ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12589, 26 August 1901, Page 6

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. [From Our Correspondent.] LONDON, July 20. Colonel Charles Fergusson, D. 5.0., Grenadier Guards, eldest son of the Right Hon Sir James Fergusson, Bart., was married to Lady Alice Mary Boyle, second daughter of the Earl and Countess of Glasgow, in the Guards’ Chapel, Wellington Barracks, on Thursday afternoon. A detachment of the Grenadier Guards' lined the porch during the arrival of the guests, and many others occupied seats near the chancel, while the band of tho regiment was stationed under the north gallery. The floral decorations were carried) out very effectively in white flowers and palms. The bridesmaids were Miss Dalrymple, Alias Alice Dalrymple and Aliss Eva Bowlby, the bride’s cousins; Alias Edith and Aliss Molly Baird, nieces of the bridegroom'; and Miss Githa Williams. The Bishop of Bath and Wells officiated, assisted by the Rev C. Murphy, Chaplain to the Forces. Colonel Ferguson's brother, Commander Fergusson, R.N., was best man. The Earl and Countess of Seafield are in London again. Th© Earl last Alonday took the oath and subscribed the roll on his succession to th© title, and took his seat in the House of Lords. The process is a sample one, the succeeding peer in ordinary morning dress, not in coronet and robes, shakes hands with the Lord' Chancellor, takes the earth, signs his name, and is thereafter entitled to play his part in Parliament. Lord S'eafield will have the opportunity of being present at two rare functions, the trial of Earl Russell, which may be the last of its kind, and the Coronation. '

Messrs C adman and Smith, are making slow progress towards the forging of “the bey of New Zealand.” Tiie iron and steel trade, viewing New Zealand as a likely competitor in the Australasian market, is fighting rather shy of the project and its supporters, and there are many difficulties to be overcome before capitalists here will plank down half a million to convert New Zealand into the foundry of the Antipodes. But Mr Smith has abated not a jot of his optimistic and eloquent enthusiasm, andi Mr Gadman is quietly confident of ultimate success. They are just now getting estimates of all the plant and machinery required, and are in touch with a well-known and cautious financier, whose connection with New Zealand mining concerns has been eminently successful, and who is making himself fully acquainted with all the details of the enterprise with a view to persuading the British public that if they put their money into New Zealand ironsands they will ‘be building their house on a rock. Mr Smith has added to his museum some specimens from the Imperial Institute of steel from the Paraparai ore. A Sheffield firm is taking some of the crude metal and will puddle it into wrought-iron, convert it into steel of various grades, and make some Melville iron castings, fencing wire and files, edged tools and cutlery, and report at an early date on the result of its operations. Mr C, Wentworth Cookson, of Christchurch, who has been away in Australia for fifteen years constructing railways in Western Australia and ■ Northern Queensland, and who came Home a year ago with a view of getting a railway appointment in West Africa, has now changed'his plans, having work for an indefinite time on the north coast of Spain, where ho is carrying out a scheme of railway construction and harbour works connected with the transport of iron ores from the mines to the coast. As soon os the war in South Africa is over he may be tempted out to the new colonies when once the work of extensive railway construction begins. At the monthly meeting of the Royal Human© Society on Monday, the silver, medal was awarded to Sergeant C. E. Oholmondteley, Third New Zealand Contingent, and son oif the Archdeacon at Christchurch, for his gallantry in saving two men from the sea at East London, South Africa, lost April. Mr and Mrs J. Bryant Hill {Christchurch) and their two daughters, who arrived just in time to see England in her green sprang gown, 'have returned from a tour in the North to their native towns Birmingham, Nottingham, and round Warwick. In a week or ten days they are off to Scotland and Ireland, and before returning hy the Ortona in October propose to pay Paris a visit. The Agent-General, in consequence of complaint® irec&ivedi from New Zealand that persons have been induced 1 to go to the Colony by representations that they can earn large sums of money on the kauri gum-fields, has issued a warning in the press that such representations are misleading, and if acted on can only lead to difficulty and disappointment. The warning comes somewhat late in the day. • Mr James Jamieson (of J. and W. Jamieson, Christchurch) is just about to take a purely pleasure trip to Belgium and Germany after six weeks downright hard work at Glasgow and Aberdeen, where he has been superintending the construction of plant and machinery of the latest kind for facilitating the operations of his firm. He found time in his intervals of leisure to run over to Ireland, and to examine the Glasgow Exhibition pretty thoroughly, the machinery and pictures of which made a strong impression upon him. He leaves for the colony at the end of August. Miss Fuchs and her niece, Miss Crosby (Christchurch), have been for a trip through the Palatinate. The latter remains in Darmstadt, and the former has returned to Barnet.

Mr Burton, the latest appointed veterinarian for New Zealand, is inspecting the cattle purchased by Mr Gilmth for the New Zealand Government, and applying the tuberculin test. Ho is expected to sale with the stock in about six week’s time. Mr Thomas G. Moorbouse (Christchurch), who arrived on the 6th, is staying with

Mr Thomas E. Moorhens©, at Rotcmahana, Bo we® Park, in the North of London. In all probability ho will finish 3iis engineering education while in England.

Mr W. Reece, (Christchurch), has gone North with his family to Birmingham, whence ho will proceed to Scotland. Mr Arthur Appleby has joined the Musketeer Quartette, whose singing has proved so attractive a prelude to “Women are so Serious ” at the Court Theatre.

The Misses Meeson return to Rye on Saturday after a month of musical, artistic, and dramatic enjoyment in town. In all probability the whole family will shortly settle down on the outskirts of London. Miss Rntih Meoson, who writes over the nom de plume of “ Regent Minor,’’ has had several of (her short stories -and sketches accepted lately, a couple of the most striking appearing dn “Vanity Fair” and the “ Argosy.”