ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES (FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.)

Lovegrove Redivivus. — The Champion of His Cause. London, December 6. Lovegrove, the Waikato glazier and luckless claimant to the Derwentwater estates, is once more en evidence. He does not now intend returning to Auckland, but wants to raise money enough to carry him and his family out to Queensland. The case has been taken up by a young man named Charles Pye, a fellow-passenger of Lovegrove's on the Garonne. This youth tells me our Waikato friend came aboard in Sydney with about £240, which he spent most lavishly. Pye, whose faith in Lovegrove's pretensions appears from the first |to have been illimitable, was promised the ! lucrative post of factor or land agent on the Derwentwater estates. His gratitude for the prospective billet was so great that he felt he could do anything for the man who had offered it him, and now the Lovegroves ' are in low water he is giving practical proof of his kindly feeling by enlisting what sympathy he can for their hard case. Amongst others, Pye applied to Captain Ashby, who offered to pay the family's passages to Brisbane if Mrs Lovegrove's father (who is well off) would guarantee to reimburse him within a certain time. Mrs jL.'s papa declared he was too poor to advance a cent, whereupon Pye interviewed Sir F. D. Bell, also without success. He now talks of laying the whole case before the Baroness BurdettCoutte. I can't say I feel as sorry as I did for Lovegrove. He is a limp, inert, broken-backed kind of man, without an ounce of pluck in his composition. Mrs L., too, demands sympathy and cash in a " your-money-or-your-life " sort of way. " Me and Lovegrove " she says, " allus gave freely to subscriptions in the Waikato. Many 's the time we have 'elped friends, but now no one will 'elp us." I fear I offended the good lady mortally by endeavouring to point out that it wag to the Waikato (where they had lived and were appreciated) that they ought to look for help and assistance, and not to Londoners. At a recent meeting of the Belgian Geographical Society held at Antwerp, MoneieurE. deHarvenreadamost interesting and instructive paper on the climate, resources, mountains, volcanoes, hot-lakes, and geysers of New Zealand. He also pointed out the advantages which would accrue to Belgium through the establishment of commercial relations with that colony. '

A Wolverhampton paper says that the i orders for hardware coining direct from i New Zealand are larger thisi winter than they have ever been before.

The Loss of the Loch Fyne. The Loch Fyne, of Glasgow, which sailed from Lyttelton on May 14th last, with a cargo of wheat, and has long been posted as missing, is now finally given up. The underwriters are of opinion that she went down during the terrific gale which swept over the Bay of Biscay and English Channel on September Ist and 2nd, and that the whole of the crew, 40 in number, perished with her. The loss, which amounts to £35,000, falls principally on London offices.

