ANGLO-COLONIAL. NOTES. (FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.)

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 205, 28 May 1887, Page 8 (Supplement)

ANGLO-COLONIAL. NOTES. (FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. )

Lord Tennyson's Jubifee (Mo appears in " Macmillan's Magazine "' for April. It is veeak,pretensious and unnaißical, altogether a miserable failure. The following are exI tracts :—

L Fifty times the rose has flow<=s*d« and faded, Fifty times* the golden hai'vest fallen, ! 1 Since our Queen assumed th*- gjofoe, the sceptre.

11. ', Sh& beloved for a kindliness Rare in Fable or History, Queen, and Empress of India, Crown'd so long with a diadeim I- Never worn by a worthier, Now with prosperous auguries Comes at last to the bounteous Crowning year of her Jubilee

VI. i You, that wanton in affluence, ; Spare nofc now to be bountiful, ! Call youv jyoor to regale with you, Make their neighbourhood healthf ciJEsr, (siive your gold to the Hospital, Let the weavy be comforted, Let the needy be banqueted, Let the maira'd in hi 3 heart rejoice At this year of her Jubilee.

' ' ' IX. Fifty, yeai's of ever-broadening Commerce' ?* Fifty years of ever- brightening Science ! Fifty years- o£ ever-widening Empire !

X. You, the- Mighty, the Fortunate, You, the Lord-territorial, You, tho Lord-manufacturer, You,, the liardy, laborious, Patient children of Albion, You 1 , Canadian, Indian, Australasian, African, All your hearts be in harmony, All your voices in unison, Singing "'Hail to the glorious Golden year of her Jubilee 1"

XI. Are there thunders moaning ih the distance ? Are there specbuea moving in the darkness ? Trust the Loul of Light to guide her people, Till the thunders pass, the spectres A-nnish, And the Lighii is Victor, and the darkness Dawns into the- Jubilee of the Ages. Far nobler in all respects is Mr Lewis Morris's rhythmic and vigorous " Song of Empire" in "Murray's." I append the passage referring to Austi-alasia : — See what a glorious throng they come, Turned to their ancient home, The children of our England ! See What vigorous company Thou sendest, Greater England of the Southern Sea L Thy stately cities, sown with domes and spires,. | Chase the illumined night with festal fires In honour of their Queen, whose happy reign Began when, 'mid their central roar, The naked savage trod the pathless plain. Thousands of miles, North, houth, East and West to-day, Their countless herds and flocks unnumbered, strayTheirs are the vast primeval forest depths profound ; Yet everywhere are found The English laws, the English accents fair,, 'Midjburning North or cooler Southern air. A world within themselves, and with them blent Island with continent The green isles, jewels on the tropic blue, ; AY hero flower and tree and bird are strange , and new ; Or that which lies within a temperate air As summer-England fair ; Or those, our Southern Britain that shall be, Set in the lonely sea. Lands of deep fiord and snow-clad soaring hill, Wherethrough the ocean currents ebb and fill, And craters vast, wherefrom the prisoned force Of the great earth-fires runs its dreadful course. And vales of palm and fern, whence like a dream, High in mid-heaven, the ghostly snow fields gleam.

New Zealand Feathers. The announcement that a collection of moas' feathers from New Zealand would be sold by auction brought a good attendance to Stevens's Natural History sale rooms one afternoon last week. These were the cards and frames of feathers belonging to MiTaylor White, of Hawke's Bay, which were on view at the late Colonial Exhibition at South Kensington. The price put upon them by the- owner, viz., forty and fifty guineas, prevented any sale being made at the exhibition, and although the&e rates were considerably reduced, at the auction only one or two lots changed hands. The representatives of the British Museum were the principal bidders. The unique specimen of a moas egg exhibited at South Kensington was also offered, but at a prohibitive price. I hear that at the "Colindies'' this egg was insured for £1,000.

The Suez Mail Arrangements. You will have heard by cable that the Orient and P. and 0. Cos. are rumoured to have arranged with tlio Australian Governments for the carriage of the mails for a period of eight years for an aggregate subsidy of £160,000. The story is generally received with distrust, as it is scarcely likely a definite decision would have been come to on the very verge of the Conference. I shall, however, know more about this next week. The Orient Company are sending out a splondid model of the R.M.S. Ormuz to the Adelaide Exhibition, and the P. and O. Company have promised one of their new s.s. victoria.