ENGLISH NOTES OF NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2026, 2 July 1885, Page 2

ENGLISH NOTES OF NEWS.

[From the Vnglo-Xew Zealander, May 22-1 S i o v i s ,ni(l w easels ,uc generally considered irii nitigated ]x -t-s in England, without ft single itdccmni p ' virtue to justify their existence; but let the lii iti»li stoat only make .1 M>\,igp to New Zealand, and he htnl- himself .i highh eonxideted creature, b\ lc.iMin of Ins skill in labbit slaughter. A consignment of no fewer than 240 of the-e rmigiants is about to lie placed on bond -.iip f..i that culonv, and it is stated that tlie expoitu h.id to pay (is per head for th --huts .sin] J-, |)oi hi«ad for the weasels, owing to the expense involved in trapping them. Thnt, howe\er, by no moans lepre•sents what then cost will be when landed. Sonic 4000 live pigeons form their commissariat for tho voyago, and the bird* will require 42 quarters of m.ii/o as .shipboard' rations. Then thoie is the tApeiisc of 80 /.inc-hned bo\es to serve .is m.iritiino lodgings, .and a c •nsidenblesuiii f(»r pa^sago money. Altogethei, it maybe pietty safely e-itnn ited th.it the avenge co*t per head all loimd on lauding will be not lev* than ten shillings. The Recidivist Bill, as amended by the Fiench Senate, was tiiuniphantly carried through the Ch.inibei of Deputies on the 12th May In a ui.ijouty of 38l"> votes to 57. Loid L\ons appeals to the good feeling and mighbomly instincts of the Fiench (»o\eininent have theiefoie been as little leg.udod as tho \eiled menaces of the Austi.ilasian (Joveinments and piess. Nothing iheiefoic leinanis for the colonists but to accept the --itu.itioii, and pel nut the Pacific Islands to become a receptacle for French convicti-iin of the woistt\pe, or to tianslate into vigoioiis and united action their oftlepeated threats to piotect themselves against contunination by treating all 'Fiench arrivals fiom New Caledonia »i Recidivists until they have established then innocence. This policy should not, hovvevci, be adopted without fiist counting the eo>t, foi it will grievously offend Gallic pnde, and will not be acquiesced in withent energetic lemonstiance. An etfoitis being made to establish a lii'W club in London, under the name of "The Inipei i.il ana Amci ic.ui Club." Its inembMs will be li^tucted to gentlemen of g.iod position of tho Bntish Empiin andj the United States ; nieinbeis of the Btitijfl Parliament, and of any of the lcgnlati^J assemblies in the Bntwh Empno, omL^fl tlie U nited States ; ambassadors a fl|^^| siiK lopiesenting th* Jinti-li Km|>in^^^^H srnting oi having iepiese.nted in^^|P^ Hi it.im, Ii eland, India, the wßsh colonies, of any Continental (Mpit.d,*the Ignited State-,; American and Continental bank.t'l-., .solicitoi-, and other professional gentleni'Mi ; ofhceis of the nav\ and army and i e-ei ye belonging to England or the United States, or in the colonial forces ; Anioiictn ineich.int-!, sto-\m^hip owners tiadmg with, oi who have hoiisos of busines-, in, (4ieat Britain or lieland, India, or the l>!itisli colonies; British metchanta, steamship owneis tiading 1 with, or who have houses of business m the United Statow or the Butish colonies. The club is intended as a hcadqu irteis or ieiide/.vous Joi leading Indian, colonial and American gentlemen visiting London, and wheie they and gentlemen reMdint* in England can meet in social inteicourse. The committee of the Hanover Squaie Club h,vvo decided to welcome this club U> their house, and give the nieinbeis teinpoiary accommodation until suitable prc'iines, now offered to tb» piopnetoi, can be acquncd. The M.uqui* of Noun.inby and I'vil Claiivvilham are among the honoiaiy vice-piesidents of the club. Tin M.uquisof Lome's conti lbution of ,i volt^nie on "linpenal Fedeiation," to Mi Sidne\ Buxton's " Imperi.il Parliament Senes. ' 1-, a thoughtful, and, on the wholes effeLtne attemjit to iduote the public mind on the merits of a question which i<j daily glowing in niip.ntance. He wutes in no doguntic spiut, and favoiiis none of tho elaboiate fedeial schemes which have been submitted fioni tune to time as a solution of th - pi.ictic.il piobleui of fcdciation. Indeed, he expiessly depiecates the attempt to be too sp cilic as he consideis the temper nuthei <>f tin United Kingdom nm of the coloni.'