ARRIVAL OF THE MONOWAI WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL (VIA SAN FRANCISCO).

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 292, 9 December 1893, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE MONOWAI WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL (VIA SAN FRANCISCO).

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES-

(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)

London, November 4. MR JAMES COATES. The new general manager of the National B*uk of New Zealand, Mr James Coatea, leaves London on the 15th insb. to join the " Arcadia " ab Brindisi, and will traval via Sydney to Dunedin. I hear, by the way, in the city (needless to say not from Mr Coates, bat from a South Australian Bank manager), thab the head office of this institution in the colony is shortly to be moved to Wellington. Mr Goates woulu nob answer questions on the subject, but my informant is seldom wrong when he does vouchsafe a "par." This is nob often, Bank managers as a rule being amongsb the driest wells one is fated to try and pump. Despite the facb thab he has been pretty well tied to the bank during his brief stay in England, Mr Coates has managed to have a fairly goAd time. He had nob been Honie 24 hours before he was overwhelmed wibh invitations from the Anglo-New Zealand circle. Many of these (as he wished to do the theatres, ebc.) Mr Coatea was compelled to refuse, bub his direcbers insisted on entertaining him. and ho had vory pleaaanb vißits to Mr Brodie -Hoarein Surrey, to Major Bulkeley in Berkshire, and to Major Maaey Thompson. During a slack time, he was also able to run up to Scotland for a few days and •'do" Edinbro' and Glasgow. Mr Coatea has been made an honorary member of the Imperial and Colonial Institutes, the excellent City of London Club, and the City Liberal and National Liberal Clubs. I am a member of the latter, yet » such a wilderness is ib thab though on many occasions we were (unknown to each other) in the building together we only ran up against one another there quite recently. Nob only ab his clubs, bub in the city and in casual chabs Mr Coate3 never forget he is a New Zealander, indeed, he confesses he has more than once risked being thoughb a bore, so much in earnest does he become when picturing your prosperous future. •'A perpetual peripatetic trumpeter of •Coming New Zealand,'" my S.A. friend . calls him.

AUCKLAND AUTHORS. Messrs Chapman and Hall have this •week brought) out) " Supplejack: a Romance of Maoriland," by MrR. Ward, of Auckland, and I understand terms could have been made with more than one magazine for a story by Miss Grace Whitelaw, oE the same city, but directly the editors learnt ib either had been published or was to be published in the *'New Zealand Graphic" (the agents didn't know which), they wouldn't touch ib. •'Fancy," obsorved one, "asking us to •pay for reprint. If we wanted the tale we Bhould " Hfb " ib as you lift ours, politely acknowledging it was irom the • New Zealand Graphic'"

