PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 132, 4 June 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(From Onr Special Corresponiieak)

, LOIvDON) April %h. Mr, Guy Tabart; the v well-known Cnnstchurch auctioneer, has arrived in London, after working his passage Jroni Aew Zealand. He to the "Evening IJews" the other day. that lie had come all the Tray from New Zealand to the Cup-tie football match at the Crystal Palace at a cost of only 1/9- "I started from New Zealand," he said, "with not a halfpenny in my pocket, and a dress-suit in my bag, to be pawned in an emergency. 1 pawned it right enough. The New Zealand Shipping Company allowed mc to work my passage on tlreir steamer, the Orari. I was entitled to a nominal wage of one shilling a month. I didn't claim the few coppers that were owing to mc when we docked at London. My dress-suit brought 13/_ from a generous pawnbroker. I had set out determined to see the Cup Final, for I am an old player and a redhot enthusiast. So I spent ninepence in fares and a shilling for admission to the ground, and my ambition was realised." Mr. Tabart, it seems, needed a holiday, and worked his passage because he thought the work would do him more good than lounging in saloons. What took him to the "livening Sews" office was a story printed by that paper concerning an alleged "Mr. Charles Booth, of Christchurch," who was reported as saying that he had come all the way from >iew Zealand, at a cost of £200; to see the Crystal Palace Cuptie. I happen to know that "Mr; Booth" is a sort of masculine Mrs. 'Arris. "There ain't no sick person." He existed only in the mind of the imaginative pressman -who invented this singularly truthful piece of "news/ .

Mr. H. Connell, of Khybor Pass, Auckland, is enjoying- a holiday in JJngland after some seventeen years' continuous work. In company with Mrs. Connell he left Auckland ii.st February, and spent ten days ?a Siydney before embarking for London "on the Orontes on February 20th. They had an unusually smooth passage, and reached Plymouth ou tho sth inst. Since then they have p;ud flying visits to Dawlish, Exeter and Sidmoulh, arriving in London on April 11th. They have taken rooms off Portland Place, and will remain hero, until the end of July. .Mrs. Council's father, Mr. C. I. Wild, LL.I).. lives in London, and has done so for many years. In August Mr. Connell hopes to visit the Lake district, tho Scottish Highlands, and his parents' birthplace, Cork. Ho will return to London in October, and •will probably winter in the South of France. This is his first visit to the Mother Country.

Tho Rev. Arthur Fowler, of Auckland, who ajrivod by the Orontes early this month after a splendid voyage, is staying at present in the lovely Kentish village of Chilham, near Canterbury. Chilham is a fine type of the Ancient English baronial village, with its stately castle and its venerable church. The neighbourhood is very finely wooded, so that the visitor is fortunately placed for seeing the beauty of an English spring. Mr. Fowler, with some young Now Zealanders, intends making a short tour among the historic spots of East Kent.

The vacant captaincy in the 7th Princess Royal's Dragoon Guards, at Canterbury, has been filled by the promotion of the senior subaltern, Lieutenant Michael E. Lindsay. Captain Lindsay joined the gallant "Black Horse" in March, 1900, from the New Zealand contingent, then at the front, his grace being that of second lieutenant in the New Zealand local forces. lie served with the New Zealanders iii the fighting for the 7 relief of Kimbcrley, and was in French's dash for that place; served in the operations in Orange Free State, the actions of Driefontein, and Zand River; the operations in Cape Colony, including the actions of Colesberg, and the operations in the Transvaal, in the course of -which he was slightly wounded (Queen's medal with four clasps).

Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Lawry, of Auckland, with their two daughters, arrived by the R.M.B. Marmora, after a remarkably smooth trip from Kew Zealand. They are on a holiday trip, and ha-ve come to visit their son, who is a medical student jn Edinburgh. They go north this week to stay some weeks in Edinburgh. They hope to spend six months in the United Kingdom, and will visit the Continent on their return journey to New Zealand.

Among the candidates who, having passed the final examination in medicine, surgery and midwifery, of the Examining Board in England of the Royal College of Physicians of London, have been granted the license of that body, were the following New Zealanders: —Mr Wm. Aiken Fairclough, M.8., Ch.B. ; New Zealand University; Mr. Eric Lachlan, M.8., Ch.B., N. Z. University, and London Hospital, and Mr. Charles Arnold Pemberton, New Zealand University and Middlesex Hospital.

