ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 144, 18 June 1894, Page 4

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

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LosDox, Way 5. Me Wju-teb Kessaway has, at the reqnwfc of the tiew Zealand Com mittee, undertaken to receive subscriptions ia London for the Bishop Harper memorial. Mr Jamea Mclndoe, of Voprel-slree!!, Dunedin, has been Bending the Rotbesay local paper a spirited description of but experiences and explorations and unexpected meetings with old Scotch friends ia the Britain of the South, whichho describes aa " a magnificent country." Sir-John Hall is, according to the Bank of New Zealand, expected ia London ) shortly, though wfcy and by what ronte he j ia coming no one seems to know. ; The only Australasian delegate present at the Bimetallic Conference at the Mansion House this week, is Mr David Murray, of Adelaide, a tremendous enthusiast on the subject, who holds that bimetallism alone can care the colonies from destruction. UrC. T. Gafcty has. his colonial friends ! may be glad to learn, been appointed private secretary to Mr Ellis, the Government whip. Lord Folkestone, who has been sojourning ia your part of the world, was a passenger by the Britannia, which arrived in the Thames last Saturday. Lady Folkestone accompanied her husband, and among other notable passengers were Sir Lambert and Lady Do two d, from Hobart. Bishop Selwyn will read a paper on the " Islands of the Pacific" at the Colonial Institute on June 19th, when there is sure ! to be a bi^ muster of Antipodeans. The London Australasian Club has made bat* slow progress sines the inaugural dinner at the Westminster Palace Hotel. The membership then had reached the hundred, and at the present moment 110 is the full total. A room has been taken aS the Westmnster Palace Hotel, where on Wednesday evenings members can meet to enjoy social intercourse, card • playing, draughts, chess, etc., and a ground has been rented at Lordship Lane for athletic purposes. The first scratch cricket match of the season is to take place on Saturday week next. Once the club has, so to speak, got into its stride, plenty of yoang men connected with the Antipodes in trade will doubtless join. The indefatigable Secretary, 11 r Berry, of the Victorian office, has "such a way with him" that it is only necessary for him to get five minutes with a man in order to impel membership. Aforetime he has only been able to speak of what tbo Club was going to do. Now be can dilate upon what the Club ia doing, which makes a lot of difference in the amount of persuasion necessary. Amongst recent callers at the New Zealand Press Agency was Mr George Beetham, whom Mr Harrison Davis kindly brought op to see v?. Mr Beebbam expects to be in England some considerable time. He not long ago underwent a l&ryngial operation at the hands o( a famous throat specialist, which proved completely successful. Indeed, our visitor had since gained 71b in weight. Mrs Beetham's health has also benefited materially. j Sbe and her husband spent the latter I part of the winter at Brighton, but are now at Torquay, which it in the height of its spring glory. The many New Zealand friends of the Rev. Edwin Nightingale will rejoice to hear he haa been presented to the excellent living of Escot, in Herefordshire, by Sir John Kennaway. Mr Nightingale has had wide experience, having been a curate in Marylebone {London) and Hertfordshire, a3 well as in New Zealand, and in 1886 be was chaplain at Hyeres. Lord Stanmore (Sir Arthur Gordon) bas let the Red Hou=e, his beautiful place at Ascot, and come up to tows for the season. Thare was quite a large clique of Australians in the dreas circle at Terry's Theatre on Monday evening, when " Kisg Kodak " was produced. Some, do doubt, came merely to renew old acquaintance with Edward Terry and Charlea Dan by, but the majority had a promising yoang debutant in their eye. I refer to Mr J. Thompson, a nice looking lad, with a tuneful but not very strong tenor voice, who won a cordial encore for Alfred Plampton's balcony ballad. Mr Thompson is a eon of •• Joe" Thompson, {the leviathan book-maker, and a stranger to London audiences. Thanks to the skilful engineering of Mr George Lee, businernat Tooie's Theatre haa picked up, and " The, Best Man " is nojr going great guns. Mr Soddon continues to receive great kudos from all sections of the press for keeping New Zealand ont of the loan market. The " Financial News " winds up a par on the subject with the remark, " Tho undeniably thriving condition of this colony is doe almost wholly to the resolution of the Premier to suit its expenditure to its current resources instead of baaing it on hopes of future increment." At the Royal Naval Reserve dinner at the St. George's Club on Tuesday, the success of the evening waa the speech of Captain Crutchley (of the New Zealand Shipping Company), who responded for the Reserve. The skipper, I see, is alto to be at the fore this afternoon at the Royal United Service Institution, when he will lecture en " National Methods for Securing a Supply of Seamen." Lord Braaaey presides. The House of Lords Committee on marking foreign produce resumes its Bitting next Monday, when Lord On slow will preside. The Agent-General haa, after bringing its charges within reason, paid the bill for the Frozen Meat Kiosk at the Imperial Institute, and. is now trying to arrange the expenses for carrying it on this season amongst the importers. If there were any unity for commonweal in the trade this should bo easy, but unfortunately there is nothing of the sort. Possibly, however, Mr Kelson may again generously come forward to help substantially.