ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 78, 2 April 1914, Page 2

ANGLO -COLONIAL NOTES

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 20th February. From the New Zealand point of view the annual report on the Rhodes scholars is rather remarkable, inasmuch a« the Dominion is not mentioned in the whole' report. Ilere iV an interesting statement showing what Rhodes scholore^vlio have completed their course are doing . —Education 144, law 113, German Civil Service 25, medicine 25, Indian and British Civil Service 19, business 18, clerical %york 18, farming 12, journalism 9. diplomatic and consular 6, social and philanthropic work 6, continuing education 7, scientific research 6. mining 5, engineering 4, Civil Service United States 3, German army 1. SALVATION ARMY CONGRESS. It is almost certain that the International Congress of tho Salvation Army (14th April to 17th July) will be held on the island site a,t Aldwych, where the last congress was held ten years ago. It is expected that 2000 delegates will be present, including delegations from native races throughout the Empire. GERMAN LOCOMOTIVES. The South Eastern and Chatham Railway has angered a number of people by placing with a German engineering firm a,n order for ten powerful locomotives. On previous occasions locomotives for different English railways have been obtained from American and French shops, but this is the first order of any importance to go' to Germany. What is more startling is that the engines are for main line traffic) not for n»rrow > gauge or side lines. The company explains that price had nothing to do with the order going to Germany. It was entirely a matter of delivery. English firms could not promise delivery by a. certain date, whereas the German firm has bound itself to deliver the whole order at a. short date. The company is faced with an emergency in the matter of Continental traffic, and has already had to borrow fifteen locomotives' from the Great Northern. BERWICK v. RUSSIA. A well-known economist, Archdeacon Cunningham, has just discovered that the town of Berwick has been at war with the Empire of Russia for nearly sixty years. It seems that on the outbreak of the Crimean war Berwick, under some ,old custom, declared war independently nf the United Kingdom. Yet when Russia came to make her peace with 'tfranccj England, and Turkey, sho forgot to negotiate with Berwick, and the City of the Tweed has never formally concluded peace. Archdeacon Cunningham suggests that this may bo a reason for the Rtissiai^ fleet under Ad • miral Rozhdestvenski firing on tho British trawlers on the Dogger Bank. BOATSWAINS IN COMMAND. The shortage of lieutenants in the Royal Navy is a. good thing for the warrant officers. It seems that at the present moment there are some gunners in command of torpedo boats, and the Admiralty now announces that boatswains who ar© capable may be appointed to similar commands. This is a. reversion to the old system of tho Navy under which cabin boys could rise to admirals.

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