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

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 255, 3 November 1897, Page 5

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

rftLQ- COLONIAL NOTES.

~ Q ur Special Correspondent.)

London, October 2nd

THE AGENT-GENERAL. -.. Agent-General forwards his refnti the development of the Baths rtotorna to Mr Seddon by the outa• ° mail It will be found a comS°ensive document embracing the P r."j OBS of numerous experts. Mr fives has already received several nlications for the post of Govern■t Medical Superintendent of the Kermal Springs in New Zealand. The success of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in New Zealand con" r lies to excite the keenest interest "° ffst practical politicians here and S Reeves is constantly satisfying nmeone's curiosity on the subject. I fid you r Chamberlain exhibits the Yeliest interest in the matter and Ms ffot Mr Reeves to supply him with Ml reports cf the New Zealand deLtes antecedent to the passing- of the w and also particulars of every instance in which it has been utilised. STATUE FOR AUCKLAND. The money at the disposal of the Auckland Jubilee Fund will not, Mr Seeves finds on inquiry, run to a snecially executed statue of Her Vgjesty by any well-know man. The Committee can, however, rely on a Srst-class replica of some existing statue for about £1000. Mr Reeves is now looking- around for a suitable one to recommend for this purpose. Be has two down for inspection. One is by Marochetti and belongs to Glasgow, and the other is F. J. Williamson's marble presentment of the Queen in her royal robes, etc., which 1 stands in the hall of the Royal Col- ' le»e of Physicians on the Embanki ment. Mr Williamson is the.sculptor . lff j, o did the Bishop Harper memorial. ); THE DUKE'S CRUISE. • There is more in the 'officially con- ' fradieted' story of the Duke of York's intended cruise round the world in the 'Terrible' than meets the eye. The 'Times' is not given to making mnouncements of such a character without aivthority. Indeed, it appears probable the information came to Printing House Square direct from Downing-street. The scheme smacks strongly of 'Colonial Joe,' and I've little doubt the Duke, and perhaps the Prince of Wales too, fell in with it readily. The hitch must have .oc-

enrred when the Queen was consulted. All parties may have taken Her Majesty's approval for granted aid, perhaps, through a, blunder, the project reached the 'Times' before leßoyal assent was formally given. If so, one can imagine there might .(in the words of Solomon) be 'a shine in the Temples of Shem,' and an \ithOrltative contradiction' would

ertainly follow. Knowing- official methods, I am very certain that a cut and dried statement of such circumstantiality could not have got into the 'Times' unless the matter had been well under weig-h. I am so sure of

this that it will not surorise me if

the ernise, In an altered and much modified form, comes off after all. ER.H. may, I think, go to Canada, but Australia and New Zealand are too far off.

* BISHOP .COWIE AT CHURCH ■CONGRESS. At the Church. Congress, in the discussion upon the 'Organisation of the Anglican Communion,' the Bishop of Auckland spoke of the Colonial Clergy Act. He said he did not think it unreasonable that colonial clergy who came to reside, either permanently or temporarily, in this country should be required to show some proofs of competence, but he echoed the wish expressed at the Conference that the archbishops and bishops here would administer the Act in a generous sPirit, especially in dealing with colonial clergymen of long experience and Jried efficiency. It was desirable that we should be a free interchange of *rgy between the churches of the Monies and elsewhere. Such an into change would not benefit only the colonial clergy. English churchmen ™gnt learn much from contact with ttie ciergy of the freer churches, especia/ly where a return to primitive wa Js in some direction was not uneasonably desired. In other matters, w, it was possible for the Englishwan to learn much. He was proud of ! ng on the governing body of a Er?^ w*"ch was the first in the J! Em Pire to grant degrees to S v In New Zealand, too, the jeuise had been given to females, 2 now the men not only did not reL? ™c step as harmful or incony nt>but wondered why the women til^ained so long without the C- °/T Vote nt Parliamentary elec- ,".; daughter and applause). a A«W ZEALANDEE'S MARRIAGE. tot? 'o? quiet little vi«ag-e called 3 D ;J n Worcestershire, situated in Astr and well-cultivated valley. JTerv r would have carried away 'alii V° ng im Pression of that Uttle tisiJj :f owever, if he or s>* had CL °£ the 14th inst- I<rie occa'hreWT the marriage «rf Mr P. M. **& V n > of the Key- A- G.cnas. Of Auckland, to Miss Alice Ban;A v&hherter of Mr A. J. Morton <W c Jl St"rad- The Holy Trinity *rvwl as bea' tltifully decorated with heDUms' dahlias, and anemo- ££ J vas well fil^d with invited W Ix, nJr clergymen who officiated *&£***"• W. H. Purchas, Vicar UjWonfleld, Staffs, the Rev. G. Fox, UaAQ Car of Stroud, and the Eev. W n? yrma' CUI-ate of the Slade a*aA rch- The bride was given a. ij her step-father. She wore Wilson, i rich ivory corded silk, N n y trimmed with chiffon and fltrej i n 3sementerie. Her embroi•Wfl v l eil was fastened with a o!taV Pearl brooch, the gift Haia s lee brothers. The bridessistgj. *l ere Miss Mildred Purchas Dora 4tv bridegroom) and Miss V * n (cousin of the bride). %v, t^ re, dresses of white chine la ts «? chiffon bodices, and white Biines ed with chiffon and %oi' a u bride's travelling dress W ri i;, Dlue material, trimmed with Nerig a / elvet ' and blue passe- % n'a" i ceremony the ■aoon V+ r 'eft on a short honey.c 21st returned to Stroud on fts o ' so as to be present at an %hJ an? Garden Party given in Mr A. J. Morton Ball, % Jr* were some 250 friends. ere .two noyei features at the

