ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10536, 23 December 1899, Page 4

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES

I "" _> — (FROM OTJK OWN CORRESPONDENT.) |' LONDON, November 10. New Zealand has apin this week come in I for some good forage orders for South Africa, 2000 mora tons of oats having been pflaced with firms in the colony, with additional orders for 250 tons of compressed hay. As before, the Agricultural Department will undertake the sampling and inspection for the Imperial Government. Up to the present orders for nearly 8000 tons of oats have gone to New Zealand for the South African troops. Passengers by the s.s. Papanui had a most unpleasant experience coming up the English Channel. They met the full force of a severe gale. do bad waa it that the vessel was unable to call in at Plymouth, and she was therefore brought on to Gravesend. The Papanui's arrival at Plymouth was awaited by several detectives, Vho were anxious to arrest a man named J. Muir, wanted at Adelaide on a charge of "wrongfully obtaining £340 from one M. 0. Connell." Judge of the chagrin of the detectives when the first intimation they had of the vessel's arrival in English waters was the telegram stating that she was at Gravesend. However, a man answering the description has been arrested, though he strenuously denies that he is Muir. He travelled second-class in the s. s. Papanui under the name of "H. Jones." A belated consignment of New Zealand eels has just come to hand, and is being placed for trial. It appears that the eelfl were expected months back, and that on those to whom. . they were addressed here writing out, to- the colony. advising- their non - arrival, it was found that tbey had not left the freezing chambers. However, they have now come to hand in very good condition, and those in the trade say they are finer and fatter than either English or Dutch ' eels. _ • ___„ ~_\. v ;' _ •'..." .'.:'-.'■ i Canon Harperwasin.London this week; < I gather thitt.it .is bis intention to return to . New Zealand ih the s,s. Paparoa. I notice the name, among recent callers ; at the Agent-General's Oflice in London, of i j Mr J. S. Ross, of Messrs Cook and Ross, i [ of Christchurch , ; Mr Ross, who arrived by the Orotava, is at present staying with his i cousin, Dr. Don, in London, and I believe < | that he will probably remain in the metropolis for a year or two in order to study all the latest developments in pharmaceutical science and kindred matters, A wedding of New Zealand interest took place recently at All Saints, Norfolk square, j London.W., wnen Mr Henry Mac Donald, i barrister-at-law, son of Mr Donald Mac- '. Donald, of Christchurch, was married to i Miss Mary Wood Chapman, second daughter '. of the late Mr G. T. Chapman, of Auckland, New Zealand., < A writer in the "Christian World" warns 1 young fellows about to settle in New Zea- ■'. land, "under no consideration to pay heavy i premiums, or any premiums at all, to loam farming.'' Fairm 'bands, he says, "are generally in demand, especially in Taranaki; new chums can -always get wprk for their keep until they get a footing and a knowledge of cokmial agriculture. One may sometimes come across advertisements for cadets, premium required. Beware of such. Be guarded against unprincipled agents, and I hope that those intending going there will consider well before entering into any bond of any kind. I was once a new chum myself, and I have lately come from Taranaki." Dr. Mac Clean, who formerly held an appointment in the Department of Veterinary Surgery under the New-.Zealand Minister for Agriculture, and who came to England some time back to study medicine, in whioh he duly qualified, has received a good appointment at Constantinople, being placed in charge of the British Hospital there. Dr. MacClean'has already arrived at the scene of his new labours. Miss Jervois,' daughter of the, late exGovernor of New Zealand, is at present- living at Blackheatfo, with the- well-known Guild of the "Grey Ladies," who devote themselves wholly to charitable work. In this Miss Jervois „as always, like her mother, taken a keen personal interest, and she is sharing with great zest in the labours of the "Grey Ladies/ but I understand that she does not at present contemplate joining their association permanently. } • It is announced that a marriage will take place shortly between Miss Ellen Gertrude Temple, daughter of Catofcain E. F. Temple, of Geraddlne, New Zealand, and Mr Rkshaxd Marshall, of Enholmes, Patringtoo, Yorkshire- ' ' November 18. It is stated that the barque Southesk, "of Dundee (Captain Hill) arrived at Falmouth from Lyttelton, New Zealand, on the 31st nit- (wheat laden), after a passage of seventyfour days, having sailed on the 18th August. She passed Cape Horn nineteen days out, and the Equator forty-three days. The record passage last year was by the Lurline, Lyttelton to Gravesend in seventy-seven days. The ship Blenheim, of Aberdeen, which ' sailed from'Lyttelton on the 4th June, for London (seventy-five days before the South.- : esk), arrived in the Channel at the same time with the latter. ' • ! On their arrival in London, the crew of - the 6.8. Maori, of the Shaw, Savill and i Albion Company, upon being paid off on : Tuesday, voluntarily subscribed £5 14a 5d : out of their wages for the widows and or- • of soldiers and sailors who have lost ' their Hvea in fioutb Africa, and this amount ' has been forwarded to the Lord Mayor s I Fund- j Captain Burton, R.N.R., late of the s.s- ' Rangatira, has assumed command of the s.s. ; Karamea, tho latest addition to the Shaw, '• Savill and Albion fleet. This new vessel ' has just come round from the'Tyne to London, and is loading preparatory t<y her maiden voyage. She will go to New Zealand by way of tlie Cape, and takes a large quantity of Government stores for South Africa. i Recent callers at the Agency-Geiteral include Mr R. W- Taylor, of Wellington; Mr WV W. of Hbkitika; Mr D. F. Campbell, of : Mr R. W. Treloar, | of Qhriabehwxk; Mr George F. Smith, oi 11

I VelV.ngtou, and Mr and Mis Soper, ol I _-hri£tcburcih. Someone at the War Office seems to lave blundered remarkably over CantaJu Haylock ; Owen's appointment as Adjutant to the New Zealand Forces. This week intimatbnwas received that the Captain's regiment having been ordered to Soutfi. Africa he would be going to the Cape. Then ft turned otjt that this was a blunder, and that the War Office expected him to go to New Zealand. So he, with Mrs Owen and their two ohildren, sail in the Orient-liner Ortona, next . •" week. Mr Ernest de Latour, who has been an- •-"• pointed Curator for the fish hatcheries at,: ~ '. Masterton, for the Wellington Accl'jnatlsa4'". tion Society, is expected to leave fc. thi'- r ! ( . colony by the s.s. Ruahine, in December. "V" He waa in charge of fish culture at the Cape, but owing to the withholding of the Govern-' ment grant there, his services became available for New Zealand. He is well recommended by Lord Loch and others, who speak of the good work he ha 3 done.