ANGLO-NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13872, 5 October 1908, Page 6

ANGLO-NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

"'.',"■.'•';' '-":--;V- ■\r- : --:'.-^-.---'-'.''-.'-~ : .\.-r'- v: -r- y ''J:&^:os'wgsM% [FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT 1 London, August 23. • EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND.' To the Evening Standard Mr. E. R. q oq * (Canterbury) has • been giving some Weli-ji,.?-formed information relative to the xsorkit •- of old ago pensions in New Zealand, alio - ' ' some of his opinions relative to the Wort, men's Compensation Act. Turning to, [\'\ "" subject of emigration lie remarked: "Tinting the three months I have been in j.v.,. • . land'l have found a." great deal of uriresti among peoplo of all classes. I have.been ■*■- '"< asked by a good many, even including p4 r ;\ sons holding official positions, whether ■$■ .■'■ would recommend emigration from th : ' country to New Zealand, and my answer ha* invariably beon that, without capital ii- " would not bo a wise tiling for English emigrants to go out unless there were friends' awaiting 'them on the other side. With V■' capital, however, New Zealand is the-best,' country in the world to emigrate to. There ~ is land to be had. The Government are insisting settlers, as far as they can, by buying Y" large estates and cutting them up into small ' parcels,- and letting them to people wjtK/ sufficient means to work them." ,1 , ' —; . : ,'■ 'K:YS'tK&:J -■■:■".■;■/:■-, -,-i.ixWi--, THE PAN-ANGLICAN FUND. -■■' >. The treasurer of tho Pan-Anglican Thank.. •' offering Fund has forwarded to the Church! ' Missionary Society a cheque for £22,224. (Jf '"! this amount tho sum of £19,000 is set apart for the general account of the society and 1 : ' '• tho remainder for special work. > < i■ , {'. . ,; EXHIBITION AWARDS. On September 15 the French arid British,"!-'"'', jurors will enter upon the huge undertaking • j of judging the exhibits at the Franco-British! Exhibition. About 400 jurors and substi-','.' tutes have already been named in France.*/ 1 " ' Altogether there are 12,000 exhibitors, and • ' it is not expected that, the awards Will be ~ . public before . the end of 'September.'* • In order of merit they arc as follow:— Hor»!"V' ! concours (for exhibitors who arc jurors), grand prix, diploma of honour, diploma of gold medal, diploma of silver medal, diploma of bronze medal, honourable mention. '.■■■; ' ;,,• .- ■ i ' i. i;.:.- ; 'rif: ; ;!:K'Stes ■ ■■■• "A SET-BACK" IN THE DOMINION. 1 The Financier has discovered that "just « now the Dominion of New Zealand is ex-' \ periencing a set-back. It is_true. it is not the ! ■ •' . only country in the world in which the commercial barometer has rather suddenly fallon, but there are signs that the country lias, neglected : tho motto 'Festina lente.' ■ Com-"' plaint is made of over-trading and of indis- • j- ; : : ; : criminate credit. In short, there has beon-,' too much extravagance all round. There ! 'v was surely never a more optimistic Premier and Treasurer titan Sir Joseph Ward. . . . ,' What people on this side are asking is if the , Dominion is financially so well off— the;. Premier boasts of a surplus Of £433,000 for-,' the three months ending June—where is tW ' necessity, for ; obtaining Parliament's banc' for another million loan?" " : ; .... ■■■--. , -■ • ■ '■- ' ■ ■■'-■-■'v;'" l rW¥if?:,> NEW ZEALAND DOMESTICS. A French professor who has been travel*' ling in New Zealand has brought back with, him some "interesting details'' of the ■ women of New Zealand — interesting, in- >' deed, that ■ the Schoolmaster . reproduces some. The right to vote, says the professor, whose name is not given, has made a most marked difference in the attitude of. the servant class toward their mistresses— "it is often,: necessary for the mistress to ' serve her servants." Whether he thinks this is due to the, vote is nob quite clear. ' "i ' L SEIZURE OF NEW ZEALAND,BEEF.-; ■• ■ ; The veterinary surgeon to the Glasgow . Corporation has Submitted a report to' the; 1 r.. sub-committee oh: meat and fish inspection,! to the effect that on the 16th ult. a steamerj arrived in the harbour and discharged about! ,;. - 22,000, boxes: of i beef from New, Zealand,( and of those examined fully 11,000 had been/ - seized and destroyed. Several thousand)' ■~ boxes had yet to be examined. ( :L .' : ■'--: ■ ~ THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS. }•,- In i connection -with the Eucharistic Con-} - gross, Archbishop Bourne has issued a pas-j , toral letter; which "was l^ld' throughout the;' diocese of Westminster on Sunday. ' 'In it ho says:— Here in England these■'thoughte.fcM'«; carry us back through that long period on a thousand years, in which this belief wasJKgtp the very heart of . the , Christianity of " oar|iiMfii country, -uniting it in one pulsation with the whole of ?i Christendom. . Everyone of out|MJg| old churches, cold "and empty as they ap- , pear in our eyes, testifies by its forlorn con-!. ' dition to the. "worship which once gave it life. . . . Then, wo pass in thoughtthrough the days of desolation, when England officially abandoned the unity of the; Catholic Church; and the altars^ were cast-','/..; down; and ■ men were fined and imprisoned'' for assisting at the sacrifice, which had been,; the; joy of their forefathers; : .and , the priests '' who offered it were put to a barbarous : death. ... It is with such memories ■• as these that, with great joy and thanks- . I giving to God, we shall keep this the first i International Eucharistic Congress ever held v , on English soil." , ,' • [■' .j':•:' ; .-'-'. j . ; -:.-.. : :v - ■""':-'•"' "^^^^lfgillpift NAVAL PLANS. Among tho warships that are to be d* j tached from the . Channel fleet for the core- i ■:■ ing cruise are the battleships Dominion ami' New Zealand. The Dominion is having her . magazine cooling apparatus completed at , Chatham, and will probably rejoin the_ fleet' in a day or two. The New Zealand will go into doclc at Devonport as soon, the Com-.. monwealth comes out. :^ : : :■: ' : :'..:: ; "-^7 ''. ; •'■:■-'■?-■■■'' '■■ i^v -y^iMssWv§M. :,'.,„•■■ ■^^ mm^ mm ' is h