-, up- tor fnimal definitions. The hinlsfcje tlunws out aie conhnulto a. recoinn eninli hi foi the lemoval troin Colonial (Jovinnois of a curious lemnant of j>erf, )r the i>re\ention of breafß/'s of uimtimo nentiality, and to a pr.ijoiji foi tins iidiiiittmcc of the Agental!eis/«l to a new committee of the Privy C )i//Jl, i.id to a consultative non-\oting m" a *i>hip of the House of Commons. Th, JJuent^-lienei il, however, aie by no iik!Ti 'IflitL-ied at -- Uc li , x dubious distincn '"rig thiu-t upon them, and there is little doubt that in this they conectly inteiput the feelings of their fellow colonist*. The^peedi which Lord Dei by made at faiewell dinnei to Loid C'anington on tlie ilth nist. was, no doubt, intended simply topoi cold watei nn the lmpeiial Federation] >, but it is mteie-tmg, observes the 1 II Mall (Jazettc, ah a proof how much jotd l)eiby\ own attitude is being inodil 1 by the piogies-, of their ideas. J»y di xoitioii and tiaimng, Loid Derby belon; to the do nothing school of statesmen, -hose coloni.il policy consisted in decou. isly watching the gi.adual dissolution of th Lmpue with much fussy trans- ?< ctl " n ii -!f! f f " rinal business and occasional snuH to tho over-/ealous people who wantccl to adopt mciwuros for keeping tho hnipntf together. Nmv he is all for auch iiuMsunas himself. True, he objects to a ugid administrative organisation," or to nn e\ten,i,,i, „f the evils „f (IHI , mrt y system to the whole of tho Knghsh-s peakiiit? r.icito by the cieation of a conmion Pazliamenf But no wise Fedei ationist des.ies such a "ii-id organisation," or n. Parhamcntof the Empiie after the model of the institution at Westmnistei. L ( rd DeibVH own Miggestion of a Standing Uomuntfee for Colonial Affaiis to which the Agents-!, encral should have access is nnfth more in tho light direction. This might be the nucleus of a leal council of the iMnpiie which would ensuie and con-soli-.late that political unity m which even Vni l)( r ll)yK l»effi»ningto believe. Ihe lmpeiial (Jovemmeut have shown :hcnisulves dosiiou- of meeting the denands made upon them by the submarine X'legraph companies for the piotection of ;he cables. Tho proposal did not go beyond the request that lepanmg ships night be piotected by a nisei.. The 'ottlemeut with Russia makes this step inneco-sary, but the ])rinciple involved nay boregaided as accepted, to the satisaction of the companies commercially conreined. iheSubinaiine Telegiaph Cables r 3ill was read a second time m the HoWr if Louis on the lL'th inst. The Earl ot Aunpeidown inqun-d what steps the 'ther Povveiswho weiepaities to the conontionon wl-ich this bill was based had aken to cany out tho object ot the com enion. fhe bill puuided that persons mmin ing siibmaiine cables should be tiicd by he ttihnnalsot the countiy under who«o ag the ship on which they \veie was sailI?. What would take place in the case of ai whore one of the belligeients toie up a nble which was being extensively used by io other belligeient V Loid Sudley said lelaw at present with lcgaid to submarine ibles was ceitainly in a most unsatisfacuy condition, and it was to remedy this ie convention had been held. Ho could (it then state exactly what had been done y the othei Poweis to obtain the necessary leasuies fiom their respective Legislatures >r can j ing out the convention; buthe xiuld answer this and tho other question : the noble e.ul on the Committee stage.

The sixth annual Building Trader exhibition at the Royal Agricultural hall, Islington was opened recently and will remain open for some time. J^^ Tin: quart/ monument to the mero^^H of Emerson will now be erected, right quality and quantity of H^^^l lock lias been found, after dil^^^H scaiuh. fl^^H