ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. (BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) London, January 26.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 349, 9 March 1889, Page 3

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. (BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) London, January 26.

VISIT OF LORD AND LADY DELAMERE. * Lokd and Lady Delameie, with their daughter the Honourable Sybil Cholmohdeley and Lady Evelyn Roynolds-Moreton sailed for New Zealand by the Arawa yesterday on a pleasuro tour through "the Australian colonies. They will bo away about four months altogether, and return via San Francisco. Lord Delamere is a chatty old gentleman, nearly 80 years of age. He sat in the House of Commons as member for Montgomeryshire from 1841-7, but never did or said anything specially remarkable so far as I can ascertain. The prosent Lady Delamere is his lordship's second wife, and some years younger than himself. She was a daughter of Sir Geo. Hamilton Seymour's, and married him iv 1860. Miss Cholmondeloy is a young lady of nineteen only, and possessed of what the society papers call "considerable personal attractions." Lady Evelyn Koynolds - Moreton, whom Lady Delamere is chaperoning, is a maiden lady and a daughter of the second Earl of Ducie. Two of her brothers have long been settled in Queensland ; in fact, one of them, the Hon. Berkeley Reynolds Moreton, i& a prominent politician in that colony, and was Postmaster - General in 1885. Lord Delamere is not lich.

LORD ONSLOW. Lord and Lady On&low arc, like most people with a penchant for private theatricals, enthusiastic patrons of the drama, and on terms of friendship with most of the "fkuV of " /Ac profession. %) La&t week Lord Onslow wab svorking like a horse to secure the leturn of Augustus Druri&lanus Harris to the County Council. I have arranged to interview Lord Onslow at three o'clock on Monday afternoon nevb, and shall then learn from him full particulars anent the numerous valedictory dinners, etc., which are being given in his honour. Ab Lady Dudley's concert, in aid of iho Dclph Mission, la&b Thursday, a Mr Newbury, who was described on the programme as "from New Zealand," achieved considerable succes?. Ho has a nice, light, tenor voice, of which he knows how to make good use, and should do veil on the conceit hall stage. Mr \Y. L. Reeb cannot give", me tho names of any gentlemen who have promised to join the directorate of his colonising company. A few months back, it Mr Hees had stuck to the idea of an experimental crofter settlement on a moderate- scale, and asked for a compatatively small sum of money to start things with, I really believe that between the Scotch landowners and philanthropists he might have got it. Now I'm afraid theie isn't a chance. Mrs B. L. Farjeon is, I'm sorry to learn, very ill. Public opinion is at last thoroughly roused to the impoitance ot the Samoan question. The " Times," in an article on Monday, says that the action of Germany both there and in Ea&t Africa must be watched vigilantly and yet without jealous animosity. I send you herewith the luminous report (and illustrative chart) anent the progress of the frozen meat trade which Messrs Weddel recently issued. Sir Jno. Gorsc has not (as so many correspondents concluded) gone to New Zealand, bub to Teneriffe. He simply patronised the New Zealand Shipping Company for auld lang syne. Sir John will be back in his place when Parliament opens. Captain Le Patourel, who was 4. D. C. to Loul Normanby in New Zealand, is engaged to the American heiress, Miss Blanche Eckley. Slade Murray, one of the most popular lion comiqua, ot the day, leaves England immediately on an Antipodean tour. Fred Cowen is expected home in time for tho fiifet Philluumonic concert on Match 14 th. At the meeting of the New Zealand Antimony Company it was lesolved to accept the ofter of £100,000 in bhaie^ and £10,000 cash for che gold mine ac JacksonV Head. Sir W. Buller leeeived great "kudos" for hh conduct ot the negotiation?. Shares in Piitchavd Morg'an'b Welsh mine are down to five ohilUitys. Mr Morgan himself has been vigorously unloading shares, which has natmally made everyone nervous. He says financial difliculties obliye him to tell shares, and that the mine i& "as good as ever,' which I can quite belie\o.

YOUNG LORD SE AFIELD. The education of young Lord Seaiield will henceforward bo conducted in Englandundcr the superintendence of his grand-aunt, the widow of the seventh earl, who can cither lefcurn him the family estates and £80,000 a year at her death or leave him penniless. The late earl seriously displeased her ladyship by resolving to leside in New Yoik after he had succeeded to the title. She i& not by any means an old lady and may live 23 years yet.

SIR CHARLES BURDETT. The "Pall Mall Gazette" refers to the sad ease of Sir Chailea Burdett, Bart., and asks," When will relatives see the foil} and cruelty of packing poor erring fellows oft to the colonies to gi\ c their hopeless cabes heie a chance of reforming them ?"

"OUR KIN ACROSS THIS SEA.'\ The " Edinburgh Review " contains a long and ponderous article on Mr ,7. (J. Firth's "Our Kin Ac'-oss the Sea." The work, ifc winds up, is interesting as conveying the impressions made on an intelligent colonist by America and the Amciicans of to-day. Mr Firth's conclusions are, however, it adds, enigmatically different to those come to by Professor Bryce in the great woik he has just issued on the subject. These are not the " Edinburgh's" exact words, as I quote irom memory. Mr J. C. Firth certainly did a rare stroke when he invited Froude to write his preiace. But for that, "Our Kin Across the Sea" would never have received the honour of a notice in the " Edinburgh " and a "scarification" in the "Saturday Review. I am promised an early copy of Yogel's book. Mrllutchinson, the publisher, who left England this week, took the "advance sheets " with him, Mr Mennell tells me. H.M.s. Diamond has arrived home from the Australian station.

