ANGLO-NEW ZEALAND NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13796, 8 July 1908, Page 11

ANGLO-NEW ZEALAND NOTES.

[from our OWN COBIRKSPONDENT ]

. ".- * • •;• London, May 29. trade WITH THE COLONIES. Lord Carrington* presided over the Australasian Merchants' = annual banquet at the Trocadero this week. Sir E. Monta- j gue Nelson was among those present. In congratulating them on , the magnificent display, of/Australian products at the franco-British Exhibition, the chairman said he was informed that the t King and ; Queen had expressed/ their satisfaction •with them in no measured .terms .He thought he could _ also- congratulate- them heartily on the present condition of, British Australasian trade., ■ Though he had nob the figures for New Zealand, he knew that the trade of Australia now amounted to £50,000,000 in imports and £75,000,000 in; exports. ■Since he left Australia in 1890 it seemed to him that the history of the Commonwealth was one of :• continual- record of progress. The'area of ploughed land had risen from five millions to 9,500,000. last year. ; The persons employed in agricultural industries 'had increased in the same period from 132,000 :to 230,000. ' ; THE PRIVY COUNCIL. ' Although Mr. T. W. Stringer, K.C., of j Christchurch, 'is in London in connection, with an appeal jto the,; Privy,; Council, ; in; which the New' Zealand Government and Mrs. 'Towniehd (Christchurch) are parties, no case from the Dominion appears yet in this term's listsuch is not often the case. However, the Dominion has not been allowed to go altogether ; out of evidence at Whitehall, for last Wednesday Mr. E. G. Jellicoe, a well-known New Zealand barrister, appeared in support of a petition lodged by a Natal native, Tilonko, now a prisoner at St. Helena. The petition was for: special leave to appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of Natal, and was the third petition relating to the. same matter presented to the King. Mr. Jellicoe contended that the present application ; differed from the former one, "but the Judicial Committee dismissed it. "■ ' ■

WANTED— NAME. . A New Zealand journalist, who subscribes himself " North Island,'' writes to a London evening paper as to names '/to take the place lof the words ■■■■' colony," and " colonial." ;' He . says:—"This question of-fitting nomenclature calls aloud for adequate settlement. A great number of oversea Britons are gathered together now in this capital of the Empire for the great Exhibition. After; the admirable lead given us by ' The Standard of Empire, can we not "between us devise and decide upon good words to describe ourselves and our countries, severally and collectively?" . '

SIR JOSEPH WARD AND CANADA.

: Referring -to Sir Joseph " Ward's remarks as to the recently negotiated commercial treaty : between : Canada - and, France, the Weekly Supplement of the Standard says ""Sir : John :, (sic) ,: used; somewhat stronger ; language % than :";■; that (i.e. threatened danger), language with which we may not all agree. We regret exceedingly the causes which have ] made l it necessary for Canada to negotiate commercial arrangements with foreign countries at the expense, so to speak, of the development of: her trade with : England, but'we' hold that it is these causes which threaten the Empire's commercial supremacy, < and : ;■■:';".not : - : j( Canada's ' action ;.\ in concluding •: a treaty with 1; France, which action ■ was clearly 3 forced upon the p;,v. Dominion %by the .Home : ;»: Government at the last Imperial ;r . Confer-; ence. : France ; stands on an exceptional footing with " regard to Canada," continues the Standard; " many ties of > blood and sentiment give her a' claim upon the goodwill of the Canadian people;.and we are disposed, to think" that the Franco-Canadian; commercial treaty is an exceptional arrangement, -which will not soon.be repeated as between Canada, and other - natiois.. Canadian statesmen, who are as ardent Im-, perialists as any, will 'probably wait until; the i question of commercial arrangements within the : Empire has been discussed at another Imperial Conference 'before tying their hands with further''treaties.VT In the ; light of fuller I knowledge of the subject of colonial preference, public opinion in Eng-1 land is changing very fait a feeling of iogret is spreading that it has been made a bone of contention \ between v parties, "% and that certain language;has been used which is calculated to make oversea, Britons think that tbo people at ' Home are indifferent to their interests and aspirations. When the Empire statesmen \ meet again there will ;be no. banging of doors, there will be no want of , sympathy; in the attitude of the ' Home Government toward the ambitions of the daughter nations; the" British public will I* not permit it." "*.

THE ARAWA'S PASSENGERS. Of the 54 saloon passengers who have just started by the S.S. and A. Company's' Arawa on her voyage to New Zealand, 26 have booked to Wellington, nine to Auckland, three to Lyttelton, four to Timaru, eight to Napier. • Others are bound for the Bluff, Port Chalmers, etc. In the third-< class there are some 216 passengers, .'63 of whom .have booked " to Wellington, 38 to Auckland, 32 to Lyttelton, 19 to Napier, 11 to Port Chalmers, eight ;to Oamaru, eight-to the Bluff, four to New Plymouth. The others go to Westport, Nelson ? Wanganui, Greymouth, etc. ■-■'. Several will land at the Cape. NEW ZEALANDERS AND THE WAR. Under the express sanction of His Majesty's Government the third volume of the official "History of the "■■■ War ~in South Africa, 1899-1902," has just been published. In the course of a review of this history, the Daily Telegraph this morning says: — " Of epics in the volume there are outlines enough to make any/ books. We learn more of -our fellow subjects, the- Boers, than it is possible to comprehend of men. in peace ; and Sunday or workaday ; clothes; of 0./ de Wet and Louis Botha's daring, gedius, aid resolution, and '<-. the stout backing of their brethren. But this cursory survey of an able and captivating- volume on the epochmaking period of the late war cannot be closed without a brief quotation on a matter of Imperial importance. / ■It was la connection with /the capture of ■■ Kroonstad.' ' Thus a difficult passage was secured X by operations, the brilliance of which ; was the more grateful in that it.was largely due to the - soldiers who of their own ■ free will had come from afar oversea to uphold the Imperial cause.' t/They were Australians and New Zealanders, and Canada had done her full share before as well as later."