ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11547, 1 April 1903, Page 8

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

» (FKOM OUB OWN CORRESFOXDEXT.) LONDON, February 20. A good deal of eurprL , *; haa been caused in ChurCh circles by a New Zealand cubit* message in "The Times"' to the effect that the Bishop of Christchurch wiil visdfc England almost immediately, as none of hie London friends seem to have any idea that Bishop Julias contemplated aoofcher visitto t.!ie Mother Country just jvt. It us suggested that then* may have- wir.e misconception, and I liuve had niiuriy questions put to ul= about it, but of cou:se am unable to throw any iizht on the mutter. The Bishop of Wellington and the Bishop-elect of Auckland arc to be pr«*-nt-td to his Majtsty the King at the coining levee, which will'be h*ld on the- Gth March. The presentation will b».- made by Dr. Winuington In-iain, tiie Bishop of London. Mis Jiiaies G!«x»lt Wk-son's "Book of Verse" ia noticed iri the "Quetn," which says:—"Mrs Wilson is the bist living P<*-'t in* New Ze:ihind ; indtx-d. she lists had no superior among 6he poets of the island colony which played i»uch a devoted and •hi'ioic part, in rue war, except the late Alfrtd Domett, the author of the superb New Zealand epic T.anolf and Amohia.' . . . Mrs Wilson is a. charming pott, and might justly be called tho Australian Alice Meyiwill." Her writing U fragrant '-he soil, and posse*aes a renA poetk wpark." Mr de Lucy Cteary (Lyttelton) wae a passenger by "the s.s. "Karamea, arriving in Loudou about a montih ago after a iineweather p.ie."age." At pre.<*nt he is having a holiday prior to taking up his engineering profession on board an ocean liner, probably about the end of this month. He advises "young colonials who may be contemplnting "a trip to England on the look out for work to tim» their arrival here at any period but th-e- winter, un'.esN there will be influence ait tiheir backs, or unless each one ha< at least. £50 in his pockets—whicii sum, he remarks, will need 1 careful handling.