ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. (From Our Special Correspondent.) London, June 28.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 394, 17 August 1889, Page 5

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. (From Our Special Correspondent.) London, June 28.

THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION. At the invitation of the Agent-General the following gentlemen, viz.. Sir Julius Vogel, Sir Walter Buller, and Messrs Beetham, Peacock, Henry Brett and Wolfe Harris 5 mcc at Victoria Chambers on Monday afternoon to consider the position of affairs with regard to the forthcoming New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition. Sir Francis explained that the Dunedin Committee had appointed a Mr Simmonds as their official agent in London. Now that gentleman was in Paris, and, being engaged at the big show in the Champs de Mars, was not likely to be in London for some months to come. Meanwhile, several manufacturers, etc., had applied for space at Dunedin to Mr Kennaway and himself, and they were at a loss what to say or how to act. He had called the present company together to discuss the position. The New Zealand Government had asked him to give Simmonds a room at Victoria Chambers, and to form a committee of New Zealanders in London to assist. He had, he might add, no funds, and no power to raise any. Mr Brett pointed out that the latest date for receiving applications for space was July Ist, and that neither Mr Simmonds nor the Agent-General appeared to have any power to extend it. Sir. J. Vogel said the Dunedin Committee had acted very foolishly in not having stated the amount of space available for English exhibits. The Committee was practically powerless. Eventually it was decided that the AgentGeneral should write to Simmonds, and if his reply were not satisfactory, cable to Dunedin asking for authority to receive applications and allot space. Mr Wolfe Harris has purchased a large fountain for presentation to the citizens of Dunedin. The corporation will select its locale. Mr Harris ships the fountain next month and expects it will reach Dunedin by September. NEW ZEALAND COURT AT PARIS. Mr Peacock, M.H.R,, spent a week at Paris Exhibition, and since his return has made several suggestions to the AgentGeneral, which are being carried out. He found that there was no New Zealand coal there, the block intended for exhibition having either miscarried, or like so many other things, been seized by " that terrible Twopeny," as poor Sir Francis calls the energetic Commissioner for the Dunedin Show. Mr Peacock discovered that most of the decent exhibits of wheat, kauri gum and vrool had been purchased by the Agent-General in London, those sent over being too poor to expose as sample produce. There are no photos of New Zealand towns or docks, and the mineral display is wretched in the extreme. Fortunately, Mr Brett has brought home Borne capital photos of Auckland Dock, etc., which are to be at once sent over to Paris, together with some very rich specimens of gold forwarded by Mr F. Woollams from Coromandel. Mr Brett has also written out for some specimens of silver from Te Aroha. Webb and Sons, seed merchants, have a good agricultural show in the New Zealand Court at Paris, but there are no specimens of inlaid tables or of New Zealand woods. What has become of Norrie? Surely he ought to have sent something. NOTES ABOUT NEW ZEALANDERS. Mr Peacock left for Scotland yesterday. He will either return to New Zealand by the next steamer (ten days hence) to resume his Parliamentary duties, or else ask off for the session, and remain in England for some months. He thinks he can do the colony more good by staying than returning. The Hon. Walter Johnstone has taken a house at Oxford, and means to live there whilst his son is in residence at Wadham College. The family are entertaining a large party this week for commemoration. Sir Walter and Lady Buller have been on a visit to Sir Robert and Lady Herbert at their beautiful place at Ickleton, in Essex. Sir Robert is permanent Under- Secretary at the Colonial Office. Mr Montgomery and his son are off on an expedition to Norway and the Land of the Midnight Sun. Sir Julius Vogel's son possesses a fair share of his redoubtable sire's abilities. He has just passed as a barrister, after only ten months' preparation. MrThos. Russell, C.M.G., has just purchased fifty shares in the New Zealand Shipping Company, and been elected to a Beat on the Board. The correspondent who cabled that Bell and Berry were to have the Legion of Honour, drew on his imagination, though it is, of course, on the cards they will get some French decoration presently. Mr Albert Beetham, M.H.R., is in town again. He sails for Wellington in October. I met Mr Baddeley, late R.M. at Auckland, the other day, and thought him looking very well. Mr Brett is much better, though still vexed with a cough at times. All the Aucklanders I meet remark on the striking improvement there is in the "Observer" since Mr J. L. Kelly purchased that journal and undertook the editorial control. Ib is, they tell me, quite a different paper to what iD has been for some years. lam looking forward to seeing a copy and presenting my compliments and congratulations to Mr Kelly.