ANGLO- COLONIAL NOTES

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 225, 28 September 1897, Page 5

ANGLO- COLONIAL NOTES

(FroDl OurLondon_Corre S po"dent.) ««r 7FALAKDEK DROWNED AT "A^ ZPOBT■ BANNATYNE. ' r LONDON, August 20. • * pom. fatality which occurred m boat'Df »«" J B on SatarPortSg l^and resulted in the ia}TS7v Charles Kelly, an engidea who had but recently returned ■*£ Wlington, New Zealand, and frOmn?his cdusins-the one a girl of tff°v,t and the other a comely lass Jjist <*f.*f womanhood. It seems- that entT« Kelly 1"S uncle, Mr James Charf f the Glas-ow "Citizen," and KeUVJn were pending their holifvs C°at S?Srt BannaV- At half-past days ai * turday morning Charles ten j°rt,e lugsail boat Bobbie Burns htthe intention of having a run up H e took with him his four the H Mary (aged 18), Nellie (1(3), co»a, Bf',S and Jane(B . The morn%s a'rifle squally, and a bit out f' land the sea was choppy, but •S was nothing in the conditions S or below to render the expedi--8 in the least dangerous, and moreS'charles Kelly had proved himT/nn Drevions excursions a capable *6 Z For a time all went well,bnt. ' se the steamer Ivanhoe crossed the rfvision of those watching the PI from-the shore, and when the TVmer had cleared it was seen that Ktlecraft had capsized and that fcoccupants were struggling in the £te Boats were put off without Z of time, and the Ann manned by £ Scott, of Glasgow, and others, was Lon the scene of the catastrophe. t miick succession the rescuers pickSalary, Maggie, and Chiles; but Vre was no trace of either little Sor Nellie. All three rescued JS unconscious when pulled aboard Charles Kelly being in a state of extreme exhaustion. They were rapOt conveyed ashore and attended to X Johnson and Hall. The two JL were rapidly brought round,but Lor Charles was too far gone for resuscitation. For two solid hours the Sicos-persevered in their efforts to 'Sdle the flame of life, but without avail. Meanwhile, the search for the bodies of the missing girls had been proceeding. The sunken boat was raised at 1 o'clock, but though trawling nets were used all over the Bay the bodies had not been' found when sunset came on the Sunday, and to probability is that the corpses • have been carried far down the coast. ■Thecause of the accident is not clear, but probably when the boat was making a short gybe she was filled by the. wash of the steamer, which passed Terr close to the ill-fated craft. Chas. Kelly was but 26 years old when death overtook him. He came home from New Zealand a few months ago, and since his return had been employed as an engineer in the Clan Line sheds. FACES AND PLACES. What is to be the distinguishing feature of the coming New Zealander ? According1 to a writer in the current "Blackwood" it would appear tttat, sooner or later, the'born Maorilander till lave reverted to a more or less white-faced edition of the aboriginal, mth a Homan nose of generous breadth. .Our authority, after remarking upon, the linguistic and facial ckages observed in Englishmen who hare been resident in the United Statfsior only perhaps a few short yep, says:—Uliconscous mimicry is ; now such a potent force in maintainhg the type both among natives and naturalised Americans that it entirely masks all other influences which may be at work. Considering how very pronounced is the difference not only in feature and in voice but in build between the Englishman and the Yankee, this is somewhat hard to be-lieve.-Yet the children of typically American parents if brought wp from infancy in England appear ,as a rule, to be indistinguishable from the average Briton. We know that when the teed and stunted Western Irish people emigrate to the United States their children grow into long-limbed and long-faced Americans, much more . nearly resembling the natives of their adopted country than the parental stock,'. It is also found, I believe, that *n raw-boned Yankees from New England -migrate West, their physical appearance undergoes a change, and n many instances they revert somepat towards the ancestral British type. The same statement has been tode with regard to the New Zeaanders as has been made with regard » the Americans—namely, that the fiaage which is taking place is in the jMectiofl-of the aboriginal type. I we heard it confidently stated—and uua by trustworthy observers—that P°ffl the moment a young man lands ™ ftew Zealand his features begin to «w, and that his nose especially:' ends to become more broad and aplme.

