ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 102, 27 October 1900, Page 2

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

(Prom Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 22nd September. PERSONAL ITEMS. Mr. C. R. Graham, of Wellington, is still in town, bul it is his intention to leave for Paris on the 29th instant. He is living at Cnnonbury at present, bub is thinking of changing his residence before next Spring to some locality near the river, so that he may join some rowing club. Another New Zealander returning by the Kohigin Luise is Air. Charles Onyon, of Wellington. He paid a last flying visit to relatives at Christohurch ana Bournemouth, Hampshire, at the end of last week, and, embarked at Southampton on Monday, Last Monday night's Gazette contained the notification that Mr. John M'Kenzie wasjjntilled to retain the term "Honourable" for life, he having been more than three years a member of the New Zealand Executive. Mr. A. E. Mansford, of Nelson, returned to town this week from the Lake country, where lie has lately been staying, principally at Windermere, and onjoying some good fishing there. Recently, he was at Bath, and was the guest for one week of the Marquis of Bath, where he enjoyed some good trout-fishing and had some splendid partridgo-shoot-ing. The Anglers'' 'Association of Bath presented him with a watch, suitably inscribed on the cover. It may be remembered that on his arrival here some three months ago Mr. Mansford had intended to start through England and Scotland on a walking tour, out in the end he abandoned this idea. Instead he has been travelling about on the Continent. Mr. Mansford sailed in the P. and 0. s.s. Britannia, and purposes remaining for a time in Melbourne before proceeding to his home in New Zealand. Mr. Aitken, of Nelson,, has been spending six enjoyable weeks in Scotland, and after returning to town and staying here for a few days he left for Paris to see the Exposition. He will come back to London from France, and says he has no intention of returning to the colony just yet awhile. Captain and Mrs. Rose are back in town for a time, the former from Cambridge and the latter from Scotland and the North of England. Miss N. Rose, who acooirpanied her mother to Scotland, is now in Cheshire on a visit. Miss Rose and Miss A. Rose have left for St. Leonards-on-Sea. Miss Alice Rose tells mo that she has made arrangements to » spend the winter in Rome, with friends, and purposes leaving London about the end of October. Mrs. Ballance writes to me from Bonn, Germany, where she and her daughter arc now staying, in order that the latter may have the full benefit of tho baths and other special local treatment. After leaving Aix-la-Chapello some weeks ago they went to Munster, from thence to Boppard, and now they are at Bonn, where Mrs. Ballance expects to mnain for several weeks longer. A good deal of their lime is spent on the steamers on the Rhine, with whose scenery they are charmed. Dr. Leonard Anderson has been with his aunt part of the time, and has done some cycling in Germany, Two New Zeaiajiders at least are seeking seats in the House of Commons. Some time ago I informed you that Mr. J. Cathcart Wason had been selected as Unionist candidate for the Shetland and the Orkneys constituency: Now it is announced that the Liberal candidate for the Eccleshnll Division of Sheffield, in opposition to Sir TS. Ashinoad-Bartlctt, ■will be Mr. Reginald Veall, a Now Zealander, and a Liberal of pronounced Imperialistic views. Mr. William Manson, of Dunedin, arrived in London about three weeks ago by tho s.s. Paparoa. .Mr. Manson has already oblainied an appointment in ono of tho first British publishing houses, but tho, main object of his coming to England is to act as business manager j for jpis wife in connection wih her concert sinftinc. Mrs. Manson 's 'prospects as regards her musical career in England continue very bright. .Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Jellicoe hays gone to South Wnles, and arc at present staying at the Mumbles, near Swansea. Mr. Jellieoe expects to bo in London next •week. He is leaving no stone* unturned in his efforts to secure a rehearing in some form of his case before the Privy Council. I cannot ascertain whether it is possible for this to take place in the ordinary course, but I understand that some gort of review of the matter may bo feasible, through a side-wind. In view of the near approach of a General Election the übiquitous pnragraphist has been busy with the name of Sir. W. P. Reeves ns a possible — nay, probable — Liberal candidate. Mr. Reeves hcis. been approached on behalf of several constituencies anxious to secure his services in the Imperial Parliament, but at the time of writing no definite decision has been come to. With a. "khaki" election, with the historic Liberal Party leaderless and disorganised, no scat can be considered "safe" for a Radical candidate, and every contest is going to be' very costly. For it is quite an axiom here that if it costs money to win an elec tion ib costs more to lose one properly,— that is, without being shamefuliy beaten. Recontly I mentioned that Mr. M. J. Macmahon, the Now Zealand artist, who is now studying in London, had suceeded in placing with a good firm of publishers a novel written by his brother, Mr. T. Macmahon. He now tells me that certain difficulties arose subsequently between him, as his brother's agont, nnd the publishing firm,- which resulted in his withdrawing the novel from them and offering it to Messrs. Fisher Uttwin and Co., by 'whom it wns almost immediately accepted on equally satisfactory terms. I notice, by the way, that a. .short poem by Mr. T. Macmahon Appeared in the London Sun lasj> Wednesday evening, and that Mr. M. J. Macmahon is referred to in very complimentary terms, ns a promising artist by another London paper. Last Monday afternoon when crossing tho Place de l'Opera in Paris I suddenly came across Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Tolhurst .•nd Miss Tolhurst, who had just arrived and were about to spend two or three days in the city before proceeding to Marseilles to join there tho Orient steamer Ophir, on their return to New Zealand. I learned from them that Miss Ina Stuai;t also arrived in Paris on Monday and had the same programme in view. A number of Now Zealanders have taken their return passages to the colony by the s.s. Omrah, which sails on the 26th October. These include Mr. and Mrs. W. Ferguson and their son, also Mr. D. Ferguson, Mrs. Harding and the Misses Harding, Mr. ♦ and Mrs. Grcenslode and the Misses Greonslade, Miss Grigg, Mr. R. H. Govett, Miss Hogg, Miss Harper, Mr. and Mrs. Luscombe, Miss J. Landels, Mrs. and Miss Lord, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. M'Millan and the Misses M'Millan, and Miss Palmer. It is announced that Lord Kelburne, son and heir of Lord and Lady Glasgow, is betrothed to Miss Sibyl Mure, whose father is a very eminent Edinburgh lnwycr. It is understood that the marriage will take placa before long. Mr. Joshua Jones informs me that Mr. Rufus Isaacs, Q.C., M.P., has accepted the brief as leader in Mi\ Jones's case, which comes on in November next ; Mr. Norman Craig will be the junior. Both of these barristers are among the most eminent counsel of the day, and Mr. Jones tells me that both of them have

