ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

Press, Volume II, Issue 8704, 29 January 1894, Page 5

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

OCR SPECIAL CO^RESPOSDKIiT.) LONDON, December 16. On the 20th that indefatigable ex-Zealan-dian, Mv Arthur Clayden, will deliver a lecture oa "' One Colonies/ , at the Borough Polytechnic Institution, and it is quite safe to predict that New Zealand will occupy no mean part of that discourse. Hβ is also to address ibe .National Liberal Cfub on " New Zealand Liberalism " ten days later.

Several New Zealandera were present at the reading , of Captain Williams' paper on " Uganda " before the Royul Colonial Institute last Tuesday. I noticed Messrs A. Michieand C. G. Tegetmeier (both of the Bank of New Zealand), J. E. Nathan, L. Nathan, J. Nathan and A. E. Nathan, all o£ New Zealand.

Miss Flora Shaw, the " Australian Special " aud now "Colonial Editor" of The Times, is to read a paper on the Australian colonies before the Royal Colonial Institute next month. She will be the first lady who ha 3 ever yefc read a paper at the Institute during its twenty-four years' existence. This new depart mc i≤ another sign of the itnas —in a doable sense .'

By the P. and O. s.s. Britannia, just arrived in port, Dr. Bond, Messrs Croxton, FogwiJl, aod Knight have come from New Zealand. The Tongariro brings Dr. Bashnell, Mr and Mrs Hirst, Mrs and Mis& Lucy, Miss Worrell, and Messrs Strachey, Lawson, Wolfson, Cage*, Clarke, Lopez, Martin, Munich, O'Donnell, »nd Palmer.

The Austral, which sails to-morrow, takes for New Zealand Mrs Dash wood, Mr and Mrs Pearson, Mr and Mrs Petrie, Mr and Mrs Hertley, Dr. and Mrs Hislup, Mr and Mra Sugden and family, Messrs Boyle, Donald, Sykes, and Todd. By the (Jazco on the 50th the Yen. Archdeacon White and Mrs White leave for New Zealand, and by the following Orient boat, the Ophir, gcTto New Zealand the Rev. A. W. Averill and Mrs Averill, Mr and Mrs DarliDg, Mr and Mrs Manley, Mrs Young, Miss Evans, Messrs Cohroy, Lambert, and Mansfield.

Mr, Mrs, and Miss Williamson, Misses Landeli (2), Mrs Hirst and Mr Pynsent sail in the Parramatta next week, en route for New Zealand. By the Britannia, which leaves on the Sfch prox., Mr and Miss Alleo, Miss Dodson, Mr and Mrs Godfrey, Mr and Mrs Hurby (of Auckland.), Mr and Mrs Mortimet, , Mr Reeco, and Mr Ure have already booked for New Zealand, as also have Mr, Mrs and fifiss Garrick, Mr and Mrs Michie and family (of Dunedin), Messrs Pennyman, Silaon, Wrigliton, by-the Australia, which sails on the 2nd February.

A.t a meeting of the Executive Council of the Imperial Instititute held yesterday, 81 candidates for Fellowship were elected, making a total of 8479 fellows on the roll to date.

Mr Albert "Randegger was, with, the approval of H.R.H. the President, appointed Honorary Conductor to the Imperial Institute Amateur Orchestral and Vocal Society, and Mr Louis D'Egville was appointed Honorary Leader of the Orchestra. At a meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute, held on Tuesday last, Major-General Sir Henry Green, X.C.5.1., C.8., in the chair, Mr Heary Reynolds, of New Zealand, was elected a Fellow of the Institute.

The Standard says that the results of the New Zealand Government's uew experiment of re-purchaeing private estates for division and settlement will be watched with great interest and not a little anxiety. According to the Times, New Zealand has loug been considered the leader in such movements as village settlements and cooperative communities in the Australasian colonies. ;

The Sun remarks on " the soundness of New Zealand trade and,the New Zealand Banks" as illustrated, by the deposits in the Banks last June, when the Australian trouble was at its.height. - It says, " Oue o£ the moat satisfactory features of the recent financial crisis in Australia was tha way in which \Neiv Zealand escaped being seriously drawn into it." The ■ Christian World has a -most fiery article denunciatory of the conduct of the Auckland College authorities towards Professor Aldis. It concludes-—" If the Auckland University College Council purposes to trifle in this way with the character and prospects of who are sent out to it from the Mother Country, it remains for the Mother Country to put the Auckland Council under a severe boycot."

The Post says that although " Sensationalism and realism, in preaching arc not entirely unknown on this side of the world, the record in this direction has been beaten by the Dunedin ministers and congrega tionalists who have lately been preaching on the subject of the seamy;side of Dunedin," stating that no 50 per cent, of the adulD male population of Dunedin lead evil lives. It adds—" These sermons have caused no little sensation in Dunedin, and indeed throughout all Australia." r

Mr J. H. L. Doro, of 29 Mincing lane, writes to The British Home and Export Trade Review along letter under the heading "Is the Imperial Institute a failure ?" He argues with oonaiderabie force that it has fully realised the hopes and aims of itg founders. He Eays :— il .'lt is used in the daytime for business purposes, and, I would say, speaking from individual experience, that the collections of samples and the information to be obtained from the Curator is exceedingly useful to merchants and manufacturers of all kiuds. It is surely an attraction that there should, be a social side, and that.JFellowa should have an opportunity of intercourse whichis provided for by thedy stem of lectures, concerts, andhouse dinners just commenced for the winter session." Tixe same writer alstf says:—"l have felb constrained to write thus at length, as the Institute has been exceeding valuable to mc, and I shall continue in my capacity as a merchant to make use of same whenever I may have need. This testimonial is quite spontaneous and unsolicited, and I tmst may bear fruit in inducing merchants and traders of all descriptions to. test for themselves the value of this lasting memorial of the jubilee of our gracious Qii- i en and Empress." • ■ .