PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13622, 5 January 1910, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(FKOM O-B OWN COBBESPOS-OESI.^ LONDON, November 26 Mr R McXab -ill probably take the platform in England the auspices of the _ati<ma- to-ruce League He has attended a few of »_ _ g.ven by the -d Zetland by way of Lverpool At the latter place he has a few days ****** before him and the same quest takes him to Aberdeen, one oi the neatest whaling ports of the jonfl. While in London Mr McNab made the interesting discovery that * h « ™* nawaT* of Q British warship t_"_ vu S n & b |trait was in 1821, not 182-, as he had suppesed. , His Mujesry the King has approved the Polar Medal, with a clasp, inscribed, -Antarctic, 1907-1909.'' beir-.g granted to the following »* mb " s °* the Sbackleton Antarctic E__'edition, 1007-1909, the clasp alone being awarded to those who already possess the Polar Medal, the modal and clasp to be in silver for the shore party and m bronze for those who gained with the ship .-Silver: E. H- Shackleton, C.V.O. (clasp only), Lie.itencnt J. BAdams, R.N.R-, Dr- E. Marshall Pro fessor T. W. Edgeworth David, r.R>., J. Murray, D. Ma-son, R. E. I nest ley, Dr. A. Forbes Mackay, Sir Philip Brocklehurst, Bart., A. E. L. A. Mack intcsh G. E. Morston, B. Day, J*. _._y_2_ W. Roberts, E. Joyce fcLTonl'y), F. Wild (clasp only). Bronze: Sub-Lieutenant It. G. Eng land, R.N.R. (clasp only), F ; P . E J K. Davis. A. E. Harboard, A. Cheetham (cksp only). 6. Bifeby clasp only), E. Ellis, H. Bull. W AnseU S i Riches, J. Paton (map only) £° n t „no W A. *~*. Michell, H. Duiilop. Mr J. I. Chrystall (Christchurch), is one of a large number of New Zeaf._de» leaving London to-day on their return journey to New Zff. 1 , 3 ™ „ ___ <= 1 Orvieto the latest addition £ £ Orient fleet' Mr Chrystali has been on- a nine month,' pleasure trip to Europe, and has made the most of his time a ike on the Continent and m the British Isles. An interesting break !- at made on the -tward journey sr c-ioSottf rs«£2 t s_l^^ ,^*«^ es p_t a to\Sain bEiigland for some Wl At' the Ryder Gallery Albemarle street Miss Frances Hodgkins is holding an edition of ter water-colour oktures. The clever Dunedin artist fs receiving many flattering notices of fer work, 0 which is strong and bold and out of the common. M'-ss __-<_ ks_ has spent a good *fi«J™ « the Continent in connection nit-, ncr "„__ W_, daughter of Captain and Mrs McKellar Wis (Nelson and Wellington), leaves England to-day on a trip to New Zealand. Dr. and Mrs C. Morice leave London to-day for the "North on a round of visits to reliatives. Leeds will be their first stopping (place. Pessengers by the Orient liner Orvieto, leaving London to-day, include Captain and Mm J. A. Hope-Johnston* and Mr G. Hope-Johnstone. It is understood that New Zealand is to.be their future home, Captain Hope-John-stone having purchased a farm near Te Aw_mutu with the id-a of living there. This is the outcome of a visit which he paid to the Dominion two years ago, as a tourist. . On© of the passengers by the. s.s. Waikato will be Captain Oarruthers, a retired army officer, who is going out to New Zealand with the intention of taking up land. At the end of the current term of his agricultural school, Mr Davis, son of a Cheshire squire, will leave for New Zealand. His idea is to take up land there. . It is not often that a. real Princess attends a hospital as an out-patient, but such happened on Saturday. The lady was Princess Louise, second' daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberfc. 'While dining at Enmsmore Gardens a fishbone stuck in her throat and caused considerable pain. The nearest place of relief was St. George-'s Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, whither the Princess, a charming lady of twenty years, was conveyed in _ motor car. The resident surgeon. Mr C. E. Friend, speecilv nerformed the necessary operation, but it was not until a few days later that the identity of tho outpatient leaked out. Becent callers at the London office of the New Zealand Government have been:—Mrs A. R. Watson (Dunedin), Mr John Hunter Brown (Napier), Mrs S. A. Watson (Invercargill), Mr H. T. Sibbett (Seddon, Marlborough), Mr C. Martvn (Auckland). Mr E. W. Cave -Auckland), Mr and Mrs C. F. Minnitt (Auckland), Mr Ernest F. Levy, J.P. Mr R. F. _ Stephen (Christchurch), Mr W. E. Wilkinson (Wellington), Mr H. M. Millar (WelI lington). . . Dr. J. M. Mason, late Chief Health Officer, has been passing some busy months in London in his official duties and studying. Sine, arriving here he has completed his legal studies, and has been called to th© Bar. A New Zealander figured prominently in a suffragette demonstration in Bristol on Wednesday evening. Miss Christabel Pankhuret was the chief speaker at a great meeting at the Colston Hall, her subject being Militant Tactics up to Date." Unfortnnatelv for the suffragettes there was an organised section in the hall who had determined to give a counter demonstration of the methods of the suffragettes themselves. From whistling and hand-clapping, they proceeded to throwing flonT and ocas, and finally rushed toward the platform. The meeting was completed demoralised. Dr. Christie, formerly of Milton. Otago, and now a city councillor of Bristol, stood upon the Press table and endeavoured to stem the disorder, but without success. In the midst of en unceasing din the ..r-eakers told their story into the adiacent oar of the reporters, and so it got forth to the world. The speeches were a failure, and the speakers made a lucky escape through a back door. A wide circle of friends in Otago anc" l at the Otago University will learn with regret of the death of Miss Eva Marie Rand'-e, which occurred in tragic circumstances on the loth inst., at the residence of her mother, 23 Nevern square, Kensington. The deceased young lady, who was a daughter of the late Mr Howard Randle, and was twenty-nine years of age, graduated M.A. at the Otago University in 1902. Since coming to England some years ago she had been reading for the law, but.she had lately b?en compelled by the stato of her health to give, up studj-ing. On the evening of the loth she was writing a letter to a friend in India relating her experience of London life, and then she went upstairs to dress for dinner. Soon after she was found lying in the back area, dead. It was stated at the inquest that Miss Randle, after partly undressing, had gone from her bedroom to the top room, and, moving a dressing-table from the window she had got out. on to the leads and had fallen a distance of 50 feet.