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Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1907, Page 2

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O (From ' Our Own Correspondent.! LONDON, 28th December, 1906. Major-General W. Byam, C.8., late of the 65th York' anil Lancaster Regiment, died on Thursday at Southampton at the a»e of 65. He received his first commission in •1859, i. and reached the .rank of niajor-geiwral in 1897. He took part in the New Zealand War of 18634, and was present at the attack and"'captuie pi Rangiaohia, receiving the medal. He alco saw service in the Egyptian Expedition of 1884, being engaged* an the battles of Teh' and Tamal. He was mentioned in despatches, receiving a medal with clasp, and he was the recipient of the bronze after becoming C.B. In spit* of the Christmas holiday period a few peopla hrfve found their May to the London ofli"e of the New Zealand Government, and among these have been .- — Mihs Jeanr.? King (Timaru), Mr. J. K. Logan (Wellington), Mr. W. A. Logan and Miss M. L. Logan, Mrs. C. H. Howells (InveTcargill). Dr. R. S. Stephen- , eon (Dunedin), Mrs. F. Cooper (ncs Miss Mabel Mcc), (Wellington), Mr. H. W. Jolly (Wellington), Mr. B. F.. Dive (Auckland), Miss Savage (Auckland). After a round of visits to relatives and friends in Scotland. <* Devonshire, and Kent, Miss M'Tavish has been, spending the Christmas holiday- i period with- 1 .her «iint, Miw liaise, at Herne Hill. To-day Mi&3 M'Tavish leaves for a short "trip to Paris. On her return fiom v the French metropolis, she will again stay at, Herne. Hill. She is haying a very pleasant tiinc>in the" Mother Gountry. Among tlte passengers leaving for Australia and N*Wj, Zealand to-day 'by the Orient liner Ofbntes is Mrs. Bal'kncc, who k going ou|. to the colony on another visit, and who expects to be away from ! England for. about a , year. , Dr. G. R. Parkin, who is accompanied by Mrs. Parkin, sails to-day from Liverpool,by the Empress of Britain, to supervise the examinations for Rhodes Scholarships throughout Canada, the United States, bid the neighbouring coloniee. His address iintil the. middle of February Trill be M'Gill University, Montreal. Miss Amy Kane (Wellington) is still in Ireland, in wliich country she has been for some time on a visit to relatives of b;r fater, with whom sho is having a very, pleasant time. Miss M. C. Ledger (Wellington) is away at Bexhill-on-Sea. She has been spending Christmas with an aunt,* who resides there, and she -trill remain theie for several wteks longer before going to Worcestershire to st:iy with a cousin who lives at Dudley. Numerous New Zealanders still remain in this country, but the large majority left London befoie Christmas, and are scattered all over the United Kingdom. Many are' feeling very keenly the spell ' of Ecvere weather which came in with the festive season, and not a few are in the clutches of the influenza fiend, which is fiercely ravaging the whole country. There have been no fewer than 85 deaths in London during the past week from this complaint alone-r Mr. H. W. Jolly (Wellington), who left the colony moTe than two yeaTs ago for South America, has been in London for four months past, and has nn office at 153 Aldersgat.3-slreet, whore he has been engaged in the exportation of Spanish Almeria grapes from the South of Spain to the United Kindom, Germany, IMgium, and the United States, and"l learn that through his recommendations a trial shipment of the same fruit will be sent to Wellington next season, to reach that centw in November. Mr. Jolly intends to remain in London for some considerable time. While in South Ameiica he made a point of visiting many parts of the country, including Monte Video, Bahia Blanca, Lfc Plata, Rio, Santos, etc., and genorjvllv extended his knowledge of SoTitlx.^fl^rican affaiio. As the result of his experience he states that he consider,? "New'Zealaad hi 6 ideal home, and ■ that the Argentine, although having; many attractions, has insuperable obstacles, viz., language, customs, habits, 10113 tedious processes to pass goods through Customs, no local government, no roads, no bridges, peculiar neighbours armed to the teeth, and, 1 in short, life without ' homely surroundings. The visitCTC who pTaif.3 it so much arc generally escorted through tho finest parts of the city of Buenos Aires, .and through one or* two of the choicest ostancias, v nnd naturally aTe wonderfully impressed, but Mr.yJolly, who has traversed ,the finest paTt/of the "Pampa," tells 1110 that there is no town outside Buenos Aires and La Plata with any appearance • of a town such as is known in New Zealand. Bahia Blanca, tho best; has inhabitants, and is destined .to be a great port, but there is pnly one decent hotel (and that without comforts), and in hid opinion the towns Of Palmerstbn North Feildinn-, antHiJastarton beat Bahia Blanca. hollow for appearance aild comfort. Further, Mr. Jolly writes:— "New Zealanders should understand that in retail business they cannot compete with Italians— Argentine's chief factor— if they arrive in the Argentine, nnd the Government doea not make country roads or advance money to settlers. They introduce themselves firsij by a sLand -Contribution, tax No. 1, and every .municipal body imposes its licences. No ono can engage in any occupation without first fcppiying to do so, and coming under .li tariff, Settlers therefore liav-5 to ba prepared, besides roughing it, to pay ospetiallydear for every comfort ; fuel is. vory scarce, also water, which comes generally from veils ; houses (particularly the ordinary farm houses) have P° s £>yes or baths; the education is very WchfftfcSnt. .An English education— like nil English goods— costs extravagant sums. 1 adviso New .Zealanders to stay whcie they are, unless they liko sometmng 'TomaatJc,' and arc prepared to latjinso' or create a. colony of their own, which would alter tho whole circumstances." Mr. Jolly says that he has ' been, instrumental ju recommending peo- , Plo in tins country to go out to New Zealand, in preference to South America, and that people from tho Argentine have endorsed wlmOhe him said in favour of I ■■, coI ,°»y- Ho suggests that the New iSealand Government should open in London a tourist or commercial office in one 01 tho principal thoroughfares, where people would bo able to obtain information with ,n. view to becoming residents in the colony.

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