OUR LONDON LETTER.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4749, 3 September 1902, Page 7

OUR LONDON LETTER.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL NOTES

(From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, July 18. Tho Bishop of Melanesia (Dr. Wilson) took part in the annual cricket match between Clergy and Laity in tne paik uf Farnham Castle last W ednesday and made top score in the match, 40. Do also secured three wickets at small cost. Tho total score of tho Clergy was lot, .whilst the Laity registered l-H for seven "wickets, thus winning. The Bishop ot Winchester and tho Bishop of Southampton were among the spectators. Major Adolph Brewster Joske, the Deputy Commandant of the Armed Native Constabulary', Fiji, who is in charge of tho “Fijian Fuzzy-wuzzios” as they are Killed here, has taken advantage ot his visit to England to join the ranks of tho Benedicts. On 10th July lie was married at St. Stephen’s, Lansdown, by the Rev. Archdeacon Bothamley to Aliss Alice Caroline Stracoy Tyler, the second daughter of Air John AVilliam Tyler of Lansdown, Bath. Airs Alary AVhitham, widow of tho late Air Thomas AVhitham, of Reofton, died at Siisden, Yorkshire, on sth July; Rev.' AV. Laycock, of your colony, preached in tho Primitive Methodist Chapel, Kendal, on the first Sunday of this month and on the Alonday following gave an illustrated lecture on New Zealand. .The “Investors’ Review” discredits what Air Seddon calls the “usual surplus” and says “tho young population is fleeing the colony. AVo heard lately that quite a number of young New Zealand farmers are finding their way into tlio Argentine Republic and freely expressing their opinion in that country tliat New Zealand is played out and ‘about ready for a burst,’ An angel from heaven, however, could not convince the bulk of tho British investment classes that any such catastrophe is impending, hut tho lamentations will bo loud, continuous and heartrending when the predicted catastrophe arrives, as arrive it must, tho moment tho London market stops lending.” It seems quite to annoy tho “Review” that despite its doleful vaticinations “no colonial stock is more favoured by investors than New Zealand 4 per cents , for which there is not much more genuine security than the bonds of a Central American republic.”

A' wedding- of interest to Canterbury folks took place on 9tli July at the parish church, Brighton, when Miss Arabella Orosbie Ward, daughter of Mr Joliii Hamilton Ward, late of Canterbury, was married to the Rev. Horace Rollo Meyer. M.A., Rector of Clophill, elder son of the Into Rev. Horace Meyer, M.A., sometime Vicar of Christ Cknrch, Clifton. •

Mr Win. P. Jacob, of Kiwitea, Tedding, who has been staying with relations at Ballybrack, Co. Dublin, has purchased four fine Romney Marsh rams and is , taking them out with him on the Paparoa, which sailed yesterday. Mr Ernest F. Armstrong, after eipjit months at the Dental College of the University of Pennsylvania, has been touring in Scotland and England for the last six weeks and leaves for the colony about the end of August, via the Continent.

Mr A. M. do Costa, of Wellington, who came Homo by the Rome in-the middle of Juno, has been spending an enjoyable month doing the “lions” of London and sampling the delights of Henley in Regatta time, and a week’s launch trip on the upper roaches of the Thames. Visits to Bristol, Eastbourne, Brighton, and a tour in Franco are included in his future itinerary, and he at present proposes to leave for tfie colony about the middle of November. Mr Harry Winsley and his eldest son (Oamaru) are dividing their time between Devonshire, where Mr Winsley’s parents reside, London and Lee on the Solent, whore his sisters live, and Scotland, where his wife’s relatives have their domicile. Just now he is_ up in Scotland. He will bo hack again in xNew Zealand before Christmas.

Mrs Anderson Bennett and her daughter (Auckland) have made Belfast their headquarters and thence are touring Ireland, visiting the Cork Exhibition and the liillarney Lakes. They return to London in August and after a brief stay in Paris catch the Omrah at Marseilles on sth September. , They will spend a month or two in Australia, reaching Auckland about Christmas time.i .

Miss Ada Reeve was quietly married last Monday. at a Maidenhead Registry Office to Mr Wilfred Cotton, a London theatrical manager. Mr and Mrs D. Crewe, of Pahiatua, have nearly come to an end of their wallaby. After spending the spring in France and the Riviera, traversing the length and breadth of the latter district, they returned to England and took two delightful driving tours. Mr Crewe purchased a pony and carnage and they drove by easy stages, staying at all sorts of quaint old inns. However they got over the ground pretty fast, covering 438 miles in 13 days with the same horse. Their first drive was through Staffordshire to Cannock Chase, then through Staffordshire and Herefordshire, down the Wye Valley, through Somersetshire and via Bristol and Bath to Weymouth and so back to London. ’ On the second trip they traversed Warwickshire and: the Shakespeare country, Worcestershire, and reaching Bristol again, return ed "by -way of Hampshire. Mr Crowe visited many farms on route, and found the farmers more prosperous and satisfied than on his previous visit, but came to the conclusion that to bring farming to a high' standard of efficiency in England it will be necessary tb give the farmer some interest in the land he occupies. One of Mr Crewe’s most pleasant experiences was a visit to the King’s farms at Frogmore, where he was received with the greatest courtesy by the steward. Mr William Tait, for whose splendid beasts and whose knowledge- of breeding Mr Crewe expressed to me the most unreserved admiration. After 1 trip in Scotland and a visit to the Irish lakes if time will permit. Mr Crewe leaves at the end of next month by the Huron for Montreal. crossing Canada by the C.P.R. and leaving Vancouver on 9th September. Ho is going this way to get a better knowledge of the capabilities of this route and the practicability of sending the .New Zealand mails by it, as ho is a firm believer in the policy of subsidising British owned and British manned boats to carry British mails and goods from British ports to British ports. His experience of the ’Frisco mail has not been a pleasant one. as during tbo twelve months he has been on this side he has received only two mails on the due date, and only one within three days of the due date, the mails having been almost invariably four or five days late.