ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. JOTTINGS ABOUT AUCKLANDERS. (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) London, May 31. PERSONAL JOTTING.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 386, 20 July 1889, Page 3

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. JOTTINGS ABOUT AUCKLANDERS. (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) London, May 31. PERSONA L JO TTING.

Sin Wijvliam Jebvois has taken 23, Princes Gardens, for three months, after which the family will' go to Torquay for some weeks, it is, 1 hear, very unlikely Sir William Jervois will be employed again as Colonial Viceroy. Ho is (the authorities, say) too valuable a military engineer to waste. Sir Francis Bell returns liom Paris ior a day or so on'Tites'day, bub goes back immediately,, taking Sir Walter and Mi^s Buller wibh him. Mr Montgomery.seems tobestill " doing " the Exlubibiqn. Miss Grace is reported out of danger, bur Dr. (Jrace and the family will nob bo able to leave JTloiencc for some weeks. The Waterhouses are going abroad at once, probably to Wichy. Mr Gisborne is in &a,d trouble, owing" to the hopeless illness ot hio bifatei, ' Lad^ Evans. Mr Brett has taken the rooms at Bedlord Place, Russell Scuuue, which Judge Gillieb occupied when in London. He visited St. Leonard's on Sunday, and was taken round the London and Tilbury Docks yesterday by Captain Ash by. Air Peacock, M.H.R., and family, have arrived in London, and aie staying in : Uup&ell Squaio, at the same house as Mr and Mrs Brett. Mr Peacock is making good use of his time. Mr David liean is &till unwell. He is to bo seen at the National Bank occasionally. Mr Murray, of the Bank of New Zealand, is in harness again. 1 met him at the office the other day and was pleased co notice an improvement m, his health, • although he has hot thoroughly jecovered. lie had a pleasant passage Home. v Mib Cameion, wiie of \\r Cameion, of the Savings Bank, avlio came Home by the Tongariio, is in the ,>ame distiict. Captain Bone tells me that she stood the pas-sage-remarkably wcil, although at times m gieat pain. • She is being attended by two eminent doctors, who are confident ot rostoiing her to complete health. A biogiaphy of the late Mi Alfied Domett, C.M.G., is in preparation. > Sir Dlobeif Herbeit has lent his collection of New .Zealand buds to the Pai is Exhibition, and Sir Win. Jeivois is kindly sending a duplicate ot the water-colour of Kotomahana, which was so much admiied at the (Johndi'js,. Sir Charles and Lady Clilloid haAc arrived 'at Pihices Gate for the London season. -Lady Stafford deseiibes her Australasian experiences with great felicity in a little 1 book of travel, "How I .Spent My T\\ entieth i Year, ' jiibb issued by Black.wood. ; - The London ''Star," in a paragiaph ic'ierring to the aui\al of Mi and Mib Brett, 'says :—": — " Thcpicscnb Stui olhce in Auckland would put our modest premises to «the blus-h, and is about the tmarte&t 'building in a city of magnificent banks and ' warehouses. IJr Biett is accompanied by his wife and family, and expects to spend some time in London. He will ptobably visit the office 1 } of our piinciDal journals- lie is a staunch ( iladstonian, as are, in facb; most colonials." Most of the other" d, lilies ha\e also contained brief notices of Mr Brett's arrival. ' -Ih a ly wrirl{? ca'lted "Kaleidoscope/ by a female "globe-trotter named Katherine i Bates, the Australian colonies are wiittendown in a r most unprincipled manner, New Zealand" being- coolly described as in a " bankiupt condition."' Dr. Haincs, whom T saw on Sunday f6r a fehorb time, docs not intend to remain in London beyond two months, or three at most. He goes shortly to Birmingham to spend some weeks with the world-famous shigeon who^c opciations on the stomach alid.pther portions of the body till recently supposed to be, untouchable, have been attended with' such wonderful success. 'Cclp'&iin Ashbys book, or brochure, on his Ali£tr-alian and New Zealand tour, will be out ri6xt week. 't Dr-. Daldy, a nephew of old Gapt. Daldy. leaves England for Auckland (whete he intends to practice) by an early steamer. Mr Daldy is a registered member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England a licentiate of the Apothecaries' College, and a student of Guy's Hospital, wheio he held the piincipal appointments, among which was that of Senior Obstctuci. Since that time ho .has-been a resident of. the Toiquay Infirmary and oi the Notting Hill dispensary , in .London. After giving up these ap pointments he- practised pihately for pome years in Horsham, in Sussex, also holding an appointment as District Medical Officer under the guardians ot that Union. Dr. Daldy was a member of the Council of the Huntenan Society in London and of the local Board at Horaham. The " Gentleman's Magazine for June contains an amusing account by Mr J. Lawson of hib anda chum's aboitive attempt at farming up in Kaipaia bush some five miles frdm Mooneys well-known shanty at Marigawai. The Aorangi, which arrived from New Zealand yesterday, has 21 enses of apples on board. If properly packed and sound, tho consignment .should piovo lemuneiative, as Australian apples arc selling freely in London just nbw at threepence a piece. In the little brochure on' New Zealand which ho is just about publishing, Captain Ash by dwells at length on the amount ol money which mi»hb bo made exporting apples and pears to England during May, June, and July. Captain Ashby has reached letters patent ior the Collision Apron imented by James Holmes, of Auckland, and thodocumentsgo foiwaid to-day per Tongariio. It will doubloss bo noticed that the Maybrick Poisoning Case bears a strong family likeness to the Hall tragedy at Christchuich. The San Francisco mail, delhcred this morning, was five days late, a most un.uMial and (at this time of tho year) inex- . plicablc circumstance, ,At tine Birthday banqupb on Saturday evening at the Colonial OfHce, Lord Knutsford had Prince George of Wales (grown 'into a very fine-looking "Jack Fox" and "English, quito English, you know") on his right, and that vonerable relic Lord Normanby on his left. Then came (right and left) tho saponaceous Brown, and burly, handsome Sir Horcules Robinson, Sii Danl. Cooper and Sir Chas Tuppcr(c\er bland and smiling), the > two, recently icturned prodigals — I mean, prodigies — -> Jervois and Loch, the Agents-General ot ?tta i >se, bar Dillon Bell still in Pans,- Sir<-E. T. Smith, but not Sir .T-hos. Elder (though ho was in town), Sir ,J. F. Dickson, the new Bishop of Tasmania ' (already christened the " masher. " 'prelate), 'Captain Villiers, j\lr t. Archer, Di. Crane, Sir Rbbb. l Herbert, andbho usual gang oi Colonial oflico clerks and oflicials. - Significant omissions from the list of guests wero Sir T. Elder, Sir W. Buller, Hon. W H. Montgomery and Mr Gco. Beetham. The long promised and eatreily expected cheap edition of " Robbory Under Arms " ha- been published this wook by McMillans At 3« 6d, Go and buy it ut once,