Mr Monoure Conway on Auckland. So Mr Moncure Conway did not after all make any stay in New Zealand on his way to Sydney. I gather this much from a letter in the Glasgow "Herald " of Saturday last (Deo. Ist), to which the rev. gentleman contributes his impressions of Auckland. They are neither long nor specially flattering. "This morning (says Mr Conway, writing from aboard the s.s. Australia on September 17) we had six clear hours to go about the streets of Auckland. I observed about a dozen living Maoris, all looking very wretched, but saw a large number of their skeletons, their ornaments, weapons, gods, in the museum. The Aucklanders, largely Scotch, are no doubt good people, but one may have too much of a good thing. Tho New Zealand Government lias resolved to annex the Samoan Islands — that is, to reduce the islanders to the condition of these miserable Maoris. Why, they have hardly begun to master nature in New Zealand. They say they wish to " civilise " and " christianise " the Samoans, and though that is thought by many to be hypocrisy, no doubt there mingles with it a restless, frantic desire to see the varieties of the world reduced to one race. It is a curious passion, and it involves the destruction or much happiness. Near Auckland there is a noble neight called ' Eden ' — the edge of an extinct crater, from which many similar heights and craters may be seen, as well as beautiful islands and inlets of the sea. The road is lined with thistles ; they overran New Zealand from one which was imported by a patriotic Scotchman. There is a quaint irony in the fact that the place is called ' Eden ' where these thistles grow. On the green summit of ' Eden ' is a carved stone, on which was pasted the advertisement of a Salvationist meeting." The thing that seems to have pleased the great Theist preacher most in Auckland was the Museum, from which he culled a collection of poetic native names, "Although," he goes on, "Auckland has the reputation of being very Sabbatarian, the museum and the public library are open every Sunday afternoon. The white people I saw on the streets were remarkably fine-looking, but the buildings are degraded copies of London suburban shops and public-houses. Outside the town, however, are some pretty little wooden villas. I should say that the Aucklanders have a good deal of the Scottish wit as well as of the thistle patriotism among them. It is weil known that they did not like Sir Arthur Gordon as their governor. A grazier who got on our ship told me that a friend of his was asked why he did not like that governor ; he replied that Sir Arthur seemed to him too undecided. 'Undecided, how?' -Why, he doesn't seem able to decide whether God Almighty made him or he made God Almighty.' However, now that Sir Arthur has gone among the Fijians, about whom he is writing a book, they remember his good qualities and speak more pleasantly of him." "Nothing can be more picturesque than the harbour at Auckland. As we steamed out of it and out to sea on a most beautiful afternoon, the almost innumerable islands seemed great gems, and some of them sports of natiu'e, to which man lias responded by calling them ' Sail Rock,' "Ihree Kings,' 'Hen and Chickens.' But the Sydney people smile at all enthusiasm for these scenes, and say, ' Wait till you see Sydney harbour.' Well, we are nearly there now." Shaw, Savill, and Co. advertise that the Edwin Fox and the Anazi are for sale by private contract.

The Insurances on the Triumph. A brief paragraph in the daily papers of Monday last (Dec. 3rd) announced the wreck of the ill-fated Triumph on the coast of New Zealand. I learn she was insured by the owners (Maclntyre Bros., of Newcastle) partly in local and partly in London and Liverpool offices.

Chilled Cheese and Butter from New Zealand. A portion of the chilled cheese which came Home by the Doric has been disposed of by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company to Messrs Samuel Page and Son, the wholesale buttermen, whose principal I interviewed yesterdey. Mr Page says the cheese, though in first-rate condition, and the best he has ever seen from the Australias, is nevertheless a low class article of coarse flavour. It has been selling at 56s per 1121bs, whilst Cheshire (the English cheese it most resembles) fetches 60s to 64s the 1121bs. The Doric's consignment will not be vended retail as New Zealand cheese. In fact, Mr Page thinks it is most likely to be bought up by small tradesmen in poor neighbourhoods, who will sell it simply as " cheese " at a very low figure. Mr Page added that if the price obtained wholesale is considered satisfactory by the colonial shippers further consignments will be welcome. Common cheese of strong flavour always commands a market. As regards the butter per Doric, Messrs Page report that it arrived in good condition, or in other words, had not been heated on the voyage. The quality, however, is far from good — in fact, it has a disagreeably stale flavour with it. None of the butter has been sold, but it is valued at 60s cwt. Altogether, the consignment of chilled cheese and butter can scarcely be viewed as a success. I must say I shall "be very sorry if New Zealand gets the name of supplying fifth-rate provisions, suitable only for workhouses, gaols, &c. At one time there seemed a chance of the New Zealand mutton ranking in people's minds with " prime Scotch "or "Southdown." Unfortunately, the vendors themselves have put an end to that possibility, and now the frozen meat trade seems steadily going downhill. The Deva, barque (Captain Pierrepoint), which arrived in dock from the Bluff on the 2nd inst., experienced a fearful hurricane off Cape Horn on September 18th (when in lat. 58 S. ), in the course of which one of the men, a foreigner named Antonio Edwards, was washed overboard., The barque herself got fearfully knocked about. Every moveable thing was swept into the sea, cabin skylights stove in, cabin flooded, deck-house smashed to pieces, and nearly all the sails blown to rags. The gale lasted 48. hours, and the weather was bitterly cold, freezing salt water on the decks, ana coating the rigging with icicles. The barometer went down to 28.15. The Northumberland, after being delayed three weeks, was to Bail for Auckland this afternoon. - The steerage passengers'received compensation at: the rate of eighteen-pence per diem for the delay, .

