THE ENGLISH MAIL (VIA SAN FRANCISCO). ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Mail Service Complaints. London, November 2.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 233, 17 December 1887, Page 8

THE ENGLISH MAIL (VIA SAN FRANCISCO). ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Mail Service Complaints. London, November 2.

L uon'c know how the present mail arrangements suit you out in New Zealand, but London merchants*, corresponding with Auckland, Napier, Wellington, etc., continue to complain bitterly. They say they arc practically no better off v than when theie was one mail a ' *onlh, as the San Francisco sen ice- all but overtakes the direct steamers. The desirability of paying voxels utilising the Cape route a heavy subsidy seems indeed more and more doubtful daily. lam assured that v hen the new Austialian mail service, including 16 knot boat? and tail from Adelaide to Sydney, comes in foice, it will prove far the quickest and irosb comenienfc for almost all New Zealand ports, and being weekly, will your Government interferes) quickly become popular. This will of course mo: c especially be the ca^e should Mr lleaton (as he wntes to his friends) succeed in lovveiino- to 2d or 3d per the postal rates between London and New South Wales.

The Dcnt3i of lady Brasscy. ' The story w Inch I quoted to you last ■\voe!c/. Lady Biaseey jumping o\crboard from the yacht " Sunbeam " whilst suffering 1 from fevei, turns out to be quite untrue. Lml Bra^-sey's .secictavy writes to contradict it, and say-? tlie statement lias given the family pain. Her Ladyship died quietly in her bunk. The yarn seems in the lirst instance to ha\c arisen from the !New York ''Herald's" Cape correspondents. Lord 1\ onnanby w ill remain in one or other of the Australian Colonies till ne\t Eiuster. He is in poor health, but hopes speat things fiom the sea voyage.

land and Loun Company. At the annual meeting of the Land and Loan Company of New Zealand, the other d ly. after a dividend of 3 per cent had been dcclaied, a heavy fchaieholder, Air Van Tromp, said he looked forwaid -with some anxiety as to the course the directors would take with reference to calling- up the remainder of the capital. On eNew Zealand Company with which he was acquainted had lenb i'5O,OOJ on an estate on which bhc\ could nut. now realise £5,000— ccrcainly not £10,000 —so great had been tho depiecution in the of land in the colony. In the present state of things in New Zealand he did not think it matter ot congratulation that the Company ! had been able to rause more money on dcbenUre-. Up to the present time there had be^n six dhectois, and he sugge^tod the acUUabililily of an additional director bei' N g okv'e'l, rc^. tiding four as tin unworkable number. The Chaiiman, in reply, st.a:v-\\ tlniu the ducctois peifecfcly apjnehended tl.e po.-itiou of tiic Company, and v/eie fully alive to the re-ponsibility which lested on them in rcgaid to the liability of shareholder. Jlr K. Turnbull, a director, saui he .-eiw nothing in the least alarming in the po^ifion of affah.- in the colony. So iai-.'i? tlu-y knev. , their securities were porfec^'y good and their whole difficulty lay in iio— e--iiV4 the estate mentioned. j

Personal and General. Mr .]. ('. Brown, M.H. 11., brought a mo->t su: .e^ful vi-,it to the " old country " to an etui la=t week, and is now on his way home. Indeed, I shouldn't be surprised if ho aithes simultaneously with this letter. If my advice is, intciview him. Jlr Biown, m the intervals of bu^ine^, has made exhaustive enquiries into the inner a)-:r,iaoi tho frozen mutton trade, and canie-> back v/ith him .some very definite no'ion-> a-, to impio\ing matter.-. He licuels aojo---, America by the CanadianFacific Kailw ay. Tho Knipeier of Biu/il (travelling inOA^nito) will slioitly vi^it the Australian Co'onies. S'^nor Foli, the great bavilone, has signed aMfl aealed tor an xVubtralian tour. He will p 1 V>ab]y '-liiQ,- nt the opening of the MelLcjMie Exhibition. Aether pirb of Siv Walter Buller's beau- I tifi'l "' Xcw Zealand Birds "' is just to hand. Hcbheivm- (the great book-sellers) predict that this book will be enormously \aluable tirty jeai^ hence. j\fany aie buying it 1113: ely a- an inve.-tment. O\Miig chiefly to I^lr J. C. "Brown's, ]\r.H.R.V, representations, two young enpi-taU-fc, son- ot Blieffield magnates, sailed for New Zealand a few weeks ago, and will hLVj in tho country if they like it.