OUL LONDON LETTER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 6 February 1909, Page 3

OUL LONDON LETTER.

it".'-' "^(From- Our Own. Correspondent.) , . •o'--^' : >- LO.OTON, December 25, 1908. Hutchena,- mentioned in letters, has just bees awarded the ■- Hine^-prize afthevKoyai Academy of . r/Musie ior the composition of -a.song. The VvWord^.ar© supplied, -'an'dt^ this time by The value of the prize is .^^.-andlitKis" open to' males and lemales under 17 years of Mr ;Hutchens is . the-abn of iIrE.-L. Hutchens, of Ha:.;7W«»iV ;■ , :. .-.•; .:: '- '•- • '. .. . c : Mt L. F. 'Ayson,- your. Chief 'lnspector :. ofjFkEerieSj.arrived- on 17th inst:by the; Athehic; He. has come over to supervise the shipment o£ three quarters of a.mililionot salmon ova for the Dominion. The first consignment of-400,0(X>, cbllect*«fc chiefly from the Tay: and the Wye, , will be ready forshipment by the , Tura- - kina, which leaves London on December - 29th; -Mr Ayson jsgoing back in charge of tnfcsecond: shipment; : It was origin-..'ally/intended-to 'Bend.but ; the whole in ' 'one "shipment, '. tdipe ;under the care of j" Mr Aysoiijljnt -this was" "found impracl Ciicable^.>,:;::-^ ■'■•■:■ - 1 ;' -^V: -i--" ; - "- ■■■^'■>jttr~H;''iC;-Camerbn,/th>\PHSduce-Com-m&sioner/nas turned-' lecturer, on. the : bfeauttes; an 3 opportunities-' of the Doy- minicipf> Be ygave ■■ a lantern lecture at ■"■ Harlesden'bfi^that subject some nights - igoV. XTnfortunately -I .was unable^ to at.tend;'bhC;l'am informed that it was a ' great sucijess/ there being .not a dull moment durin^the-90 odd, minutes he ■-' was on the platform,— -both matter and delivery were, fresh- atid bright: ". iProfessoriJJrriest Rutherford, at present,Prpfesabr^pf Chemistry at the Manchte^£'J?ni*jereity,'4.is;a New Zealander, '...axA -has. been ieferred to in former letters:'-^ He" was recently awarded the Nobel priaf for- chemistry of £7500 for his discoveries^ .and works on radioractivity. He has also received niunerous honours ..'and v^.idegrees: -from British „ and Last -week . the .'iProfessoc -;"Tnsited Stockholm;' aeconr'rpanied'.by^his wifej where he was enter- - tamed f or^six days. From there he made /a:',lo?gVeicursi6n to Upsala University, -"wh'^.-great homage was paid him. He -."inspected the chemical and. physical la- ■ boratories, and then retnrned to ManBerlin. :'■.-"' BepMsenfaitives from New Zealand, -Qu'ee^land,T :': and;. -Western Australia, iwere^presentat a meeting of the Anglo;"'ColoriiaT Bowling Club -last week. On -the action of -the Rev. R. Wilkinson, of : the'-W.^, Bowling ..- Association, , who left for^Australiaron Saturday, Mr C. yfooi^-K^.ip.'t.ot the Victorian Bowling ~Ass6ciaiibn,-J3nd ' donor of the Aus.iralian; Challetfgij': Cnp of the English ■Bowling Association, was elected a lifemeinber of the : club. Mr J. A. Mason, of 'the New*" c Zealand Government ■ Office, was «lectad a member of the Executive. ;A£ /the Technical Institute, West Nor-. wood;: the announcement of a. lecture by " L Mr Joseph Feil, on New Zealand, drew the largest, audience that has ever been 'Been ; at-any of the-Satufday Evening En- - leftainmente this season; Probably one canseiWas grateful remembrance of a ■'former. Visit,-and ; the pleasures experienced thereat ; but we would like to think that in-part, at any rate, the large : "attendance was due to an increased in--terest in-' the outlying members of our great Empire. Certain' it is. that iMr Feil ?