expressed strong interest in the Mokau case and a warm desire that the whole circumstances in connection with tho strange transactions of the past decade shall rccoive a thoroughly searching investigation. The 22na November is at present fixed for the opening of the case. Tho pme-winning chess problems from tho Otago Witness, New Zealand, are published in tho chess columns of the current Weekly Edition of Tho Times. Ono of them is by Mr. S. S. Blackburne, of Christchurch, New Zealand, and tho ! other by Mr. F. A. L. Kuskop, of New Zealand. Both are two-move problems. Quite a party of Now. Zea landers purpose returning to the colony by the s.s. Orrnuz, among them being Mi-, and Mrs. Rolleston, aud possibly Mr. and Mrs. A. E. G. Rhodes. Mr. Justice Denniston is in town this week with his family. I learn that it is his intention to reach Christchurch about the middle of January. Recent callers at the Agency-General include — Mr. A. J. Bowie and Mr. James Shill, of Dunedin ; Mr. W. W. Brown, of Christchurch; Mr. George J. Smith, of Christchurch ; the Hon. T. Fergus, of Dunedin ; Mr. T. Ross Burt, of Dunedin ; Mr. James G. Lamb, of Wellington ; Mr. Duncan Grey, of Dannevirke ; . Mr. E. M. Chapman, of Auckland ; Mr. George Sutherland, of Dunedin ; Mr. F. Hutchinson, of Gisborne ; Mr. Walter C. Weston, of Christchurch ; Mr. F. Rosier, of Henderson ; Mr. J. Campbell, of Duuedin; Mr. E. Engster of Auckland ; and .Mr. E. Brock, Bay of^lslands. J After a sever! weeks' tour, for the most part in rather unfrequented quarters — unfrequented so far as New Zealanders are concerned — Captain J. C. Cooper, of i Wellington, returned to "London last night. When he left London he crossed from Newbuven to Dieppe and managed to flfc in twb days Rt the Paris Exhibition ; thence he made a lengthened tour chiefly among the Mediterranean seaports, including Marseilles, Leghorn, Spe&ia, Naples, Palermo, Messina, Syracuse, Cyprus, Cannia, Pirreus, Corinth, Zante, etc. His tour was mainly on business, which at present is to bo regarded as of a private nature, but of" which more will be heard later. Captain Cooper returned direct from Corinth to Liverpool, whence he proceeded to York on a flying visit to relatives whom he had not seen for forty years. He came on to London last night, and leaves again to-day for Oxford to see his sister. Mrs. ("Alien") Baker's new book "The Devil's Half- Acre" has just been brought out by Messrs. Fisher Unwin. Its scenes aro laid in the southern portion of tho South Island. Like all of "Alien's" works this one is very cleverly written, and is full of striking situations, also has a geueral tone of melancholy pervading it. One is apt to wish at times that tho gifted author would enliven her stories with a little more of the humorous side which mqst things possess. But that is not her 'way, and as her way is a very picturesque and interesting one, I suppose it is unreasonable to complain that her stories ai % c always so sad in their tone. I notice a curious slip. "Kauri scrub" is located in Otago. Of course kauri is never found south of Auckland. Did she mean "manuka," I wonder? However, "The Devil's Half-Acre" is exceedingly interesting, and in most places powerful. It* is sure to be in large demand in New Zealand. A DISTRESSING VOYAGE. On Wednesday the Liverpool steamer Knight Templar arrived in the Tyne from New Zealand, after a distressing voyage. | Sickness broke out among j;he crew, jive | of whom, aster painful illnesses, sue- j cumbed to attacks of beriberi fever and paralj'sis of the spine. A pitiful scene occurred among other members of the : Losaar crew, who were .in a sorry state for the loss of their shipmates. One of them, before he could be prevented, ran ! to the after .part of the vessel and jumped j overboard and was never seen again. IMPORTED HORSE-FLESH. Mr. Grant, of Timaru, has, I see by Scottish agricultural papers, purchased the 'two-year-old colt Craigie Mains, who was got by Sir Everard (5353) out of a mare by New Moon, with grand dam by Darnley. Craigie Mains is reported to bo of a* "thick wide stamp of nice Quality, well coloured, and a fine mover." Though he has a long journey before him, "he is one of the kiud that can stand a deal 1 of fatigue."