OUR LONDON LETTER.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10495, 19 October 1895, Page 3

OUR LONDON LETTER.

Her Majesty the Queen has approved the appointment of Mr K»rl Seegner as German consul at Auckland. ANGLO-COLONIAL NOXB3. ' An excellent description of New Zealand /d r* /. r, railways appears ra the Elgin Courant, written (FaoM Oxjr Own Coehespondbnt.) by Mr .1 Elfcou Brown, of Milton. Lom>on, September 7. Mr J. H. Bartou writes to an English sportAt Scarborough last Sunday I had the in B Paper for the information of piscatorial pleasure of «*, Bi,hop Selwyn who has Zea^nd, "&&?s*? I bee D taking holiday duty in one of the neigh- Southland, Canterbury, and Otago, are well boating parishes during the past month. The | stocked with tront, and well worth fishing, bishop wa« looking remarkably well, and seemed | Mr and Mrs J. P. Spring, of Duuedin, New us cheerful and energetic as ever.- He told ma ' Zealand. wh° c^me Home inthes.s. Perthshire, he^had had no serious oceu rr s,a r iyof his S£ old attacks of fever, and that he felt batter brothers altogether and stronger. lam sorry to say his ; Mr F. W. Frankland continues to mike rapid lameness is as senous at ever, and he can only Btri.'es in promotion. Since h« left the New get about with the aid of crutches. Mrs Zea'a-,d Government Insurance department to Selwyn and the family were with him at , join the London Atlas Offioe and the latter to bcarborough. tafce service under the New York Life Insurance Last Tuesday the bishop left Scarborough for Company, his advancement has baen swift as Hul!-.?n^ B. Wßy, tl. N? rway- Atßerpnhewill well as steady. He entsred the New York meet the British training squadron, of which his Life Office only two rears a^o as fourth actuary brotber-in-Uw a commodore. The bishop ex- He is now second in rank, hia only official pected to be only one night ra Norway, and to superior in that department beinv Mr Kafus leave next day in his brother-in-law's »hip, the Weekes, whose actuarial celebrity is worldActive which was to proceed homeward voder wide. I understand that Mr Frankland's pradjriVin?SSl, toS?fSSbhS» f<tta^ ( rum 1"7 * be' Ween £2°°° aDd £3°°° P6C yti™ 01^^* ?, be ' A'c^^ao^rntfNM^iL 8 Sc^tUnif^ere on the 17th of next month. A large number of he has been staying for a considerate time nobble persons have accepted invitations to be , He purposes remaining there a month or two present et the ceremony long 9 r before coming to London apain. i.-1 '\l SAl rCe f. mU? b g^J o*.' loo t0 th. c ' Miss Marie Bister, the Australian soprano bishop that the college of whioh he is master is who has just bean eugaged for the Irish i^on steadily beginning to attract New Zealand of the C«t Rosa Op^a Company is the wife students. Sons of the Yen. Arcbd, a =on Dndley, of Mr Donald LarniSj, tho nephew of a wet of Auckland and the Very E»v. Dean Pitchett, known New Zealand colonial of the sTma of DuDodio, have ]ust entered, and will go into nnm ß h»uib

residence in October. i Another •• New Zealand wedding " has to be One thing which Bishop Selwyn mentioned to recorded. It took plae« on the 27fch nit at me with much pleasure was tb« m.rfed in- Christ Church. Melcombe Regis. The bride flnence for good which revetal New Zealand wa. Miss Maud Rots Purser, elder d«.g«,tor o? student* at Cambridge were e«rc,s,n e among Mr F. Purser, of New Zealand. Thl bridetheir fellow students and the high, popularity groom was Mr Claude Edmund Paeet who i» which they enjoyed. . described as the youngest son of tho Rev E Ye.terdayJ w«s much pleased to receive a H. Paget >nd the Hon. Mrs P^get. The cerd call from Captain W. Ashby, who, as you are mony w»s performed by tbo Rev E C ParsT aware, h«s been seriously ill for some months cousin of the bridegroom, and rector'of '&Wa' past. He seems now to have almost entirely tine, U S.A.

