ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 359, 13 April 1889, Page 6

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

London, Maich 1. LORD ONSLOW'S FAREWELL. I jiadi: a mistake last week in saying that Lord Salisbury was amongst fcbobc who wenb down aboard the Victoria to see the Onslows ofl'. The Premier 10a* at Liverpool-" sQ-ect, for I saw him myself, but it was solely for the purpose of bidding farewell to Lord and Lady William Cecil, who were going out to the Mediterranean in the steamer. Furthermoie Lord Onslow, after seeing his children and suite away by the Victoria, leturned to London, and he and the Countess will not join the ship till Monday next at Brindisi. They left London en route for Italy on Saturday morning last, a number of friends putting in an appearance at VicLor'a to bid them farewell.

SIR GEORGE BO WEN. Sir George Bcnven has threatened to severely "reminisce.'' Needless to say he will not do it in a frivolous manner, bub after his own well known stately and pondeious style. Sir Geoige has, in fact, handed over his public and semi-official papers to Mr Stanley Lane Poole (the biographer of Lord Strahford de Redclifte), who hopes to make out of them an interesting record of the work and experiences of a representative colonial Viceroy. Mr Poole's life of Stratford Canning: was a | model woik, but then the materials he had to work on were varied and important. Sir Geo. Bowen's speeches, will, I fear, prove a tougher job altogether. Still Sir George must, in the course of his long career, have had many interesting experiences which, well told, will be readable enough. All I hope is, that not more than — let us say — half the work will be devoted to Sir George's pot hobby, " imperial Federation,"

THE MAORI FOOTBALLERS. Sir Walter Buller will entertain some (possibly all) of the Maori footballers at dinner the night before they sail for Australia. Their last match will be against Middlesex (the team they met afc Sheffield. Park), when they hope to wipe out the af tor- lunch Jiasco. The team had a grand time at Cambridge, and left, on the whole, a good impression behind. Ellison seems to have made himsolf specially agreeable to the undergrads — so, at least, young Bullei*, who is at St. John's, tells me. The " men " (all 'Varsity lads are men) took to him at once, and he and. Warbrick and McCausland had tar more- iuvitations than thej could possibly accept.

FROZEN MUTTON. — NEW STEAMSHIP COMPANY PROJECTED. I have always maintained that if the frozen mutton trade were to bo further developed to any great extent, it would have to be through Liverpool and the North, and nob through London. This conviction has been gradually filtering into the minds of a good many people, and the result of it is a ] mammoth enterprise, to be called the Imperial and Colonial Trading Company, with a capital of a million, head-quarters at Liverpool, and branches at Manchester, London, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Chvistohurch, and Dunedin. In

the first place, vast refrigerators will be built both at Liverpool and Manchester, and facilities arranged for the distribution of the mutton through the numberless towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire. The sfceameis conveying the meat and dairy produce home will be purely cargo boats, built specially for the trade, and occupying 50, not 40, days in the journey. The Company expect to be able to pay a belter price than has ever before been paid in Australia and New Zealand fuv mutton, and to sell it cheaper in Lancashire than it has over been sold in London. The names of the Board are as yet a secret, but I may mention that the Rlaclvers (of the Cunard Company) are prune movers in Liverpool, and that Sir W. Bui lev and Sit* Joseph Parker will probably bo the London directors. The aflair is .solidly backed, and to my mind promises well. Moie about it anon.

MINING VENTURES. The O. l\Q. Mining Company has finally collapsed. When Pontifex took ib up ibs prospects for a moment brightened and the shares weio even quoted ab 3s 8d premium. Some hitch, however, occurred, the brokers lepudiated their bargains, and now the money subscribed has been returned bo the shareholders*. This means, I'm told, that the piomoters will lose £5,000 or &o. The Quayle Gold Mining Company is being supported chiefly (as far as I can detcimino) on the strength of Fitzgerald Moore's "good luck." Beyond the fact that the mine is somewhere near Te Aroha, the New Zealanders here I have spoken to appear to know literally nothing about it. Nevertheless, I am told the whole of the capital has been subscribed and the shares are at a premium of Is 2d.

MR REES'S COMPANY. I have been making quiet inquiries this week into the prospect of Mr Rees'a Colonisation Company going to allotment, and from what I hear I think it ju&t possible that a portion of tine money may be subscribed. The intending shareholders are naturally philanthropists rather than business men. Mr Rees, 'tis fair to saj', spares rio pains to gain his end. A friend of mine who affected to be thinking of caking shares, in order to justify some questions I wanted answering, has been simply deluged with pamphlets, papers, and prospectuses. Furthermore, MrCracknell kindly offers to call upon him and explain any points he wished elucidating. Such pertinacity deserves success.