AMBULANCE WORK. fl**m:AUen Pahner- in a letter to JJ Westminster," points out that ft! a« cidents. fatal and otherwise, to L°? ei>S Of the Aden emphasise the X nce of teaching merchant seaJ n the A B C of ambulance work. IS*~¥ T. T- A- White, third enrWT'n^ to Mr Lawson Wal--s,?S'¥?"' said: "My shoulder Shtn° T Cated' and M was Dot set tilht V.$ ot ta Aden' about a fortfcol T ldently none of the Aden's EJS r were saved >or anyof rescued them, knew how m> l\- simV} c Mr W nJ* S evidence, also states: I Wed S cn Sineer Wag about !4in X n Was neariy dr°>vned, tots WT- aUeyway- strenuous efw ff ng made> and ha™ been htb ik- missions to seamen and tfc 7 ""Posters' and other societten 5 1 i c sailors> officers, and *ith R^^emsefres acquainted listed Tilt J" January, 1895, 1 ter s' Sonwl . ecretary of the Shipmas- "^ + \ a meetine at iHall ivith a view to t5»-aSS Pledge to seafarers. has*sE Tf^ time that so little engineer nffi 1S case we see an £»W£ r Wil hout distance S «tea2J? mci althou £h on board rfef the highest class . (? aCLI + l 6nder their shipmates ! leSin PtL he? Selves) some valu'hose iatSeS • fa and that Welfai'e and V If IP v heir hands to the y& unr^lL g company ?C c.Work w°uld spread, J e marine lt?]mns in the mercanM^bji5 eW Zealand some C o^- As*Sf Person or Persons > Witi Vr wa* no instruc- ! lt* parcel Mr Mennell

promptly sent the bark to Messrs Bontcher, Mortimer and Co. of Bermondsey, for inspection. The result of their examination is expressed thus: —The sample you sent us appears to be dry extract of Mimosa: bark, and to contain less tannin than is. usual for this material. Some: years ago we received a very con- j siderable quantity of Mimosa extract in the liquid state from Australia, but prices fell so that the factories had to be closed. Since that time \ i there has been a continuoiis fall in the . i price of extracts of all descriptions,; I and we have not heard of any Mimost extract being- shipped. We do not think you would find this a lucrative i business. It is impossible to give j you the exact percentage of tannin j contained in your sample without J having a chemical analysis made, the cost of which would be £2 2s. This brief communication will have a particular interest for Mr James Freyberg who, I notice, is "up in the ! stirrups" over a new process for concentrating tanning- material for export from the colony. But, Mr Freylberg1 is used to disappointments and nothing1 seems to affect for long his ultra-optmistic view of the future of New. Zealand's timber and bye products trade. Some day perhaps he will consent to recog-nise the fact that the value of an "inexhaustible supply" of any product depends entirely upon the demand for it at prices which will pay the producers. It will, I know, grieve Mr Freyberg to hear that Victoria-street, Westminster, the scene of his wholehearted labours in the cause of New Zealand timbers, and once wood paved from end to end is now an arid asphalt desert. And I may mention that vestries in other parts of London are replacing wood with the evil - smelling compound (when hot) in which Messrs Limmer deal. Presumably it has been found less costly than wood. From a sanitary point of view asphalt is certainly superior to timber, and small repairs upon roads so paved can be effected much more expeditiously, a matter of no small importance in the main thoroughfares of the city of London. Champion whisky drinker of S THE WORLD. Is there no one out in your part of the world who can lower the record of Doctor Mooney, of Denington, Kentucky ? This audacious boaster had the hardihood —in the face of the known "nobblenising" capacity of many gifted Australians—to aver that he is the "champion whisky drinker of the world." The doctor claims that he has for fifty years averaged over twenty drinks of whisky daily, a grand total of 365,000 drinks. If there was one gill at each drink he has consumed 91,250 pints, or 45,625 quarts, or 11,406 gallons. This amount of liquor would fill ISI hogsheads. Fine and large, isn't it ? No doubt, however, as soon as these figures reach the Antipodes they will be beaten. Advance Australia ! Britannia rules the waves ! Don't let us be wiped out in the matter of whisky by a mere Mooney. The Doctor, one ought perhaps to add, does not nowadays enjoy the best of health. MR J. G. WARD. The cableg-ram from New Zealand announcing that Mr J. G. Ward had •emerged from bankruptcy without a stain on his moral character has given the greatest satisfaction here, and it is hoped will pave the way for his presently re-entering- the Ministry. As a belated M.P. who knows your part of the world was saying at the National Liberal Club last night, "Any fool who has met the men could "tell you that a New Zealand Ministry with Seddon, Reeves, Perceval, Ward, and McKenzie as its leaders would be thoroughly strong and capable, and probably retain the confidence of electors in the colony and investors in England for years to come. But-the suspicion is that Mr Seddon wants to run a one-man show. I don't believe the colony will stand that, and the sooner the Premier, who is shrewdness itself, recognises the fact the better for everybody." Writing of Mr Ward in the "British Australasian," this week, Phillip Mennell says: — "I am glad to see that despite the most envenomed attempts on the part of people who would rather see New Zealand perish than abate one jot of political or personal spite, the late Colonial Treasurer has come out with unscathed honour, as I always prophesied he would, from the ordeal of his bankruptcy examination. The worst that can be. said of him is that having, perhaps too prematurely taken up public life, he was compelled to trust his business concerns somewhat too entirety to the administration of subordinates. I note his publicly-expres-sed resolution to ultimately pay everybody who has lost by his undertakings, and my firm belief is that if health is granted him he will yet, with his great energy and ability, retrieve his commercial career. That this confidence is shared in the quarter best able to judge is evidenced by the. splendid majority by which Mr Ward has been returned by his old constituency, and this in the midst of the bankruptcy proceedings by which he has been so grievously harassed." THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE. The prelatical pow-wow at Lambeth Palace last month was practically held behind closed doors, but public curiosity and interest in the doings of the Conference was not sufficiently strong to engender any feeling of resentment at our spiritual advisers desire for privacy in their discussions. Most of us, indeed, will be more than satisfied with the amount of information vouchsafed in the tremendous series of resolutions now published as having been passed by the priestly parliament. There are 63 of them all told and they occupy considerably more than two columns of the "Times." The first two intimate that in the opinion of the Bishops it is good for the Church that they should meet in conference at least once in every 10 years. We do not, however, come to anything particularly affecting- the colonies until the 51st resolution is reached. It reads thus: "That this Conference welcomes heartily the proposal for the temporary employment of younger clergy in service abroad as likely to lead to the great benefit of the Church at Home, of the church in the colonies, and of the Church at large." . In resolution 53, the Conference declared it to be the duty of church people in England to give aid to education in the colonies, whether generally or in the training of the ministry and for the work of teaching: — (a) In the establishing and strengthening of church schools and colleges. (b) In the establishment of studentships in England and in the col-

