PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 194, 15 August 1904, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, July 8. ! A very pleasant reunion of Maori- ' landers in London took place at the Old '. i Bell Hotel, Knight-Rider street, last Wed- . ! nesday evening, when the Association of i New Zealanders held their monthly meet- . ! ing. In spite of sweltering summer wea- : ther nearly forty members and friends ( turned up, including JLieutenant-Coionel Collins and his Bisley team, who were the guests of the evening. The nignt was clnelly devoted to harmony, and a feature ' • in the impromptu programme was Cap- ] jtain Domigan's rendering of an amusing song to the tune of "The Wearin' of the Green," entitled "I wish they'd do it j I now." Before the meeting broke up Dr. Purdy required the company to pledge the iiisley team i.O "a bumper," and in doing so made amusing reference to his ' experience of bad markmansliip in the j ; Boer war; 14,000 rounds, four hours' ( fighting and two dead Boers waa his summary of one '"sanguinary" engagement. The toast was drunk—chielly in ginger , beer —with as much, enthusiasm as itj could have been if the drinkers had been '. '. primed up to what the late lamented Ed- ! imund lutes described as ''an exalted j state of vinous enthusiasm" by liberal li- ]. bations of Pommeroy and Greno. Colonel in his brief reply, thanked the company warmly for the reception ac- I corded to the team, and gave us to underI stand that if the lvolapore Cup dida't ac--1 company the New Zealanders uack to the , colony he would be greatly disappointed, j J He paid warm tribute to his men, and his remarks concerning them were flattering I enough to bring blushes to much less mod- ■ est men than those of wlioni he spoke with such evident pride. The directors of the Colonial Missionary Society had before them at their July meeting in the Memorial Hall an application from the Congregational Union of New Zealand for a suitable minister to be appointed for the church at Onehunga. By unanimous vote the choice fell on the Rev. J % . Mills Stoops, 8.A., and he was appointed on the motion of the Rev. Professoi Garvie, D.D., seconded by the Rev. \V. S. Houghion. .Later he was commended in prayer by the Rev. Dr. Rowland. Air. Stoops, who for the last two years has laboured in London, was trained at Hackney Collego, and is warmly recommended by | the Rev. Principal Forsyth, D.D. He ; graduated at the Royal University of Ireland. His passage has l>een taken in i the Karamea, which is due in Welhng- 1 ton on October 13. | Miss Nina F. Moore arrived in Lon- j don on June 23 by the lUrnutaka. Af- j tex remaining here for a few'weeks M:ss I Moore will go to the Wagner Festival at Bayreuth in August, and thence to Berlin, whore she intends to study music for a year or two. Mr. 11. C. Cameron, produce commissioner for the New Zealand Govern- j ment, and ilr. J. A. Kinsella, chief! dairy commissioner, have been visiting the West of England this week. While at Cardiff a day or two ago they were j shown over the Cardiff docks and entertained to lunch by the President of the local Chamber of Commerce. Later in the day they ■were conveyed to Barry in the Barry Company's saloon car, and were met by Mr. T. R. Thomp-on. one of the directors; Coptain R. Davis, dockmaster; Mr. H. J. Vincent, assistant manager; Mr. D. W. Roberts, shipping superintendent; and Mr. R. W. Duncan, who accompanied the visitors on a tour of the company's dock. They in=peited the low water entrance, and were afterwards shown the transit sheds and the means of dealing with the import trade of the port. Mr. T. Fowler, of Auckland, arrived on the 10th ult. by the Orient liner Omruh, and has been spending a week or two 'in sight-seeing prior to settling ' down to work. Mr. Fowler has come . Home to widen his experience in engineering, and expects to remain at least a . year in this country. : Mr. T. Bruce and Air. F. Cordes, two young men from Auckland, who arrive! : in London by the O in rah last month, have since taken their departure for ' Bossa, on the Gold Coast, West AfricaAccording to the "Morning Post's" social gossip a marriage will pri sently take place between Major Gerald Fitzgerald Stannus, 20th Hussars, only son of the late Walter Trevor Stannus, D.L., and the Hon. Mrs. Stannus, of the Manor House, Lisburn, County Antrim, and Evelyn, elder daughter of Mr. Duncan Cameron, of Canterbury, New Zealand. The will of the late Sir James A. Youl, K.C.M.G., one of the Founders of the Royal Colonial Institute, who died a month, ago, discloses the fact that he left a fortune of the value of £164,456. Subject to legacies amounting to nbout £25,000, the property is left in trust for his daughters in equal shares. Captain R. S. Matthews, of Taranaki, ' who served with the Ist, 4th and Bth New Zealand Contingents for a little over two years in South Africa, has come to England with his'wife and son. They reached London on the l&th June , by the Orient liner Omrah. After a residence in New Zealand of nparly twenty years, sppnt chiefly at Inglewood. Cap- . tain Matthews has oome Homp to live in this country. and "lip in+onfls to settle down in or near Cheltenham. At prespnt they are staying at Bursledon, in Hampshire. Mr W. W. Bruce, of Kfng"' Collie. AiiPklntid. is pnyinsr n flyinsr visit to the Old Ooirn#-y. hnvinsr comp Forne on -private business. He travelled to London