SIR JOHN PENDEK. Sir John Fender is not a great favourite in New Zealand, I imagine, so that you will have heard of his unexpected defeat at Oovan with equanimity. He didn't deserve to win, as he "ratted" from the Gladstonian party simply out of spite becauao the G.O.M. refused him knighthood. The Conservatives flung him the title he wanted, and it was imagined his return for Oovan was certain. But there's many a slip, etc., and Sir John is now very much out in the cold.

JOHN DILLONS VISIT TO THE COLONIES. John Dillon is tohavea great "send off prior to sailing for your part of the world next month. The talk at present is of a

big farewell banquet at the National Liberal Club, with (if possible) bho G.O.M. in the chair. The matter was freely dis- . cufesed on Monday evening, whoa thero was a. big "do" on at the Club in honour ot Lord Salisbury's (t blackman," from having to pronounco whose name may Providence protect me. "Cood old ■daddy Norowgee," yelled an enthusiaet in the crowd as the guest of the e\cning drovo up on Monday. MrJ. Marriott- Watson is engaged on a new work of fiction.

AN OLD AUCKLAND ACQUAINTANCE. . At tho Savage Club last Saturday evening I was recognised by an old acquaintance in tho person of Mr Charles Overton, who visited Now Zealand in 1880 with tho Lingards. He and Charlie Ciaig (a £oodlooking jeune in-emier) wore tho most notable members of tho company (after William Horace and the fair Alice), and I saw a good deal of them in Auckland. Overton, it seems, I predicted, would liso in /ha profes ion, and as he has lisen (in fact is quito a big man in America) ho « as naturally pleased to recall the prophecy. Haddon Chambers (looking more youthful than evor) had invited Cherton to tho Club. Tho latter explained ho had come over here to buy plays for Walluck's Theatte (New York), and was concluding some negotiations ie the American rights of " Harry *' Chambers'.^ next succor. He talked much of tho fine propeify a good play is nowadays, bud ho had himself paid over £4,000 in fees for playing " Jim tho Penman" in Amoiica, and that its popularity in the States was by no means exhausted. Conversation then turned on Sydney Grnndy's "Arabian Nights,'' now being played in' Australia. Tho author sent the piece to Charks Wyndha'o many yoais ago, and it lay pigeonholed tit the Ciiboiion for neatly a decade. At last Grundy, in despair, it back and showed it "lucky Chailio Hawtrey," who agreed to put it up lor the fag end of his lease at the Globe Theatre. The play at once made a big hit, and Hawtrey was glad to pay the incoming tenant of tho Globe 14,000 to let him stay on. He has since n.ade £20,000 out of "The Arabian Nights " in London 'alone. Mr Garne*r (of Williamson and Co.) was at tho Savage on Satuiday, 1 was told, but I didn't sco him. This e\oning the Lord Chancellor will be a guest at the Sa\a»:c. James Lilly white, the veleian ciickcter, being in poor circumstances, a benefit match has been auanged for him on Tune3,4,andsnextatGKchcsterPnoryPark. Au a tralian friends rnxious to help should forward subscriptions to Lillywhitc, caic of Secretary C. P. Park Society, Chichcster. A correspondent of the St. " James* Ga/ebte" urges that K.C.M.G.'s ought only to be conferred for " official services rendered." Theie has, he says, been gi eat heartburning owing to thio older being confen ed in .several instances upon people who had never done any oilicial work in England or the colonies.. The lady who writes for the " Argus " as " Ta&ma *' has just issued her stoiy, " Uncle Piper of Pipers* ille," in one volume at six shillings. Tinbueis ate the English publishers. Mr Philip Mennell, London coirespondent of the Melbourne " Age," has in hand a collection of stones by purely colonial | authors, including tales by Farjeon, Haddon Chambeis, " Ta^na," J. ManiottWatson, and Sir J. Vogel. It is called "In Austtalasian Wilds, 1 ' fiom the principal story by Farjeon, and will be published by llutchinsson, Mr A. Patchett-Martin's solid and thoughtful woik on "Austialia and the Empire" a\ as published last week in one volume, price 7s 6d. The Gaiety Company will not, after all, return to Australia. Mr Georgo Edvvards's terms weie too high for even Williamson and Co. to take on. The failure of the " Yeomen of tho Guard "in New York has been complete, and the piece has been taken oft' to make room for the moTe popular "Nadgy. '" In the English provinces too it i^ only a vurts d'e-yfimt. What does Australia say ? Prior to leaving England on a tour of Ameiica, Canada, and the Australian colonies in September next, Mr and Mis Kendal will play a short farewell engagement at the Court Theatre in Pinero's •'The Weaker Sex." M Garner (of Williamson and Co. ) is endeavouring to conclude terms with Charles V/yndham and Mi3s Mary Moore for an Australian tour. If anything comes of it you will have a treat. Wyndham's Garrick isonoofthe finest pieces of acting on the modem stage, The death is announced of your old acquaintance Ilmadi Murska, who has been In ing with her daughter at Munich since she returned from America. This daughter— a young girl mauied to a Pomeranian Count — took poison at her mother's deathbed and could not be resuscitated. The allair has caused a &a r l sensation in the Bavarian capital, whore lima di Muroka was a great fa\ouiite some years back. As the eccentric pn ma donna left diiection.s that she was to be cremated, the bodies of herself and daughter were sent to Coiha crematory. Di Murska was at her piime in the palmy days of Titiens, beforeNillson's star arose. Her gieatest parts were "The Queen of Night" in "11 Huhto Magico," "Lucia" in "Lucia de Lammermoor," " Dinorah " in the opera ot that name, and " Amina " in " La Sonnambula "