NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7499, 19 October 1895, Page 6 (Supplement)

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

London, Sept. 7.

Mr L. Nathan, who has been lying seriously ill at Glasgow for some time past, is, I am glad to say, very much better, and it is hoped that he will be sufficiently recovered to get about again in the course of the next week or two. He was much gratified at receiving a kind message of sympathy from Sir George Grey. In a recent letter I mentioned with regret that Dr. Alexander Johnston, formerly Health Officer of Wellington, New Zealand, was dangerously ill. It is with still more regret that I have to announce the sad news of his death. He passed to his rest on Wednesday last. Mrs Robert Gillies with her two daughters and her son leave by the Himalaya on October 11 for Auckland and Dunedin. Dr. Sinclair Gillies, son of the late Mr Justice Gillies of New Zealand, has won the Drackenbury gold medal, and has been appointed house surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He leaves in November on a holiday trip to Auckland, and returns in April to enter upon his duties as house surgeon. Mr C. A. Harris, of Auckland, is still actively at work procuring machinery for Auckland, viz, pumping apparatus, etc., to be employed in the deep levels. I had a chat with him yesterday, and he tells me he is making very satisfactory progress with his arrangements. He has travelled about a great deal in pursuit of his business objects, and has lately been on the Continent as well as in most parts of Great Britain. Mr John Hay, of Auckland, with Mrs Hay and Miss Blanche Hay, leave for the colony by the next Messageries steamer. Yesterday I was much pleased to receive a call from Captain W. Ashby, who, as you are aware, has been seriously ill for some months past. He seems now to have almost entirely recovered from the effects of the paralytic seizure which prostrated him so suddenly. He attributes it mainly to overwork, and to the worry caused by the difficulties of getting through <t large amount of business pressed upon him. He intends to take things much more easily for the future, and is looking forward to the arrival of his son to relieve him of much of his present care. Captain and Mrs Ashby have been staying for some time at Crowley, St. John's, near Oxford, with the Roy. E. J. Combie, the senior curate, who is a step-son of Captain Ashby. At Scarborough last Sunday I had the pleasure of meeting Bishop Selwyn, who has been taking holiday duty in one of the neighboring parishes during the past month. The Bishop is looking remarkably well, and seemed as cheerful and energetic as ever. He told me ho had had no serious recurrences lately of his old attacks of fever, and that he felt better altogether and stronger. I am sorry to*say his lameness is as serious as ever, and he can only get about with the aid of crutches. Mrs Selwyn and the family were with him at Scarborough. Selwyn College Chapel is to be consecrated on the 17th of next month. It is also a source of much gratification to the Bishop that the college, of which he is master, is steadily beginning to attract New Zealand students. Sons of the Venerable Archdeacon Dudley, of Auckland, and the Very Rev. Dean Fitchett, of Dunedin, have just entered, and will go into residence in October. One thing which Bishop Selwyn mentioned to me with much pleasure was the marked influence for good which several New Zealand students at Cambridge were exercising among their fellow students, and the high popularity which they enjoyed. He especially mentioned the names of «>rme, Martin, and Izard. Mr F. W. Frankland continues to make rapid strides in promotion. Since he left the New Zealand Government Insurance Department to join the London Atlas Office, and the latter to take service under the New York Life Insurance Company, his advancement has been swift, as well as steady. He entered the New York Life Office only two years ago at fourth. actuary. He is now second in rank, his only official superior in that department being Mr Rufus Weekes, whose actuarial celebrity is world-wide. I understand that Mr Frankland's present salary is between £2000 and £3000 per annum. GENERAL. A receiving order was made recently against Mr Charles John Taylor, of St. John's 'I errace, Hove, near Brighton, formerly of Cromwell Road, South Kensington, and previously of Auck land, Aew Zealand. His liabilities are set down at £64,945, with apparently no available asserts. The Official Receiver, Mr A. H. Wildy, in reporting on Mr Taylor's case, states that the liabilities consist of sums due in respect of unpaid calls made by the liquidator of the old New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, of which the debtor was formerly a director. The liquidator is the petitioning creditor on whose application the receiving order was made. Mr Taylor attributes his insolvency to the failure of the Loan and Mercantile Company. The Receiver, in his report, avers that in February and March, last year, the debtor executed certain settlements of property in New Zealand, England, and elsewhere, under circumstances which appear to him to call for investigation and explanation. He invites information on the subject. The estate is to bo wound up in bankruptcy. It is remarked by an English paper that tho millers of New Zealand- do not seem so faint-hearted as the farmers in regard to the prospects of the wheat trade in New Zealand. This conclusion is based on the fact that some large orders for milling machinery have just been received from New Zealand. Miss Marie Elster, the Australian soprano, who has just been engaged for the Irish season of the Carl Rosa Opera Company, is the wife of Mr Donald Larnach, the nehhow of a wellknown New Zealand colonist of the same name. Another 'New Zealand wedding' has to be recorded. It took place on the 27th ult. at Christ Church, Melcombe Regis, in Dorset. The bride was Mis 3 Maud Ross Purser, elder daughter of Mr F. Purser, of New Zealand. The bridegroom was Mr Claud Edmund Paget, who is described as the youngest son of the Rev E. H. Paget. The ceremony was performed by the Rev E. C. Paget, cousin of the bridegroom and rector of Muscatine, U.B.A. /

New Zealand is receiving much attention from the English papers just

now. The Bazaar has an article on the New Zealand kauri gum trade, and on the manifold uses to which the gum is applied, and in Industries there is reference to New Zealand ironsand, and its possibilities in connection with the proposal by Messrs Siemens to invest £200,000 in working the sand, provided they received satisfactory information on the subject from the Government, and some bonus on the manufacture.—Correspondent N.Z. Herald.