ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. (FOR THE FRISCO MAIL OF SEPTEMBER 7.) (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) London, September 7.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 411, 16 October 1889, Page 5

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. (FOR THE FRISCO MAIL OF SEPTEMBER 7.) (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) London, September 7.

GOSSIP ABOUT NEW ZEALANDERS. I The poor old Marquis of Norman by, who is residing with his daughter, Lady Laura Hampton, and her husband, at Holmwood has grown vory frail and ailing. Intellectually, howevei, he remains as bright as ever, and nothing pleases him more than a chat with a New Zealander or a Victorian about the changes time has brought about in those colonies. Air S. Vennell, of Stoke Newington, who recently married Miss Burt, head mistress of the Adelaide Girls' High School, returns shortly to his sheep farm in New Zealand. If any of your readers should happen to know the whereabouts of a young man named Fred Clark, who sailed from Liverpool for Wellington, N.Z. , in the summer of 1888, they will do a kindness to a bereaved family by informing him that his father, James Clark, died of combined dropsy and cancer on September 1, and was buried at Sefton Church on the 3rd inst. Clarks mother is in great distress at nob hearing from him. Sir Walter Buller has given up his house in the Cromwell Road, preparatory to returning to New Zealand. He and Lady Buller and the family are at present ab Eastbourne, where Miss Buller is one of the belles of the season. The exact date of Sir Walter's departure will depend in a great measure on the settlement of the Blue Spur Company's affairs. Sir Julius Vogel seems much as usual. He still talks of all sorts of schemes, bub none of them appear to be coming to fruition. Sir Julius has of late years conceived a sorb of nervous dread of pressmen, and won't tell a reporter anything. All one's information concerning him has consequently to filter through third persons, and if it i 3 not so accurate a3 it might be, your ex-Premier has only himself to thank. I learn with sincere concern of the death of Dr. Wm. C. Strettell Miller, ons of the most promising Australasian graduates Edinburgh Umversiby has produced for years. He was a native of Dunedin, where be had many friends, who will deeply mourn and regret him. Mr T. S. Tiflen and his niece, Mrs Handle, reburn to Napier by the Coptic on the 13th No%'cmber. Mr Titfen had intended going out via Suez, bub in view of the recenb operation to his eyes, which, by the way, has proved thoroughly successful, his doctors advised that the long sea loute would be the safest. Mrs De Lisle, wife of the popular Napier medico, has booked her passage out per Arawa, sailing on October 31st. Mr and Mrs Spencer, of the Thames, who have been living in London during the past two years, have resolved to return to the colony, and leave England about Nov. 13. They are at present in Devonshire. Mr Geo. Clark and family, who came home from Auckland lasb \ear intending bo sebble in bhe old country, have already — to speak rather vulgarly — "given it best," and leave per Tainui for Dunedin, where they propose henceforward to reside. Mr King, son of the well-known Auckland chemist, who has been studying in London for some time past, expects to pass his final examination in about a month and sail with his wife for New Zealand by the November P. and O. steamer. Mr and Mrs Peacock finally left London for Paris last Monday. They remain there till Wednesday next, when they start on a comprehen.-ive tour of Germany and Switzerland, eventually proceeding via Brindisi to Egypt, where, after doing the Pyramids, etc., they will join the P. and O. steamer Victoria leaving London November 14. Mr Brett, of the Auckland Star, wibh Mrs Bretb and family, have, as I before mentioned, booked passages by the fame steamer. Mr Bretb continues to spend Saburday to Monday at Hastings, and the inside of the week in town, working hard from early morn till late at night. Sightseeing, theatre 3, concerts and dinner parties are all put off till business is through, which I'm inclined to fear will be never. Mr and Mrs Brett leavo London for Paris in the first week in November, and will join the Victoria at Brindisi. A London office of the Auckland Star, under the management of Mr Brett's cousin, has been 8 tar bed {pro tern.) ab 147, Queen Victoriasbreet, E.G. Another Aucklander who at present is on a visit to England, who returns per Victoria, is Mr Jno. Milne, and Mr J. N. Crombie has gone out by the Britannia. Captain Ash by continues to receive the most gratifying evidences of the success of his little book. Visitors crowd to Leaden-hall-street bo ask questions, and oftener than nob the voluble head of the firm manages to convince them that New Zealand is the most wonderful colony in bhe world, and that he is eminently the most suitable person to despatch them thither. Not that £ s. d. have anything to do wibh Captain Ashbys enthusiasm. No, no ; it springs, like his eloquence, from an honest desire for the welfare of the colony. He is kind enough, indeed, to say that by sending out capital and labour of the right sort, he means by-and-by to make New Zealand a really great country. Mr Ansen has booked through to New Zealand per Oceana, sailing 20th inst., and will embark at Tilbury. He visits Paris next week. Her Majesty finds she has not time just at present bo receive the bar of Welsh gold which that asbute Australian Pritchard Morgan expressed a wish to lay ab her feet' Mr Frederick Wolseley, Lord W. 's Australian brother, is over here promoting a company to exploit his patent shearer. The capital was to have been a million, but has now been reduced to £350,000, and may come down even lower. Partners in Goldsboroughs and lledfern Alexanders go on the Board. The eldest son of Lord Mayor Whitehead, who wae married to Miss Ascroft of Preston on Thursday lasb, travelled in Australia and New Zealand with his father a few years back. The employees of Nelson Bros, (bhe great frozen meat importers) were out on strike on Wednesday, bat have, I fancy, obtained the concessions they required and returned to work. Shaw-Savill's hope to get the Tainui oft by Wednesday next, but there doesn't seem to be much prospect of it ab present. Aggravatingiy enough, she has an exceptionally large passenger lisb. The "Times," which for some unknown reason has always been most; obliging in

advertising Mr Henniker Heaton, devotes a long leader this morning to reviewing the pamphlet in which the member for Canterbury impeaches at considerable length the management of the post-office. The old grievance anent the difference in the rates of postage between France and Germany and Australia, and Great Britain and Australia, is of course mode the most of. A large number of colonists will be present at the boat-race on Monday. I shall avail myself of the press boat.