■&'■■ just theiman to arouse and keep alive int«rastvin ; New ;' - Zealand ; he believes in his subject and in its • future; ;jiut -knowledge of the great colonyiis tv&l, Vanii ; up-to-dave; bis '-style is easy -and self-possessed, without >ny unnecessary talkee-talkee, and ■ the- : lMiterh "slides form: quite an art gallery "of beiutiful?pictures. ' ■■ . ■"'-'"As the lecture ' is given in connection with what may be called the education work of the \. New" Zealand Shipping Company, Mr' Fail adopts, the plan of embarking his' company on board the.s.s. Tiirakina, : belonging to -that: company, fiescribing the voyage outwards, the. landmgTand the travelling through the two islands, all being made wonderfully real"and';vivid by. the fine photographic sides; Much .valuable . information is iriveh " in- the course of the journey through the country, and iVmay.be advantageous, fsaysHhe lecturer,\ to put •that'iog^Jiec 'first; for the-.benefit.of w-;. fending ■emigrants' or ; tourkts."- In the first' place, he. explained, fromthe position of New Zealand- in,the;Southcrn Hemisphere, the climate is, gerhaps.on the whole the most suitable onefor British'colonists, as it certainly is. #a? healthyai any in the world. The variety of possible occupations affords, opportunitiesfor all classes of people :the timber business, the gum. digging, the but-, ler making, the cattle rearing, the farming, the. gold mining, ajipeal to'differeni natOTes^and.iii New Zealand^ll can't* sampled.; vThen the policy of the New Zealand 'Government -• seems a most enUghtened' one/ it enaeavours to attract people to;th« land; giyes'them every induMment'lip remain, and .is; making strenuous efforts' to shut out the social miseries of 4he older';, lands. Then. »t wju com* asTiaws^to- many that New Zealand is becoming- quite a health resort, lnc hot springs iof ;tho North Island in tht neighbourhood of. the famous Terraces are being as tKermal spas, and remarfeWe cures' are reported. And as for sport^there is - : e'ndless : variety for Both rod.indrgun3he' fishing being really remarkahleinits.way.^ It is not to;be supposed that this useful information ' was given in such bald form, bntrartfuUy and skilfully woven in with-the talk>aboufc-the ISOP'ctnres that passed/before the pleased eyes of the litoers/wafte^landuig^at Auckland with its impbsihg?water front, they Jnade acquamtoc^wtth. the wonders of «,e North, Tslandi :tohing.somethmg of the. extinct moa; and visiting the great forests remarkable, kun trees; the great' Waihi goldmine; a cattb yard , a butter;:,making:fub.tory, prcducing two tons daily:; and so on U> the Maori disteiTt.the hotlakes', and the geysers, gett^ on the^way•■glim■ pS es."of t enchantlng T^Ganterbury Plains c6me :: under noMB ialMiss Eugene Ekersanrthe Dominion, Intheni/^d;D,efena ;^ .- V Z* ''market iadullAarid there, does not 2S much-pisosEect.of: ammation • -^sHe'of the year,r JThe^rade is eyi-- ■■ ■■:.5Sh5 w«U BuppliedJ.with.VTaw, material - MM y^^i'V'^^rraw^material auringthe; MM J^bA?^ .■%s

. . .. , this year are in themselves a striking illustration of the success of the tactics of the brokers, esepcially when the trend values is borne in mind. Here is the rerecord of the number of bales carried forward from each of the sales :— ;• January-February 30,000 March-April 78,000 May 120,000 July . 88,000 September-October 38,000 November 11,000 To complete the record one ought also to show how values fluctuated over the same period, and the appended table indicates the values at the highest point in January, the lowest point reached in May, together with the average quotations: — Jany". May Dec. 14th, ". 1908. 1908" 1908. d. d. d. 70's ' ■ 27} 22* 25 64V 20| 2IJ 23| 56s 224 17i 18J 50's 19 145 16± . 40's 13J 8, Hi Lincoln hoggs 11A 73 (June) 9 North hoggs- 12i 9J (Jnne) 12 Botany spinners have a larger proportion of machinery running than crossbred spinners, but in both branches of the yarn trade particulars are hard -to get. Home wools show an upward ten-dency,-and they are against the buyer. It may be noted that manufacturers are not getting the response from America that" they were led to anticipate by the inquiries, they received.when ,the selection closed, the repeat orders being few and far between, —