PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 196, 18 August 1913, Page 9

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

NEW ZEALANDERS' T>OI> T GS I ABROAD. a (From Our Special Correspondent.) P o LONDON, July 12. "" The Countess of ■Ram'urly .has just suf-! r ' fcred a severe bereavement by the death | ? of her father. Colonel Viscount Charle- I mont, C.8., whicli took place last Friday v night, at his residence, "Drumcairn," Stewartstown, County Tyrone. Lady „ Kanfurly was the only child of the de- f . ceased soldier, whose"title and family estates pass to her cousin, the Hon. ~, James Caulfield. j, -. At Kensel Green Cemetery last week b the funeral tools place of Mr. Stanislaus c> Xapier-Bell. K.G.S., M.J.M.M., general manage.r of the P.udurua Tin Mines Company, Limited, the Kx. Lands Nigeria Company, Limited, etc., who died in i ■ London after eleven months patiently-: [ borne but painful illness on June 30th, at the early age of 3S. The deceased gentleman, who was well known in the mininjr world, war- the only son of the late Mr. Charles Napier-Bell, of Christchurch, and was held in the highest re-' gard by a large circle of friends. He was invalided to London on leave, after ; j 6pendi:i£ four months in the Jos Hospital j at Northern Nigeria. Among the gentlemen upon whom the Council of the Royal Society of Arts have bestowed the Society's silver medal j for papers contributed during their last session, is Sir Joseph Ward, -who received the token by way of a rewarU for his address on "New Zealand: an Ideal Place of Residence," delivered at the Society"c habitat in London during his recent visit. At the last Council meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute the following New Zoalandcrs were elected fellows: Mr. William .?. Cochrane, Mr. Harry R. Jenkins. Mr. J. K. Macfie. Mr. E." W. Nelson, and Mr. John A. Smith.

Mr. and Mrs. "Walter Buchanan, of Auckland, who are accompanied by their three daughters, arrived in England via Vancouver, having spent two months in Canada en route. They leave next week for Scotland and Ireland, then go on to Paris, Berlin, and Switzerland, and leave Naples for New Zealand in about a year's time.

Mr. Eliot R. Davis, son of Mr. Moss Davis, of Auckland, bus been touring tbe Continent with liis uncle. Mr Mark Davis, of Christchurch, and will be in England for a lew months before returning to New Zealand.

Mr. J. H. C. Hunter, managing director of the Enreka 'Milking Machine Company. Limited (Auckland), who has been superintending the display of milking machines at the Royal Agricultural Show at Bristol, is at present in London.

Lady and Miss Ward are in London for a week, and are staying at the Portland Hotel.

Mr. G. P. Donnelly, who has completely recovered from the slight operation he underwent at the hands of Sir St. Clair Thomson, leaves for New Zealand on August 12. via Canada.

Mrs. Percy Dufaur, of Auckland, who has been in Germany for the past six months, is again in England.

The Rev. P. S. and Mrs. Small-field-, of Auckland, spent three weeks in Canada and the United States, on the way to England, and intend to remain in London during July, going to Scotland and Ireland for August and spending September to December travelling in various places in England. In January they go to Naples'through France and Switzerland.

Callers at the High Commissioner's Offices this week include tbe following: — Mr. E. G. Haase (Wanganui), Mrs James Ilueldart, .Ir. and Mrs. L. H. L. Huddart, Mr. and Mrs. Schevleum, Bishop Crimes (Christchurch), Mr. John iMoore (Dunedin). Mr. W. A. Smith (Christchurch). Mr. P. Hill (Sumner). Mr. and Mrs. AVeston (New Plymouth). Mr. and Mr*. Higginson. the Misses Charlotte. Lucy, Nora, and Florence and Mr. A. J. ■Higginson (Wangamii), Mr. and Mrs. T_ C and Messrs. A. and "D. Gardiner (Canterbury. Mr. A. K. Christian (Christchurch),' Messrs. G. a-nd P. Evans (Oa-maru). Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan and the Misses Rita, Grace, and May Buchanan (Auckland), Mr. L. Gully (Kelson), "Mr. J. Tliberly (Picton), Miss, E M Rhodes and Mr. F. Stephenson (Auckland). Mr. Henry Hewitt (Auckland) Mt. J. Porter (Tekarabi; Mr. J. B Nairn (Auckland), Mr. James and Miss \ Passell (Auckland), Miss B. ■Howe- (Timaru), the Misses I. and O. Burton. Miss A. Hushes (Mount Eden , "Mr and Mrs. J. E. Sehloss (Wellington), the Misses S. and CM. McLean (Auckland! Mr C. W. Johnson (Wellington). Mr.«_ Mrs. V. 11. Kitcat (Marton) Mr E J Penrose (Timaru), 'Mr. Eliot havis (Auckland), Col. -Stuart Newall Wellington). Mr. and Mrs. Barker Gis-borno). the Rev. P. S and Mrs Smallfield (Auckland), the M«e.A.wd O Watts (Feilding), Mr. J. -Ritcttie (Feilding), Mr. .7. EccletO- < Ha-vke * Bay Mrs. J. and Master G. Blencowe ( Auckland), Miss M. McKay (TXmed.n), and Miss C. Bain (Christchurch).

-_' SS Victoria Irving, of Auckland, staved at Venice, Rome, Lausanne, Montreux, and Lake Geneva before coming over to England, having bad to change Sot plans, which "-luded Austrta on account of the war scare there Pax« was then visited, for the fifth time. Then in England Miss Irving has been ["o Stratford-on-Avon, Windsor, Sough, and she expects to leave next week for •the Channel Islands, then again to Oxford by boat from Kingston-on-xhames Devoßslnre, Southport in Lancashire (he native town), and from there to th Vale of Llangollen, Rhyl, etc.