ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8669, 11 September 1891, Page 6

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES

[from ODR OWN correspondent. J London, August 8. ' Mr. Alfred Nathan, who has been asked to represent the Auckland Chamber of Commerce at the conference of united Chambers of Commerce to be hold in Londou, has arrived here, and had an interview with the authorities of the Chambers of Commerce. He finds that nothing will be done in the matter of the proposed conference until early next year. lie is not certain whether he will stay here for it, though it is possible he may do so. Should he decide to winter in England, he will most likely go to Bournemouth or the Isle of Wight. " General" Booth started a fortnight today for South Africa, lifter leaviug which colony he will proceed to Australia, New Zealand, and India, being away from England seven months in all. It appears that a balance of £S6S 17s 2d remains of the money contributed by Australia to the Dockers' Strike Fund. A meeting of the Australian strike fund committee was recently held, under the chairmanship of Mr. Tom 'Mann, at which it was decided to disburse the money as follows :— Carpenters and joiners' strike. £400; brickmakers' strike, £150; Samuda's strike. £50. The remaining £26S 17s 2d was voted to help to reimburse the Dockers' Union for their outlay on the agricultural campaign, and to cover the cost ot the balance-sheet, etc. A very satisfactory state of affairs was disclosed at the annual general meeting of the proprietors of the Union Bank of Australia, which took place a few days %go, the chairman, Mr. Arthur Flower, being able to announce a dividend of 14 per cent. He referred to the marked efforts made by the Government and all parties in New Zealand to bring about a sounder condition of the colony's affairs, and to the decided success which had attended those efforts, as shown in a general promise.of improvement throughout New Zealand. He tendered the thanks of the Board to Mr. Finlayson, the general i manager, to Mr. Tolhurst, the resident in- j spcctor in New Zealand, with Mr. Innes and j the staff serving uuder them, as well as to Mr. Mewburn and Mr. Carbery, and their staff in London. , . , It is likely that Rear-Admiral Frederick Stephenson will succeed Lord Charles Scott in the command of the Australian station. The Rear-Admiral no doubt owes his selection to some extent to the fact that he is equerry to the Prince of Wales, but he will be remembered as having been captain of the Discovery and secoud in command of the Arctic Expedition of 1675-6. The Athenajum states that Mr. Rudyard Kipling, who was the literary hero of the London season a year or two ago, contemplates a visit to New Zealand and Samoa. Lord Sheffield will sail for the Antipodes in the Arcadia, joining the vessel at Brindisi on October 11. He will be accompanied by Dr. W. G. and Mrs. Grace, and the members of the cricketing team which he is taking out to Australia. Besides the great doctor, this team will consist of Messrs. Abel, Atwell. Been, Griggs, Lohmanu, Macsrreeor, Peel, Philipson, Maurice Read, Radcliffe, Sharpe and Stoddart, being thirteen in all. The first match will be plaved at Adelaide on November '20th. The following gentlemen from_ New Zealand have obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Appended to the names of the gentlemen I give the title of their theses —Lewis Arthur Hawkes, M.8., C.M., 18*6, Tuberculin in Phthisis. Clinical Notes : commended for his dissertation. Ninian George Trot'or, M.8., C.M., with second-class honours, _ ISSS; Broncho - Pneumonia in young children. Alfred Henrv Williams, M.8., C.M., 1577 ; Toxic Amaurosis. The following gentlemen from the colony have taken the degree of Bachelor of Medibine and Master in Surgery :—Francis Troughton Foster, Robert Lamb (M.A., 8.D.), Thomas George McKellar, Wm. Mill (B.A. in absentia), and Jno. Wm. Williams. Dr. Frankish. of New Zealand, has been present at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association at Bournemouth. On Monday Lord Cantelupe, eldest surviving sou of fear! Delawarr, was married to the Hon. Muriel Brassey, daughter of Lord Brass The Countess of Galloway will start for Australia in October on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Jersey. The reports from Eastbourne concerning the health of Sir Arthur Blytli are still of an unfavourable complexion. Mr. Franklin, son of Professor Franklin, will represent New Zealand at the Hygienic Congress, which opens on Monday. The next of kin of John Blake, late cook on board the merchant ship St. Leonards, who died on January 3,1373, at Christchurcii Hospital, New Zealand, are requested to apply to the Solicitors for the Affairs of Her Majesty's Treasury, Whitehall. The "Times, in its article on the colonies last Wednesday, indicates that a change is pending in the method of issuing colonial Joans, namely, the abolition of the middleman and the throwing open of the loans directly to the investing public. It suggests that the colonies should float their loans through the Bank of England, and that the scrip should be directly purchaseable in j every town in which the Bank has a branch. This would necessitate the keeping open of the loans for a long period, and the issuing Government would have to content itself with the gradual filling up of the subscription list. On the other hand there would be no such thing as the public failure of a loan. It would be a case of trusting to the slow and sure requirements of the investing public rather than to the swift and decisive operations of the money market, cases of immediate urgency being met by borrowing on scrip. As a rule the colonial Governments would have to forecast their linancial requirements in good time, and new loans would be in theory what they are of course always in fact, simple extensions of the loans already in existence. The financial authorities of one great colony are said to be disposed to try this experiment, and it is probable that tho next loan issued by this colony will be in the manner suggested by the Times. Old Harrovians resident in New Zealand will be pleased to hear that it is proposed to edit a Register of Harrovians, giving trie names and short biographical notices of all boys who have entered the school since the beginning of the century. There is a difficulty in making the Register complete as regards the first half of the century, especially the years from 1800 to 1830. But Mr. Wellden, the headmaster, says the task of task of editing it will be much lightened if old Harrovians who may possess school lists, records, or papers, or other means of information respecting that time will communicate with Mr. R. Courtenay Welch, whose special interest in the life of the school has naturally marked him out for the editorship. Mr. Welch will also be glad if any old Harrovian, who lias not yet received a form to be filled up for the purpose of the Register, will be so kind as to apply to him by letter. His address is G, South wick Place, Hyde Park Square, W. The Bishop of Manchester, coupling ex'ample with precept, has undertaken to give £100 a-year for five years towards a special fund, which lie counsels churchmen to raise in his diocese for the aid of voluntary schools which may be placed in difficulties by the competition of Hoard schools under the freegrant system. It appears that in his diocese some school managers have been in doubt about the expediency of accepting the free grant offered by the Government. Bishop Moorhouse, however, thinks the acceptance of the grant a necessity of the continued existence of voluntary schools, and so he has counselled an immediate application for it. The Bishop appears to have great misgivings as to the future of the voluntary schools, in spite of all the care of the present Government to bolster them up. lie not only contributes his money, but makes the most earnest appeal to his people, for the love of Church and country, and for the love of their Saviour, to make the necessary sacrifices. From his language one might conclude the cause to be desperate, or tho Church people peculiarly indifferent. Mr. Henniker Hcaton has been at it again. He has discovered, or says he has, that while we are paying the French and Italian Governments £100,000 per annum for the conveyance of the overland mails, the work is done by the railway companies for £40,000, so that the two Governments divide a profit of £60,000 between them. In the discussion on the Post Office vote on Saturday last the irrepressible one threatened Mr. Raikes that he would never rest until he had knocked this " iniquitous bargain " on the head.