardent Home Ruler. He soon picked up his cardinal principles, and can now " patter Gladstonese " as well as any " blooming Rad."

NEW ZEALAND AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION. Mr Nathaniel Levin (father of Mr W. Le\in of Wellington) has been added to the Lord Mayor's Committee ab the Paris International Exhibition next year. With Sir F. "D. Bell and Sir Walter Buller there are now three members of this Committee specially interested in New Zealand, and it is to be hoped that in their hands the suggestion to form a Colonial Court within tbe British section will assume a tangible form. This is much to be desired in every way. At the last Paris Exhibition (in 1878) New Zealand was represented by a carved Maori canoe head | and a bale of dressed ilax. The show will be on a magnificent scale, and your colony ought not to be " conspicuous by its absence," especially as you have a tine lot of exhibits already collected at Melbourne and immediately available.

BULLER'S BIRDS. Sir Walter and Lady Bullerave still away in Switzeiland, this being the favourite season for " doing the lakes." Before Sir Walter left London he presented to the Queen a magnificently bound author's copy of "The Birds of New Zealand " (vol. 1). Her Majesty, who bad already subscribed for a copy for the Royal Library at Windsor, was charmed with the work, and sent to the author, through General Ponsonby, her special thanks for his beautiful gitt. The book was bound in olive-green tnorroco, heavily "tooled" with gold, and bearing on the cover the sovereign's crown and the royal monogram.

LORD SEAFIELD'S RETURN. A would-be well-informed writer in one of rhe society papers says that though Lord Seah'eld is returning home to look around, he means to settle permanently in New Zealand, and has given orders for the building of a fine house in Otago. Whether the earl resides in Scotland or New Zealand will, I fancy, depend principally on the goodwill of the dowager countess of the seventh earl. This lady inherited from her husband the whole of the vast family estates ; his heir, the eighth earl, and the father of your friend, getting nothing. Lady Seafield is now said to be inclined to allow the estates to revert to the holder of the title at her death. Much, however, will of course depend on the impression the new earl makes on the old lady. If he fails to please, his lordship .will, as has been suggested, lease the remnant of his estate and settle in Otago. With a certainty of the enormously valuable Seafield properties

coming to him eve long he could, of course, well ad'ord to take up his rightful position in Eu eland.

BISHOP COWIE'S RETURN. Bishop Covvie has booked his passage for Auckland by the Ruapehu in November. His main object in staying two months later than he at first planned is to attend the Manchester Church (Jongioss next month. In the interim he will occupy several important metropolitan pulpits notably thab of the Tunple Church, the famous worshipping place of the "Devil's Own." Ho also goes down fco Wales to preach by special invitation in LlandafF Cathedral.

THE AGENT-GEN ERA U Sir F. T>. Bell, who is still away, has been spending some timo in the llavtz Mountains, lie visited the famous Abb Railway, with which he was so struck that lie is sending out one of his voluminous " reports " upon it. What, 1 wonder, becomes of those documents ? Sir Francis is always engaged on some interminable report or other, and they must contain most valuable information. Yet I never see any reference to them in the colonial papers.

CAPTAIN ASHBY AND SHIPPING MEMS. The N.Z.S. Company have sold the Watiganui to Capt. Leslie, of the Sydney trade, who has ictiamed her the Blenheim. 1 learn fiom Captain A&hby, who starts on his New Zealand tour by tho P. and O. h.s. Victoria on October 19th, that the passonger tiade to the colony is distinctly looking up. There are of course a good many more tourists travelling just now, but tho number of people really going out to settle is also increasing. Mrs (Gordon Buillic continues in durance vile, no bailee with suflieentconfidence in her integrity to rit-k £2,000 having come forward.

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS. Lord and Lady Hastings were amongst the passengers by the Austral last week. After doing Melbourne in Cup week, and exploring the wonders of New South Wales and Tasmania, they will visit tho Hot Lake?, etc., reiurninir home via 'Frisco. Sir Aithur JLloigson, who played .such a prominent part at South Kensington duiing the " Colindies " season is about betting off on a visit to your part of the world.

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mr Coutts Crawlurd has gone to Scotlaud to visit friends, and will not attempt to bring out his Nelson Company Ull the beginning of October. Mr Comiskoy, of Auckland, is inteiostmg himself in a New Zealand Coal Field Company. Mr (Jisborne'b new book is in the hands ot the publishei . It will take the place of Thomson's "Stony of New Zealand," and is likely to command a very exten&i\e eale. One hears nothing of Bishop Cowie's ** Our Last Year in New Zealand."' but it will no doubt have readers among the Church community. The second part of Mrs Hetley's "Illustrations of New Zealand Flowers,"' from her own pencil, has just been issued. Messrs Sampson, Low and Co., the publishers, ate very slow in their production of the work, but they seem to be doing it very well, although a few more colour stones might be used with great advantage. The flowers, as a rule, are artistically arranged and well diawn, the lady evidently being an enthusiast in the profession. Mr \V. L. Rees is engaged upon a work entitled " From Poverty to Plenty," which will be a treatise on a new system of practical political economy, it will be published by Messrs Wyman and Sons afc 5s a copy. Mr Reeb claims that the adoption of his system will solve the worst problems associated with the labour question. The Bishops of Dune-din and Nelson havo been participating in a "missionary festival "' held m Lincoln Cathedial, where a series of services were held to stimulate missionary zeal. Gordon Hare, who shot his parcntand committedsuicide the other day, waswellknown in New Zealand, whither he was sent tome two years ago to sow his wild oats. Like a Efreat many bad pennies, he did no good in the colony and soon drifted home again.