OUR LONDON LETTER.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7442, 16 October 1889, Page 5

OUR LONDON LETTER.

(nunc oxra comatPOXDnan.] - LONDON, August 23. THE NEW PUGILIST. Those who wax eloquent and excited over broken noses and dislocated jaws, swollen eyes, and fractured fingers will, perhaps, feel some satisfaction in learning that Slavin, the champion boxer of Australia, is now in London. Further, he has been seized upon by a gentleman of the name of Hill, or Harris, or some such name, who gives public displays of tihe noble game, and this gentleman invited Slavin to dinner, where he had the unprecedented, yet merited, honor of meeting Viscount Mandeville and* Miss Bessie Bellwood, the latter being a mueio hall singer. Lord Mandeviile's bankruptcy affairs I related to you some time ago ; hie latest escapade has been to have a row with a cabman who interfered with him when in the (company of Miss Bellwood. Bat to come baok tot Slavin; I have reason for believiug that he is a "superior" pugilist- at least so £ "superior" journalist who made hu acquaintance by accident informs mc. Though it was considered doubtful whether Slavin would find anyone to meet him just now, it is now made known that Jim cSmith, the English champion,' is- prepared to make a match with him for J2600 or £1000 a side, " the light to be deoiued in the old style, within six months of signing , articles, the parties to toss for oiioioe of ground, and the editor of the Sporitman to be stakeholder." ADMUtAL TBYON A£ HOME. Admiral Tryon, so well known in An** tralian waters, is just now commandiog the British fleet in its endeavor te-repel the attacks of the Achiil fleet under Admiral Baird. Last year Admiral Tryon distinguished himself in the naval manoeuvres, and this year he has gone a stage further, for he has up to the present been entirely successful in keeping the enemy off our coasts, and has indeed captured a goodly number of his ships. THE N.Z. SHIPPING COMPANY. ; 1 gather that things are not quite as they should be with the management of the Shipping Company. When Mr Dawea took over Mr Pearce's line some month? ago, it was found that Mr Johnson waa a power on the Board, and had been employed by the Company for repairs aaA other suck things at a very remunerative rate. This Mr Dawes was determine*!/ty put his foot upon, and the result ha£bj«a very strained, relations- between tbeift. However, Mr Dawes , firmness is an established fact, and so it is more probable that Mr Johnson will go to the wall than that the new master will. Mr Dawe* fe very well satisfied with the Shipping Company, and especially finds cause for gratitude that the shipping freights Horn© from New Zealand are very much -better than those from Queensland and New South Wales. The shares now stand at something like J&b, being originally Js& shares, and this is a great advance on the old financial position. ". THE HANSOM CAB PUBLISHING COMPANY. :< .The Hansom Cab Publishing CoxotßJCty has changed its name and address."" Mr Trischler has taken to himaelf a partmer, and henceforth the firmtWill be kaowa-a* Trisohler and Co., and its address will tte 18 New Bridge street. The long-expected much-delayed Benson book will make its appearance positively on Wednesday next Mr Trischler has had. some trouble about the proof-sheete, which were stolen by some one unknown, and offered for sale k> the Daily Telegraph. The Telegraph. V^-' fused them, and informed Mr the offer, but deolined to -name of the News Agency wao it. However, he waa' abWjggffls|iPßpir this, and immediately ■ , <4s(Bbk*sß&!MX& : manager, who waa very -*»tBWmJNfiR&.. see his way to giving up tki correspondent. All further : s&Mm~wza removed by telegraphing- tyjMm.i.;sie. provincial editors, warning thss|.xj?.;-the theft, and the risk they ran in any sheets which they might "~ Mr Fergus Hume, who has somewhat ungratefully deserted his old publisher, has issued a shilling shooker of the usual description, called " The Piccadilly Puasl*, , ' It is published by White and Co. THEATBICAL NOTES. ;i | The Gaiety Company seem tojhave dona remarkably well in Australia, but to have been less successful in America, if we'are to judge by the figures submitted to the shareholders at the annual meeting o& the 12th. The contracts taken' over fey the company for the Australian,tour in the substantial profit of but the Directors regretted that sunilar contr*ejt» in respect of American and provmisal tours, proved of an adverse oharttetir, the losses amounting to 49944. - ■' ; Fred Leslie; of that same ty»s very ill some time ago; but that we* scarcely justification for anyone to cable over to America the news of his death. This was done, however, with the result that the Gaiety burlesque artiste will have the opportunity of perusing hie.own obituary notices. He will learn, at aay rate,, what the Americans think of him, which appears to be—much. ■■.;:']■ Mr Luscombe SeareUe, whose brothers are resident in New Zealand, and who ifl himself, known to New Zealanders, some trouble in South Africa. aia troupe, a young lady named by come ney fashion, Mies Helaie Harcourt, DKeas« ing her engagements, took to hey heela and fled. Mr Searelle instituted a search party, and at last the lady and the gentle* man with whom she fled, a Mr Cohen, were found at Xlerdsdorf, and the pair were promptly brought back to Kimberley, the latter; being sued,for J&o' damages, and Mies, Harcourfc'.being brought as witiaesa against him. The artless Keleie said that Mr'Cohen had several times aaked her to marry him, and at last, so fihe eafd,' , ! left because Mr Seed (the stage manager) was nasty to mc." Mies Harcourt;soon found she 'had made a mistake, and was anxious to return, because she discovered Mr'Cohen "was no gentleman/ The case was adjourned for a week that the written agreements between Miss Haroourt a&d Mr Searelle might be produced. ; - .! ANGLO-COLONUL JOTTINOS<t An International Bailway.Congress is to be held shortly .■Jβ? Paris, at which Mr Blaekett, th*-- consulting eagiflee? of the NewZeauiad Govern^oent*- repre>Ait your colbiiy.- "-: ■ ' ■'." ■ """' ' ' !i "-/l?' '.; -",^y Sir W. BuUer has, I believe, defliiifcely decided to go out to New Zealand in October, and it is not certain witee 1» will return. -■. ■ • ■ '••■• ■ -r, , ■.■.^i',-'" About the same time Mr Williaasr Montgomery intends to pay his old colony , a summer visit. He will remain in New Zealand till March, when he will return to England, and_ finally go out to New Zealand again with his eon in, October, 1890. , ■ ' . Lord Chas. Scott has been appointed to the command of the Australiaa Squadron, Lord Charles is by no means a eteiagerin having married a Melbourne lady some years ago, when he ws»- a captain. . Sir Francis Bell is at Scarborough,, Bir Graham Berry ia at - Margate, and Mr Kennawayis to go to Brighton onSatur- * SIE ABTHUB "Sir Arthur- Hamilton• Gordon," eaya thq Evening Newt and Pott, "whoif about to retire from the Governorship of JCeylon, is familiarly known in the Colonial service as "Thy Servant Arthur," from a etory that he had Itimself prayed for under this lordly-lowly designation in the Churches of Fiji. Nevertheless,he proved an admirable first Governor of Lord Carnarvon's annexation; so public-spirited as to cut down hie own salary to square the Budget. Like other mellow Tories, Sir Arthur labors under the innocent delusion that he is a Liberal, and once managed to impress a> portion of the electorate with the same fancy. Certainly, it was long ago—in 1854—when he carried oonropt Beverly for the Yellows, by te***™*™* methods, assuredly. Thoogh Mβ record stretches baolfc to *» 4*ya when hia father. Lord Aberdeen we* Prune Minister, he wffl; »>*.»» * ej ? SovSnbeV, and .iieeW l»w plenty <rf work l&hlajrffe":.; . ■ . •::■'.