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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8407, 23 April 1907, Page 3

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(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, March Bth. "The Savage South Seas" is a new book announced by Messrs A. and C. Black. It is painted by Mr Norman 11. Hardy, and described by E. Way Elkington, F.K.G.S., author of "Adrift ih New Zealand," and contains 68 full page illustrations in colour and a map. Ths size is square Bvo., in cloth, with gilt top; the price is 20s. In this volume the most savage islands of the Southern Seas have been described and illustrated. New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the New Hebrides, are principally touched on; and the peculiar customs, legends, work, and daily lives of the natives, the last lemants of savagedom, are graphically portrayed in words and pictures. A new work on Australia and New Zealand is announced by Mr Edward Stanford for early publication. It will form volume I. of "Australasia," in Stanford's "Compendium of Geography and Travel." The volume, which will be provided with numerous illustrations, diagrams and maps, is by Dr. J. W. Gregory, of Glasgow University, formerly Professor of Geology at the Melbourne University. The Oxford University golfers gave their best display of the term on Saturday, March 2nd, when they met a strong team representing the Walton Heath Club, at Walton Heath. The home team won by 18 holes to 16; but if the Oxford captain, the Hon. C. K. Bruce, had been able to play, it is possible that the 'Varsity would have gained their first victory of the season. Mr C. V. L. Hoeman and the New Zealand amateur champion, Mr Spencer Gollan, had a close match. The latter stood one down with live to play, but eventually won by a hole. In the first round of the London Amateur Foursome Tournament, on tho New Zealand Club's course, Byfleet, on tho same clay, Romford, Mr A. H. Read and Mr J. C. Reid, beat Thorpe Hall, Mr K. Costly White and Mr M. J. Clayton, by seven holes up and six to play. Mrs Edith Searle, the New Zealand authoress, has a new novel in the Press, dealing with the question of woman's rights. It is entitled "A Knight of the Holy Ghost." At the East Ham Town Hall, on the sth instant, Sir John Gorst spoke about New Zealand children at a meeting arranged by the Labour Representative Committee. Lady Warwick was another speaker. Sir John said that he had just returned from New Zealand, and he found that they had no poor children to feed there. He had not succeeded in hearing of a single child not properly kept, and he had never in his life seen such a magnificent set of human beings as the New Zealand children. This was due to the good general and special conditions of the workers in New Zealand, which enabled the parents to feed their children properly. Another lecturer on New Zealand

was Miss Isabel Napier, who was at Dundee on February 28th, and there delivered a lecture on "New Zealand, the Land. of Democracy," under the auspices of the Women's Liberal Association.