ENGLAND.

New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume I, Issue 7, 1 April 1900, Page 564

ENGLAND.

From the Old Country comes the news of the deaths of several men of greater or less degree of notability. Sir Frederick Burton, erstwhile President and Director of the National Gallery, Sir William Lockhart, Mr. Raphael Tuck, and last, but certainly not least, Sir Henry Fairfax, whose visit to New Zealand ports in his capacity of Admiral of the Australian Naval Squadron will be well remembered. The Queen's visit to Ireland will be the next sensational event, and a godsend to our colonial press now that war cables have lost their piquancy, and begin to pall on our surfeited senses. The magnificent manner in which the War Loan was oversubscribed speaks volumes for the patriotic spirit and confidence of the British public in their own institutions. English journals, which in the past knew not New Zealand, are profusely eugolistie in their adoration of the loyalty of the little colony in general, and of stout Premier Seddon's opportune offer to support Lord Salisbury in his determination to carry out to the uttermost the purpose of the war, in particular.