oriies, tenable by men living in the colonies, and under preparation for colonial church work.

In the 55th we learn that in the judgment of the Conference it is the duty cf those who derive income from colonial property or securities to contribute to the support of the Church's v/ork in the colonies.

The five resolutions following- also concern the colonies and run thus: —

That while the principle of gradual withdrawal of home aid to the Church in the colonies, according to its growth, is sound policy, the greatest circumspection should be used, and the special circumstances of each case moat carefully examined before aid is withdrawn from even long establishe dioceses.

That this Conference desires to draw renewed attention to the recommendation of the Committee of the Lambeth Conference, 18S8, on the subject of emigrants, and recommends that every care should be taken by home teaching, by commendatory letters, and by correspondence between the home dioceses and the dioceses to which emigrants gO to prevent them from drifting from the church of their fathers when they leave their homes.

That this Conference desires that evory care shortld be taken by the Church at home to impress upon emigrants the duty of helping to provide for maintenance of the Church in the country to which they emigrate.

That it is the duty of the Church to aid in providing for the moral atul spiritual needs of our seamen of the mercantile service, who in vast numbers visit colonial ports, by means of sailors' homes and like institutions, and by the ministrations of clergy specially set apart for this woj^ That it is the duty of the Church to give all possible assistance to the bishops and clergy of the colonies in their endeavour to protect native races from the introduction among them of demoralising influences and from every form of injustice or oppression, inasmuch as these, wherever found, are a discredit to Christian civilisation and a hindrance to the spread of the Gospel ot Christ our Lord. THE REV. W. READY IN ENGLAND. Next to the Chief Justice of S.A. the bright particular star of the Bible Christian Conference at Exeter was the Rev. W. Ready, of Dunedin. Both he and Mr Way met with immense receptions, and at the Missionary Meeting on Saturday evening the New Zealand visitor spoke. The chair was taken by the Chief Justice Way. lie did not, he said, take a pessimistic view of missions. He could not when he remembered how much had been accomplished since the days of Carey, and also considered not only the results obtained but the developments of which they were capable. Their Bible Christian forefathers little realised how groat was the work they undertook when they sent their first missionaries; to South Australia. They had a part in fashioning new communities and in building new nations on the foundations of Christian truth.

The President was called upon to propose the first resolution, which was seconded by Rev. W. Ready, who enraptured his audience by one of his unreportable and unconventional addresses. He gave an account of his work in Dunedin, where, seven years ago, he commenced his mission absolutely alone, and where now 2000 persons assembled every Sunday evening to hear him. Jn the midst of his speech he broke oft" into an appeal for money towards the missionary debt, and in response the sum of £ 120 was quickly promised.

On the following Wednesday, the concluding day of the Conference, arrangements were made for the Rev. W. Ready, during his visit to this country, extending over about five months, to lecture in the principal chapels of the connexion, ar.d it is hoped that each lecture will bring in not less than £20 to the Missionary Society. Usually by this time the Conference is considerably depleted, but a good number remained in their places in anticipation of the visit of Chief Justice Way. The lion, gentleman arrived soon after five o'clock, and was welcomed by the President, and immediately invited to address the Conference. He said there was no assembly in the world which it delighted him so much to meet as the English Bible Christian Conference. All his most sacred associations and memories clustered around the body. He was proud to be the son of one who was for many years a member of that Conference. He proceeded to give an account of the position of the Bible Christian Church on the other side of the globe. He avowed himself an earnest advocate of the union of the Methodist '.Churches. The Conference concluded with an "At home" given by Mr Way. The members of the Conference and their hosts and hostesses were invited, and about 400 guests arrived and spent a very pleasant evening.