ANGLO-COLONIA NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10832, 16 August 1898, Page 6

ANGLO-COLONIA NOTES.

[FROM OUR OWN" CORRESPONDENT.] London, July 8, • THE DILWOBTH ESTATE CASE. A New Zealand case was argued before the Judicial Committee of the l'rivy Council , yesterday. It was an appeal from a decision of the New Zealand Court of Appeal in the i action of Dilwurtli and others v. the Com- , missioner of Stamps and the Commissioner of hand and Income Tax. It was explained : that Mr. James Dilwurtli, now deceased, settled in Auckland many years ago, and i amassed considerable wealth. He died in 1894, and, after providing for those who had natural claims upon him, left by will proi perty worth £100,000 to build and endow the Dilworth Ulster Institute for I Soys, the condition being that the benefits of the in- > stitution should be confined to children of i members of the Church of England, that i those children should be educated in the i doctrines of that Church, and that the : officials of the institution should be members of the same religious body. On account of these provisions being attached to the bequest, the New Zealand Commissioners i for Stamps and Land and Income Tax held I that the institution was established for the i benefit of a sect or class, and therfore was ' not either a public school or a benevolent • asylum, or ft public institution of any of the > kinds specified by the Act as exempt from ! stamp duty or from land and income tax; consequently stamp duty to the amount of £12,725, and land and income tax to the amount of £557, were claimed from the trustees, which claim was sustained by the New Zealand Courts and against whose decision the present appeal was made. The case having been argued at some length, jragment was reserved. LORD RANFURLY. Ulster people, says the Belfast News Letter, should take a special interest in your colony, as it is under the Governorship of one of themselves. Lord Ranfurly is making an admirable Governor, and winning golden opinions. He regards the post , as no sinecure, but is evincing a deep and practical interest in the territories under his administration." The paper named then | j doMitcd, on the whole, a favourable leading article to the aifairs of the colony. [ NEW ZEALAND MUTTON, i Sir. Thomas Mackenzie's desk, when I 1 called upon linn, was strewn with a large . collection of photographs showing the stages i through which colonial mutton passes from ; the time it is sheep at grass until it reaches Islington, Belfast, and Sinithficld. With these photograpiis ii is intended to illustrate : a i article in a leading London review. The pictures are remarkably fine, all those of colonial origin coming from Canterbury. Mr. Mackenzie wrote to the other chief centres, and promises to send on photo- ■ graphs have been received; the realisation of these promises is not yet, however. Showing as the pictures do the delightful cleanliness of the whole process, the nice way in which the carcases are taken to the ship's side and handled, and the neatness of storage in the hold of vessels and in the cold stores, they should go a long way towards breaking down any prejudice that may yet remain against- eating frozen meat. It really was amusing, as well as satisfactory, to notice • the zest shown at the New Zealand banquet i at the Hotel Cecil for the produce from the [ colony. Mutton, lamb, and beef were so . much " rushed" that at the far ends of the tables it was difficult to get- a second helping—and that is what most of those present called for. So they had to put up with just the common and ordinary items on the menu, which, as a rule, go to make up a first-class banquet. In conversation with Mr. Thomas Mackenzie I learned that never was New Zealand lamb more popular than at present, as is evidenced by the marked increase in consumption. Prejudice may now be looked ■ upon almost as a thing of the past. 1 _ MISCELLANEOUS. 1 " New Zealand, it is true, has a large surplus, but her Premier is contemplating an Old Age Pension scheme which, of course, will absorb auy superfluous funds in her hands." This is one of the reasons assigned by the Daily News why Australasian colonies will not go in for lowering the postal rates. Peril and Prejudice" is the title given to an article in the Christian World on the recent "Maori rising." A handful of Hanliaus, it is said, rose in rebellion, but, hap- [ pily, just as blood was within a few minutes | of being shed, the mediation of a Maori mem- , ber of the Legislature prevailed, and the ' wave of rebellion subsided into calm. ( With reference to the New Zealand Loan I and Mercantile Trustees certificates, the , Stock Exchange Committee have appointed ; Wednesday, July 13, as a special settling- \ d'iy for 10,000 Trustees' preference shares of £1 each fully paid, numbered 1 to 10,000; £540,000 four per cent, second debenture J, slock, and £105,100 four per cent, third de- ' benture stock. ' The Glasgow Herald reviews "The Art , Workmanship of the Maori Race in New , Zealand," by Augustus Hamilton (Dunedin, j Ferguson and Mitchell). . So greatly has the colonial and American . meat trade increased within the past few , years that the City Corporation proposes to • make special provisions for its accommodation at Smithfield by adapting, at an outlay of £10,000, the old fish market for the pur- • pose. In his " Science Jottings" in the Illustrated London News, Dr. Andrew Wilson • treats of the habits of the kea. "A Working Man's Paradise in New i Zealand: Taxation of Land Values," is the i! way the Northern Daily Telegraph described ; ran address delivered at Bradford by Mr. , j George Fowlds. ;j Mr. Frederick Miller,, secretary of the [, Free Labour Protection Association, writes ' to the Globe, quoting the New Zealand . Hiram's report of the strike at Parliament i Buildings, Wellington, in proof of the as- , sertions that compulsory arbitration 'Joes. - j not avert strikes. . . ~ r 'H