SIR CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY. Apropos, of the learned Pigobt's application to Mr Forster for funds to help him out to Australia and bis old friend Sir Charles G avan Duffy, it is pointed out that Sir Charles was living in England then, and had been for some time. I hear that Lady Duffy's death ("which I mentioned in my last) has been a great thock to the aged Nationalist, and that his friends fear he may not be able to support the severe trial. The third Lndy Duffy was a Liverpool merchant's daughter, and lived at New Ferry, on the Cheshire side of the Mersey, before her maniasje. Her father is Mr George Hall, of Bernard Hall and Co. Sir O. Ga\an Duffy has leached his 73rd year, and is in infirm health. He resides at Nice. I regret to announce the death of Sir Charles Dv Cane, who was for some time Governor ot Tasmania, and has always taken an active interest in Anglo-Colonial affaiis. He was a leading spirit at the Colonial Institute, and usually occupied the chair once or twice duiing the session. Sir Charles was only 65 years of age, and a hale, heaity man. He died at Pruxted Park, his seat in Kent.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Mr Walter Johnstone has started for New Zealand- in fact, joins the Alctoria at Brindisi on Monday. He will have capital opportunities for making the acquaintance of Lord Onslow on the voyage. Mr Johnsfconc's family remain in England. Sir John and Lady Hall sail by the direcfa steamer next Friday. Miss Hall has completely recovered, and will accompany. Dr. Grace has arrived, and is stopping in Condvit-streefc. He leaves for Rome immci diately. Sir Julias Vogei lias not forwarded his resignation yet, and there is now an idea afloat that it may possibly fit in with one of his many schemes in nubibus to return. As against this I may mention he has released his flat in Victoria-street for a year. Cablegrams from nearly all the Catholic coteries in Australia and New Zealand arrivod at Edgbaston last Thursday, congratulating His Eminence Cardinal Newman on his 88th birthday. Although very weak, the aged Caidinal was present at Pontifical High Mass. Lord Lome wiJl very likely succeed Sir A-.' .Gordon as Governor of Ceylon. Sir 'Arthur goes to the House of Lords very soon now. Mr Froude is not satisfied with "Oceana" as an essay in fiction, and has set to work on a novel. The scene is laid in Ireland one hundred years ago, and the hero is a smuggler. The statement which appears in a number of the papers to the effect that Viscount Hood and his daughter are going to Australia is (up to the present, at any rate) incorrect. They have only booked to Colombo. The new number of the '.' Fortnightly " contains an article on "Australia in 1888" by Lord Carnarvon, which is sure to be read with gieat interest all over the Antipodes. Mr W. T. Tillotson, well known in Aubfcialia and Ne«v Zealand as the head of the famous fiction bureau at Bolton, died last i Saturday. The Pope has been examining the account of his income and expenditure for the year 1888. Here are some of the figures :— From St. Peter's Pence he received £300,000 ; from interest of capital invested abroad, £100,000 ; from alms and other, souices, £20,000 ; making a total income of £500,000 ; to which must be added about £80,000 received during the Jubilee. The expenses of the Vatican -during the ! year include :— Alms, £12,000 ; sums for the propaganda, £20,000 ; sums for the diplomatic service, £20,000 ; sum for missions, £40,000 ; administration expenses, £40,000 ; maintenance of Apostolic paces, £20,000 ; pay of the Cardinals, £80,000 ; maintenance of seminaries, £90,000. The total expenditure is £339,200, which leaves a surplus of not much less than a quarter of a million sterling.

GARSAOK & CRANWBLL are stf&fe tf urmbure and Carpets very cheap. Iron bedsteads and Spring Mattresses afc ereatlT reduced prices. Bedding of all kind! ready for delivery. Oil Cloths from le. aquare yard. Linoleum from 2s 3d. Blankets,, sheets, quilts, curtainb, and all furnishing g-oods splendid value. Wire Wove Ma 6 tresses much cheaper than they used to ba> A strong Iron Bedstead and Wire WovoMattress for 55s cash. Simple Iron Bedstead and Wire Wove Mattress for 38s cash price. Our goods are carefully paoked. ' evei ? attention paid to prevent damage bv ™> B T fc ™ uy a i 1 y° ur household goods from' and CRANWELL, Cabie^' ackers, Queen street. Auckland' 1 ■JL J atti has no babies. It would cost the youngster £400 every time he wanted his mother to sing him to sleep. <> Shakspore was married at"* 18. And Briggy Young was spliced at 18, 19, 20, 21. 23, arid so on, up to the frisky fifties*

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