(Via Brindisi and Suez.) London, May 2.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 377, 15 June 1889, Page 6

(Via Brindisi and Suez.) London, May 2.

NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITS FOR PARIS. The fears which Sir F. D. Bell expressed when he opened the first lot of cases from Melbourne for the Paris Exhibition have been more than fulfilled by the ariival of the final contingent. Most of the finest and most interesting of tho New Zealand exhibits at Melbourne have been secured by Mr Twopeny for the Dunedin show, and Paris has had to put up with such fragmentary odds and ends as the N.Z. and South Seas Exhibition Commissioner scarcely considered worth the carriage, Nob that it really matters much. The N.Z. Court at Paris is such a tiny out-of-the-way corner of the vast Exposition that under no circumstances could much have been done with it. 1 think myself it would have paid the colony well* to have spent a little money in showing-up the resources of New Zealand at Paris, and I know Sir Y. D. Bell, Sir W. Buller, and other leading Anglo-New Zealanders agree with mo. It will be the biggest affair of the sort the world has ever known, and the number of visitors threatens to far outvie even our grand total (which excelled Colindies, Healtheries and Inventories all added together) in 1862. - '

NEW ZEALAND FLAX. Several persons have called at the 1 Agent-General's offices to know if he can explain the rise in New Zealand flax. Manufacturers have been questioned on the subject, but (naturally) decline to explain. It is- conjectured, however, that they have discovered it mixes well with something else. 1 At the sale of Messrs Grahams Bate's herd- of shorthorns at Birmingham, on Saturday, Riby Fitzdavid (51,976), by King David .(43,417), ' clam Riby Marchioness, by Knight of the Shire (26,552), one of the sires of the herd, was sold to Mr T. Williams for 200 guineas for export to New Zealand.

IMPERIAL AND COLONIAL TRADING COMPANY. The Imperial and Colonial Trading Company afcill hangs fire, Mr Henry Russell

tells me. Their offer bo the Arktos Company ot £25,000 is* contingent on the latter proving by actual demonstration at sea that the motion of the ship will not interfere with the proper working of the ammonia process. They have swung a small Arktos about in every conceivable manner at the works, and it seems, if qnythincr, to intensify thegoold/produced. Nevertheless, Mr Russell requires (very properly) a trial at sea.

ADVANCE IN NEW ZEALAND SECURITIES. Calling at Victoria-street on Tuesday, I found Mr Kennaway (always most kindly and courteous to the press) rejoicing over the price of New Zealand *' fours," which are ab 106 now, and which he vows and declares will rise to 110. He ulso remarked that peop'e were constantly complaining anenb the colony not having a proper seal or coat of arms. The one at present used consists of a Maori rampant (to use heraldic phraseology), dexter a missionary (land-grabbing), with an altar between. Now this, though appropriate in its way,, is scarcely ornamental ov dignified for a colony of your size The Agent-General should apply to the Heralds College for a suitable design.

THE ANTIMONY COMPANY. Litigation in a severe form has set in between Mi 1 G. B. Williamson and the agent of the owners of that glorious property, the Champion Copper Mine. Mr Schlanders, the agent aforesaid, claims that Mr Williamson has forfeited the £500 and 2,000 shares in the New Zealand Antimony Company which he deposited as a guarantee that he would float the Champion Copper Mine Company. Williamson on the other hand avers that the Company failed to float because oi certain action taken by the owners of the mine, and claims heavy damages from them. Cross suits will soon be in full blast. Already an injunction to restrain Schlanders registering the Antimony shares has been applied for and temporarily granted, pending inquiries into his locus standi as agent.

QUEEN CHARLOTTE SOUNDS GOLD MINING COMPANY. The Queen Charlotte Sounds Goldmining Company was registered yesterday, capital £200,000. Of this, however, the public are really only asked to subscribe £75,000 (£25,000 ot which will be working capital), as,, the shareholders of the New Zealand 'Antimony Company absorb £125,000. The ' amount requiied has already been futly underwritten, so the floating of the venture is assured. Shares in the Antimony are naturally on the riae.

PICTURES OF THE SAMOAN" DISASTER. The" Star " and the " Illustrated Lo.ndon Isews" acknowledge the courtesy of Mr Henry Brett, of Auckland^, in kindly forwarding some most interesting photos of Apia after the ,huriicaue, and also a graphic account of -the Vandalia's experience by * one •of her " officers. Mr Brett and- his family are now iv America travelling slowly westward. They should be in London in- about a fortnight, and will stay in the first instance with Capiain and ]\lrs Ashby-in Regent's I'ark,

PERSONAL NOTES. Sir Francis Bell came over from Paris on Thursday, but returns on Sunday for the opening of the Exhibition. Sir Walter Buller goes over on Saturday for the same purpose, taking his daughter with him. He will be away for a week. Dr. Edward Husband, who was for some years medico on board the Tainuiand o&hei 1 ' of Shaw -Savill's boats, and is well-known to many in New Zealand, died on the 25th inst., at Greenwich, where he had recently started practice. He was just 50 years of age.— R. I. P. Hon. Randall Johnson has finally resjojved not to return to New Zealaad till O?*tober or November. Dr. Grace is expected to arrive in Paris on Monday. The late Mr Crawfords colleagues after carefully discussing the pros and cons of the matter have taken the advice of their solicitors and abandoned the floating of the Caledonian Company. In all probability the owners will promote it afresh next year.