ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7795, 15 November 1886, Page 6

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

London, Ootober 7. Mr. Jambs Westward, a very old colonist of Auckland, and his daughter are returning home by the R.M.S. Sutlej. The number of visitors to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition for the week ending Ootober 2 was 265,709, and the total since the opening 4,398,641, as compared with 1885 (Inventions), 3,060,407. 1884 (Health), 3,379,672; 1883 (Fisheries), 2,150,108. The Agent-General for New Zealand has received between twenty-five and thirty applications for the position of Professor of Mathematics at the Otago University. - Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to.accspt from Mr. J. Hislop, jeweller, Dunedin, a prominent exhibitor in the New Zealand Court, two of the pretty fancy articles, whioh he manufactures so tastefully out of the Maori greenstone. One of the artioles accepted is a gold-mounted greenstone paper-knife, and the other a gold-mounted scent bottle made out of the same material. Her Majesty's private secretary, in a letter addressed to Sir Julius von Haast, Assistant Executive Commissioner for the New Zealand Court, expressed the Queen's great admiration for the workmanship of the pretty presents, and her thanks to the donor. The s.s. Arawa, which sails for New Zealand to-day, via Hobart, has a very full passenger list. Sir W. Dobson, the Chief Justice of Tasmania, and Lady Dobson, and the whole of the Australian cricketers, excepting Messrs. Spoffortb, Garrett, and Mcllwraith, are passengers. Lord and Lady Brassey, it is believed, are about to visit India and Australia during the approaohing winter. Mr. Charles Callis, of Wellington, who has a wide experience in managing intercolonial exhibitions, on behalf of the New Zealand Government, delivered an interesting lecture on the colony, with which ha has been identified for 15 years, at the Guildhall, Northampton, on the 20th September. Mr. Callis gave an extremely interesting, and by by no means desponding, account of the prospects of Mew Zealand. Mr. W. Kandall, who, for a quarter of a century, has been associated with the late Bishop Selwyn's mission to the Maoris of New Zealand, sailed for Auckland, via Australia, in the s.s. Orizaba. The Rev. James Chalmers, the well-known New Guinea missionary and explorer, will return to Port Moresby about next May. The rate at whioh passages are being booked ahead in the Australasian steamers is something portentous. Everybody seems bent on going back again this and next month.