ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12129, 27 February 1905, Page 9

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

» (nto_i own own coaßtsroKDwrr.) LONDON, January 21. "Eighteen years ago," says a London paper, "a West End clerk was sentenced to nine* months' imprisonment for erab-sslement. After serving his sentence he emigrated to New Zealand, where he made a large sum of money. He returned to England, on Sunday last, and on the* following; day repaid the money he stole from the firm, of which only one partner now remains." The ship Discovery, in which Captain Scott went to the Antarctic, and which has been sold to the Hudson Bay Company, will sail in June from Canada for England carrying furs. At present the ; Discovery is lying in the East India : docks, and will replace the *l--dy Head and the. Stork, -which are at present ; regarded by Lloyds' aa lost, in th* Hudson Bay Company's service. The Morning has become a Dundee whaler, and the Terra Nova has been negotiated fox ft similar purpose. She is, however, going to Frana Josef -Land to carry stores for the Ziegler expedition. At St. Mary's Church, Broome, Suffolk, on Tuesday in this .-week, Mr T. Mark Hovell, son of Mr D. de Berdt 7. ','.■■:.■:', '. ..-. .■,■43*:. ....

Hovell, and » relative of tho Dean of Waiapu, New Zealand, was marri-d to the Hon. Margaret CeeiUa. BatemanHanbory, daughter of the late Lord Bateman and Agnes Lady Batsman, of Shobdon Court, Herefordshire, and sister of the present peer. . It is announoed that the Royal Humane Society has awarded a silver medal to C. Mansell, seaman of the cruiser Tauranga, for his endeavour to save an officer of the ship, who was swept overboard and lost off Wellington, New Zealand, on the 13th October. _, _ , .. Replying to tho Rev. C. Coleridge Harper's letter on New Zealand education. Miss Constance Barnicoat writes to "Tho Times":—"Mr Harper exaggerates not only the benefits arising from Bible teaching in schools (I say nothing about such teaching in the home), but tho had effects of purely secular teaching on the New Zealand children. Does Mr Harper mean to tell mc that, child for child, and comparing as nearly as possible classes of corresponding social position, tho New Zealandor is worse than the English child? He is different, I grant. Born and bred in a young, excessively democratic, perhaps too democratic colony, where tho conditions of life in many ways are very unlike those of English life, he could not fail to be in many ways unlike his English cousins. I think, too, that,no ono has yet quite appreciated the effect of the New Zealand climate upon those living there. . . • The New Zealand child, no doubt, is often very ignorant of both the Old and the New Testament. Ho has no respect for 'the cloth' as such. He lives in an atmosphere that is, I cannot but think, somewhat materialistic. When he grows up the worst, that can be said of him was said recently by his own Premier, who told him that ho was 'too pleasure-lovingj and hinted that he scarcely took Tifo _sriously enough. Nevertheless, surely Mr Harper would not consider that the average | New Zealander has shown himself, lack- • ing in moral fibre { in 'backbone,' in | grit. In spite of his fondness for out--1 door sports in his brilliant climate, and his lack of at any rate outward religion, he has so far held his own in every way in competition with the world outside his own colony in a way mat is quito i remarkable. 'National disaster' as applied to our system of secular education, is, I think, far too strong a term." Mr T. Spencer Gollan and Tom Sullivan, the sculling ex-champion, have baen distinguishing themselves by a very gallant rescue of men drowning in the Thames. Notwithstanding the icy and biting gale of last Sunday a number of racing crews went out to their usual practice on the Thames. Owing to the rough water oho four-oar was swamped near Hammersmith bridge and one of its crew drowned. From the published accounts it appears that the men had been warned to keep to the sheltered side of the river, for. with the wind against the tide, there was quite a considerable "sea* in midstream. The boat turned turtle after filling and the five men of the crew I clung to it in the numbing, icy water. j A pair-oar racing shell, apparently the most impossible of craft in which to ! effect a rescue, went to their help.' It waa manned by Mr T. Spenoer Gollan j and by Mr T. Sullivan, the sculling ex ; I champion. First one man was told by j the rescuers to grip the bows of tho frail craft, and he was rowed into shallow water. A second was got out of danger j in the same way, a third swam ashore, and the fourth was saved by another boat. The fifth man, a draper's assis- | tant, named D. Davias, aged 21, who j acted as stroke, was cramped by the in- ' tense cold, lost his hold on the upturned j boat, and waa drowned. I A marvelloas golf story is contributed to several papers _ by. Mr Charles Willoby, whose name is well known in New Zealand. He writes:—"Two incidents occurred to tne while playing round on this course to-day (January 18th) of so extraordinary a nature as, in my opinion, to be worth recording. Going to the ninth hole, in the morning, my second shot (a long brassie) brought down a fine gull, at a height of somo forty to fifty feet. Ho cost mc the hole, though my shot cost him his Ufel Starting' out again in the afternoon, my second shot fa the first hole, with the same ball, killed two larks—the first bird being'deoapitated. Either incident is of itself remarkable, but that two such should occur to the same golfer, with the same ball, on the same day, would, I think, establish a record for this, if not, for any, course." I should think bo.