PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 73, 25 March 1912, Page 9

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

NEW ZEALAXDERS ABROAD. (From Our B]>edal Correspondent.) LONDON, February 16. Mr. S. Uo=sp Trevor, of Auckland,, wlio I'm j"*t arrived in this country, lias come for thn purpose of placing on tlie London market a pntent process of his own invention for the conversion ol bid rubber into new. The following i-Jew Zealandors have cal'oJ «'. the High Cnmmißslnndr'i office? this week;— Miss Gilliat (ChristcliurclO. Jr. niul Mrs. Blackburn (Auckland), Sir. ilc.nry T. Cooper (Wellington), Mr. A. J. N'ewliouM (NapSer), Mr. James J , . Wellward (Ilawke'a Bay), Misa Kate Lawson (Wellington), Mr. Justice Cooper. Mrs. Cnopor, Misses Gertrude ami F.ri Cooper (Wellington), Mr. S, Roese Trevor ami Misa Gertrude Trevoi (Auckland). Lady Ptout. of New Zealand, -was otic of the pocßts at a ilinnor on Monday niljllt hy members of the Lyceum Huh td thr> Women's Sick ami Wounded Convoy Corps, and in her reply to the tna-U of the "Lyceum C'lul), ,, £!\vo an intoroHinp resume of the work beinrc done for tlic Empire by thin women of New Zealand. A welding in whii-h thn brideproom was the rein of n New Zoalander took place on St. Valentine's Day at the VrestniinMer Mectin;; of the Society of Friends, when Stanley Realc. if 4, Highbury Hill, London, second son of the late Willhm .1. Hralp, of Auckland, was married to M->l*-1 (ler'.nid?, yoimpost dftujthter of the late William of Lincoln. Major and Mrs. Moorhnuse, of Wellington, and their family, and Mrs. Rhodes, who have been in England for about :i yenr, lire returning to New Zealand by the Romnora. Mr. Frank Blackburn, of Auckland, drriveil in Rnplnnd this week by the Corin!hi(. after an absrni-e of' over twenty rrnrs. Ilis m:iin object for Dinkiiis; tlie trip is to visit his jvirents and relations in Southport,. So far his plans ,-.r.' hardly mapped out, hut he intends to Ree as much as possible of; England and Scothnd before returning to New Zealand, via Suez, at the end ol the fear. An rnjrajremcnt of Interest to New Zealander* h announced this week, and is that of the Lady Sydney Montague Ogilvie-Ornnt, second daughter of the tenth Earl, and sister of the present Earle of Seafield, to the Rev. William nice, r.eetor of Pymp3on, Buckinghamshire. The plans of Mr. John ITaillie, of the Baillie fJalWics. and late of Wellington, have been slightly upset through an attack of intlumza, and lie has had to delay hits departure for New Zealand from the JStli to the 22nd, whon he joins the Osterley nt Toulon. Ilio pictures to he o n tvrhlhlfion in Xew Zealand liavo been shipped to the Dominion in three consignments by the sthenic, tlie Kia Ura, and the Reniucra. Mr. Herbert Bailey, late of New Zealand, who came to England last spring, has decided to reside in London permanently and practise dentistry, and has taken rooms in 4, Vernon-placc, Bloomsbury Square. Mr. Henry Cooper, head teacher of the Paekakariki School, Wellington, has come to England on urgent private business, having obtained six months' leave of absence for this purpose. One of the objects of Mr. Cooper's visit is to select a suitable English Bchool for liis dniiprhters. who, with their mother, will visit Kngland next year and take pianoforte and sinking lessons, probably at the Royal Academy. In afecut a month's time Mr. Cooper has arranged a three weeks' tour through Normandy to visit old acquaintances; he then returns to stay with friends in Hant.«, Dorset, and VVilte, and at Winehestcr Training College — his Alma Mater.

Another piece of business Mr. Cooper has on hand \* the purchase of an organ for the Anglican (.'buret at Paekakariki.

lie proposes returning to Xew Zealand by wny of Montreal. Quebec, Torontb. Eochester. ].Os Angeles, nnd San Francisco, having, at the laat three places, several nephews and niecea whom he has never seen.

Dr. W. A. Ch.-pple. lute of Wellington, and now M.P. for Stirling in the English Bouse of Commons, has consented to net as one of the adjudicator? of five short essays invited by the "Daily Chronicle" describing the benefite which will a?e»*ue to various sections of the community under the Insurance Act.

A prize of £10 is being offered for each Sssoy.

Now Zealand pnpers are nskrd to record the fart thnt there passed away on toe Bth inst., at Felixstowo, Suffolk, Kate Foster Wilson, widow of Hie late Kpnrv Walter Wilson, Barriater-at-Law, Of the Innrr 'i'rmple. and daughter of the late Captain Filmore, R.X., i;, her 80th year.

Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Wilson and tho former's step-daughter, Miss Peach, of Petrme, have hn.l tlicir holid.iy plans compietelv upset by the long illness of Mrs. Wilson.

After visiting the principal watering Plaocs of England, they went on to tho Midlands and Scotland. In Manchester, months afro. Mrs. Wilson fell ill and was ordered to Bournemouth, where she has NSlHUned until now. when the party has had to come to London to get ready to Ktum to Xcr.- Zealand b.v tlie Osterloy °n Friday. The invalid is by no means *"!] yet, hut it is hoped Hint thn voyage may e(Tc<a lit-r complete recovery.