ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12551, 12 July 1901, Page 7

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. - [FflOlI OUffi COKEESFOXDENT.] J LONDON, June 8. The Hon A. J. Oadman and Mr E. M. Smith have taken an office above the Agent-General's and begun to lay out the photographs of New Plymouth and Mokau districts, tho few samples of ironsand, and the articles manufactured from it and the literature on the subject that they brought in. their personal luggage. Although they made arrangements to have the exhibits of iron ore, limestone and cool delivered from theKaramea the day after their arrival, they have nob yet received these outward and visible signs of the mineral wealth of the colony. The pospects seem bright, and a number of people have interviewed the two New Zealanders and displayed some eagerness to go into the concern. A representative 'of a large firm in France has been across and' making enquires, and a large English firm seems satisfied with, the effectiveness of the Smith patent process, and likely to take the matter up. Both Mr Cadman and Mr Smith are ranguine of success, and feel confident that they will obtain capital sufficient to carry on iron works on a much more comprehensive'scale than they anticipated when they •left New Zealand. Mr Cadman. has drawn up a plain statement of facts, to show the estimated cost of production, wagss of labour markets, etc., which is likely to produce a good effect. Mr Gadmari's sober and ,cautious manner is an excellent foil to Mr Smith's somewhat ebullient enthusiasm, and the temperate manner in which the former juts his case is that of a. man who fee is Sure that he has goo a good thiilg which needs no blowing or bragging to recommend, it, and should go far to carry conviction to intending investors. I sincerely trust, for the sake of the colony that the Smith-Cadman combination of enthusiasm and caution will carry tho day, and that - the iron will not enter into their soul, but that they and their captured capitalists may soon cry in chorus, " Good iron." ""Why not New Zealandise Great Britain?" is a query that stares, tho traveller in. the face in the "Underground Railway. It is only Mr Stead's little ,way of calling attention, to his review in the " Review of Reviews," of Mr Lloyd's " Newest England," and suggesting .that the Liberal party in search of a policy ,'shouid take a leaf out of New Zealand's book and lavdown as the principal plank of their platform their determination to undertake as the representatives of the nation, ''the cooperative organisation of society in such a way as to produce not only tho greatest happiness of the greatest number, but Ihc greatest degree of self-respect and the greatest development of the spirit of patriotic citizenship." The great pro-Boer and Little England party at thirteens and iburteens developing ■' .ho spirit of patriots citizenship!" I fear the spirit wbuld b: as ghostly as a good many of thoso other spirits in Borderland on whom Mr Stead im an authority. Argentina develops on. much the same lines as New Zealand. -Both are competitors now in the meat market, and the South. American sheep is "creeping up.'* Rabbits w;ere introduced into New Zealand, became a pest and then a Messing, by being frozen, and shipped. Argentina has had a similar experience—but with hares—which were onlv introduced some sixteen years ago.' The" pampas .State is going to try and put the nose of the New Zealand rabbit out of joint by shipping ■ frozen hares to London. Of course, the obvious (remark on their arrival will be, "There's Share." The Glasgow "Scottish Parmer, " commenting on, the Liverpool prosecutions, calls attention "to the large quantity of foreijn ■ meat sold as "best Scottish," and urges the desirability, of the Scottish farmers prosecuting in their, own defence. Our own Go- ' vernment, it tays, "is content to view - agriculture as a decaying industry." Mr and Mrs Howie came up from Bristol at the beginning of the week, and are quartered at /0, Guildford Street. Save for a slight cold caught by standing in Eyde Park to seo the Queen.pass, Mrs Howie is in good. form. She sang to Mr Newman 'it the Queen's Hall yesterday morning, and is ' Ito sing to Mr N. Veri at St James's Hall in Tuesday. Next week she goes * ito the '• opening of the new hall of the Royal College of Music, on the in--Siiation of Sir Hubert Parry. Prom ".Reynolds' News " "pro-Boer pifHc on Mr Grattan Grey's new book I cull thv following gems:—Mr Grey it describes-as a victim of the pro-Gore dementia- of thi es-Bush. publican Seddon." The member* of your Parliament are "Parliamentary fcackSj" "contemptible creatures, who fomented the war spirit, and to whom Chamberlain sent his hysterical telegrams."' "New Zealand has become a land of cravens." Although she " has had to pay nothing for past> wars, New Zealand is, in fact, bankrupt. It has no wording capital,'™ . it is living at tho mercy of the wcrld-wide Usurer, John