Anglo-Colonial News.

Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 31, 6 February 1884, Page 2

Anglo-Colonial News.

» Our London correspondent, writing by the Brindisi mail on 14th December, sends tho following items of intelligence :— The most important item I have to ootnmunioate this week will, I fear, be cabled, and consequently stale by the time my letter gets out. It is that the Shaw-Savill- Albion Company have arranged to purchase the lonio, Dorio, and Coptio from the White Star folk, and that tho three vessels, together with the two Urge boats how building (the Arawa and Tainui), will form their monthly line to New Zealand. The new company take over the louio and the Dorio directly the existing arrangements with the New Zealand Shipping Company oomo to an end, i.e., in May next. Unquestionably Shaw Savill have done a smart thing in making the purchase. Already the lonio and Dorio are popular boats in the trade, and tho Arawa and Tainui being larger steamors than tho Tongariro and the Aorangi will not im- V probably- carry 'with them more prestige." The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers, are, however, by far the most gorgeously fitted. I am glad to be able to tell you that the wholesale prioea of New Zealand froion mutton once again show Bigns of hardening. During the past wwk there has been a riso of nearly Id per lb. Last Friday 5Jd and 5Jd were the rates quoted ; to-day it is 6W. Tho establishment of a depot tor tho sale of New Zealand frozen mutton just inside London Bridge Bailway Station is emphatioally a step in the right direction. Nothing could do tho trade more good than the initiation of similar shops iv the yards of all the groat London terminal stations. Tho Alastor, whioh sails for Auokland on the 28th, is full up with passengers, of whom there are 32, mostly artisans and their families. After innumerable delays and two false starts the Northumberland, whioh should have sailed on 30th November, finally got away on 11th Deoember, just in time to enoounter the most terrific gale of the winter in the Channel. She was sighted off Deal yesterday (13th Deoomber) in oompany with the Bangitikei, also bound for Auokland.