NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1925, Page 11

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. PRINCE OF WALES AND BRITISH ASSOCIATION. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, September 10. The British Association for 1923 i* ; over and thoughts are turned toward^ i next year's, which will be held at Oxford, and the Prince of Wales will he presii j dent. This will undoubtedly lead to !an increased atten(*ance, and Oxford : being only an hour's run from London j and within range of Midland towns, will attract unprecedented crowds —perhaps i not all intent on increasing theix; stores of scientific knowledge. i One of the personages who have j addressed the British Association is j known in the Dominion—the Maharaj' !of Jhalawar, who has spent some time I recently touring Australia and New I Zealand. He is now making a short l stay in England, where he has long beijn | a well-known and welcome visitor. The ! Maharaj is a man of high intellectual | attainments, and has written a hook on, i English manners and customs. | Before Earl Jellicoe opened tha I Southampton Harbour Board office yeaj terday, he called on his aunt, Miss I Catherine Jane Jellicoe, to convey his congratulations to her on attaining her i 104 th birthday. Miss Jellicoe regarded ! the visit as a great event, for she is proud of "Jack," and during the war she knitted comforts for the men of his ship. She received a large number of congratulatory messages, including a I telegram from the King and Queen. Others sent flowers, and not the least appreciated was the nosegay of carnations sent from the gardens of the Hants Girls' Orphanage, and conveyed to her by two little inmates. Miss Jellicoe was ahle to read all the letters shi received, for her only weakness despite her great age, is deafness. A largd crowd watched the Admiral open th<J new offices, among those present being Admiral Sir Sydney Fremantle, Conn , mander-in-Chief at Portsmouth; Mr. H. i Parsons, chairman of the Harbour i Board; and Alderman McDonnell, Mayor; of the town. Earl Jellicoe was presented with a gold padlock and key a« a memento of the occasion, and was afterwards entertained to luncheon by; the Harbour Board. Mr. C. R. Allen, son of Sir James Allen, High Commissioner for New Zea* land, has been placed first in order of merit by the adjudicators of the poetry ' competition of the Festival of Arts and 1 Letters, and is the only competitor in this section to he awarded the medal lof the Festival. The two poems subn mitted by Mr. Allen were a sonnet, "Rest from the Wheel," and a lync> "Robin Dale." The entries were ad- ! judicated -by Mr. Ernest Rhys- (editor, "Everyman's Library"), Mr. Frank Ken* HI don (reviewer "London Mercury 1 ), and Mr. Edwin Faulkner (late . reviewer "Poetry"). Mr. Allen was the only Dominions writer w&o competed. We ■ learn that Mr. Allen's novel "The Ship 5 ! Beautiful," published last spring fey, - Messrs. Frederick Warne and 'C*.,_lJ being brought but in a new and cheaper SS„ The fact that Mr. Al en 14 blind possibly gives him, <by way of com, pensation, the very rare> insight »td Enseen things, and the dekcate fawg that adorns all his Coming back the other day from Beaconsfield, the Berkshire resort of well-know* litera, feuTs such as Mr. G. Ukj Beatrice Harraden, and Mr. J. L. Gj" yin Mr. Allen had the bad luck to be in a Star accident, from which he is a* B C, Ftagj-A V.C., who nearly succeeded m «?™»8 the Channel a few weeks ago has decided not to make another attempt this* T F. Watson, late general6 eX»M 6 ; of the rl ;" .* th _ dominions, ■ before the war, now covers neaxly.2ooo Tarilhes, and has financial oversight of Ss amounting to nearly one and a, I' of the Nev- Zealand j Industry Society at Leeds, "|«g*£ ish Association Meeting at «outnamp ton The Leeds meeting lasted a week 1 and was a most impressive congress. As a result of his visit to Leeds Mr. Aston was able to obtain from Professor A. G. Sn one of the world's foremost Authorities on coal-tar and aniline .*g*\ " opinion regarding his (Mr. AsWs). researches in .the d y es twenty Coprosma, of which there are £enty ■nopipß in KeW ia_u.vo.wa- . , . SrXkii » . ~~t «'. >__?*%__% Sickness" before the Bntisn •* . f Agricultural Section at the ithe president. Dr. J"«^ K An interof the Department of Agriculture staff, and now of the Ministry of Agriculture's Weybridge veterinary laboratory, pave an account of his experiences of Bush Sickness" and other deficiency diseases in — New Zealand, which he had studied in -| collaboration with Mr. -ston. Both the New Zealand speakers had a very fayI ourable reception, and their contributions were listened to with marked interest.