The iollowing is the list of the saloon passengers on board the N.Z.S. Co.'s Rimutaka, which left London on April 18th:—Mr N. W. Edwards, Mrs H. F. Gotz and family, Mrs and Miss K. Logan, Miss M. Logan, Miss M. N-elson, Mr R.« G. Raw, Mrs "and Miss Simpson, Mrs C. Wilkinson, Mrs E. M. Willis, Mr and Mrs B. H. Bradley, Mr L. Cullis, Miss C. J. B. Durham, Miss M. J. S. Evans, Mr A. R. Furse, Mr R. Garroway, Mr and Mrs H. N. Hilliard, Miss S. M. Musgrave, Miss F. Parkinson, Miss E. Richardson, Hon. R. T. R. Rowley, Mr R. Semple, Mr L. B. Simeon, Mr G. D. Simpson, Mr and Mrs F. Wheeler, Miss G. Wheeler, Mr and Mrs G. Woodhead, Miss L. Woods. There were 16S passengers in the third class.

The Rev. E. G. Gange, F.R.A.S., who arrived in Australia from England in July on a visit to the leading Baptist churches of the Commonwealth and New Zealand, has returned to the United Kingdom by the Orontes in order to be back in time to attend the May meetings of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland.

Mr Harry S. Hall, of Auckland, arrived in London on the 13th inst. after a. good voyage. He will remain in this country until October or November.

Colonel A. H. Tucker, C.8., -who died on Saturday at Portsmouth, in his se-venty-fourth year, after a long illness, joined the GSth regiment (now the Durham Light Infantry) in 1853, an-d served in the Crimean campaign, taking part in the battles of the Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman, and in the siege of Sebastopol till the fall of the fortress. He was mentioned in despatches, and received for his-services .the medal jritli-i oot ; ctasj»s>

the Turkish medal, and the Knighthood of the Legion of Honour. Obtaining his company in October, 1862, he. was engaged from 1864; till 1866 in the.! New Zealand war, receiving the medal- with clasp. Colonel Tucker was created a C;B: on the occasion of; Queen Victorias Jubilee, and in 1890 was granted a Distinguished Service-reward;

.■Recent .callers at the High Commissioner's:—Mrs Yon der Heyde (Auckland), Commander and Mrs C. Morgan, R.N. (Auckland), Mr and-Mrs T. Robinson (Hokitika), the Misses Xina, Edith, and Jennie Arndt and Mrs Arndt (Wellington), Mr Prank B. Logan (Napier), Mr H. A. Owen (Wellington), Major Dudley Alexander, Mrs William Owen (Christchurck), Mr Chas. A. Richards (Wellington), Miss Elgar, Mrs Elgar, and Mr Chas. Elgar (Featherstone), Miss Adele Crosby (Christchurch), Mr L. Christie (Wanganui), Miss Blackett and Miss Isabel Blackett (Wellington), Mr and Mrs Alex J. lattlejohn, Miss littlejohn, and Miss 8.. Littlejohn (Wellington), Miss Lillian K. Aulsebrook (Auckland), Miss F. Fergus (Dunedin), Miss E. Kempthorne (Dunedin), Mr Sholto Dickie (Auckland), Mrs R. J. West and Miss Amy West (New Plymouth), Mr and Mrs Edmonds and Mr Edmonds, junr. (Christehureh), Mr and Mrs A. F. Hawke (Invereargill). Mr and Mrs F. W. Gresham (Invereargill). Mr. and Mts John D. Gmer, Miss and Miss A. Gruer (Invercargill), Mr and Mrs Francis Bohr (Wellington), Mrs Pereival Johnston and Miss Johnston, Mr and Mrs Colegrove and family (Auckland), Miss H. Amor (Christchurch), Miss Miriam Green (Christchurch, Miss E. C. Northcote (Wellington), Mr Geo. F. Irons (Wellington), Mr Jacob N. Reynolds (Wellington), Mr Thomas Jenkins (Dunedin).