ANGLO-COLONIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 9

ANGLO-COLONIAL.

[moM oirii own correspondent.] ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE. LONDON, 25th February. The annunl meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute will take place next week at the Metropole Hotel. The report congratulates the Fellows on the sound and satisfactory position of the Institute, both as* regards its finances and it" membership. During the past year 114 resident, 255 non-resident, and two honorary Fellows and 18 \hsoci;|tes have been elected, or a 'total of 389, a* compared with 279 in 1908. On December &hi tho membership consisted of 1412 resident, 3097 non-reaident, 14 honorary Fellow b, and 18 Associated, or 4527 in all. of vhom ,1346 have compounded for the annunl mbscription and qualified r.? life Fellow*. Twenty-six Rhodes Scholars have been elected honorary Fellows during their residence at Oxford, in place of a similar number who have completed their studies at the University. The council has invited the following gentlemen to become vice-president* :—: — Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Mr. Alfred Deakin, Sir 8. W. Griffith, Sir Joseph Ward, Dr. Jameson, and General Louis Botha. At the annual meeting a resolution will probably be passed forbidding the uitc of the Institute's address and notepaper for any political purpose. During the laftt campaign quite a number of political letters appeared in the press from the address in Northumberlandavenue. THE CAR IN THE ANTIPODES. A ' writer in Tho Car has this week an interesting account of a motor-car tour in New Zealand. After detailing the places visited, he fays : — "New Zealand in an ideal place to live in. The roadx aro good. One can motor from the Bluff, in the extreme south, to north of Auckland, in the far North. There is every variety of scenery, between the bnows and Alps of the South and the thermal region in the North; and the Dominion Government lays itself out in every way to make things easy and plen?ant for tho tourist, it guides tho adventurous over the Alps, and gives ull information and assistance gratis. Curs of many of ihe wellknown makes are to be had a,t moat of the important centres, and there are motor-boata op all the lakes and river*. Hotel accommodation is everywhere is everywhere good, and cost«, on the average, 10s per head per diem. If fortune favours -us, we shall certainly visit this charming country again, and con strongly recommend those who have not yet toured in New Zealand to co speedily and do so." LINERS' OCEAN RACE. On the arrival at Plymouth on Friday of the , Orient Jiner Omrnh from Australia, it was ptatcd that from Gibraltar she had engaged in a speed competition with thf P. and 0. stuamer Arabia, from Bombay. The Omrah left Gibraltar on the Tuesday morning, two hours after the Arabia, nnd reached Plymouth twenty minutes ahead of her rival. The ifcwo vessels wero abreast for a wnoie day at a distance of about two miles.. Ultimately the Orient boat took (he lead and maintained it to Plymouth. The P. and 0. officials, however, attribute their defeat to bad coal. EMPIRE DAY RIFLE MATCH. Approval has been given by the Army Council to the programme of the Empire Day Rifle Match for boy marksmen for the present year. The principal event will be the Earl of Meath Imperial Irophy competition, in which chosen teams of cadet marksmen from the Dominion and Provinces of Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Natal, the Transvaal, and other oversea countries will shcot. The competition will begin early in the morning of 24tb May, and those taking part must not bo over 16 years of age. The trophy is at present held by England. The match is organised by the Imperial Cadet Awociatiou, til which the lott> Sir Franri* Hanson was chairman, and Di. R. J. E. Hanson is lion, secretary. There is a number of other competition*, and thft practice* are consistent with a natural sequence oi phy«i cal training, graded to suit the capabilities of lads from the school age of 12 to the "Territorial" agn. LOST ON THE WARATAH. It was reported at a meeting of tho Dorset County Territorial Awociation at Dorchester on Tuesday that n vacancy had occurred among the military membfrs of the association owing to the nonattendance of Colonel Percy Browne for a period of six months. Colonel Percy Browne wns on board the ill-fated Waratah with his niece, Mist Lees, daughter of the lato Sir 'Elliott Lees, who was making a prolonged Ma voyage for the benefit of fiei health. Tho gallant officer, who commanded the Doiwet Yeomanry, win one of the most popular men in Dorset. He was a fine sportsman, and was for nome years Master of the Blackmore Vale Foxhounds. He commanded the detachment of Dorset Yeomanry in the South African War, in which his brother-in-law, Sir Elliott Lees, also served. The County Territorial Association, with regret, 'declared the vacancy, and appointed Colonel Colfox, who succeeded Colonel Percy Browne in the command of the Y«omanrj, to take nis place.