“Shibli” Listens In.

Eric Ramsden, New Zealand journalist, who came across from Australia last month to gather further material for his book on James Busby, tells me that he has discovered many new and interesting facts surrounding the life and times of the redoubtable Busby.

John Brodie, author of “The Little Country,” will be absent in the Old Country about a year.

Another New Zealand Authors' Week will probably be held during the Centenary Celebrations.

Miss Nellie Coad will represent the New Zealand centre of the PEN at a PEN Congress to be held in New York this year.