ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. (From Our London Correspondent.) London, December 29.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 341, 9 February 1889, Page 3

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. (From Our London Correspondent.) London, December 29.

It is to Sir Francis Bell, who brought the matter under the notice of the Prince of Wales, that Sir James Hector owes the tardy recognition of the good work ho did in connection with the Sydney Exhibition of 1879, and Melbourne ExhibitionSof 1880. The captains and officers of the P. &. O. Co. are grumbling rather because the directors' promise that when business improved their salaries should be revised and improved, has not been kepfe. The Company is now doing well, but the pay of its servants remains very small. John Dillon has taken his passage for Australia, and sails in February. He will, I expect, create no small sensation in your part of the world, as he is the most conscientious and high - minded of all the Home Rule party, and of courss throws the fervour of undoubted conviction into his speeches. Dr. Thorold, the Bishop of Rochester, sailed - on a visit to your part of the world yesterday. Wi Pere has been laid up with a bad cough and' cold. I hear* since I left London for the holidays that -Professor Long has reported favourably on some New Zealanddairy produce specially submitted to him/ I will, however, inquire into this more fully on my return.

j Lord and Lady- Qnslow sail 1 by the P. and 0. steamer'of the 20th February. The re-constructed London Board of the Bank of New Zealand is a very strong one, and has undoubtedly renewed public confidence in its future prospects in London. Mr Raikes has finally consented to give Mr Heaton's Imperial - Penny Postage scheme full consideration "without projudice." What this means we shall probably learn next session. A second play to be called, I believe, " The Backblocksman," hns been written by Mr C. Haddoh Chambers for the Haymarket, and is already in rehearsal. The Australian rights of "The Silver Falls" were disposed of a week before the play's production to Williamson, Musgrove, and Co. Planquette's new Opera u Paul Jones " was produced in Liverpool" a few days before Christmas, and appears to have been only a very moderate success. Mr Cellier need not, at any rate, fsar its rivalling " Dorothy " in that opera's old 'home—the Prince of Wales's Theatre. The " Times '' remarks with interest that an Auckland syndicate, is importing the necessary plant and machinery for the purpose of testing thp' 'feasibility of making paper out of the kaln^atea .wood and other adaptable material growing in the forests oi northern islands. Mr Gerald Kennaway, son of Mr Kennaway of the Agent- GJeneud'a office, has obtained a scholar&nip at Cambridge. Lord Hind lip's Australian huntors sold fairly well at Tattersall's, everything considered. One Jetcjied, l^ftO^ and the 'lot avei agjQ,cl 9^|fmneas. v - i: Sir- Arthur Hodgson will dc a fellow passenger on board the Victoria with Lord and Lady Onslow. Sir Walter Buller's catalogue of Mr Wm. Silver's fine collection of New Zealand birds, at Letcombe Re*is, has been published by Mr Petherick.