Arrival of the Fenstanton The Fenstanton (Captain A. Williams) arrived in dock yesterday morning, after a rather long voyage of 50 days, from Lyttelton. She brings 8,750 caroases of mutton, which have, co far, been discharged in excellent condition, the appearance of the meat being unusually tempting. The chambers were kept at an extraordinarily low temperature, as you may guess when I tell you the engineer returns his average at Odega. below zero. Since I saw the British Queen's mutton I have always been an advocate for low temperatures in frozen meat chambers. It is therefore gratifying to find the Fenstanton's carcases so good. None of the meat has, of course, been sold yet, but I shall be disappointed if it doesn't realise an improved price. The Fenstanton is advertised to leave again for Otagp on the 21st.

Personal and General Notos. Mr Charles Tucker, a gentleman, who has many friends in Canterbury, goes out to Lyttelton per s.s. Doric. Mr Charles R. Bidwell, J.P., Mr Henry Gray, and Mr Edward Moorhouso, all of New Zealand, have been elected Fellows of the Colonial Institute. The Rev. Mr Luant is booked to sail for j Auckland per P. and 0. s.s. Mirzapore on i January 17. Mr John Hare, the popular actor and lessee of the St. James's Theatre, has a number of relations residing at Auckland, New Zealand. It may interest these worthy people to know that he has finally renounced his own proper name of Fairs, and will in future be known both publicly and privately as Hare.' The usual statutory notice of the alteration has been given by advertisement. The Marquis of Bute and his party, who, as I told you in my last, sailed for Melbourne by the Orient on the 26th ultimo, are expected to visit New Zealand for the purpose of seeing the Hot Lakes in February. The Marquis is accompanied, as friend and Secretary, by Mr Charles T. Gatty, brother of Alfred Scott Gatty, the popular song writer, being himself a musician of considerable pretensions. Air Gatty is a great authority on Old China, and was, for some time, trustee of the famous Mayer Collection in Liverpool. I notice that the " Builder " of Saturday last (December Ist) contains an engraving of the New Zealand Insurance Company's new buUdipgs in Queen-street, Auckland. The "Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News " of the same date has a number of illustrations of hunting in New Zealand with letterpress by a "Globe Trotter." The daily papers of this morning (Dec. G) print resolutions of the Intercolonial Conference re New Guinea and the Pacific. On Tuesday the " Telegraph " published an effusive leader, prophesying the formation of a new and mighty republic, to be known to future generations as the " United States of Australia," and giving a brief sketch of the principal features of each of the colonies. The " Spectator," of Saturday last (Dec. 1), also contained a luminous article on the Federation question, and it has (as I daresay you know) been discussed at length in the Westminster 11 Review." The Agent-General informs me that 300 emigrants will be despatched per Rangitikei to Auckland on Dec. 14, and 200 per British Queen, s., to Wellington, on Dec. 27. The mastership of the Christohureh High School will, Mr Kennaway thinks, be finally settled next week. No arrangements have as yet been made for the shipping of the torpedo boats. No further inquiry will be made into the loss of the St. Leonards, and it is now considered unlikely that either party will persist in claiming damages from the other. The N.Z. Land Mortgage Company invite applications for 200,000 snares of £1 each, viz., os on application, 5s on allotment, and 10s within three months of a notice to be hereafter given. The list closes on Dec. 10. More about this in my next. The London Gaiety Company, headed by Mr Edward Terry and the Misses Farren and Gilchrist, will visit Australia in 1885.