ANGLO-COLONIAL JOTTINGS,

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8557, 27 July 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

ANGLO-COLONIAL JOTTINGS,

The will of the late Hon. William Frances Littleton has been proved, the personal eitate being valued at £20,30817fl 4d. Lord Harri?, Undersecretary for War, who is spoken of as the new Governor for the Cape, is at present suffering from an attack of diphtheria. No grave symptoms have appeared, and his lordship is progressing favourably, his strong constitution standing him in good stead. Sir Hercules Robinson, being, as is well known to you, a lover of the turf, was on the Jockey Club stand at Epsom when the Derby was run, and in the evening was one of the Prince's guests at the annual " Derby " dinner. Henry George has telegraphed to bis friends in Australia that ho will be with them in October. Most people now know (says the Echo) that the youngest son of Charles Dickens sits in tho Sydney Parliament, but it is not generally known that Mr Hunt, the head of the Sydney branch of tha Royal Mint, is a grandson of another famous literary character, Leigh Hunt. During the first quarter of the current year tho Sydney Mint turned out 445,000 sovereigns and £2450 worth of silver coin. Last week a South African dinner came off at tho Freemasons' Tavern, with Sir Donald Currio in the chair. A gentleman named Wilson makes an appeal in the columns of the Morning Post for subscriptions to help to build a chapel at the Church of England Grammar School, Melbourne. Is not this somewhat giving the oolonies away ? Messrs Huddart, Parker, and 00. are building two new steamers for the Australian coasting trade. The vessels are on the stockß at Glasgow, and will bo ready by tho middle of nex year. Moreover, the Messageries Maritimes Company are going to replace their smaller boats by vessels of 6500 tons—the tonnage of the Australia, just launched. Mr Hamilton Clarke has accepted the post °J conductor to the permanent orchestra in Melbourne, and he leaves for that place ira?o emn tely" H' S salary' J understand, j B to be 16 is stated that Sir W. Jervois is interesting himself in the Outer Harbour Scheme for Adelaide, which Miss Alice Cornwell haR so much at heart, and that the promoters are in treaty with a well-known firm of contractors to carry out the work. Of course, if a good firm of contractors take up tho idea, with plenty of capital at their back, there will bo no difficulty in getting a strong directorate. Sir William is to speak at the annual dinner of the Imperial Federation League on Saturday, Juno 22, when Lord Hersehell will preside. The annual Queensland dinner has been fixed to take place this year at the Criterion, on tho evening of June 10. Mr Thomas Archer, C.M.G., the popular Agent-general, will preside. A telegram announces to us that the San Francisco mail contract has been renewed' for one year from next Ootober. That reminds me that we have had no mail this week, owing to the accident to the lonic. The degree of Doctor of Divinity has been conferred by the University of Cambridge on tho Kightßev. Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, the newly appointed Bishop of Tasmania. This honour always follows greatness. Mr If E. Pettorick, a young Molbourman, who has been practising as a barristir here, has left to take up his residence in his native town.

Lady-Stuart, tho widow of Sir Alexander Stuart, late Premier of New South Wales, died suddenly in London on Sunday week. Lady Stuart had only returned home from a visit to the country, when she appeared in excellent health, a week before her dfiath. She was buried in Roxeth Cemetery, near Harrow, by the side 1 of her husband. The Sooiety for the Propagation of the .Gospel, it appears, is organising.a mission for New Guinea. Amongst those present at the annual meeting held June 6 was the Bishop of Ballarat, who said it was a comfort to remember that this society, with its royal charters and national complexion about it, Hved and flourished. In Australia they began with one clergyman and no church. Now they had 700 clergymen and between 2000 and 3000 churches. He expressed a wish that the different churches should join their forces in missionary enterprise, and save the waste of energy and funds which characterised the present 6ystem. . | I see that Me W. H. Postlethwaite, sou ofJUr Postlethwaite, of Geraldine, has taken his degree in law at Cambridge. Mr W. Montgomery has returned from Paris with his son, where he has spent a couple of pleasant months, and after a few days' sojourn in London, has fled to Norway to enjoy himself.