PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 270, 14 November 1910, Page 9

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

j ijncW' ZEAIiAHDERS ABROAD. ' pom Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, October 7. ' ; nfr Adam McCracken, of Ghristciurch, th f inventor of two new explosives of hidi power, known respectively as MorJfL Satanite, is negotiating in LonZ. on behalf of influential syndicates and New Zealand for the "i of these inventions to the British zLrament for nava.l and military purGovf price asked is £300,000. fT'VeCracken has been in England vLt a year on this difficult mission— only those who have had !ltical experience {of what lUiarles £!kpns called "*he Circumlocution nto" wn realise. Mortite and SatanL. hive wonderful penetrative power tin Tired at steel-plated walls, but the A tape of a Government office is a S ri er which even they have found exTlmdv formidable. However, although i\fr JlcCracken met with a pood many Ilkl difficulties for a .considerable time, to tells mc .that these have now been ILcome and that the outlook is hopef,it is not unlikely, in fact, that he * tov e some further news to report Trtlv Tho inventor claims that his Plosives excel anything in use at the Jwnt time- Lyddite is tremendously Jowerful, but it explodes at the moment S tap"* before jt ,las time to P e f ne " Irate the object aimed at, -whereas Mor«te and Satanite shells penetrate armour lie and then explode, thus doing far Ue damage. They do not explode by mataneous combustion or con-cussion, neither are they affected by heat or cold, !or by deterioration, for they do not contain nitro-glycerine. And their enormous destructive power (has been proved jji experiments.

Durin" the absence of Lord and Lady dn Now aeailand, Hartham »rk° their country home at Oorsham, lis been let to Lord and Lady Greville, «ho will take up residence there in November, on their return from New I y or j- Harfcham, a beautiful place with notably toe gardens, was frequently vi-ited by the Duke and Dudiess of : OonnaugW during the residence of the ; off Mr s. Lord and Lady Islington's town i house 8, Chesterfield Gardens, is let to loti and Lady Willoughby de Eresby.

The Hon. Sir William Hall-Jones, High Commissioner for New Zealand, in a letiter to Sir Pieter Stewart-Bam, says a cable has been received from his Government authorising him to join the commiteo of the proposed Imperial Exhibition, to 'be held in 1915.

Jlr, Mark Isaacs, of Auckland, intends returning to New Zealand by the Orvieto, which leavea London on October 28, as he view 3 "with great misgivings a repetition of London's last winter."

Mr. E. Short, of Parorangi, owner oi (the champion Roroney Marsh flock in Kew Zealand, has just bought a Roinney Marsh ram and also a yearling ram from Mr. Arthur Finn, of Westbroke, Lydd. Mr. J. Of Davenport, another well-known •New ZealaM breeder, has also 'bought one of Mr. Finn's yearling rams.

fi/r & D' Sinclair Lo-ckhart, of Auckland, iraf among the passengers who left Liverpool'to-day for Quebec by the Empress or-Britain. He 'is (travelling via 'Canada to New Zealand. Mr. and Mrs. $. H. Triggs, of Ghristehurch, who have '&cc& "on a holiday in ifche Old Country, ore also bound for Canada this week end, en route for New Zealand. They join the ilakura at Vancouver on November i.

Miss Alice Koakruge, of Auckland, who arrived recently by the Ruahine, is on a pleasure 'trip, and her plans are as yet Bomewhat in the rough. iShe left London on Tuesday las* for Brighton, where she will remain a week or two. Afterwards she will go with friends toy motorcar to the Lake district, and from there mill return to London for a short stay. iMterwardß she goes by motorcar to Cormmjl, and intends remaining there some tune, proceeding later on a trip to the Continent. Miss ißoskruge intends remaining in England for some time, aa she finds life here very pleasant.

Mr. and Mrs. George Swarm, of Auckland, and late of Christchurch, who are in London jiist now on a pleasure trip, travelled from New Zealand via Canada, stopping a/t all the large towns on the •way, and also at Niagara Fails. They reached Liverpool on August 10th, and spent some time in Scotland, Ireland and Wales, ibefore coming on to London. Tikis week-end they cross the Channel to spend a month in France, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium, and they hope to Spend Xmas in England. They may return .to New Zealand in January.

