ANGLO-NEW ZEALAND NOTES

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13767, 4 June 1908, Page 3

ANGLO-NEW ZEALAND NOTES

[FROM OCR fjyUS COBBE3POSOEJrT.]

Losdox, April 24. It is noted in London that the sum of £5300 has been promised by the Prirnitivo Mefibodists of New Zealand toward the £250,000 now being raised by the churches in Great Britain for the denominational centenary. /

For nil practical purposes New Zealand meat is barred from France. But if the French authorities could be got to look at things in the right light there should be a, good opening on the other side of the Channel for the produce of the Dominion.

On the appointment of Lord Crewe to the office of Secretary of State for the Colonies and of Colonel Secly to that of Under-Secre-tary, the committee of the Liverpool School of "Tropical Medicine, at a special meeting presided over by Sir Alfred Jones, telegraphed their congratulations to both statesmen, and took the opportunity to express their deep appreciation of the great assistance the Colonial Office had rendered to the work of the school in British tropical colonies and dependencies.

A New Zealand correspondent of the Times mentions that " during the last session there was, both in the press and in Parliament, a considerable amount of adverse criticism of the High Commissioner's o.'hce in London, though, curiously enough, the bulk of the criticism came from Govern; ment supporters and ihe Ministerial press." The correspondent then refers to the interview with .Mr. W. P. Reeves published in the Evening Post, and he goes on to say:-— •"There can be no doubt that the general opinion is that there is room for improvement in regard to our representation in London, more particularly in connection with the commercial side of it. .Everyone is agreed as to Mr. Reeves' ability; but. it is patent that, in some respects, he has got out of touch with the true state of feeling in the Dominion."

A large number of prominent people have promised to attend this year's., annual banquet of tho Roval Colonial Institute, which will be held at the Hotel Cecil on the 4th prox., under the. presidency of H.K.H. the Prince of Wales. Included among the list I notice the following names:—Tho Duke of 'Argyll, tho Duke of Marlborough, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Crewe (Secretary of State for the Colonies). Lord Dudley, Lord Glasgow, Lord Jersey, tho Lord Chief Justice, Lord Ampthill, Lord Strathcona, Lord Tennvson, Mr. John Morley, Mr. Alfred Lvttelton. Mr. Winston Churchill, FieldMarshal Sir George White, Admiral Sir N. Bowden-Smifch, Sir E. Montague Nelson, Sir Gilbert Parker, Sir Frederick Young (tho " father" of the institute), Dr. G. R. Parkin, Lieutenant-Colonel Seely (Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies), and many more.

Mr. F. G. Aflalo has contributed to a London paper some notes about the collection of living New Zealand and Australian beasts and birds which are coming to tho London Zoo. Ho refers to tho birds of New Ze:>; land as "among the wonders of the world," and be proceeds: *' I am not- in Dr. Mitchell's confidence to the extent of knowing tho constitution of the eagerly-expected visitors, but it may be assumed that as many of these as possible at any rate set out from their native shores. It wdl be most interesting to compare the results with those obtained by the Messrs. Fain in their spirited attempts to bring Homo humming-birds and other South American fowl;' but it must in fairness bo remembered that the Australian contingent will be nursed through their long and trying voyage by professional talent from the zoo."

In the course of an article about bowls, the Daily Telegraph remarks: An important development toward the unification of the laws of the game is marked by the fact that tho Now Zealand Bowh'ng Association welcomes the idea of an Australasian conference upon, the subject. The difference between the methods of play obtaining in Australia and Maoriland are so slight that there is every probability of the rules being made general throughout Australasia. The code of the Scottish Bowling Association, which is also observed by the English, Irish, and Welsh associations, though not observed by several hundreds of clubs not affiliated to those bodies, is followed practically in its entirety in tho colonies. The coming conference might well be followed in this country by general support being given to the endeavours of tho International Board of tho English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh Associations to bring about a universal code for the gamo.

According to the Paris correspondent of the Times the Criminal Court of Bar-le-Duc has riven judgment in the case of the butother Levy, who was charged with supplying unsound meat to the army. He was condemned to one year's imprisonment and to pay a fine of £20, also £120 damages, as well as all the costs. Levy is the first of several army contractors who are being prosecuted for supplying the troops with diseased meat. The revelations which have attended the preliminary inquiries into these charges have aroused widespread indignation and a general demand for exemplary punishment. The metropolitan cattle market of La Villette appears to have been the centre of this abominable traffic. The police found that the usual system of inspection was being evaded and that a regular business was being done in old, lean, tuberculous cattle, many of which were in a dying condition and were so near their end that on reaching their destination they had to be carted from the railway trucks to the slaughterhouse. The corner of the market where these wretched beasts were sold to the army contractors was appropriately nicknamed " the Eastern Cemetery."