OUR LONDON LETTER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12203, 22 April 1909, Page 3

OUR LONDON LETTER

(From Our O^n Carrespondent.) > LONDON, March 12. Mr A. A. Davies, of Wanganui, referred to in former letters, left for the Dominion last week. Mr E. F. Morter, of Christchurch, has just arrived here by an intermediate steamer from Bechuanaland, where he has spent three years. Mr Morter says he intends to return to the land oi: the moa, which will always be good enough for him. "If I saw the best of Bechuanaland," he says, "its worst side must be very bad. You cannot carry on farming on an extensive scale, and make much out of it, because there is no ready market; there are cattle diseases to be contended with, and natives are not the peaceful angels some people think. If a man wants to live a proper, enjoyable life, give me New Zealand every time before South Africa. There are a few Australians hi Bechuanaland doing well out of gold, and by trading, but when they, have made enough they will get out of it." Capt. Hutchings, of the Talune, is advised as coming to England by the Tainui to take out to New Zealand the \ new cargo steamer which is now being built for the Union Steamship Com- j pany. . Dr Chappie, the ex-member for Tua- ! peka, is on the way to the Old Coun- \ try, apparently to take up his residence here for some time. Before leaving he made a statement to his political supporters "at Beaumont and Alexandra. jHe said he had laid out a busy programme of public service, to which he I had intended to devote the whole of his time and energies, but the decision of the bulk of the electors had forced him to alter his plans. He was going to England, he said, but he had resolved to do what he could for New Zealand in the Old Land. Mr H. M. Merriman has been appointed under-writer in London to the New Zealand Insurance Company, on the retirement of Mr T. M. Tolputt. New Zealand newspapers are asked to note the death of Mrs Mary Joseph, the wife of the late Mr Ferguson Joseph. Mrs Joseph died at 'Ryecroft'' Bournemouth, on 28th ult. She was in her 80th year. On tb.9 New Zealand Club's course at Byfleet on Tuesday in the Ladies' In-ter-County Golf Championship, h Surrey defeated Middlesex by 4 matches to 3. Mr W. H. Garrison delivered an interesting lecture entitled "New Zealand, the World's Wonderland -at Margate a few days back. This lecture was the ninth of a series, under the auspices of the Margate Lecture .Society. Mr W. W. Triggs, M.Sc., 8.E., of Christchurch, the son of Mr W. H. Triggs, editor of "The Press,"' 3 has just been appointed technical assistant to a well known firm of consulting engineers heie, and he' will now take up. h.'s residence? in London. Most of Mr Trigg's time since he arrived here a year ago, has been spent in Birmingham, where he has been enlarging his experience in electrical engineering. Messrs Heenan and Froud, Ltd., who have destructors on order for Wellington, have just secured the contract for the erection of a 450 ton per day refuse destructor for the city of Rotterdam. This plant will consist of forty cells with their complement of boilers, regenerators, fans, etc. Th^ refuse will be mechanically handled throughout on an improved system. The contract was secured in the face of the keenest competition from" the whole'of the makers on the Continent, and in this country. The work will involve the expenditure of about £130,000. Mrs , George Gould and Mr Patrick Campbell were two New Zealanders present at the reception held by Mrs Lowther, the wife of the Speaker, on sth inst. Memorial services are to be held for Bishop Selwyn, the first Bishop of New Zealand, and the founder of the Melanesian Mission, and for ten years Bishop of Lichfiekl, the present year being the centenary of his birth. These services will be held in the Cathedral and the parish churches 'of the Lichfield Diocese, probably on St. George's Day, the 23rd of April, or at some approximate date. The offerings at the special services will be divided between the Building Fund of the Patterson Memorial Wing of St. John's College, Auckland, and the Endowment Fund of Selwyn College, Cambridge, which was built as a memorial to him in 1882. Bishop Selwyn, it may be mentioned, arrived in New Zealand in 1842, and remained there until 1868, when he was translated to Lichfield. The High Commissioner for New Zealand, Mr Barnard Brown, of Wanganui, and Dr Fenwick were present at the Hampstead Cemetery at the funeral of Dr Baillie, son of the Hon Mr Baillie, of the New Zealand Legislative Council. It is understood that Dr Baillie died of fever caught while lecturing at the North Western Fever Hospital.