PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 138, 12 June 1911, Page 9

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

SEV 7 ZEALAIffIEBS ABROAD, pwa, Onr Special Correspondent) LOXDOX, ilay 5. -,_ k. J Seddon, widow oi the rate Jf frtateer, arrived in London on by Miss Seddon *?&H_*Sktan. They travelled the federal liner SuffolK *_ i!fa 'very pleasant passage, except 4ie in the Bay oi Biscay, _£i* Sed °*° days, in the course SS 2e Suffolk was hove to for tart S* bours. At present Mrs- sed- ± Ld her daughters are staying at If CtauUa Palace Hotel, but they Sfe durmg the It aS have now secured a flat in Ar-Victoria-street, which U%ffl make their headquarters during tie" season. Captain Ekhard Seddon reached >.apJlfe week dn the Orient faner Onvay, SiTdue about ten days hence. He 1= ITta-e a course of instruction m adSfife. at the London School OI Comics, whicn has an army officer, £s amongst its many other activities. Mis Hall-Jones and Miss Hattie Halldaughters of the High Commistfoer for Key Zealand, will be presented at the nexf Court on May 10. Miss ranju- Hail-Joß_s. who underwent an operation fee weeks ago. is progressing . At present she is at Bonraenioarh with a nurse, and hopes to . retain to London in a fortrug-t. Miss fittfe Hall-Jones leaves London about Jnlv*9 for a month in Switzerland with _ ftirtv 0! friends. Miss Alexander, of Wangan-i and Dunedin, will be one 01 ' the party. I_dv H-H-Jones has been on the sick Erf lately, and spent the Easter holidays in bed.'She is not quite herse : f yet, but is o_ the road to recovery, and is fulfiliiaj engagements this week. If June 9 is found, to be a -convenient date. Lady Hall-Jones will ? : ve a garden •party at' "the Crystal Palace, at wh ; ch a janje muster of New Zealanders may be erigsted. "Sr W-liam and Lady Harl-Jones were • .ests at the Royal Academy banquet o_-S_t_rday night. Sr Wi-lam intends visiting the Routine iiaibirioii, in the north of France, .. jjfer in the summer, to inspect the Xew _e_tab_ pavilion there. A new experience for him while there will be his de_rery of a speech in French. ___, Raj-mond. the wife of Mr. Irvine 28T_to_d, of Invercargill. and Mas Ras«dl,"danghter of Sr Wm. Russell, will fejresented at Court op May 10. lit John Barclay Godson, who has j_3 been appointed second art master ia tie Auek—md Technical College, 'holdjnsllent credentials, including the full £pia_ta of the Boyal College of Art, gnntiT T-PTrsfngton. He is 29 years of igs,_i-l unmarried. Mr. Godson was a tjafrnt at the Royal College of Art, havjfer gained a training scholarship in 206, and while there he won many jeeb. He holds the art master's cerd&tte an_~i_e art -ciass teacher's certi£_e. He was a pupil tea-eher at the l_«ds School of Art, and assistant.,±o. the, .".SniKsgal -ot—tSie Wolverhampton Schooi- . of Ait- His style oi work is said to be exceedingly good, and he has abundant enthusiasm. He s__s for Sew Zealand "iby the To_g_riro on May 12. Major Brait-waite leaves for Xew Zealand by the Corinthicon May 25 to take up his duties as staff officer. Captain i—uwell and Gapt. Cochrane., the jewly-appointed third grade staff' officars, Vill"travel by the Suahiiie. "Capt. H. W. G. Bernard Hitoheock, 4th Royal j-_hers, will go to Sew Zealand to take np regimental duties, but it is not yet decided by what steamer he will traveL ptpt. "W. _i_earthur Onslow, another regimental officer, wfll go out by the P. i_d 0. some time in July. -Ess Renwick, the new chief instructor fer the domestic department of the Atttkknd Technical College, will leave fer .Jew Zealand by the Corinthie on I toy _5. "" ' " Mr. Werner Laurie has nearly ready ttt EfcEtrated book entitled ""With the wst Legion in Xew Zealand." by Colonel 6. Hamilsoa-Browne ("Maori Browne"). hte coni_ia_a_nt in the Colonial pongh cast iv the form of a romance. & book contains the author's reminis•pees of the wars in Xew Zealand from P6 to IS7L, which eventually pacified «eSbr_a Island and were fought by the j ¥ lw H_ Irregular troops throughout. -Lub-Hall-Jones is giving a tea at the ■ Wr-M-Onß, White City, "on June 9, in gHwi of Sir Joseph and Lady Ward. Go___iissioner's reception. F«« Iras to have been held at the Imon May 25. has had to be Stoned, Sir Joseph. Ward having an f 1 ** engagement for the evening. ■ a-- is represented in Ws season's Rbyal Aeademr Exhibition I -|T.a pamsing called "The" Summit," a of a distant, sunlit peak. . ■. W a foreground of snowfields in Mr. Oswald Birlev, the Sew portrait painter, exhibits por--2£§-S Ife- Prescott Deeis and Mr. *. wward Tvse. Charles F. and Walter HayAnekland, arrived in London *Sg t_re e weeis ago, and, according . toeff present plana, intend staying IP afer jig Coronation. This is their Stj* s ? -to the Old Country, and, in t 0 sigatseeing in the city, they do a good deal of cycling as North Country, also pay a jjto Scotland 'before returning to the ifewi.Mrs. H. W. Simmon---, of 1 fi^ arrived here on April 20 by 1 ** °- meT Lldia - Tlle 7 are Wt m^ Stae trl P' a!ld their present IS <feS ? ? remain in England for I fe - or si* months, making London I i»?_5??" Tllejr wi]l Scotland 4 inf S-T^T 5 aH<i on t!le homeward jourI 11 %fr hoat ar 3_arseilles or BrinI &tti^ c oskm Se, of Auckland, arS recently, having traI t OI ? c from hy the I mi^ 10 She to re--1 S»r'j^^ laild til! tile of the ■ '^bW'^Jt 1 occn P.v her time in travel.! 1 is staving at ! jfl lS dauahter, Mrs. "Garnet '■ -■% ISS.I^ 131 P rob ably return to Xew j TS?u with her mot_£r on a long visit. II + v Efiid ' of has ar-' 1 $fcl.;_*» "untry, and is making WL Sss-^-? 1^^ 15 at Carlestown. Tor- i 9 W-aT 11 . as S° w - She wil l stay there! 3 1 -lSte^__S c ' «d as yet ___ made no ' travel '

