ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2805, 19 September 1883, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

[Br TELEGBAPn.I Auckland, Sept. 18. The Item Zealand Herald's London correspondent, under date August loth, haß the I'ollowiDg colonial items : — Emigrants continue to be sent, out at the usual rate. The Taranaki is en route for Canterbury with 300 emigrants (130 of them being single women), and the Nelson, fur Otago, with 350 more. The Wos'land will sail ulniO3t immediately for Wellington with a complement of 300. On tho 22tid mat., the British Queen will tako out 200 for Otngo and Canterbury, and the lonic an equal number m September. The Shaw Saville and Albion Companies chartered Bteamer Triumph, 2570 tons, will take out emigrants to Auckland, sailing on Stpt. 23th. Tho New Zealand Shipping Company have had to refuse nearly 100 persons who were anxious to take passages by their last two steamers. They sought permission to eend forward some of fio nominated immigrants by Bailing vessels, but it was not granted. It is reported that Mr Vesey Stewart has arranged for tho construction of a roilway from Tauranga to tho Hot Lakes, a firm of iron mßStors having undortaken the work, probably m the hope of selling to a company on completion of the line. Mr Stewart has arranged to send out a batch of settlers to Tauranga by one of the Shaw Saville and Albion Company's ships, to eail next November. There is no New Ztaland mutton m the market just now, the cargo ex British Queon having been cleared. Tho mutton was good, and sold at between 7d and 7id per lb. A few of the sheep wero too fat for tho proportion of lean they carried. Some Circuses were stained about the legs, and cut up dull, owing probably to come neglect or haste during the process of chilling. Other carcases were rather out of shape or showed indications of where the leg or neck of another sheep had lain against them. During a g od trade these slight defects are of little consequence, but if the market is dull they arouse a prejudice against colonial mutton and matte it even less brisk. The John Elder brought a consignment of merino mutton and beef from Sydney, but the sheep were very small and of inferior quality, and only averaged s£d per lb. Nins hundred cwt of Australian and New Zealand hops, which arrived a few weeks since, aro still unsold. This is unfortunate, as the new season's hops from the Kentish grounds are coming m on the market. The Morning Advertiter, tho organ of the licensed victuallers' trade, has favorably noticed the consignment and expressed a hope that brewers would test the hops on their merits, and if they are satisfactory would encourage colonial growers to send futuro shipments. The Unitod Methodist Free Church Conference havo directed tho Rev. C. W. Torboys, of London, to proceed to Christchurch, Now Zealand. Tho Royal Colonial Institute ara about to build on a excellent »ito m Northumberland Avenue, close to Trafa^ar Square. Their invested funds amount to £5500. They havo recently received donations to the extent of £1351 (£IOO from Mr Robert Porter, of New Zealand), and of their proposed issuo of £15,000 4 per cent, debenture?, £3900 have been already applied for. Th« acceptance by the Rev. Canon Barry, the Principal of King's College, of the Bishopric of Sydney, and Primaoy of Australia and Now Zealand, Uai greatly surprised his friends, as he wai considered sure to be raised to tho highest episcopal bench on the drat opportunity. Ho was offered tho Deanery of Exetor while the colonial appointment was under his consideration. He ii rogurded as a very able nan, an active worker, a good administrator, and an accomplished scholar and preacher. He is nearly 60 yeura of uge. It i» unlikely that he will be able to leave England until after Christmas.