PERSONS AND PERSONALITIES.

Auckland Star, Issue LVII, 1 March 1926, Page 15

PERSONS AND PERSONALITIES.

LONDON NOTES. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, January 13. New Zealanders on a visit to the Old Country generally take the Highland Show in their stride. They will be all the more keen to do so this year when it is known that the Prince of Wales has consented to visit the Highland and Agricultural Society's Show at Kelso in June. Both the present King and the late King Edward visited the "Highland" while they were Prince of Wales; indeed, King George has attended the show twice, once at Aberdeen when he ' was Duke of York. We are told that the preference the Prince of Wales has lately shown for the company of the Duke of York and Prince Henry to that of some of his intimate friends has not passed unnoticed in social circles. So often have the three brothers been seen together recently that they are being dubbed "The Three Musketeers." During the past week a joint engagement book might almost have sufficed for the three Princes, for they were together practically every day. We do'not require to tell our readers who Lady Ursula Blackwood is, and the news of her engagement will appeal to a wider circle than such announcements with regard to a merely titled family Jiave. Her engagement to Mr. A. S. N. Heme was annninced this week. Lady Ursula is one of those scions of a noble house who has taken the democratic trend of the age seriously, for she has gone into business and is one of the "general traders," who have a shop ! just behind Londonderry House. The shop is not a fad. Business only is meant by the aristocratic shop girls. While Lady Ursula went into business, her sister, Lady Patricia, took to the stage. She made her debut in Australia while on a tour with Lady Forbes-Robertson. Sir Arthur Myers is now well on the way to recovery 'from his recent illness and he is going to the south of France to convalesce. He and Lady Myers are leaving for the south of France at the end of this week. Archbishop Julius and Miss Julius, who, since their arrival in England have been little in London, have just come to town. Mr. and Mrs. Moss Davis have been joined in Monte Carlo by their daughter, Mrs. Moss, and her husband and son and daughter, from Sydney. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stephens have returned to London from -a -visit to NewZealand, having come via America. Mrs. Stephens was Miss Ina Cow, of Dunedin. Mr. F. S. Driller, of Wellington, is making a world tour on business. He has already visited India, and France. After three months in Great Britain he will go on to the United States, thence to Japan and China. I Miss Cookson, matron of the Whanga- j rei Hospital, has just left London for j New Zealand at the conclusion of a j year's leave, three months of which she I

spent at the Mothercraft Centre at Cromwell House, founded uy Sir I. Truby King. Mr. A. C. Ross, of the New Zealand Agricultural Department, has arrived in London to take up the work of dairy inspection in Great Britain. He will l>e attached to the High .Commissioner's staff. His term in this country will probably be about two years. Dr. W. A. Blomfield, 'son of Mr. W. ■Blomfield, of Auckland, Las taken a post in the Midland Ear and Throat Hospital at Birmingham. For the past two and a-half years he has been gaining experience in various London hospitals. Mr. A. D. Walton, previously of Auckland, has just recovered from a serious motor accident, which occurred in July. Previous to the accident, and since 1020, he had been in business in Jamaica. At the end of next month he hopes to return to New Zealand as the representative of a London firm. Mra. George Blandford, of Auckland, is staying just now in London for a short visit. She now lives with her sister, Mrs. Seddon, at Northwood. Mr. R. P. F. Harsant, formerly of the New Zealand "Free Lance," who came to London towards the end of last year, has now an appointment on a London weekly which has to do with Dominion affairs. Mr. Harsant has, in addition, done work on a London daily and some amount of free lance work. Miss Mary Geddes, of Auckland, is at Adelboden, Switzerland, for the winter sports. Mr. R, S. Clark, of Auckland, left London last week for the Juras, Geneva, for the -winter sports. The Rev. E. A. Gillespie, M.A., Hon. Chaplain R.A.F., late vicar of Featherston. has been appointed chaplain at Losely Park, Guildford.