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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 127, 26 June 1895, Page 3

Mr Cecil Rhodos is making a ' lion preserve ' on his estate at Rondebosch, near Capetown. It will be enclosed, says the Pall Mali Gazette, by a 10ft fence ; and, curiously oncugh, it will be stocked with animals from England. Mr Rhodes' moods are very changeable. He has several times pulled down his houso and built it up again ; and he is constantly altering the aspect of his huge estate. He employs 50 black boys regularly in planting and improving on naturo, and he is now making a five-mile drivo through his place. The Economist, roferz-ing to the judgments in tho cases of Bartlett and Davies in Melbourne, says that they partly explain how the escape of the chief Yictorian instruments in banking collapses is inevitable until all judges are absolutely* independent, and it scarcely wonders that British investors fear that a political exigency may dofeat jusbLiv^e. At tho end of August a meeting of the Archbishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Australasia will take place in Melbourne, which has been choson on account of its central position, and matters of supreme momont will be discussed. Towards tho end of the year a Plenary Council of the Church will bo held in Sydney. Cardinal Moran will presido ovor the gathering, which will be composed of all tho Bishope and Archbishops of Australasia.