via (JapeilQra ijy She .ami -teHs m<» liutt tii* bcxai. pitt ug t.we jecor-ets—-one fox the fastest passage ami β-ther for Uie greatest a-um-ber oi knots sieaiaed ia oie daj\ Mr -liru.ee is at present in London, but he Hopes to get awaj to Scotland in a few days. He wall be returning to Hew Zealand early in Angusi. The New Zealand oarsman, Mr H. D. Gillies, oi Cains College, Cambridge, figured at Henley with some measure of success. H« rowed bow in the Oaius boat for the Wyfold Challenge Cup for fours, the Canta-bs being decisively beaten by the Birminghain Rowing Ciufe quartette in the second round, after enjoying a bye in the first heat. Mr Gillies also figured at No. 7 in his coll P?e for the Thames Challenge Cup. The Cains represents! tives proved equal to defeating the Granta Club in the first round and also defeated a Thames R.C. crew in the second, thus qualifying to meet St. John's College, Oxford, in the final. Su-ecess again crowned Mr G-il-lies and his associates, but their rivals hustled them all the way, and were only defeated a bare length. CaTiers at the Agent-General's office ■this week:—Mrs D. Cunningham (Dunedin), Mr W. O'Reilly (Hastings). Mr H. T. Butcher (Napier), Mr J. J. Bonrke (Wellington). Mr Perev Well (WelliTicrtrnii. Mr A. Strettou (Thames), Mrs W. Smythe and Miss Clarice Bain (Christchurch), Miss Hancock (Thinedin), Mr and Mrs Hus-h B. Lusk (Napier), Mr and Mrs T. L. Oliver (Taranaki), Mr J. B. Hpnry (Greyinouth), Mr R. B. Tinsley (Waimat.e). Miss Nina Moore and Miss L. Dee (Nelson), Mr James Hardy and Miss Hardy (Napier), Mr and Mrs Jas. and Mr Robert Walter (Alexandra South), Mr and Mrs F. H. Barker f Canterbury). Mr and Mrs Seegner (Auckland), Dr. W. Fisher (Gisborne), Mr R. > Webb (Napier), Mr and Mrs Goodsoii (Auckland), Mr and Mrs A. Uongrnore (Wellington), Mr and Mrs Moss Davis, the Misses Davis (3) (Auckland), Mr and Mrs C. Holdsworth (Dunedin), Mr and Mrs John Daly (Christchurch), Mr Joseph Gould (Christchurch), Mr W. T. Queree (Wellington), Mr John W. Colley (Wellington), Mr Thomas Little (Otago), Mr John Wittall (Canterbury). Mr Martin Kennedy, who left London with his wife and daughters just after Ascot for a tour on the Continent, returned to these shores a few days ago, having spent a delightful three weeks on the other side of the Channel. A week in Paris preceded a trip to Lucerne \ where "they encountered the only rainy day of their trip) by way of Interlaken, Basle and Berne, and after a visit to the falls of the Rhine at Sehaffhauseu the party journeyed via Zurich to Mainz and Wiesbaden. Thence they proceeded by steamer to Cologne and came back to London by way of Brussels and Ostend. Yesterday Mr Kennedy and his party were among the thoUaunas who paid a visit to Henley Regatta. Tiieix iuLure niovcuienui are uncerLain, but they do not propose to make a lengthy stajr in London, for this city vvilu Lue .uieiinoiueLcr at any wing over oltdtg. in tiie shade is nut a piace to whieii anyone aoie to journey inu> the uouiiuiy or u> tile sctsiae coies to cxmg. Mr Mass Davis, of Auckland, is on a visit to .London, a-ecoinparLied. by Ills wiie and ikiee youngest daughters, liiey are sta.} iug at Uie Royal Palace Hotel, in Kensington. Amongst the callers at the AgentGenerai's Ollice this week were Mr and Mrs Seegner, from Auckland, who have been travelling since September on the Continent. \lr Seegner (German Consul) has been actively engaged in distributing advertising matter relating to the colony wherever he called; between Naples in Italy and Upsala in Sweden ,he placed over 1000 copies of Bayertz's I "Ouide to New Zealand ,, with shipping ' offices, kursaals. schools, reading-rooms, and other public institutions. Mr W. P. Reeves, who liberally supplied him at the special request of Mr Seddon with this literature, expresses himself pleased with the result. Mr Pregner tells mc that New Zealand lesn-sln tion in general and labour lerislntion in particular is i being watched with interest by states- | men on the Continent, nnd in particular by the leaders .if the Social Democrats ,in Oprmany. and many applieitions were i mnrlp for the book he had with him. Mr and Mrs Seegner are well pleaded wifh tHeir frnnr. but they innV ur-on New Zealand ns th<>ir home. nTirj fl>py hope to rohrrn to the colony in October.