PERSONAL NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 167, 18 July 1898, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

(From Our London Correspondent.)

' LONDON, June 10. Mr Henry Reynolds has written from Vancouver to the editor of the 'British Australasian' a word of warning for the benefit of intending passengers by the Canadian.-Austra.Uai} j line. . He left London in the 'Lucania,' and was promised toy the London agent of the C.P.R. a connection with the 'Wai'rimob' at Vancouver. On at-! rival at New York, however, be was told it would be impossible for Wm to \ catch a steamer, as no trains left Montreal on Sunday. Mi- Reynolds, however, knew that where the mails could go,be could also g-Q, and went by the New York Central Express to Chicaj-o and thence by "the Chicago and St. Paul Railway, catching his boat, although the train was detained for ten hours by a, snow slip. He suggests that London agents should be careful to give passengers better information about American trains, and should see that passengers have a safe margin in which to get from New York to Vailcduyer. ; . ", Mr Arthur "BUey, Principal of the Technical College, Wellington, is still ori the 'go.' He finished off last week with Finsbury Technical College, the School pf Art, Woodcarving, the Royal College of Art, and Royal College of Science, South and the Science and Art, Department of. South Kensington, with which he is endeav-. ourmg to arrange on behalf of the Colony for a continuous circulation of objects and . illustrations in ■»w Zealand. Last Monday he visited the City Guilds of London Institute, a higher technical college under the direction of Sir PhiHp Magnus, with whom he had a long and interesting discussion. Battersea Polytechnic was the next stronghold invaded, and at present Mr Riley is making a raid upon the publishers to ascertain the apliances and publications bearing- on technical education. Last Wednesday he inspected the examination work by the City Guilds of London, and on Thursday he left- for Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, Preston, and Accrinffiton, to inspect the technical schools in those towns, an operation which will take him about a month. Mr James Bradley, of Basinghallstreet, and an old colonial, has written to the editor of the Tall Mall' appropos of the comment in that paper upon the Raratongan chief's (Te Pou) death, and' the statement that Mr Moss received no support to back his official authority. Mr Bradleythinks that if the editor reads the evidence taken before Sir Janies Prendergast he will alter his opinion, and remarks: 'It seems to me, after reading an account of the Royal Commission, that it is the British Resident who prevents anything being done jn the way of general administration, and it was on account of this that the Royal. Commission was held.' Mr George Boyd, M.R.C.D., L.R.C.P., desires New Zealand papers to give publicity to the fact that on June 3rd his wife presented him with a son. The birth occurred at Portshead, Somerset. The 'Scotsman' thinks that the story of Mr H. B. Vqgel's 'Moari Maid' is told with delicacy'and good feeling, and many of his" descriptive passages, though not always complimentary to the Government of the colony in its dealings with the Maori chiefs, are decidedly interesting- and picturesque. Mr Reeves tells me that his little lecture some weeks ago on Co-opera-tive Dairying in New Zealand at Southampton Row has already borne practical fruit. A representative of the Irish Co-operative Society was present, and in consequence of what he heard, the Society has written to the Agent-General officially expressing its desire to take up New Zealand butter and to put into touch with the principal factories in the colony. Mr J. Meagher, of Wellington, who left New Zealand in poor health, has much, improved by. his voyage Home in the 'Qphir,' and is thoroughly enjoying his trip and the sight-seeing in London. He leaves this week on a. visit to Dublin, and expects to start back for Wellington 'in September. Mrs A. J. Park and Miss Kathleen Park, who are, lam glad to hear, none the worse for their experiences in the Mataura, are staying with friends at Tonbridge, in Kent* As Mrs Parks wishes her daughter to avail herself of the educational advantages of the Old Country, they will, I understand, remain some time in England.