PERSONAL NOTES. The Council of the Gardening and Forestry Show ab Earlscourb, have awarded Sir "Walter Buller their Bilver medal for the admirable trophy of New Zealand woods, which was the sole colonial exhibib in the Jbuilding, if I except the advertising kiosk •"of Mildura and Renmark. Mias Buller has returned to town, looking all the better and brighter for her round of Scotch visits. The last was to the Dalrymple Hays of Dunlop House, with whom she attended the Earl of Eglington's county ball, which is the most brilliant event of the season in Ayrshire. Mr J. W. (better perhaps known as •' Long Drive") Walker has varied the monotony of exploiting. hia mining property adjoining the Waihi by a trip to Paris, to spend a few riays with his niece, Madame Melba, the famou9 prima donna. MrE. W. Roper (of Christchurcb), the well-known wine merchant and sportsman, is staying ab the Savoy Hotel (moab sumptuous of all metropolitan hostelriee.) On dit he has been bitten by the desire (dormant in the boßom of nearly everybody) to produce a book, and means to give us a racy account of his extensive travels. Colonel Carre, who married Sir Trevor Chute's widow, has settled down in the General's old home in Berks, and will not return to New Zealand. 1 hear Mrs Leemy (I think ib is), who was formerly Miss (Jhamberlin, of Auckland, is up in town visiting friends and shopping. Her husband hue nob, it will be remembered, concluded his course ab Edinburgh University. ■ Before crossing the Channel last Saturday, Mr Charles Williamson and his family spent a few days at Brighton and Hastings. In order thab they might properly appreciate the glories of the latter, Mr R. B. Brett (whose native town ib is) ran down there for the day on Thursday week, and played cioerono to the party. Mr Horton (of tho "New Zealand Herald ") is ab present staying ab the Hotel Victoria. All his friends unite in eaying thab he looks wonderfully bettor since he carao Home. Mr Wolfe Harris and his son leave for Dunedin to-day by Messageriea steamer. Mr Harris, junr., will join the firm of Bing, Harris and Co., and it is to see him started and generally (as I believe business people say) " fixed up" thab his father accompanies him. Dr. Maunsell (once of Dunodin) moved this week from Stanhopo Gardons to the new house I told you of ab 102, Cromwell Road. Rev. Thomas Flavell spends a good deal of his time, when not " on the road" for the S.P.G., at the Imperfel and Colonial Institutes. He is ab work on a life of the retired Primate, a Bishop Hadfield. Ib will deal chiefly with hia missionary work among the Maoris when Archdeacon of Kapibi. Mr G. W. S. Patterson, of Kaikohe, Bay of Islands, haa just arrived in London (travelling via Chicago and New York), and is now at the Hotel Victoria. He goes to Ireland nexb week to look after some properby he owns in thab distressful country. Mr C. A. Harris (of Auckland) has settled In a flab at Charing Cross Mansions, and intendt remaining in London. Dr. Pennei'abbor having seen " Murray's Guide to New Zealand (of which more anon) through the press, returns to Adelaide forthwith to resume his duties ab the University. The Hcneymana (of Auckland) are still ab Brighton, bub Mrs and Miss Honeyman were up in town for a few days thia week Btopping ab The Langham. Tho New Zenland tree ferns of various species whi«h Lord Glasgow sent home to Kilburn Castle, Ayrshire, are doing very well and becoming quite a feature in the glass-houaea and grounds. Mies Kate Mareden has, according to latest accounts from Chicago, had a bumper " seaBOD ab the World's Fair, her lectures on "My Lepers" and "My Journey Through Siberia," being very largely attended. Miss Marsden musb by flow have collected enough to permit of the if? "undred afflicted creatures in Siberia «™g "> luxury and wallowing in oint•cents tempered by pills, for tho resb of

their natural lives. No doubb, howover, by the time the charitable public realise this facb, tho admirable Kate will have found other equally deserving channels into which to turn the stream of subscriptions. Those whoeay MussMarsdtto has no " business aptitude do her a great wrong. Mr J. B. Rusboll, in answer to my queries as to hia health during the pasb month, writes from JVlorden that generally speaking ho continues to progress satisfactorily. Mra Russell anrt the Miaß Russells are also well, and like the district very much. Mr Euasalladds, vith a touch of sharpness, which smacks agreeably of returning health and the old J. P., thabßurely as a subject ha i 3 worn threadbare, and thab I might easily find inijre interesting groundwork for a " par." | Mr Edward £. Buchanan, of Leith, is circularising Anglo-Cokuia :n the hope of disposing privately of the 10,000 shares in the New Zealand Parafin Oil Company, which have bean reserved for subscription in tbia country. The venture sounds mosb promising, especially if it i a true thab 40,000 shares have been genuinely taken by Now Ze>'landers. The marriage of Mr Oswald Henry Rathbone, cf Liverpool, and elder brother of Mr Wilfred Rathbone, of Auckland, to M.ias Jopuie Fsirrie, daughter of Mr Adam Fairrie of fche Bame city, took place at Ciriefcchurch, Sefton Park, on Tuesday lasb, Canons Warr and Digglo officiating. Aftorwards Mis Fairrie held a reception at 63, Parkfield Road, and later in tho afternoon bho bride and bridegroom loft for Mr W. Rab!ibon«ft,_ M.P., villa at Alaaaio, on tho Riviera, which has been lonb them tor the honeymoon. Tho presents' were very numerous, including oue from tho employees of tbo Union Marine Insurance Company, of which the bridy^room is underwriter.