Bull." Lieutenant-Colonel Cradock was not among those decorated with the C.B. by the King last Monday—for a very good reason. He left on the previous Friday for America, where he has private business, and! will be away for about a month. There promises to b& a large attendance ftt the New Zealand dinner on Juno 18. ' There will be half a- dozen toasts in all, | and among .the speakers will probably be i found' the Agent-General, General Sir lan | Hamilton, Sir John Hall and tha Hon A. J. Cadman. Howie, who has established] herself for the time being in the Bloomsbury district, ami Mr Tv 7 . Campbell will sing. Dr Grace (Wellington) has arrived! in , England, after a sojourn in America, and ig staying with relatione in Kent, • He will come up to town for the New Zealand dinner. Mr T. G. R. Blunt, M.A., the master of foreign languages at the Durham Grammar School, who has been appointed Prepch and German Professor at Canterbury Colhgo, fails with his wife, two children and a nurse iii' the Whakatane on Juno 20. Mr and Mrs P. Black (Obristchurch) camo back to London on Thursday, after a year's absence in Merthyr 'Tydfil, where the electric tramway censtrncted by Mr Black for tho British Electric Traction Company is running very smoothly. To commemorate the harmonious relations that existed between Mr Black and his staff, this members of- the latter presented him last Saturday with a kodak, with all the latest improvements, a silver-mounted salad bowl and a case of silver fruit knives and forks. Tho company find's an increase of its power necessary to cope with the oiders for electric light that a'.e pouiing in upon it from all sorts oi busme«*es and people, many of them at the outlet bitter opponents of the taction and Lghting scheme. Mr Black expects in a month or so to be despatched by the ctmpiuy on construe-, tioa work in some othei mut ot the country. Mr E'dwin P.irnhjin, ■of Ku.apoi, looks iOS fi? as the pro\eibul fiddle .iher 1 is voyage on the Victoria.. At Marseilles he wae much shuck by, the tine "4 amp of draught horses in the strejta, ar 1 coveted some for New Zealand. But he i> not "taking any" thia trip, li.s piogranma includes visits to the Royal Api.eultural Show and Aseo:/bufc he is wly go.:ig to look at th© " gee-gees," net to piuchase. He wants a holiday while he is hcie, but I fancy come of b:s on this side will endeavour to avail lhar.'-elves of his advice- and c:.p'ncnc& it find him at the Show "Caking stcrL ' It is' forty-four yean since Mi ramham t,x\r the Home land, and .London gicwn

out of ell recognition, which' is not to' be. wondered' at, seeing that no* long beforo li3 set out for the Antipodes he was at the Exhibition of 1851. During his three months slay he will visit Notts, his native county, Exmcuth • and the surrounding country in Devon, and' Scotland. Sir Westby and Lady_ Perceval have returned to London'by the Victoria. Mr and Mrs H. von Haast have taken a flat at 105, Beaufort Street, Chelsea. Mr and Airs W. Robison (Christchureh) have taken rooms at 10, Canning Street, Do Vere Gardens, so as to be near their daughters, Mrs Reeves and Mrs Lascelles. One can never be sure on which continent to find Mr Henry Zander, of Ashhurtcm. When last heard of he, was in Berlin. Last week ho reappeared in London, cheery and sprightly as ever, after a four months' sojourn in New York, -n hither he had gone to keep his eye on a paper pulp business, in which he has an interest. A brief interlude of pleasure at the French, and Belgian capitals and "a Berlin" is, Mr Zander's cry. He has taken a flat, for twelve months at 25, Mcinecke Slrasse,:-; in the west of Berlin, and an interest in a whclesalo linen business. During 1901 ho hopes that his daughter and s*on will complete their education in foreign tongues, and in 1902 he will migrate to England. New Zealand will not, again sce°'him as a resident, though he may re-visit tho Antipodes as a bird of passage. There is quita a colony of Britishers always to be found at the English Club, where tennis, golf and billiards flourish, and not infrequently Mr Zander comes across New Zealanders there. It is neb lone since ho met tho daughters of Mr W-. Devemish Meares, of Christchureh, in the German capital. Mr Charles Cole (Christchureh), after a short stay with his brother at Clapham, will visit relations in Devon, near Exeter. He will leave for tho colony again in August. Mr Fisher Unwin will issue shortly a novel of life in New Zealand thirty years ago, by Miss Ellen Tay'or, a niece of that Mary Taylor wheso family, under the name of "Yorke," are described in "Shirley," and whosa letters form a considerable part of Mr Snorter's "Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle." The title is "A Thousand Pities." Tho examiners appointed by Trinity College, London, to conduct the' local practical examinations in Australasia this year arc, for Australia Mr Charles Edwards, L.Mus., T.C.L.; and for New Zealand and Taslnaniar Mr Alfred Mistowski, Mus., 8., Oxon.