PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13742, 25 May 1910, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(FROM OUK OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, April 15

The day, before yesterday Sir John

Dicksou-Poynder, the new Governor, called at the High Commissioner's office and showed great interest in the panoramic views of tho Dominion which adorn the main rooms. He expressed

his intention of bringing Lady Dicksonl'ovnder to sec them.

The Rev. H. R. W. Farrer, Rector of Bridport, Dorset, is looking forward with pleasure at the prospect of visit-

ing New Zealand again, as a member of the Mission of Help. For a short time, just thirty-two years ago, he was living in the Dominion; he went out, at the age of seventeen, among George Ye.sev Stewart's party, whose destination was Tauranga. After his father's death there, Mr Farrer came to England and went through the university. Subsequently he was ordained in the diocese of Salisbury, and he has been living and working in Dorset ever since, lie iTas taken his passage to New Zeaiand via Australia, by tho Orient liner Orvieto, sailing on July Bth. The Rev. C'vril hepher tXewcastle) will join the sa'mo steamer at Marseilles a week later.

.Mr R. .MeXab is still rendering great help to the cause of unvorsal military J training by speaking under the auspices of the National Service League. Hβ lias addressed two big meetings this week, one at Leeds, and on last night/ at J'addington. Tlic Leeds meetingwas very successful. Referring to the dangerous r.oliey of "muddling throuirli," Mr.McN'ab said: '1 liear all round nif the expression. 'Oil, England will see it through'—and nothing is done. There is » feeling in your distant nart of the Dominions that things will "go rough at the. next scrap." They Had a feeling in Australia and Xo\v Zealand that if the worst came to tiro worjst they wore going to be the two French '.rovinces. Alsace and Lorraine. They wore determined that if the worst came to tho worst, and there was a settlement in this country, thero would lie a settlement at the other end oi the Empire. After referring to the lowering. of the standard of physique in tho British Army, Mr McNab dealt with the industrial effect of universal military training. It was said in his own country that if they took young men away from their civil employment they would disorganise labour. Who was' the greatest competitor the English nation had now? It was a country that took nearly every man out of his industrial life for years and nut him into tho army, where he was trained and made a man.

Mr F. Harper (Dnnedin) has recently conic across from Paris, where he has been living for the past eleven months. Mrs and IMiss Harper are in Italy. A vorv lons round of travel is in front of Mr Harder before he returns to the Dominion; "lie has planned to see much more of Europe, as well as America and Asia, and he has many interests.

Miss Laura Harrison (Christchurch) is a J , present in Brussels awaiting the departure of her steamer from Antwerp for New Zealand. Miss Harrison has had some ten months on this side of the world, and has spent most of this year on the Continent. After some time in Paris, she went on to Switzerland, and at Zurich joined her brother. She made a tour of the Alpine part of the country, where winter sport was in full swin's" Some time was spent in Lucerne, Interlaken. and the Bernese Oberland. During the March holidays, Mr and Miss Harrison had an enjoy-able-time in Southern Italy, and Easterweek was spent in Rome. After a further short stay in Switzerland, Mr and Miss Harrison went to Germany, to Frankfurt-on-the-Main, where the former is to continue his work —his professor in Zurich having accepted a call to tho new Institute in Frankfurt. A week was spent on the, Rhine, as far north as''Cologne, and Miss Harrison ■ounieypctjrthence ''to Brussels. She .ails on April 17th for Lyttelton. Mr AW H. Rose, manager 'of the Oainaru branch of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, is paying his first visit to the Old Country. With Mrs Rose, he came by the Arawa, which proved herself an excellent seaboat in stormy weather. The trip is purely of a holiday nature. Mr and Mrs Rose aro leaving immediately for the Continent; they will come back to London in May.

Tho late headmaster of Macdonald College, McGill University, Canada, Principal Robertson, C.M.G., has in contemplation a trip to New Zealand and Australia toward the end of this year He is now in Europe.

Mr D. C. H. Florence (Christchurcli) is at Victoria University, Manchester, doing research work, in the physical laboratory under Professor Rutherford, and he expects to remain there for tho next two years. In order to acquire experience of secondary school work, Mr Florence has been teaching mathematics at Manchester Grammar School. In September ho hones to attend the Science Congress at the Brussels Exhibition, and then to see something of ■ Germany.

At the High Commissioner's office, the following callers have registered their names during the week:—Mr H. C. Buchanan (Canterbury) and Mr Hugh Buchanan; Mr W. H. Moore' (Christehurch); Dr. V. D. Griffon;'Mr W. H. Rose (Oamaru): Mr C. H. Wilson (New Brighton); Miss Geraldine E. Broad (Wellington); Lieutenant H. G. Grace, 21st Cavalry (Jhelum, India), (Blenheim): Mr A. E. Tote (Auckland); Mr J. A. Glenn (Hawera); Mrs Malcolm Ross (Wellington); Miss L. M. H. Whitson (Dunedin); Miss L. Izard (Wellington); the Hon. Seymour Thorne George (Auckland). Mrs and Miss Thorne George; Mr and Mrs F Waller (Auckland); Mr. ft. ChaseMorris (Wellington) and Miss ChaseMorris;'Mr E. M. Grige (Canterbury); Mr C. S. Jameson (Wellington): Mrs J. J. O'Brien (Devonnort. Auckland), and Miss J. O'Brien;" Miss O'Hara (Auckland). ' :■

Mr R. Mr-Nab, who has returned from his historical work in France, has decided to postpone his return to New Zealand for a fortnight, and will accordingly sail by the Arawa on the 29th inst. During tlie present week he is devoting himself to lecturing throughout the country on behalf of the National Service League. I had a call to-day from the Rev. IT. Darwin Burton, vicar of St. Saviours, St. A loans., whose appointment to the vacant vicarage of" St. Michael's. Christentirch, I referred to some weeks back The appointment has now boon definitely concluded by <;able. and Mr Burton spent the day' in town making som? arrangements for his voyage. Mr Hurton will leave England "by the Whito Star liner Runic for Sydney on T -i'!i«- 30th, his family going at a "later date