ANGLO-COLONIAI NOTES.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10215, 10 December 1898, Page 4

ANGLO-COLONIAI NOTES.

. »i [From Our Own Correspondent.] LONDON, October 28. A Dundee paper considers that the proposed action of the Christchurch Meat Company in opening shops there for the sale of New Zealand meat, is "the most important , development in New Zealand trade for a considerable time past, and the result of the company's enterprise will be looked forward to with great interest." Good as was the advertisement obtained for New Zealand woollen goods by last week's exhibition at the Imperial Institute, it has been greatly battered by the widespread publicity given it later on. Eulogistic notices of the exhibition have appeared - in all the trade journals and in Bradford, Aberdeen, and other-parts of Great Britain. Some of the firms who took small lines at the exhibition have now sent for the balance of them. The rugs which have sold best, I learn, were those of good quality, and all now left are of the cheaper sorts. An American scientific paper reports a lecture, delivered at the Gerard College, Philadelphia, by Mr Sidney Dickinson, F.R.G.S., on "Picturesque New Zealand." "Land and Water" has reproduced this report to the extent of a full page. In glowing language the lecturer describes the colony as "a country comparatively little known, but coming yearly into better knowledge because of its unexampled beauties, and as a resort for the invalid, the tourist and. the pleasure-seeker. Boyond. its coastline lies a kindly and fertile soil, a temperate climate, broad rivers, majestic forests, mountains • rivalling those of Switzerland, geysers and ', spouting springs like those of our own Yel- ' lowsfcone, and in the West Coast Sounds a \ new Norway of greater beauty than the old. , The Hot Lakes district of the North Island is certainly one of the strangest and weirdest , regions on the face of the earth." Dunedin • is described as the finest city, architecturally speaking, in the colony, though many good words are said for the whole of the cities seen on the tour, which started at Auckland with the Rotorua district. The "mix up" of Maori, however,. is delightful. - Whether that be the fault of the tourist or the compositor, I know not; perhaps a little of both., Te Kooti, were he in the flesh now, would not recognise his own name, and as for poor old Tawhiao, the appearance presented in print by his family name would make him turn in his grave. Fricaseed rata are .also given as a choice-dish with the Maoris. Only one day over time the Union Steamship Company's new steamer, the Mokoia, left Glasgow oh , Wednesday last, her, first port of call being Sydney. Unfortunately the weather in- the north, has been so bad, that it was impossible to take photographs of her, but I hear that she is a splendid model. 5 ' At a dinner given to the judges of the Kilmarnock Cheese Show this week; Mr Osborne warned Scotch farmers that New Zealand was now working very hard in the matter of cheese, and unless Home producers raised tile standard of quality colonists would beat them. _. '.■'"■ Mr Justice Kekewich;' after "the. rising ot his Court on Thursday, sat in his private room to deal,with matters,relating to the New Zealand''Midland Railway Company,' The business, however, was purely formal," and related 'to the claims of. certain, persons to be included Jtvibh the debenture T h6lders. Matters'connected with the case, however, are being brought to a head',to settle the debenture-holders' case, and I learn that on the return of A- Young, from Scotland, the question of'what rights' are' possessed < by the debenture-holders, whose interests have been placed, in Mr Youngs-hands, will be brought forward more prominently than has been the* case the last few months. Another Melanesian relic has now been

added to the well-used office book of the martyred Bishop Patteson, which Bishop Selwyn placed on the altar of the College vis., the silver pectoral cross ; usually worn by Bishop Patteson. This has I been presented by his sister, Miss Patteson, ' [ and. has been inlaid in the oaken slab of the - i altar. I think I mentioned that Miss PatI teaon once was good enough to show mc I this interesting relic of her martyred brother, as also the palm leaves which J_.is murderer " placed on his breast to indicate -he number" of their own people sacrificed by the slave-" traders, for which his death was to aton*." /, It is with very great regret, which I ami-, certain will be shared by all my New JJ&KS- - that I have to record a bereavement just experienced by Lord ancff Lady Glasgow. Recently they received tjie alarming news that their second son, seccmdS" "lieutenant, the Hon. Edward G. Boyle," wak'-K j seriously ill, suffering from typhoid and the Earl and Countess were about to leave for Malta, where he was lying happily intelligence has just arrived, [ the illness of this promising young officer { has terminated fatally. Deep sympathy-is.., I felt with Lord and Lady Glasgow in theuK' > sorrow. The late Mr Boyle's regiment hnd\ ' been serving in Crete, and he waß S-emovei, to Malta invalided.- '