ANGLO-COLONIAL MOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 246, 17 October 1910, Page 9

ANGLO-COLONIAL MOTES.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) t ' LONDON, September 9. 7TSIT TO MEW ZEALAND PAViLIOX. : 'The jnemters of the Sanitary Inspectors' Association attending the annual t iSVland pavilion at the Japan- . *Sf received by Sir William I Ju-jines, who cordially welcomed them ' rfhrimlf of W 3 Government, and yen&S3SS hope that their visit might , ■i.SjEJn and interesting as afford- [ " ? n Tthem an opportunity of acquiring ■■-StSSm conning the food product, J ' X Zealand, which, as he was aware, I particularly under their tfteuthroughout the country in the course 3 T Quintan, expressed the thanks o L mSnbers for the kind invitation and «snrtion-of the High Commissioner, and Sked-that the food products received £mn Yew Zealand were recoptmsed by ■ £ all as being of the highest quality. He considered the opportunity afforded S inspecting the exhibits in the pavilion .-A-jaast valuable one. Tie members, who were conducted round the Court by the Produce Commissioner Mr H. C. Cameron, had full information * concerning the various exhibits Snoarted to. them, and the numerous Sions, which were freely asked, were leadfly replied to. The weather on 'toturday «v delightful, and a most en- ' jojaila afternoon -was spent a.t the White ys£- ;- t NEW ZEALAND OX SHOW. Quite a number of exhibitions are announced for next summer, and the High Commissioner for New Zealand hopes to jhave the Dominion represented at the Festival of Empire at the Crystal Palace, ■ the Imperial Exhibition at the White ■ City, tie Glasgow Exhibition, and also ' efc 4he exhibition to be held at Roubaix, in the north of Franco. Nothing, how- • 'jver, las yet been decided. DECLINE OF THE WIND-JAMMER. The old Shaw, Savill and Albion clipper Westland, which has just been sold tp be broken up, recalls the palmy days '■ of the wind-jammer. She was built on the Clyde in 1878, and when the twelfth year of her service was approaching coni- . ;jletion she.was one of twenty-seven simifar units in the Shaw, Savill and Albion - : -fleet. Now, the service is exclusively maintained by large steamers, and has no nse for anything so archaic. The W>st- - land, which used to run t o New Zealand,, ceased to be a British ship nearly four years ago. She was one of the smartest aaid swiftest vessels in €he trade, and with regret comparatively ancient mariners now see her follow the Dtarwar, the Barossa, the Torrens, aiirt the others to the scrap neap.

The decline of the wind-jammer — of the British wind-jammer, at any rate— is due to the fact that it can find nothing to do. The day of the sailing vessel seems to be definitely drawing to a close. NEW ZEALAND FLAX IN IRELAND. Mr. W. Herbert Alington, late of i Christchurch, is desirous of initiating ! the growing of New Zealand flax in Irplaml for commercial purposes. He is firmly convinced of the suitability of the bog-lands of Ireland for that purpose. Thore are many places in Ireland, especially in the West, where the plant is thriving luxuriantly. Mr. Alington is appealing in the Irish papers to all thoso who have plants to co-operate by saving and sowing all the. seed they can this autumn; ft each owner -would do this, enough seedlings could be raised to plant ■ many hundred acres. A four-year-old , plantation, he says, ought .to yield green ' leaf worth at the least £40 per acre, and could afterwards be cut every second year with as good, or probably better, results, whilst the cost of maintenance would be practically nil. TWELVE-STONE IMMIGRANTS. Finding it impossible to secure accommodation for all approved immigrants on the usual steamers, the West Australian Croverument has made arrangements for 150 men to go out by the s.s. Geelong, which sails from London about October 13. An interesting feature about these new citizens of Western Australia is that they will be all over sft lOin in height, and will average 12st in weight. In addition to the special passages by the Geelong the Government has chartered the New Zealand Company's steamer Himu- ! taka, and boo emigrants are to leave London for Fremantle by this ship on Xovember 30. Even with all these extra facilities, there will be left in England nearly 1000 approved people who will - be unable to leave for the Western State i before the end of the year. All steamer > berths are now filled until January next. ■ Of these Western Australian immigrants, , a great number have capital, many of ; them bpinji well-to-do farmers. These > men will absorb a big percentage of the farm labourers going from here, so that - the demand for labour in Western Australia should, despite frequent replenishment, continue almost as great as at present.