ANGLO-COLONIAL JOTTINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9147, 20 June 1891, Page 5 (Supplement)

ANGLO-COLONIAL JOTTINGS.

Mr Henniker Heaton has been and still ip Buffering from a very bad attack of Russian influeczj, which samo pest is once more in our midst. ...

Mr Norwood, tbo chairman of tha London and India Docks Joint Committee, died this waek at the sge of 65. Ho it was who earned so much praise and abuse for hia raaolute attitude towards tho dockers in tha great strike of 1889.

Mr Labouchere never misses an opportunity of gibing, and as often as not it is things colonial that vox him. A little ago he devoted a column to proving the futility of a connection between England and her colonies. Nor/ hs ia " down " on Australian bishops. " They must," ha says, " bo a lot of pedantic dullards if it is true that they have objected to ratify the election of the now Bishop of Queensland on the preposterous ground that he cannot boast of a university dfgreo. The foolish prelates will, no doubt, be surprised to hear that the late Bishop of St. Asaph had no university degree, and the future Biahop Suffragan of Hull 13 ia a simikr plight. Tho procedure of the Australian prelates reminds one of the folly which the calobrated Principal Lea committed about 50 years ago, when be refused to permit a bust of Barns to ba placed iv tho hall of Edinburgh University because the poet had not received ' a college education!'"

' Sir Charles Gavan Duffy is contributing an article to the May "Contemporary" oa the Home Bale question, in jwhich hs calls upon Mr Gladstone to produce his bill. Mr Courtney, o£ Taranaki, delivered a very interesting lecture on Now Zealand in Exeter Hall oh April 17. His pamphlet on Tasanaki is being well sold everywhere. According to a Dalziel telegram, "Pony" Moore and Charles Mitchell, who arrived in New York with Slavin, took a box at Miner's Eighth Aveuua Theatre, where Eilraia is appearing in Muldoon's company. Kilrain entered tho box and shook hands with ali present but KHtohell, He said loud enough for the audieuco to hear, ". I mil no!i shake banda with that fellow. Ho ia co gentlesn&u, and I do not want to bo introduced to him." Mitchell retorted Eharply, whereupon Kilraia shook his fist at him. They were separated by " Pony " Moore, who kissed Kilrain. and begged hiih not .to go back on Mitchell. The latter began to cry. At tho bar later a fight was barely prevented. She ■dograo - of. .A.R.G.W.—AMasiaSp of ■ the Royal College of Music— hp.s been awarded" to'j alisa Rtchel L.Ross, of Christchuvcb, for proficiency in teaching .the pianoforte, as also to two other ladies from Australia. Mr Smythe, the lecturing impresario of Melbourne, i 3 in London at present arranging for lecturers through Australia and New Zealand. He has already secured Max O'Rell, and is trying to Meuro Mr Radyard Kipling. I'm afraid he wca't succeed in the latter case, for Mr Kipling is going out to India in September. Yet he informed me that he was disposed to take a rim through Australia, and look ia on Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa.* 5o perhaps Mr Smythe may succeed. Ho hss also secured Stanley for a lecturing tour through Australia and New Zealand, and the contract will be Biqned almost immediately. D: Nedwill, of Christchurch, is at present diligently walking tha London hospitals and making friends with all the big specialists. He has uniformly found them kind, courteous, and attentive. Mr Hume Nisbet's'f oofeh book " Ashea has jumped into a new edition on the strength of his successful " Bail-up." . Fergus Hume's latest shocker, " islonsieii-: JuSas," i 3 on the old familiar linos—neither better nor worse than his previous efforts. It is said that'yesterday Madame Melba was offered £30,000 for a two season's engagement in America by Colonel Maplesoa. ■ Miss Ethel Blenheim goes with the Gaiety Company to Australia to understudy Miss Farren. . My remark a mail or two concerning the advisability of an Australasian tour for Wilson Birrett has turned into a prophecy, for that actor now announces his intention of going out to Australia after his provincial tour, which begins this month. Mr Hacidon Chambers ha 3 jast returned from a holiday at Monte Carlo. Messrs Lovell, of NewSork, srs to issue shortly a collection of short stories by him.