wedding. Miss Nettie Atkinson played a violin solo before the ceremony and again after was heard to advantage in Leo Sterns 'Nocturne.' The other novelty was a coach and four by which the bridesmaids and a number of the personal friends of the bride were conveyed to and from the church. With regard to this coach the local paper says : —'When it dashed, off from the church gates to the accompaniment of a horn, the other carriages being meanwhile drawn up in line, the -'scene was particularly festive, and the school children who had been let out for the occasion are not likely to soon forget what thejr saw and heard.' Dr. and Mrs Purchas leave for Auckland next month, it being their intention to settle in New Zealand. They carry away not only good wishes of" numbers of friends but substantial evidence of these good wishes in the shape of about 250 wedding presents, pearl passenmenterie. Her embroiDR. KNIGHT.

Few colonials on a visit to England this year have, so far as I have heard, made as good use of their time as Dr. and Mrs ivnight, of Auckland. After the Jubilee events were numbered among the things of the past, they cycled from Reading through Winchester -and the New Forest, and after doing everything of interest in the Isle of Wight, returned a-wheel to Berkshire. The trip to Norway, which the Auckland medico was thinking about when I last saw him crystallised into form, and on July 6 he started with Mrs Knight and a friend for Bergen, via Hull. They visited several Fjords and places of interest in Norway, went up the coast, and then drove across country to Molde, where they picked up the train for Christiana, The party then went on to Stockholm, where an exhibition was in progress. They found while in Scandinavia that people were industrious and hard working, and that living was cheap. In Germany Mr and Mrs Knight visited the quaint old German town of Lubeck, and then went on to Hamburg, and afterwards to Cologne, where they fell under the spell of the magnificent Cathedral of that town. They were very pleased with Brussels, and the really representative exhibition open there, and. they, of course, drove to the field of Waterloo. . During the whole of their Continental tour Mr and Mrs Knight experienced the best of weather, but their trip to North Wales, on their return, was not graced by the same propitious state of the elements, for the uncertainty as to whether it was not going to rain marred their explorations in the slate mines and the other similar and prosaic amusements to which tourists in Wales are treated. A trip to that favourite summer resort, the Isle of Man, was made under more favourable atmospheric conditions, and the pla^fis of interest were visited by bicycles, yince the Isle of Man expedition the doctor and his wife have been literally cycling over the whole of Eng-land. With Reading as headquarters, they have toured Suffolk, visiting Bury St. Edmunds and Colchester, and later London, Windsor, Hampton Court, Strat-ford-on-Avon, and Oxford. Mr and Mrs Knight are at present looking up old friends and favourite spots. The doctor comes to London next month, when he will settle down to hospital work. About cycling both he and his wife, are enthusiastic. nndJhft former remarked to me the other day that they had covered over 1000 miles on their machines, and could imagine no better way of seeing a country where there are such fine roads and where the scenery to their mind is unsurpassed.

There was a smart Anglo-Colonial wedding at Christchurch, Lancaster, late on. Saturday last when Mr D. G. Thornton, of Auckland, took to wife Miss Florence Enid Hunt, eldest daughter of Mr W. Leig-h Hunt, of 25, Q.ueensborough Terrace W.