ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES BY THE AUCKLAND "STAR'S LONDON CORRESPONDENT. London, April 23.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 106, 13 June 1885, Page 6

ANGLO- COLONIAL NOTES BY THE AUCKLAND "STAR'S LONDON CORRESPONDENT. London, April 23.

"Gumboil,' tho No\r 25arl Cairns. Tho new Earl Cairns has arrived in England, and a photograph of him playing cards with Archer, the jockey, and Captain Bowling, the latter's fiiend, hangs in the window of the Stereoscopic Company. How pleased the late Earl would have been to eee it! His (present) Lordship is reported to have told a friend that what finally persuaded him to break with Miss Fortescue was an intimation from tho Queen that even as Lady Garuaoyle that young person could never be presented or received at Court, as she had danced on tho stage.

Fatal Illness of Hugh Conway. I am sorry to tell you Mr Fargus (Hugh Con way) i3 lying at Nice dangerously ill with typhoid fever. Before he left Home he finished writing off "A Family Affair," the novel running in the "English Illustrated Magazine." I have read a dozen chapters, and am of opinion that it is incomparably the best work ho has done so far. The dramatic adaptation of "Dark Days" is also comploto and in rehearsal at the Haymarket Theatre, where it will bo produced at the close of the Bankrofta' season, Miss Lingai-d enacting the destracted heroine. I believe Mr J. C. Williamson buys the Australian rights.

The Absconding "W,rkhouse Master. Alexander Forsyth Anderson, recently master of the Liveipool workhouse, who, you may remember, absconded to New Zealand with public moneys, and was afterwards caught and brought back, came up for trial at the Liverpool Quarter Sessions last week. The poor fellow seemed very unhappy, and pleaded guilty, urging that his troubles were the result of speculation. He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment u ith hard labour.

Colonial Warships. In the House of Commons the other day Sir T. Brassey, replying to Mr Gorst, said several of the Australian colonies had commenced to provide themselves with efficient cruisers, gunboats, and torpedo boats to be manned by the Na-val Beservo. The Admiralty wcro fully preparod to insert the names of colonial ships and their officors in the Navy List as soon as the navy of any colony was sufficiently organised. (Cheers. ) Mr JT. Henniker Heaton, of the " Sydney Evening News," has been accepted by the Conservatives as their candidate for the borough of Canterbury at the forthcoming general election. Owing to an unfortunate mannor and an ill-judgod hankering for notoriety, which leads him to rush into print continually as an authority on colonial matters, Mr Heaton is unpopular both in and outside his own set. The Tories are, however, only too glad to get anybody to contest Canterbury. The city was disfranchised at the last election for wholesale bribery and corruption, and has at present no member. It is a constituency which can only be assailed by a gentleman with a long purse and liberal instincts. Mr Heaton possesses the first, and as the local people have accepted him as their candidate, he must also have shown symptoms of opening it pretty wide.