PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Otago Witness, Issue 2541, 26 November 1902, Page 32

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) October 10. Mr W. J. Tonkin (Dunedin} arrived in England lost Saturday. He travelled from New Zealand to San Francisco by the s.s. Ventura, and from New York to Liverpool by the c.6. Lucania, and altogether had a very pleasant time. Mr Tonkin, who called to "see me this afternoon, tells me that he baa come Home partly on business—connected with the frozen rabbit trade— and partly on pleasure, and even in this short *ime has transacted a great deal of business. He tells me that at the present moment the market for frozen rabbits is inclined to be a, little dull, on account of the recent supposed case- of poisoning through eating frozen rabbits, but h« thinks that this feeling will rrery soon wear off. The rabbits are arrrvSni? in much better order now than in recent years, alike as regards condition, size, gradang, etc., and this improvement applies to •Victoria as well as to New Zealand. On ♦he whole Mr Tonkin considers that the rabbit market, in the quite near future, is not at all likely to be affected by the recent scare, the results of which are rapidly wearing off. Mr Tonkin intends leaving town this afternoon for Birmingham, where he will stay to* a few hours, and then proceed to Liverpool At the latter place he will be present at a big luncheon to be given in the lown Hall by the Lord Mayor in connection with. *he ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a memorial to the late Queen Victoria. Mr Tonkin will remain in Liverpool for about a week as the guest of the Lord Mayor (Mr Alderman Petrie), and then will go north to Scotland— partly on business and (partly on pleasure,— and he hopes to get a far as Inverness, putting in altogether about a fortnight in Scotland. At the Liverpoo function to-morrow both Lord Roberts ana Lord Kitchener are to be presented with tne freedom of the city, so Mr Tonkin is naturally greatly delighted at being specially invited to attend on such an important occasion. At the termination of his visit to Scotland Mr Tonkin hopes, to be able to spend a little time in Cornwall, where he has relatives, and he is hoping to return to the colony in November by the ShavnSavill, and Albion Company's fine new etearaer Corinthic, which is to sail from London on her maiden voyage on the 20th ot that month. - tt-.iv Mr Bolt and Mr M'Farlane (Dunedin) have been staying at the Manchester Hotel, Aldersgate street. The former left for the provinces a week ago, and is now in Bristol, and he is not expected back in London. I hear that these gentlemen have recently been in Denmark making inquiries into the dairying industry and inspecting the latest machinery in connection with the same business.