ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4765, 4 October 1893, Page 2

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

♦- ! [FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.] London, August 11. With the exception of the indefatigable Mr Perceval, the Australasian Agents- | General are all holiday making, either on , the Continent or at the seaside. I scarcely expected to find him when I called at Victoria street yesterday, but he was there, and busy. As a matter of fact, a number , of the farmers, &c, negotiating for reduced ■ passages availed themselves of the cheap ( excursions to town this week to run up and talk over matters personally with the manager of the Information Bureau, and (when the questions were important) the Agent-General himself. I noticed several waiting. Mr Perceval continues well satisfied with the manner in 1 which the reduced passage system works 1 ont. He reckons that in the last few monthßbe haf» recommended 150 eligible settlers to the New Zealand Shipping 1 Company, and that they (the settlers) took 1 out amonppt them between J820,000 and • .£25 000 The latter estimate is almost certainly nearer the mark. Many well to ' do emigrants merely proved the possession 1 of the essential sum required to qualify for ■ the reduction, though they certainly took ont a great deal more- The , prospectus of the New Zealand Colonisation Company has now been issued by the Bank of New Zealand, and will. Mr Perceval anticipates, give a further fillip to high-class emigra- » tion. MB GEORGE BRODRIC*-* . ; After two months' stay in B on me Scot- ' land, Mr George S. Brodrick and his family have returned to tow I *, and are now in rooms at Bedford place. Mr ! Brodrick took a furnished *ouse in .■ Edinburgh, and from thence h© and his daughters made excursions to t&e Highland?, the LaVes, the Clyde, in fact to 1 all possible points of scenic and historic 1 interest. On their way south the family visited Hull, which is Mr BrodricVa native town, and where he and his were hospitably entertained and made much , of by h's nephew, Major Brodrtek (one of the chief Magistrates of the City), and two generations of cousins and more distant relatives. Mr Brodrick has taken passages by the Australia, j leaving Sept. 29, for Dunedin, via Mcl- | bourne, but his party will not join the vessel till she reaches Brindisi, as they deaire to see something of 'the Continent en route. It is worth noting that Mr s Brodrick, in contradistinction to many New Zealand passengers who have pa- ' tronised the P. and 0. boats latterly has 1 nothing unpleasant to report. Neither I he nor his daughters noticed resonable , grounds for complaint on the Himalaya, in fact they wore most comfortable. During ' the next two months Mr Brodrick and 1 J family will look around the South and . j West of England generally, visiting Cornk! wall, Devonshire and the Channel. Mr • | Brodrick has.. been elected a Fellow of the Boyal Colonial Institute. MR J. B. RTjeSELt: I am glad to learn that though Mr J» B.

