ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 85, 7 October 1901, Page 2

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

(Our Own Correspondent). LONDON, 31st August. It is stated that Colonel .N. Willoughby Wallace, late of the 60ch Rifles, and Mr. George Hamilton, of the Colonial Club, Whitehall, have at length succeeded in obtaining the approval of the War Office to the formation of a colonial volunteer corps for London. When the proposal was first brought forward several months ago, it was somewhat coldly received in official quarters, -upon the plea that the establishment of new corps prevented existing regiments from attaining full' strength. However, it was pointed out! that the recruits who would come forward for a distinctive colonial corps would nob join any other. As a result of this and other arguments, it is stated that the War Office now "warmly approve" the scheme, and suggest the raising of either a composite corps — quickfiring guns, cyclists, mounted infantry, etc. — or" a regiment of Yeomanry. A large number of names of recruits from the staffs of the various Agents-General have already been ".received. . On Wednesday the Daily News devoted an article to the "Sacredness of Libraries," in the course of which it was said: — "If any one wishes to see how profoundly even our most elemental sympathies depend on literature, he need only observe the difference between the sense of the picturesque as it is evoked by* the mountains of- Italy and Switzerland, and that sense as it is evoked by the mountain? of New Zealand. New Zealand, like many of our colonies, contains scenery which is stupendous, compared with which much that we admire in Europe' sinks into the company of mole-hills and marshes. Yet the whole is desolate and unmeaning to the human fancy, like the mountains in the moon. The reason is that it has not been transmitted to us through the hum&n brain, — it has not been bound up in the golden clasps of books. The human imagination has colonised the highest crags and domesticated the wild forces of the air, but where it has not, gone is chaos to our minds. We should find more of real nature in a dingy library." Is this meant to be a compliment to New Zealand scenery or the reverse" to New Zealand literature? The consignment of frozen oysters from Stewart Island arrived in splendid condition, the only thing being that of course they were dead, while the epicuite imagines that there is : some special flavour attaching to oysters newly killed. That is, however, a matter of opinion as well as of prejudice. How much the latter has still to be counted upon, the fate of the oysters sent from New Zealand illustrates. One lot was given to the proprietor of leading restaurants in the city. The oysters were cooked, but the proprietor afterwards refused to try them for himself; his cooks also refused them, and eventually they were thrown away. Another lot was given to a fish merchant at Billingsgate, who has shown his lack- of prejudice by trying, some months ago, to push New Zealand oysters and lost by a consignment of some thousands he had had forwarded. This gentleman invited those he knew to try the oysters, but when they learned that they had been frozen and came from New Zealand, they one and all- refused to sample even one. So much for prejudice. I may say that I myself tried them in the presence of a London journalist, who, emboldened by my example, followed suit ; as a .result he wrote , a most favourable account of them for his paper, an account which, I may say, has been largely copied in "aading provincial papers.

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