ANGLO COLONIAL NOTES [FROM STAR LONDON CORRESPONDENT ]

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 178, 13 November 1886, Page 1

ANGLO COLONIAL NOTES [FROM STAR LONDON CORRESPONDENT ]

Notwithstanding the Fini?ter news from Melbourne, Mr Stanhope continues to assure Sir Fiancis Bell and Sir Graham Berry that he has ©very hope of bringing the New Hebrid 8 embroglio to a thoroughly satisfactory termination. The Agents-General theuaeelves are not so sanguine. Sir G. Borry frets and fumes painfully over the callousness of the Colonial Office to the feel-iug-i of Australia, and endeavours (quite futi'eh) to stir up Sir R Herbert to the gravity of the eituation. Sir Francis Bell looks on regretfully, confident that whatever compromise is entered into with Franc* it will be less advantageous to the colurne-i generally than the one proposed and to looliehly rejected come monthe ago, The oranges brought over from Adelaide hy ttiu Ouzco are Belliug from 9a to 9a 3d per 160, whicn ib a very lair price. There can, fruited, be no doubt at all that for two inontha in the year (July and August) there will be a good market here for Australian or New Zealand oxangee, eppecially if picked fruit, uud carefully packed. Connoiseeura pronouuco them^ inferior to Brazilian or Valerias, but superior to Malagas. Some oranges (without pipß) readily f-ell a* 3d or 4d apiece at the Colindies as curiosities.

Tho Australian Cricketers. It is high time the cricket season was over, atid the Australian team on their way to New Zealand, with their tails between Their legs. They have given up trying to fini.-h matches now. On Saturday last, they •drew'" another game. Thia was tbeir cghth drawn game in suceesoion ; in other void*-, nob a Bingle match they have b^ci.e pgaged in for the last four v.f<Us has victory resulted to either si.Je The Australians have now played 37 luatche*, of *hich they have won 9, lost 7, and drawn 21—-a sorry record indeed for such an eleven. "Retire, Australia," should henceforth be their motto. Sir Hercules Eobineon will resign the government of (Jape Colony in February next and return to England. "A Liberal peer in embarrassed circumstances ia named ai h«a successor," cays the "World."

Postscript. I caw Sir F. D. Bell yesterday. He is disgusted with the disunion amongst the AgentB-General as to the Hebrides question, and doee not think that France will be bo

easily settled with a« some people suppose. He strongly deprecates the aggressive attitude of Victoria. Knowing the weakness of his case, Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen has wisely resolved not to notice the complaints of the Victorian vignerons in the " Times " and elsewhere. " Truth this w«ek broadly states that if the projected Imperial and Colonial Insti tute and Museum is to come to anything, it is essential Sir P. Owen and the Kensington #ang should have nothing whatever to do with them. From the tone of both the London and provincial press, it is clear that forcible opposition will be offered to the Institute being situated at South Kensington, and becoming a mere colonial'Cremorne. Mr Hardy, of Porter and Co , of Auckland, returns to the colony via America per Etruria en the 25th inst. •♦The Vaga bond " (Mr Julian Thomas) also goes out to Sydney via America and New Zealand. Mr and Mrs J. G de Moulin, very old identities, return to Auckland per Tongariro this week. A. Hammersmith, butcher, was yesterday fined £40 for selling New Zeuland frozen mutton in a putrid condition. Some of the buyers had thought it was in the nature of New Zealand frozen mutton to be rather "tasty," and ate of it with most painful results. The butcher in question also dispensed diseased pork |

Personal and General. The Prince of Wales entertained the Duke and Duchess of Connaught at a fare well dinner at the Colindies, prior to their departure for India last week. Mr Charles Callis, late Secretary of the Wellington Industrial Exhibition, delivered a lecture on 4I New Zealand " at Northampton on Monday evening, to a large audience The Mr Edward Rathbone who was accidentally drowned in Derwentwater, together with Mr Spencer Bell, of Fawe Park, on the 9th inst., was a cousin of the Messrs Rathbone who are known in Auckland and the Kaipara. He was a young fellow of 27 onlj, very promising, and much liked and respected by all classes in Liverpool. Shaw and Shrewsbury's team of Australian cricketers sailed for Australia by the Cuzco on Saturday last. Their headquarters will be the White Hart Hotel, Melbourne. Mr Kdward Palliaer, in a letter to the "Times,' suggests it would be a good thing if Australian officers were afforded the opportunity of representing the Imperiul Government at the various autumn manoeuvres of foreign armies which take place each year. The Australian cricketers were invited by Mr Henniker Heaton to dine at the Hous-e of Commons on Monday week, aud a number of Conservative M P.* and AngloColonists induced to meet them. For some reason or another only three of the team (Giflfen, Scott, and Trumbi©) and Major Wardill put in an appearance, co that the affair fell deadly flat. Sir J. Corry briefly proposed the health of the visitors, to which Scott replied. Mr Heaton's health was also drunk. The guests then adjourned to the Terrace for a smoke, and subsequently heard part of a dull dt-bate. Altogether the evening proved rathtr a failure. George Henry Weston, who absconded to New Zealand in May last, and was arrested en route {at Cape Town) on a charge of fraudulent bankruptcy, appeared before the magistrates of his native town (Bournemouth) on Monday last, and was remanded for further inquiries. MrSpong, a clever yourg ecene-painter, who gained considerablekwlos for bid contributions to recent Lyceum and Drury Lane epectaclee, haa been engaged for Australia by Williamson and Garner at a salary of £1,000 a year. The improved torpedo invented by Mr Brennan, the young Australian, was tried with complete success at Sheernesa la-t week, and will now almost certainly be adopted by the Government. Mr Brennan expects to amass a large fortune in the course of the next few months. The " Times " points out that a large for tune would be made by anyone who could devise a method of conveying Australian oysters to thia country in a fresh and eatable condition. Each year English " natives " are becoming more and moro of a prohibitive luxury. Mr Hardman, in a report of the Kimberley (W.A.) goldfields, communicated to the English papers, states that two New Zealand miners who went there quickly obtained! 1,100 and 300 ounces respectively. Mr Jusrin McCarthy, accompanied by Mr and Mrs Campbell PraedandMrJ. Huntly McCarthy, left Liverpool on Mb American and colonial lecturing tour last Thursday i by the Britannic. The "Times 'of the 16th inst. contained lon^ letters from Mr David Buchanan, of Sydney, and Mr W. Caton, of Sydney, describing the unfortunate condition of working folk in that colony, and stoutly averring that on the whole 75 out of every 100 labouring men are nearly as well off, if not quite as well off, in England as in the Australian. Mr Caton more especially writes particularly strongly.

Returning Tourists. The following passengers have been booked since my last:—Per P. and O. steamer Paramatta, September 30th, for Auckland (via Bombay), Mr and Mrs Withy.

The " Pall Mall Gazette " have paid two hundred pounds in settlement of the libel action brought againat them by the parents of tho girl Eliza Armstrong, in connection with tho abduction case. To the Public—l, tho and-waigned, do thl« day make tho following statement, in hopes that othors who have gono through a similar affliction may profit thereby :—For many months navo I been sick; so bnd that life was a burden. The mental depression and physical prostration were something that cannot be described. Doctors and patent medicines I have tried without any relief, but getting worse all tho time. As a forlorn hope I called on I ft*. Spcor, Palmorston Buildings, Queen-street. He examined mo, and without asking a question, gave mo every symptom I had. Said he would treat me. From the first teaspoonful of his medicine I felt relief, and have been constantly getting better ever since. Words cannot express my gratitude. lh P .above statement I make without any solicitation. > and lam willing to verify the same