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<A MONTHLY. t» 
Vol. XIV. 
COLOMBO, OCTOBER ist, i! 
No. 4. 
COLONIA. 
E have lately bean favoured 
with a number of " Colonia " 
— the Colonial Oollege Maga- 
zine published for the "Sum- 
mer Sassion, August 1894." 
No doubt a go id many of our 
raiders are acquainted with 
he existence of " The Colonial College, Hollesle v 
Bay, Suffolk," where a thoroughly practical 
course of instruction is given to young men 
who intend to look to the oolonies for a oareer. 
The provision for such training in the oollege 
bindings, arrangements, farm, gardens and other 
grounds seems to be wonderfully comprehensive 
and so far as the great agricultural and farming 
colonies of Australasia, the Canadian Dominion 
and bomb. Africa are oonoerned, we have no doubt 
that the instruction is most suitable and generally 
invaluable. We take leave to doubt, however 
whether it can be so specially applicable to the 
career of yn Un? men coming to tropioal or sub- 
tropical _ regions ; and yet there are many depart- 
ments in whioi) most useful instruction can ba 
given. Land-surveying, for instance, is a branoh 
of instruction and training which, we have long 
mamtained, can never be thrown away on young 
men whether inten led for the tropics or for tem- 
perate regions. There is much, too, to be learned 
in the gardens as to grafting and budding and 
horticultural cultivation generally most suitable for 
the future orange or other frui'-growers in Florida, 
California, South Africa or sub-tropical Australia 
Indeed, to the future Indian, S; r its, Ceylon, Mexican 
« m ■ ul 1 \ nice , 6Uch ilis "«0«on could not come 
ani.ts, although plantations of tea, coffee, oaoao 
&o have to b, tnaUd after a very different fashion; 
Nevertheless the young man who go.s through a 
course of "Estate, Farm and BaiMtorf? with 
some Lugmeer.ng) instruction at Hoilesley B*y 
uht certainly to be bet'.er fitted for a plantation 
Punne d f r mmg lifp ' than y° utl " ^om 
luhlio Schools, one would think 
But the proof of tho pudding will always be in 
tbo eating, and tho Colonial College hag dread 
very widely justified its exist enoe by the usefulness 
and success of i!s students in rearlj every part 
of the world. We are much interested in the 
letter-) rfesived for the Magazine from oil students 
de-cubing their experience, a feature which ought 
of itself to make "O lonia" an excaeding'y useful 
jonrna'. Then information from other sources of 
a useful character is reproduced, and we have no 
doubt that the Tropical Agriculturist now sent to 
the Collega will occasionally be kid under request. 
The reports of the work done raoh session is of 
more than ordinary interest: — " haymaking" oa 
the 90 acres of Signal Hill, in (.lorious sunshine ; 
or the news that of 49 } lambs from 305 ewes in 
the col.'ega flock, all bit 3 have thriven, so secur- 
ing the head shephe d the prize given by the 
Suffjlk Agricultural A sociation; or the (rial of 
new invent ; ons (a Disc churn, &o.) in the dairy; 
or the great extension of the fruit girdens through 
budd'ng r.nl grafting; or even the doings of the 
Athletio Club in Sports besides Crioket, Tennis, 
^ailing, Rovv'ng, Swimming. From the rep rt of 
Speech D.iy, we see bow fully influential colonists 
take an interest in the Ool'egi ; Sir Char'es Tupper 
(of Canada) in closing the prcciedings, for instance, 
said : — 
I can enly say that the interesting speeches we have 
heard from gentlemen from Australia, South Africa 
and other places have been such as to give additional 
zest and interest to this College which aims a', pre- 
paring young gentlemen not for any particular 
localifcv, but to fit and qualify them for the discharge 
of their duties efficiently in whatever outlying portions 
of the Crown they may reside. 
One of the most interesting fea'ures is the report 
of visits from old students to the Collega, and alio 
the connexion maintained, which enables young 
men to profit by the experience, advice and even 
assistance of their predecessors in making a start. 
In illustration we quote as follows: — 
Mr. Gerald Murray was over for a short stay in 
England, after nearly five years in Florida, where 
he "has an orange grove; He likes the country and 
life very much, and we fancy were it not for the 
occasional frosts in spring which sometimes nip his 
oranges in tbo bud, he would consider that his lines 
had fallen in altogether pleasant places. Anyhow 
he is a philosopher, and takes things as they come. 
Mr. Van Somoren had to tell us of 18 months' 
rosidenco in Chicago, where he has boon goins in for 
electrical engineering. He is shortly sailing for 
anada, whore be proposes to follow tho same pro- 
fession — ouc of the best of the day; with out doubt. 