recovered from the effects of the paralytic seizure which prostrated him so suddenly. He attributes it mainly to over-work and to the worry caused by the difficulty of getting through a large amount of business pressed upon him. He intedds to take things mnch more easily for the future, and is looking forward to the arrival of his Bon to relieve him of much of hia present oare. Mrs Bobert Gillies,-with her two daughters and her son, leave by the Himalaya on October 11 for AuoUaud and Danedin. Dr Sinclair Gilliet, son of the late Mr Justice Gillie* of New Zealand, has won the Bnckeubury gold medal, aud has been appointed house surgeon at St. Bartholemow's Hospital., He leaves in November on a holiday trip to Auckland, and returns in April to enter upon his duties as house surgeon. It is remarked by an English paper that the m'ilerg of New Zealand do not seem so faintbeaited as the farmers in regard to the prospects of the wheat trade in New Zealand. This conclusion is based on the fact that some large orders for milling machinery have just been ro- . ceived from New Zealand. Mr Tennyson Smith has written strongly in favour of the application of the direct veto of liquor licenses. Ho deals with the working of temperance legislation in New Zealand, and expresses a very strong opinion in favour of dicect veto bsing exercieed by the pfoplo them■elves in preference to the relegation of the question to elected boards. Sir George Grey, whose health, I regret to say, continues very feebie, is greatly pleased with a resolution he. has received frein the women of Auckland conveying their thanks to him for his public services. Its receipt his evidently given the distinguished veteran genuine pleasure. New Zealand is receiving much attention from the English papers just now. The " Bazaar " has an article on the New Zealand kauri gum trade, nnd on tbe manifold uses to which the gum is applied ; and in " Industries " there is referenco to New Zealand ironsand and its possibilities in connection with the proposal made by Messrs Siemens to invest £200,000 in working the »and, provided they received satisfactory information on the subject, from the Government and tome bonus on the manufsc- | tares. ' -

Alarming rumours ware current a few days ago ai to Sir George Grey's health, which was said to be in a most critical state. Herein there was same exaggeration, but I am sorry to pay that the veteran statesman is by uo means so well or strong a* his friends conld desire to see him. Calliog yesterday, I found him very feeble and much aged. He experienced a rather serious seizure last week, and was cenfined "to bad for some days under medical care. His doctor attributed the seizure entirely to wtabmos due to that most incurable of all affections—old age. Sir Gtorge seemed more despondent about himsalf than usual. He complained of great weakness and failure of memory. He «eems fnlly to realine that his powers are failing at last. Yet he does seem to look forward to seeing New Zealand once more. He speaks of next Novembar as a possible date of departure, bat thera is something in his manner which leads one to doubt whether he really expects to be strong enough ever to undertake such a journey again. I fear you in New Zealand must make up your minds that you have looked your last on the extraordinary—if sometimes mistaken—man whose influence on tbe affairs of New Zealand has been bo weighty and so prolonged.

The Rev. John Still is bringing his New Zealand knowledge and experience to bear i-trongly on his parochial and public work in his new pariah, Hockwold, Suffolk. Sir John Thurston called ou me' a few days ago- He has been in poor health since his arrival, but is now b?ttcr. Ho is residing at present, at Glifton with Lady and MissThurafcon. The object of Sir Jobn Tburaton's visit to London was to receive a deputation.from tbe Aborigines' Protection Society, whe desired to present to him an address iv recognition of his services in the protection of native interests in Fiji and the Pacific Mauris. The deputation wss introduced by Sir John's predecessor in the Government of Fiji Lord Stanmore, better known in Now Zealand as' Sir Arihnr Gordon Replying to the deputation, Sir .John combated the assertions of Mr Hogsn, M.P' bated upon only 12 hours1 stay in Fiji, that the Fijitus were "slaves." He mentioned, on the contrary, that they were freer and happier and moro contented than the majority of people in p!ace»-aupposed to be much more civilis-d, and

they would be even more so if mischievous and often worthless people were prevented from interfering with them.

' Sir George Grey was greatly pleased and touohed with the vote jmt passed in the New Zealand House of Representatives in recognition of his long pnblic services. A highly favourable article on the position and projpects of gold mining in New Zealand, dealing more particularly with the Waihi and Waitekauri mines, appearaiufcoeeurrentnumber of the "Mining Journal." New Zealand progress in gold njining is described as most encouraging. The adoption of tbe cyanide treatment for gold ores is strongly recommended, although it, ia admitted that while this his been a gre«.t success in South Africa, it do?s not follow that it will> meet with, similar success in New Zealand, but the " Mining Journal" considers the experiment well worth trying.