ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14917, 16 March 1914, Page 3

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

POLAR DOG'S ESCAPADE

(rnoit OCR ow>- correspondent.) LONDON. February 6. Mr Cherry Garrard is much relieved to-day owing to the capture and return of his dog Kris, a famous member of Scott's dog-teams. Mr, Garrard brought Kris lidrne lrom the Antarctic and has kept him since at his home in Herefordshire. The other day Kris got loose and cleared out, making due north by instinct. Mr Garranl was afraid he would be destroyed for committing damage to farmers' docks, for he retains many of the wild characteristics of liis Polar birthplace. Accordingly he published full instructions to the public how to deal with Kris if they should encounter mm. He specially begged that a dog with such a history should not be destroyed if it could be avoided. Kris was one of the team which Scott took with him to One-ton Depot, and ho also accompanied the party which in the end found the remains of Scott's party in the tent. Kris killed only two hens in his poried of freedom. He was found lying down on the roadside, and after a menacing snap or two allowed himself to be led to a farmhouse, where food restored him to perfect good humour. ROYAL "BRITANNIC" INSTITUTE. The feelings of the late Sir Frederick Young were a »very good reason why the much-discussed name of the "Royal Colonial Institute" was not changed earlier. Like many others Sir Frederick had an. attachment for tho word "Colonial," but its accuracy to describe the scope of the Institute has long been a thing cf the past. Now the Change will be mado without delay, and in the altered name those who are interested in oversea affairs can easily recognise the triumph of Mr Richard Jeob, the well-known student of Imperial relations. Mr Jcbb has, for sonic time past, advocated the term "Britannic" as properly expressing what wo mean when we speak of tho Empire, and the Institute will probably before long be called the Royal Britannic Institute. This will embrftce members residing in Ir.dia and in foreign countries, neither of which classes was provided for in the old title. POLITICAL TERRORISM. After discussing at some length in *he ''Comm on wealth ,, the recent strike in New Zealand, the Rev. Harold Anson thrcjivs out a hint regarding the present controversy in the Church. He says: "It would be well for some ecclesiastical extremists to take to heart the lesson of these tactics of terrorism. They are somewhat over-ready to believe that they are powerful enough to terrorise the Church into submission to the demands made by ' an infinitesimal minority at the point of the sword. It it should prove that a small knot of men "are determined to hold up the Church, to cast out all men who do not conform to their view of what is right and orthodox, they may be surprised to find how large a, number of men there are who will rpfuse to be dragooned by a small coterie which threatens to rend the Church to pieces unless its demands are satisfied." THE COLOURING OF MARGARINE The Maypole Dairy Company, the pioneer in tho great margarine industry, held its annual meeting this week, and the profits divided amounted to something liko 160 per cent, on the ■share capital. The chairman entered a strong protest against the movement which is afoot now to induce the Government to forbid tho colouring of margarine sold in Great Britain. He pointed out that such a movement came strangely from the London representative of Australian interests, which, only last year, recommended tho adoption of a law to permit the same process of colouring to be practised in the Commonwealth. He could not see why what was' good for the Australian working man should necessarily be bad for'thp English. A NEW BISHOPRIC. The expansion of London has just given, •back to the East Anglian counties two of the many bishoprics which they used to support in the old English days before tne Norman Conquest. St. Edmundsbury and Cholmsford have just come into existence, and to the latter, which will embrace a vast number of the population of greater London, haa been appointed the ' Rev. J. E. Watts-Ditch-tield. ore of the most successful and earnest workers amongst men in the Church to-day. For the past 15 or 46 years hundreds of working men in East London have regularly attended his church (St. James the Less, Bethnal Green), and under his; influence have shown a remarkable spirit of good-fellowship. Two years ago the Church of England Men's Society appointed •him a special delegate to Australia and New Zealand, and in every place ho visited in his tour he made a profound impression. He was select preacher at Cambridge in 1909 and 1913, and was appointed lecturer in Pastoral Theology at the University, 1912-13. Tho lectures he delivered aro ' generally considered .among the most noteworthy of the. series. They have been published under the title of "The Church,in Action." Mr WattsDitchfield has for some years taken a leading place among the Evangelicals, in the Church of England, and as a member of the Upper House of Convocation of Canterbury he will bo able to represent them in an assembly where for some time they hare j had but little apparent influence. I