Miss Janeb Achurch has been engaged by Williamsons ior an Australian tour and \ goc& out next month. 1 believe I told you in my lasb thab the action of the New Zealand Government in appointing Mr Robinson an Honorary Commissioner at Paris Exhibition has been caustically criticised in many quarters. Lord Carnarvon, who has been very ill, and id only partially recovered, made a great effort to be present at the meeting 'of the Federation League on Thursday last. He could . not, however, stand the stuffy atmosphere, and after ' making his own speech (which some consider better than Rosebery's), withdrew. Sir Walter Patons repoit for the Emigrants' Information Office of hi.s visit to the Australasian Colonies does not attempt to ' conceal that there is nothing to be done in your part of the world now without capital. Some highly sensational' stories are afloat aucnt the cold robbery on the Iberia (which 1 mentioned to you last week), and it is probable before next Friday several unexpected arrests will be made. The persons understood to be implicated are well known to you. , Your old fiiend, William Horace Lingard, is coming out in a new light, thab of amateur cnckebLi- At Kirksball bhe'obhorday, playing with hi& opci a company eleven against a local team, Lingard made 36 runs. Miss Jenny Watt-Tanner scored a conspicuous success in a little play called "Tecalco"" at Terry's theatre on Saturday. The " Daily News " says :-- If we had only more theatres where bold work and forcible playing were wanted Miss Watt-Tanner, from Australia, would be in constant requisition. The prospectus of the Queen Charlotte's Gold Mining Company will bo issued tomorrow* Sir Jb\ D. Bell received a card for the State ball at Buckingham Palace on Monday evening. Mr C. Seaward (of Jacomb, Son and Co.) has been entrusted with the arrangement of the wool exhibits in the New Zealand Court at Paris. Mr Simpson New! and tells me a great drawback to the Messageries steamers, horn a saloon passenger's point of view, is thab the second and third class passengers arc allowed to swarm over portions of the deck usnallv reser\ ed for the nrot. Lord Rosebery's suggestion that a party of representative woikmg men fiom all paits ot the United Kingdom should make a tour of Canada, Austialia, and India has caught on in ccitain quaibeis, and will, I should like to wager, be accomplished befoie two yeais aie out. It might be useful to specially invite such a party to inspect your colony.

MRS PHIL ROBINSON'S DIVORCE , SUIT. Pml ' Robinson's divorce suit camo on again at the Law Courts on Tuesday, when Mis R., as before, conducted her own case. A good many eiuious peisons pub in an appearance in the ealleiy Lhio time, amongst others a thickly-veiled lady. Judge Butb advised Mrs Robinson to secuio legal aid if she were anxious to get a decree ii/'si, but the lady said "No;" all the r anted was a judicial sopaiation and the custody of the childien. The in-ot the judge made no bones about gi anting after the stewaid and stewardess 'of the s.p. Diummond Castle had proved a little amour of the festive Phil's on board that vessel two years back. Mr Porter (who appeared tor Phil) opposed, however, Mrs Robinson having the custody of the children. Ho rend ex fciacts from a document which staged that Mrs R. was a peison of homicidal and eui- j cidal tendencies. She had been under j medical euro for burning her clothes and mutilating her hand. "I& this, tiue? 1 ' a.-ked the judge. "Yes," said the woman, diamaticnlly. " Ho sent me mad with morphia, and it has taken me live years to recover and work it on."' The judge finally decided Mrs R. could vot have custody of the children (who, it transpired, are at school in France), but ordered that she bhould have lice and reasonable access.