Three -few Zealanders—L. B. Todd, C. Seeling, and P. Williams—played -for Wigan against Broughton Rangers on Saturday in the Xorthern Union Football Cup final. Wigan were defeated by 4 points to niL Heavy Tain, had partly submerged the ground, and Wigan protested against the match being played at all under such conditions. The Northern Union committee, however, overruled the objection, and Wigan, entering on the game in a half-hearted spirit, were beaten. Back play, so favoured by Wigan, was impossible on such a ground.' From the financial point of view it was : the worst final on record, the gate receipts being only £376. The following Xew Zealanders have just joined the Royal Colonial Institute: Lieut.-CoL D'Arcy Chaytor, Dr. Henry Lindo Ferguson, ILD., Mr. Thos. Field, .Mr. Joseph McGeorge, the Hon. E. Mrtchelson, and Mr. J. H. Hosting. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Prime, of Auckland, have arrived in London. They disembarked at Marseilles from the s_». Mahtua and toured the Italian Lakes country, Switzerland and Paris. While here, Mr Prime intends observing the most modern methods in his profession. Mr. W. A. Woodger, of Petone, whose arrival in London I chronicled last week, won six events in the deck games held on the P. and 0. liner India on the voyage to England, and he also won the aggregate points prize. Woodger, who is 100 yds and 220 yds Australasian champion, is to compete at the Festival of Empire games on June 24, and he tells mc he will also be running at Crewe on June 17, and at other club meetings. He will visit Ireland and Scotland, and hopes to have a month on the Continent, returning to Xew Zealand via America. Mr. Woodger is one of the prizewinners in the "Xew Zealand Times' " world tour competition. Callers at the High Commissioner's Office:—Mrs. and Hiss Margaret H. Bridge (Christchurch), D. J. O'Keefe (Auckland). Mr. and Mrs. J. M. and Miss A. Morris (Xap.er), C. M. Thompson (Otago), Mr. and Mrs. f W. George and two "sons (Wellington)", -Vlr. John McGregor I Mosgiel) _llrs. Henry and the -label, and Cora Feldwiek (Invercargill ). Mr and Mrs Raeside (Inverear_illi\ Mr. and -irs. W. J. Phibson (Auckland 1. Mrs. E. J. Reid (Auckland), W. A. Thomson, Mrs. and the Aiisses Ethel, Mary and Thomson (Dunedin). Mrs. and Miss Hocken (Dunedin). 3lrs. S. A. Rhodes (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Moorhouse (Wellington), Mr. Joseph Smith (Wellington), Mr. and the Misses Sunderland (Poverty Bay). Mr. and Mrs. A S. Hamersley, R'S. Lonsdale (Christchurch), G. Thomas (Otago), Miss Amy Harkhead (Christchurch), E. M. Wilker (Xhmedin), E. Brown (Dunedin), E. J. Cooke (Canterbury). Rev. V. Gordon Biddle (Hastings)* Mr. Geo. Horyson, A. Pryor (Hawke's Bay), Mr. Thos. R. Strang (InvercaTgill), Misses Maggie and Bella Papakura' (Rotorua), Mita Taupopolci (Rotorua.), Mr. and Mrs. E. Griffi(Christchurch), Mr. and Mrs. R. E. X. Twopenny (Christchurch), R. Heaton Rhodes (Ellesmere), Mr. and Mr 3. R-i Xowell Bealev (Hororata), Miss G. W.I ' Purohas (Auckland), Mrs. R. Wigmore (Auckland). Gerald C. O'CaUaghan (Christchurch), Mrs. J. Burnett (Christ-! church), Mrs. L. S. Roskrugh (Wellington), Mrs. Garnet Holmes (Wellington), Messrs. Walter L. "and Charles F. Hayr ____. (Rotorua), Mr. and Mrs. Thos, TJn-■derhfll-(-Invercargill), Mr. and Mrs-.Wra. Easton (Christchurch), Mrs: Harverson (Wellington), Mr. Herbert Cowell (Dunedin), Mme. Betty Brooke (Ghri_t-chure-h), Mr. and Mrs. R. McEenzie and Miss X. Me_Cen_ie (Dunedin), Mr. and Airs. Stallier Davidson (Hawke's Bay), Sir. Fred. and.Mr. S. T. Story (Chnstchurch). Miss Lucy F. Barrett (Xew Brixton), Ronald" H. WiHiains (Napier), Miss Dora R Harrpan (Christchurch), Dr. L. H. Ha_Tisdn .(Christchurch), Rev. C. E. Beecroft (Feilding), Mrs. R J. Seddon, Miss Seddon, and Miss R- Seddon (Wellington),