ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 27, 1 February 1910, Page 7

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, December 24. YEW SHAW-SAVH-L LINER. v " .„ Workman, Clark and Co., _\ie==i-- - days airo from Jt j launched a iew "'. - => if " vand Be fast, the large jfjKiS d> steamer' Rangatira rf • • h they h»ve built to the order of JfaSStriU and Albion Co., Ltd., L T'ne n is 404 feet in length, I\ across tonnage of about 5.200. S2h« n bi,iit under u T d "" sp, \" SS urVev for their highest class, and "l camply a " lhe re< 4 ulrelnents Til Board of Trade passenger certifi1. The new steamer has been = P eci,!'..'a«i<med for tin. Company a special Jerrice between London and New Zeafte cargo snare is divided into five ,•„,,« I,i/»wS. three of which hav>j Sn insulated and otherwise prepared T O , tne carriage of perishable cargo. For L preservation of these cargoes, an ex"4 refrigerating p.ant has been in-,-jjled The holds are almost entirely l- c of obstruction, the decks being supported by fore-and-aft girders. Each P - the holds is furnished with a large nitehiraj' efficiently equipped with derricks, and other approves necessary for expeditiously iaJidliEg a large cargo Accommodation for the captain, officers engineers, and a number of passen- - has been arranged in steel deckEes amidships, while the petty officers and crew will be berthed in the forecastle and on the upper deck forward. ~ ... , Tie machinery Rnrl boilers will he supplied by the builders, aud consist of two sets of triple-expansion engines of the latest type, with steam supplied by five steel cylindrical multitubular boilers working under an improved system of forced draught. The steamer and machinery have been designed and constructed under the saDervision of Captain R. J. Noal and Mr. George Adams, marine and engineering superintendent of the ShawSavil? and Albion Company.

PIE A. SPICER OX HIS TRIP. Tour recent visitor. Sir Albert Spieer, JI.P.. President of the London Chamber of Commerce, gave an account this ■neck. at a special meeting of the Chamber, of his journey to Australia and »x Zealand.

fflr Albert Spieer said he was convinced, from hi< experience, that the dominions beyond the sea now felt that they had got beyond the stage of beins children, and must be considered as partners with the Mother Country, lie thought that position must be recognised! and that the self-governing dominions must be regarded a- partners \rith a measure of responsibility, in proportion to the amount of capital each had invested in John Bull and Co.

Dealing with the question of trade \rith Australia. Sir Albert said that ■while the Government might be willing to do everything possible to foster trade with the Mother Country, individually the people bought what suited them best, whether it was made in England or Germany or the United Sates. Australia, although it had a population of only -l..V)O.OO0, prodneed il6T.ilon.ono worth annually. Of this three-fourth* were the result of, what te 'Ktrali call primary industries—agriculture, pastoral, and dairy products, and the prod nee of forests and fisheries —iraile manufacturers produced only one-fourth.

It was a somewhat singular thing to find that Oennanv. France. Belgium, and the United States bought more Australian produce than the United Kingdom. No less than 58 per centwent to these countries, while only 42 per cent came to the United Kingdom. Germany actually bought more from Australia than she sold to Australia, and there was a feeling that Briti-h shipowners gave a preference to American shippers in connection with freights to Australia.

For the last six years people at Home had got into the habit of running down Great Britain's commercial position. AH the extreme statements of this kind were sent to the dominions beyond the seas, and had a certain effect. As business men, they must spp to it that there was a cessation of these strong statements as regards British decadence. He did not believe they were true. (Hear, hear.) COLONIAL EMIGRATION. SO far as can be judged from the Board of Trade's monthly return of passenger traffic to countries outside Europe, emigration from this country to the principal oversea dominions during November showed an all-round increase, as compared with the corresponding period of last year. British Kbjects who left the United Kingdom for Canada numbered 2,000, as against 2,017 in November. 100S, while 4,025 ■tent to Australia or New Zealand and ~"S to South Africa, the corresponding totals last year being 4,017 and LS R I respectively. For the eleven month = to November 3", the departures of British snbjects to these countries compare a? follows *ith those for the same period last jear:—

1000 1008 Mish Xorth America.. 53.525 SO.MS and XZ 34.052 29.668 fetish South America.. 20.750 18,531

XEAV P. AND O. SHIPS. The Peninsular and Oriental Company just ordered two 13,000-ton learners for their India, China, and Australian services. They aire to be "3J.V A beginning with this type of ship was made in 1903. when toe Moldavia. Mongolia, and Marmora 'ere produced. The first two of these fere of 9.500 ton-. The Marmora was « 10,500 tons, and she was given a ri° ter ship of the same register—the •Hacedoaia—in 1004. In the" following came the Mooltan. The last three, instructed since 1905. are of 10,900 £"*' M d now a jump is to be taken to MOO tons. Thus the tendency to iaease size proceeds steadily, proving ® cc again that there is no'iinalitv in ™P construction. EMIGRATION* AND BOYS. J&. T. E. Sedgwick, a Londoner, who to 3 !°ng taken a keen interest iv the * D r* tloll of emigration, has written for paohcation in Xew Zealand a series of "tftieles outlining a scheme for sending ? l town lads from the crowded centres 5 t-s Old Country to farms in the Over*r Dominions. ' This scheme has reJSived the approval of such well-known People as Lord Milner, Lord Tennyson, ">rd Nortficote. the Bishop of London, &c Bishop of Stepney, Sir John Kirk, g« flight Hon. Sydney Buxton, the Rev. Pean Eussell "Wakefield, Lord Brassey, jW the Archbishop of Canterbury.

AU these and others agree that' the idea is a sound one, worth carrying out. "It is all a question of management," writes Lord Milner. ''If you are able to carry out emigration on the lines laid down, I have no doubt that you will be conferring a great benefit both on the Mother Country and on the countries to which the lads are sent." Mr. Sedgwick hopes shortly to visit New Zealand.