PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13719, 28 April 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(FROM OT7R OWN COERESPOM)EyT.)

LONDON, March 18

Mr Justice Denniston did not stayin London. Accompanied by Mrs and Miss Denniston, ho left almcst immediately for Scotland on a visit to relative, and when last heard from he was staving at Morningside, Edinburgh. Sj far. no dsQnite programme has been mapped out, but Mr Justice Denniston purposes spending his year s well-earned furlough in trave 11 ng about the United Kingdom and the Continent, .io3ordin*_; as circumstances suggest- and permit. An exctptionaUy pleasant voyage was experienced by the new Orient steamer Orvieto, and the result is that the health of the .lud'v was immensely improved by the

! ''" s,t - , _r. Having landed at Naples trom the s.s. Otranto, Mr ond Mrs T. E. Fraser (Christohurch) and Miss Fraser made an extended tour, embracing Rome, Genoa, and Paris, before coming on tr, London, where they have lately arrived. For the next few months. West Ecnsinsrtcn will be- the homo of Mr and Mrs Eraser; they have settled down in a fi.'t while Miss Fraser, at Dr. Annie McCall's hostel in Clopham, toes through the course cf str.lv and practice neee-sary for her to obtain the ecrt.ilicit? of the Central Midwifes' Board. So peon as Mi=,s Fro so r is at liberty it ii hope*! to miltf a tour of the United Kiii-yioni. Are;-! ding to present plan> the travelier* v. ill be back in the Dominion by Christmas.

Mrs W. I' Simms (Christchurch) rtoehod Ixmdon last halurdny, and is staying with her <=o!i. Mr H. Sinuns, late of Chrislchureh. and Irs dauditcr.

Mi.-s May Beatty and -Mr Edward Latui are acting together in sketches at the llo'born Empire ('•The Lady Randits" and "Jn Her Boudoir'"). Both are engaged to appear in pantomime up to 1014. hut they Icok forward to the possibility of a tour in Australia at no very distant date.

Dr. and Mrs McArthur, who arrived ir. London on Friday evening, are cnxn(ortably installed at , the Thackeray Hotel, where th-r-y -will remain until after Easter, when they will probably go down to Woybridge. Dr. MoArthor Jooks considerably better for his voyage.

Mr Robert MoNnb lias booked his pass'-g-* to return to New Zealand by lhe Ruahine, which leaves on April 11th.

Ihis week's callers at 13 Victoria street have included:—Mr E. W. Meek (Wellington) and Dr. and Mrs. A. McArtlmr (Wellington), Mr W. F. M. Buckley (Christchurch) Mr R. Latham. Mrs Arthur ltawson, Miss King (Wellington), Mi I-I. Ceweil (Dunedin), Mr T. E. Harrison (DunHin), Engineer-Com-mander Percy Wheater and Mrs Whea.trv (Westport), Miss F. E. Preeee (Auckland).

Of general New Zealand interest will be the announcement of the betrothal of Mr Cyril Towsey, the wellknown pianist from tho Dominion, and Miss Mary Cooper, of Auckland, who hat; been living in this country for fceveral years past, completing her vocal studies. Both have been away from New Zealand for considerably over three jears, and both havo made arrangements for an carlv return. A recent arrival from the Dominion is Mr J. C. Martin, who has taken up his quarter- for the present at the Russell Hotel.