Sussell is still, aa he has now been for inn weeks past, on his back, his general lealth seema fair and bia spirits aatisfacjory. Whether Mr Morris has altogether *ot away the root of the internal trouble seems, however, doubtful. Mr Eubrcll . aimself ie reticent on the eubject. The tillage of Morden, in Surrey, where Mr »nd Mrs Eussell and their daughters are now located, is delightfully Bitnated be» bween Mitcham (famous for its lavender) and Wimbledon, now the great metropolitan lawn teunia centre. * Their quarters at Heathfield are extremely comfortable, satisfying even Mr Rußeell's somewhat exigeant standard of excellence, and the air is fresh and bracing. No plane for the future Beem as yet to have been formulated. CAPTAIN MOORE. Captain Moore, of H.M.S. Dreadnought, whose valuable evidence before the Victoria Court-martial threw much new light on that mysterious catastrophe, is a brother of Mr Walter Moore, of Wierton, Geraldine, Canterbury, and of Mr Francis Moore, of Moriroa, Chatham Islands. The whole truth with regard to this lamentable business will now, it is feared, never come out. I hear all who knew Admiral Tryon intimately scout the story of his behaviour put forward at the Court-martial. No one is accused of deliberately saying what waß untrue thereat, but it does seem possible that for the sake of living comrades, there may have been important — well — reservations amongßt the survivors. NffW ZEALAND STUDENTS* BTJCCESBES. In the official list of candidates who passed the first and second professional examinations at Edinburgh in July, the only New Zealand Btudents appearing are Mr Percy T. Herring, Mr Ernest E. Porritt and Mr J. C. Goldie.l The firstnamed have passed the aecon ' examination and the latter the first. In the Faculty of Medicine the following distinguished themselves. In Botauy, Mr P. T. Herring, Mr W. J. H. Hielop and Mr John Stevenson, all three obtaining second class honours, their positions being respectively, 19, 21 and 48. In • Practical Botany, Class A, Mr Herring and Mr Stevenson both gained first class honours, the former obtaining a medal, and Mr W. J. .Hislop obtained second class honours. In Class B Mr Ernest Porritt was number ten in the second class honours list. For microscopical sections made during the session, Mr Percy T. Herring came out fourth in the first class honours. x In Practical Zoology, Mr Porritt, Mr Herring and Mr Stevenson secured second class Honours, their respective positions being six, Beven and eleven. Mr Stevenson further distinguished himself by obtaining second claßs honours in Natural History. MISCELLANEOUS. • , The arrangement between Tyser'e and the direct New Zealand Companies (i.e., the New Zealand Shipping and the Shaw, Savill and Albion Companies) to cease the cut-throat competition which I told you sometime ago must shortly come about, is now announced. Tysers held out longer than anybody anticipated, , but the managing director is a determined, not to say obstinate man, and there were, 1 imagine, reasons why fighting the New Zealand Shipping Company specially pleased him. It is now arranged that Tyser liners aro not to carry cargo in future for Dunedin or Lyttelton, Amongst the firms which fortunately but narrowly escaped damage by the recent fire in St Mary-Axe was (according to the British Australasian) Messrs W. Fairbairn and Co., who are the chief shippers of earthenware, china and glass to Australia and New Zealand. The head of the firm has just returned from a round tour in your part of the world. * ' In connection with the Victoria catastrophe I should mention that Lady Tryon, has declined the pension of JJ6OO a year to which she is entitled as an Admiral's widow. Her ladyship at first begged the capitalised sum due might be handed over to the Victoria f and, but the sum collected being already in excess of that required she has simply refused it. hogan's labt. In the House of Commons, on Tuesday Mr Hogan, M.P., asked the Under-Secre-tary for Foreign Affairs, one of those unanswerable, questions for whioh he is becoming notorious. Of course, he really doesn't care a dump what the reply is. The question has served its purpose when it has advertised Mr Hogan, M.P. On Thursday, the honourable member's query bore reference to an alleged interview in the New- Zealand Herald with Baron von Pilaach, in the course of which the ex* President of the Municipal Council of Samoa was reported to have Baid that annexation by one of the Powers would be the best thing which could happen to Samoa. Mr Hogan urged on the Government that duo weight should be attached to this suggestion, and that Great Britain should impress it on the other Treaty Powers, in the interests of the British subjects who now constitute the moßt important element of the European population in Samoa. Sir E. Grey, satirically pleaded ignorance alike of the existence of the New Zealand newspaper referred to, and the interview. The report of Von Pilsach's remarks might be authentic, or, on the other hand, it might not. But in any case it did not clearly appear which Power, either Baron von Pilsach or the honourable member, desired to annex Samoa. It would hardly be possible for any One of the three Powers interested to make proposals on the basis of such a rumour. Official snubs of this sort Beem rather grateful than not to Mr Hogan, M.P. "BBAQGART QUEENSLAND." The new number of the Investors' Review contains a virulent screed by the Editor, entitled "Braggart Queensland," which ie on much the same lines as his attacks on "Heavy Laden New Zealand/ "Spendthrift New South Wales," and "GoldBewitched Victoria." Fortunately for that Colony few folks nowadays pay five shillings for the Investors' Review, and fewer still attach importance to Mr A. J. Wilson's extravagant railings against Australia. On most subjects the good man ia sound enough, but it has come to be recognised that he has " a bea in his bonnet" concerning the Colonies. Mr Perceval, of course, completely disposed of his fallacious reasoning concerning New Zealand, and Sir Saul Samuel exposed many gross representations in his paper on New South Wales. If Sir James Garrick thinks it worth while he will probably show Mr Wilson knows no more about Queensland than he did about the other two Colonies. Mr Wilson has now only South and West (Australia left to attack. Can there, I wonder, be any truth in the suggestion that an article on the former is in preparation bearing the delightfully alliterative title of " Sleepy South AusI tralia.