ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. (Via Brindisi.)

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 337, 26 January 1889, Page 3

ANGLO-COLON IAL NOTES. ( Via Brindisi. )

London, December 7 :? Mb James Fabmeb has left for the Cape.Jiu order to be present at his second daughters! wedding. He will proceed thence to New Zealand. 1 Mr Farmer* retains his' scab on bhe Board, of the New Zealand .Antimony Company, and will bake the opppr.tniiifcy ■vvheri in 'Wellington of visiting .bhe^ Company's mines at Endeavour Inlet,, and i-c-porting on them when he returns to England. . , At the meeting of -the -Irish National League in Dublin, on Saturday, Mr Hubchinson, M.H.R. of -New Zealand, was amongst the speakers. Mr Hubchinson will assist Sir Thomas Esmonde and Messrs Dillon and Deasy in their coming colonial campaign. v ~ T /ady Onslow is, I hear, an amateur actress of no mean , ability, and the private theatricals given on one occasion at Clandon are the talk of Surrey. His Excellency may after all take out his coach, trusting to being able to mako up a team in New Zealand, but it would never do to risk his famous bays ou such a journey. I hear on what should be first-rate authority that the Governorship of Queensland was offered to and refused by two peers before Lord Knutsford tendered the post to Sir Henry Norman. The noses of the Home Rule papei's are sadly put out by the rumour that Sir Henry Blake is to succeed Sir H. Robinson at the Cape. To have dispossessed him of Queensland only to provide him with a far more coveted and important appointment would be to have blundered indeed. On clit in the city (and as the tit-bib came from Mr H. S. Marks ifc ought to be true) that only one ?hare was applied for in Mr Williamsons Champion Copper Mine Company. The directors did not proceed to allotment. I fear the attempt to float the West Tokatea properties has also failed. It is a pity that at the meeting of the New Zealand Midland Railway last week no shareholder protested against the excessive salaries ot the directors. The sum oi £750 per annum for an ordinary director with, 1 am told, £1,000 a-year for the Chairman, is surely out of all reason. During the financial year just closed the P. and O. Company paid the Suez Canal Company, for ships and passengers, over £203,000. This shows how impossible ifc would be for the New Zealand Shipping Company to shorten their steamers 5 passages by using the Canal. The "Athletic News"' says that the Maoris have improved five hundred per oenb. in their play since they first came to bhe North of England. "Faulty picking up and poor passing were very noticeable," says a reporter of that journal, : *when I 3aw them at Hull not long ago, and now bhey play like a book." The gate at Swinton (£184) was the largest taken so far on the tour, but I venture to prophecy there will be a bigger one at Manchester, when the team meet " All Lancashire." This will be far tbe most important match the New Zealanders have played yet, and should they win it will effectually clinch all discussions as to their status. I could wi&h the team were in better fettlo for such a test. Truth to tell, M"r Scott has been forced to work his boys mercilessly of late, and bhey want a "spell" badly. The Liverpool match wa& a mistake [as might' have been anticipated on a Thursday at Fairfield), wretched, in fact not worth going tor, and a day's rest would have given several cripples a chance of geo ting round. Mr H. Rowley, the once famous football player, is home from New Zealand for a holiday and has witnessed several of the Maoris' victories. JSTelma, who did not accompany the team to lieland, played for Bronghton againisL Swinton at Manchester last .Saturday. The Yorkshire Committee profess to think so libllo of the Maotib (;is bhey call bhem)wtbafc they talked of matching a, fifteen new to county football {i.e. novices) against them. Thi&, however, was before the New Zealanclcis made such a tight against Swinton. Experts pronounce tin's game one of the most interesting games ever witnessed in the Manchester district. Lord Onslow, having expressed his desire to be introduced to the leading New Zealand colonists at present staying in England prior to his departure to assume the Governorship of that colony, a number of members of the Legislative Council and others waited on His Lordship on Tuesday ab his private residence in Richmond, and were introduced to him by Sir F. D. Bell, the Agent-General. Amongst the gentlemen presented to His Lordship were !3iv W. Buller, Sir Julius Vocel, Mr Gisborne, Mr Kennaway, and Sir Julian l J emose. Dr. Neville, Bishop of Dunedin, sails foeNew Zealand next week, proceeding thither via Melbourne. A marriaere is arranged to take place between the Hon. Thomas Allnutt Bras&ey, only son of Lord Brassey, X.C.8., and the Lady ldina Neville, third daughter of the Marquis of Abergavenny, K.t*. Mr Douglas Siaden is about to deliver two lectures in Boston, Mass., on "Australasian Poets," these being the first of a series of lectures in America on the same subject. An interesting discussion on the subject " Should the colonies have a voice in the appointment of their Governors ?" took place at the Edinburgh Australasian Club on the Ist December. Mr Parkinson, of New Zealand, spoke in favour of the election being left entirely to the Imperial Government, on the ground that the governor should be an independent man, and unfettered by colonial party, politic*?. Mr Carvosso of Queensland argued that the colonies should be allowed to have a voice in the matter, and that the names of the probable governors should be submitted to bhe colonial Governments for their approval before the appointments were made. Mr Napthine urged that Imperial Federation should be cairied out and thus all difficulties would be obviated.

The following gentlemen have been appointed Superintendent Collectors of Agricultural Statistics for 1889 : — Jaines Green - way : Mongonui, Hokianga, Bay of Islands, Whangarei, and Hobson Counties. Thomas Seaman •• Rodney, Otamatea, Waitemata, Eden, Coroniandel, Manukau, Thames, Ohinemuri, and Piako James H. Sheath : Tauranga, Rotorua, Whakatane, Bast and West Taupo. Thomas Kirk : Waikato, Waipa, Raglan, and Kawhia. ' Willie,' sorrowfully observed the little girl to her juvenile adorer, ' papa says I'm to young to have a sweetheart,* and I must -quit running oufc^ and playing with you. He says you mustn't come here so,, much.' • I'm nob afraid of your papa, Katie,-' said Willie stoutly. 'He needn'tr J "think\,he i c'an scare me because he's a big 'in- * lumber.' * Yes, bub he deals iri shingles' Willie, big, flat shingles.' \. 'That's- so..' saici Willie, turning away sadly: ' Byron, in, one of his fifcs. ofc generosity, ex'jclaimed: "Roll, on, I^hou deep and_ dark blue ", ocean, i;qJM" and the ocean; , taking adyah-< fcage'of 'the. privilege thu^, given,\haa ' oon/J: ■tinfaecTtp roll on ever since. tV "-.-'i' «>?