Mr. G. P. Armstrong, late of the "Opunako Times," is foack in. London this week after a pkasant two months' ramWβ through Scotland and Ireland. He proposes to spend seven or eight weeks in seeing London, besides paying a visit to Birminghajn, and will probably return to New Zealand via New York and Canada.

Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Hoare, of Auck and, B F B on a pleasure trip to England, and siitte their arrival have visited Cornwall and Devonshire, spending a month « each country, and have toured on the Continent, visiting Paris and the Brussels Exhibition. They have now returned , to London, and after visiting #& Hoare's aunt, Lady Creasy, a-t wmnmgdale, they will leave London !by We Ofcway on October 14th

Mr. L. Clyde Chatfield, AM.I.E.E. (Aftenca), of Auckland, arrived in Londoni last week-end. Since 1908 Mr. ChatMid has ibeen in America. He spent Borne tune in Chicago in the testing apartment of the Western Electric company at Hawthorne, and later he Obtained a position in the testing department of the General Electric "ComP»W at Sdienecfcidy, New York. He «" the General Electric Company to wee charge of the installation of elecw«a machinery and apparatus for the Edison Company of New York. »»«tn tins conmpay he remained until •«a departure for TCntfaml. Landing a* t»TT ■ he vLsitG,! "I"'-'"*. Edinburgh and the Troesaohs before coming on to wiudon where he intends following up ™«'Profession. Later on he will visit the Q™ent, and then return to New Zea-

ife- j*nd Mrs. George Palmer (New thrn, i !l avc J,lsl - TPtur ™L fvora a trip tnrou ? l,.the Indies and South fogM; ait Paln,cr 1,..= taken a fine shootmg m Scotland, and i s now en£tt7£ g f Se ;' eral iu 'P° rta »t races with- « w>o last .few months -

"Thirty-six years ago," said Professor Bickerton in an interview this week, "after having .been offered several pro- - fessorships I accepted one in New Zealand, for which I have been everlastingly grateful. The climate is superib, and *he view of everything is from a distance, and therefore, you can take a calm look at scientific subjects, both physical and social." Speaking of his old students, Pro,fessof Bickerton sa-id how much pleasure it gave him to see ifchat many of them were successful professors in different pai-ts of the -world. "Per-ha-ps my most brilliant student is Professor Rutherford, the Nobel scholar, of Radium notability. At the time when he was honours student in my laboratory, making hia now celebrated researches, he helped mc with many af the problems of the theory. He has also -written several letters "to the Board of Governors, emphasising the fact that the theory is a valuable contribution to science, and, in his opinion, ithe only satisfactory way of explaining the complex phenomenon 'that occurs at the birth of a new star."

Mr. J. Ferner, of Auckland, who has been in England since June, intends returning l>y the Otway on October 14-th. He has spent a very enjoyable time -with relations and friends in Sue3ex (md Surrey, and in visiting- the scenes of his boyhood. The greater part of September has been spent in London in picking up novelties for Ms business. Mrs. Bert Boyle and Miss Madeline Royle from New Zealand, who returned from the New Forest last week, are staying in Porchester-gardens W. ■Major-General Godley and Mrs. Godley left for Now Zealand via New York to-day. Major-General Godley is the new commandant of the New Zealand forces. Sir Wm. Hall Jones, High Commissioner for New Zealand, is at present in Vienna at the Second International Cold Storage Congress. The CongTess opema to-day and finishes on the 12th inst. Recent callers at the High Commissioner's office: —'Miss A. Roslcruge (Auckland, Mr. and Mrs. Swarm (Auckland), L. Clyde Chatfield (Auckland), Tjillian Pugh (Christ-church), Mr. and Mre. James Munrn (Nelson), E. M. and Mabel G. Nicoll ((Blenheim), Adam MicCracken (Christchuroh), Chas. J. McLean (Wanganui), N. and G. O'Callaglian (Dunedin).

The Exhibition of the Royal Society of Oil Painters, which opens on Monday next, is composed mainly of members, but a few non-memibers have the opportunity of exhibiting works of a limited size only. There are three New Zealand exhibitors this year. A head of a .baby, by Miss Grace J. Joel, is eharmintr in its sinrple childishness. Another exhibitor is Mr. Christmas, R.8.A., who has a small painting -full of Southern atmosphere. Mr. Oswald Birley, who has been long settled in England, but of whom New Zealand can take- credit, has some brilliant and effective portraits.