TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9737, 27 May 1897, Page 4

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Iw referring yesterday to , Aa Mr, C. A. Cooper's letter Editor , * to the Scotsman on the Impressions.. New Zealand citie3 which ' ; , he visited, space did not allow as to ojiote xoQxe.of «bia atgiefc thja

dealt with Oar has a good deal to *w about the other thh centres, beginning with Welli O g t(m , which he says that common-sense ua'- • the position of capital of New Z&I ' l "It would bo excessive politoness Cooper's opinion, "to say that VVe'lUn ,l is a beautiful pttco," it i« enough to' 2? pictuvesque. Hβ noted a business air in j•• towu and the shopa seemed to l i " > well. "The harbour i 8 v«y jf* it might bo thought superb if A ,'?' land harbour did not exist." nu Bay he found " a singularly attracyj! watering place, and taken altogether W ! lington appeared to him "a of promise and of innch present Naturally Mr Cooper, as a Scot, am i"' Edinburgh Scot at that* thinks highly *! Dunedin, which, he saya, ♦• ought t 1 dear to every Scotsman," as it affji* everywhere proofs of his country^ energy and enterprise. Mr Cooper apt* to have been fortunate in his cieeronn <jL; ' his stay in Dunedin. He fell into the ham?* among Others, of the Hon. T. Fergus and *« Mr J. H. Morrison, of the Mosgiel Woolfc Factory, and when these gentlemen )i. ls 4 done with him there was little he did tint know, or at leaat had not heard, about th woollen industry. Mr Cooper seenwto h»vt been sufficiently impressed alike wth the quality of the manufactures, tfci completeness of the mills, and the'p, w , perity of Mosgiel and its people, the e m ! ployeesof the Companj. Mr fc'ergu* d rWl him over the Taieri plain, and 2klr Coot** declares that, the drive was a most valuati!* educative process. The npshot of jjj. visit to Dunedin was that he left ft. w it : the conviction that it was a place wiih ' great future. "It is fcusy, it is it is Scottish, and it is picturesque in ft very high degree." Mr Cooper's enthn. siasm is, however, at flood title when hi speaks of Auckland, of which he aavs tW if he had failed to go there he would hay* missed at once " the busiest town in tf»e colony and the mot>t beautiful." Passliw over the allusion to Auckland's busynej, which was at that time the feverish autivitvoj the piining boom, onp, must.admit thatM r Cooper does full justice to Auckland's beauir. "Its harbour sheltered from all heavy sea?, i» exqnigite. Sydney harbour, it is said. '»'. \ more beautiful. For the time," saya Mr Cooper, "I am content, and more tlun content, with Auckland." The inner boar, he declares, is a dream of beauty, anil the view from the top of Mount JJdeti h« does nob believe can be equalled in the world. Mr Cooper's pauegyrics are written in very pleasant and readable style, and « the Scotsman is a most influential papei throughout; Scotland, it,a editor's ' trio through New Zealand may be of considerable service to the colony.

A PitoPOSAL for the oekbr* Accession tioa throughout the Etnpue Sunday, on Sunday, June 20tli, of thfc sixtieth anniversary of, ttie Queen's accession, cornea from Canada in th< shape of a letter to Mr James Alien, M.H.It,, who, it eeams, is a corresponding secretary of the Royal Colonial Inatitnte. The wiittu of the letter occupies a similar position in Canada, and he forwards a circular frnm the "Supreme Grand President" of tht Sons of England Society, in which tlie arrangements made by that body for ,the day in question are set forth. TheSotietj appears to be a Canadian iufititution, and consists of "loyal Englishmen and seme ol England, both emigrants and native born in the colonies." All Lodges ot this Order will attend Divine service on the Sufldiy mentioned, and these services " shall been* ducted so that the National Anthem slta!| be eung Ahd £r"Aye«s fop iKfc Qttteh &U i>y ■ "titie: sons o£ ■ " ' in. one . cua.antinnr 'fta sn; rainw services of the day, -we are told, have been arranged to begin in them colonies, ftftl travelling ever westward lodge* in South Africa will follow suit; as tho eon reachw them... After America is reached "tfo biretlnrern in St. . !Nfe-wfomA<JJ»»n'l, IJiob bo tojiiiu iii) jo eiioaoaaioo joiiau oftoi then be talcen up 10 succession, lougu Mlet lodge, across the continent tfcrotigh Ganmla, as the precise time reaches oaoh, from ilia 'Atlantic to the The brethren at Vie- ' Ml Mtkh Columbia, ivtodiUerQJi j the J?ncific back to the place of beginnings having kept company with the hours met traversed' the world in one unbroken Hft9 through the coloniea of the Empire, of the Union Jack. , * Thef hope is expressed t'net this part of the Empire wiU joia in.wft'i Canada and tho other portions inmaking the scheme a success. This does not look, as, if arrangements had already been made, ftnti ' indeed the Sons of England Society, bo far as we are aware, boa no branches heri, As the first echejne suggested—whereby hep Majesty was' to give the ligial when outside St. Paul's -Cathedral oo tJie 22nd 6f Jfine, which should to cabled atdncd to all English-speaking countries in. thtt world—does not appear to have been Ufe«» up, it is possible that if the world ie to surrounded by one simultaneous song of praise some such arrangement as the /ongoing must be decided upon. Butrti*. continuity of the song will be considerably endangered if no more particulars are given . as to the time the eervice is to be com* menced here than that it will be held in t|i», afternoon. * ' '.'.'"•■■