MISCELLANEOUS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6279, 2 July 1888, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Church Emiap^ffcioa Society «f£H despatching s second fpiMifr ttfe&oteotft^H girls to Australia by th« Ovtwf « Jaly 4^B The Augustus X<oftas|s« eetm ': l&^pM^^B do well aB dresHmakertil. The f£/*j^H| papers are nnaj^xnou»^th»i r ; prettiest dresses at ~WfMnMaf^Btjr room were from " Uj^dejue <f^ftoin{.^j^|^H Some very fanner facts c&me^°4^HH other day before/ the Commit? -^■^■| Navy Estimates;/™ the victus%^^HM warships abroad* There' cfr-te, j^B^^B seem something wrong ' Bom|ay|^^BHfl ! the Australian w&^B^^^^H Auckland harb»ur» receives la^f^^H menta of New Zealand tinned meaten^^B London. Yet fkis, according to Mr wT^^H B. Yorke, Director of Victualling, is whaj^B \ recently happened^ • . . Lord Canterbury" has avoided becominUß a certificated bankrupt by agreeing tojMM^H his creditors £200 a year. \HI Sir Charles Clifford, Sir Walter Baller^H Sir James Cockle, and a trhole host of^H Anglo-Colonial celebrities, were «t the^B opening of the Italian Exhibition on SaturfH day last. It is a far smarter' show thatHH the American affair last year, and protnjseJH At the annual meeting bt-the. Laadß| Nationalisation Society, on May;, A tt^H interesting letter was read from Sir Bober^B Stout, cordially supporting the objeott oH the Society. . . ' .:: ~ Major-General Eocke, C.8., who will b^B remembered as serving with the 18tflH Regiment in the Maori war, has bea^H appointed Inspector-General of a comfortable and lucrative berth. ''J^Hl Mr Mortimer Menpes, the Australw|B artist, whose exhibition .of JapaneßcnHß| pictures in Bond street, has excited geneS|H admirationj is engaged in a. war of . woi^^H with the great Whistler. The quarrel the more regrettable since Mr Menpes :w^^fl once a profound admirer of the ecceniAß| impressionist. . , ... ' '^I^B Colonial newspaper folflre riaing in j^^H world. At Wedneßday*B Drawing-room wife of the proprietor of the Sydney tfq^^B was presented to the sovereign. M^^H Henniker-Heaton appropriately acted flfl| sponsor. ' b^B The Fine Art collection which Mr Agneß^H and Sir Q, Perry have between them gj^^B together for the Melbourne Exhs»tion, ho^H been shipped by the Borne, whicb sails tflH morrow. The Prince of Wales inspeotflH the pictures before they were packed, aflH seemed on the whole pleased. NaturaU^B| owners of world-famous painting* did i^BB care to risk them so far away, but gptJBH mens (of one kind or anotl^):of the wd^^B of nearly all our bast mefi&Jre incladfl^H Mr Agnew's help was invaluable throujd^^H Out. ' ' The two Australians, Bell and LandaiHH who rowed in the Cambridge 'Varsfl^B Eight, have just won the. 'Varsity Pa^flH for Trinity Hall, the College to -whi^^H they belong. They will compete for th<fl^B again at Henley. ; ;

The Tension at the Wab Ofh jJH The official relations between v.^^^^H Wolseley and Mr Stanhope have, JH^fl Truth, become so seriously strained thaj^HH lookß as if either one or the other will hi^HH to go. Mr Stanhope is certafoly. nbj^HH success as War Secretary, being altoget^^^H unequal to the exigencies, of the p^^^H Thinking only of the public intbre^^HH should vastly like to see Lord &and<^HH Churchill at the War Office. . That L^^^H Bandolpk will obt-ain tEis, or auyotfl^^B Cabinet post,, from Lord Salisbury in iBBBB improbable. The Tories say that, ifjIHHBB are to make any change, they prei^^^H invite' Mr . Chamberlain to - join . jcc^HH rather than to receive again into fajHHfl Lord Bandolpk. It is P*s>bß.bly o&JHBHH question 6t <■" tiine"^eu*!^-Oii»mbe^^^H and hia faithful Jc*se— still, aoc^rdi^^^H themselves, EAdicalfl-^will tAkeoffioe q^^^| liotd Salisbury. "fTlv ' '^H^B