ANGLO-COLONIAL JOTTINGS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1950, 4 April 1889, Page 17

ANGLO-COLONIAL JOTTINGS.

'-'The Bishop df-'Adelaide aud Mrs Keunlon have their-lOag visit to a.conclusion, and sailed for their) Antipodean' homer The bishop declined- to become coadjutor to' the Bishop ofoDurhami' /. \-> ' l-'n.--Mr H. J. Tollemache, the Conservative member .Eddishury division, of /Cheshire/, is to .make a r voyage,.,to. Australia.foi his health, and • sailsto?day, „'.'.V .."o 1 ■■"< -, - ■,' , Another Australian, musician has appeared — Mr JOhann Kruse, »a violinist, pupil of Dr Joachim,' who made "a debut at the. Saturday popular'on the &th. He was well received,^but I heat from musical authorities that his playing isnot boßatisfaotory'asthepublipfancied;" > The' floating exhibition which* the; Germans . are contemplating is to be ready by next spring. The 1 ship lisl to cost £250,000, and'will be 172 metres io length.] >It sails from Hamburg, And theno^/round the world by North, and South Amer/ca,, California, < Japan, 1 China, Australia, India; &C; It.is calculated to be in Australia in the'middle of. 1891./ , , .*.>-•, . . : n Mr John Dillon is to go to Australia after all. He salft on March 1. ' , . „ , 'Sir John Hall goes by the* Rimutaka in a fortnight. Lady Hall is f lam sprry to 8?y, suffering froni^her '^ eyes-just now, but hopes the voyage will put'her right. In the same.vessel sails Miss Hadfield, daughter of the Bishop ©f Wellington, s<> • ■ ''- Mr F. V; Wolseley, J.P., of New South Wales, who ;q the brotherof Lord Wolseley, has just arrived home for, a visit. , • , >• • j I n^ay say that • Messrs Hutchinson expect to have\oldout the whole of the first,edition;of J'lnj Australian,. Wilds," .amounting .to .§OOO copies by next week.,, ' "' ,' It is perfectly correct, as I hear on good authority, that Sir Julius Vogel has resigned his seafci and Will not go back to New Zealand as he hid intended:' "r ~ ''-: • '•' "' - ! There as i a rumour-going about that-Lord Knutsford - has /'offered ithe governorkhip <of Goylon (which Sir Arthur Gordon' has just-.re-signed) to the Marquis of Lome, and that? if he accepts Princess, Louise will go-out with him. There^is likely Jo be,truth inthis.report. ; gotpe mail or-twoago -I anßounced.that Sir Charley Gavau,tsaffy, at.the age o^, 70 odd, had become a father 6nc^,,ag'airi» I, r€gretr(.to' have to add a fatal-sequel—namely, the death of Lady Gavan Duffy, at Nice, in her 32nd, year, from puerp'enrt'fever.! She leaves four children, and was the daughter of Mr George Hall,' of Rocheferry,' Cheshire,' being the third wife 1 of Sir Charles., J . .%' • ■ ' > ' -' ' '

I saw. Sir Walter Buller at the weekly house dinner of) the Savage O]ub last Saturday, fHe came with " another, bird fellow,", MrnJJowdler Sharpe,; of- the British Museum, and seemed to enjoy himself, for he told me it was his first visit. T^e first edition i,pf- the Quide Book," comprißirig 7500 (fopiesi.' have, just been cold out, and a Second' edition of 10,000 copies fe '.being prepared, The volume i^'nutf £ crown; /■ '' Lady Robinson, wife of Sir $V. Ol^aver Robinson (who is to take Sir Henry Loch's* place for a' time)j is living oil '-thfe Cov tinent, and sails for Melbourne on^March 22. (-. >» •:" '" : << '-:- a THE MAOBI FOOTBALLERS, ■ The Maori footballers continue a fairly, proa-< perous, tour.f It would .be uninteresting ,to(furnishVjdetails of the various .matches played; ;»nd a few particulars of the match. Against England at. Blackheath last Saturday will suffice. [Here the Maoris suffered their first defeat since their thrashing at Wakefield by' Yorkshire exactly ft month I . back.: It was' scarcely' to be expected that they would; p,r6vetrinmphant when '.opposed to the fall strength of Enghindf but after their manifestimprovemerit in form since their arrival,: a good contest -was anticipated ' and ensued, although the state of- the game at the finish might; not .conveys that idea. From the kick-off to the interval, the home side had , none theibest of the play, though they were; lucky enough to score twicßi and;it was not till the last 2spain that the, Englishmen unmistakably showed,. their- ../superiority. 'i-VAf 'J tb€j.,«iime time;,' we ! are certainly jaf ihe^opiniouVttftt the ! heavy^ state 'of the gro'undi'r'wis? altogether in favour of the tfew'^Zealiindewb ania r"thal>'Hßr "thal>'Hßh i fasti!- dry* soil; ttiey*, wbuid^ have been; hopelessly otttelas«ed, though? it- tnnst'no% .be forgofctenthat as far as combined play wentf .they were hyno means inferior^-* state of things

(scarcely to be regarded in the light of a surprise When the weeks that they have been playing Bide by side are taken into consideration. • The ilMuck as regards weather which has been identified with the leading fixures of the Rugby Union this season apparently determined pot to desert that body. Fog spoilt the first North v. South game, and snow showers the retnrn, and now a drenching afternoon was in store for the company, though it failed to damp their ardour. It is true that the downpour that Bet in shortly after midday almost ceased as the time drew near for the start, but it must have had a deterrent effect upon the attendance, and had the day proved a fine one, the company which as it was numbered quite (8000, would doubtless have been increased to the extent of nearly 50 per cent. After the splendid form shown by the North the Selection Committee could but depend chiefly upon that division of the country, and of the selected fif« teen no fewer than eight hailed from Yorkshire, one from Durham, and two each from Lancashire, Cambridge University, and Blackheath, though Bvershed (Burton-on-Trent) was called upon to take the place of Hickson (Bradford), who has temporarily gone abroad. The Maoris wore well represented, |and appeared to be in excellent condition, despite the hard work that they have gone through week after week. 'England {was .represented by — A. Royle (Broughton Rangers), back ; R. B. Lockwood (Dewsbury), J. W. Sutcliffe (Heckmondwike), and A. E. Sfcoddart (Blackheath), three-quarter backs ; F. Bonsor (Bradford, captain), and W. M Scott (Cambridge University), half backs ; C. Anderton (Manchester Free Wanderers), F. Lowrie (Wakefield Trinity), H. Wilkinson (Halifax), D. Jowect (Hecknondwike), W. Yiend (Hartlepool Rovers), H. Bedford (Morley), A. Robinson (Blackheath), J. W. Cave (Cambridge University), and F. Evershed (Burton-on-Trent), forwards,