PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14327, 12 April 1912, Page 3

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Bj _♦— — H (FROM OUR OWN COBRKSrONDKNT.) B LONDON. March {>. B Mi- ami Mrs Julian Grande are about. ■ to leave tor Egypt and Palestine, and 1 they will l>e away from England for I i .several months. In addition, Mr 1 j Grande «ill go to the Soudan, to collect | j material for hi* lectures. I j The --Morning Post" announces tho I ! engagement of Lieutenant lan C. Shir--1 i refi" Hilton, of 41 Roland Gardens, i ] South Kens-'ngton, to Bertha, second 1 j daughter of Mr Walter L. Clifford, of I I Flaxhourne. New Zealand. H I After leaving London at Christinas. if 1 Mr Archibald F. Nicoll visite<l Glasgow, g j the School of Art, and the Art Gallery. P and then went on to Edinburgh, where g he has been atti>ndin_: the College of M Art, which is now attract ; students frnni remote parts of the world, the H stall' being composed principally of proffi miliect members of the Scottish g I Academy. Mr Nicoll sent to the Glasg j g/nv Institute of Fine Arts a life study |J j j r n oils painted while he was in London; 0 ; it was well hung. Just now he is de-: B I voting considerable time to the study j 1i of Scottish landscape, and to tlie his- I g | tone part* of old Edinburgh. S On.Monday his Majesty the King g ! held his first levee of the sen Mm., at I j St. James's Palace. It was largely at- | H ! tenderl. Two Svw Zealandcrs who had , I the honour of being nresented were Mr j | Alfred Kidd and Mr Robert Stout. 1 I both bein_: presented by Sir "William | Hall-Jones. The Earl of Onslow at- | tended on his succession to the family ; fl title. ! 3 In renlv to the telegram sent to the ; H Kiig bv'the L'ooo hoys at Mr T. E. i s S'(lg»Jck"s South London meeting. Lord i Stanifordbani has sent the following I letter to- the chairman (Mr T. Dyer . ! F.dwardes): "1 am commiuidcd to ask | yon to express the King's thanks to tho I i 20(10 boys who were assembled in the \ I j Newiiigtoii Public Hall last evening for j the loyal sentiments expressed in j the telegram which you. as chairman of i the meeting, despatched on their behalf. | His Majesty trusts that good fortune l may attend all those who take advantage of the facilities offered them to i intake their homes- in other oortious of ] the Empire." _ j Mr Leslie Tribe (late of Christ- . church) has just severed Jtis connection j with tlie Alliance Assurance Company] ; after having been working with tlie | company' for nearly'twelve years (ten j jin Cliristchiirch anil two in London). . He has accepted a good appointment on the Juhra Estate, Solangor, Federated Malay Slates, v here he will learn rubber-growing, and be sailed from London a fortnight n_:o to take nty his new work. The staff of the Alliance | Company presented him with a gold watch.. Mr Tribe had mado himsolf a prominent member of the Cat ford Rridgo Football Club, and was one of the best forwards in the. team. An informal supper was inven by tlie club after its defeat of the London Irish', and the chairman presented the departing New Zealander with the honour cap, together with a memento from tlip members of the team. Miss Doris j Tribe, a sister of Mr Tribe, has left j London to take up an appointment' a.s ' violin mistress at an academy of music at Halberstadt. in the Harz Mountains. Mrs Tribo is still living in London. Amongst a batch of appointments made by the Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, and approved by the King, is that of Lietit.-Colonel Robert Heaton Rhodes, M.r., to bo n : - Knight:, of Grace.

Mr and Mrs J. A.Frostick. and Miss Clarke (of Christchurch). are spending, a. few days in town. but v Mr Frostiek has been summoned away "-unexpectedly, to visit Sir C'oor<_cWhite, his old friend, who is lying seriously ill at his homo in Norwich. In about three weeks; Mr ;\' and ;M^s:Ff6sticlf'will---firobirtl.lv'-' leave 'for'..he"trrifCeTTSthtes;' a*ndvtheV-'• e'Spect to he back in England in May. . Last w>ok the Corinth ie had among her numerous tlrrd-class passengers a party of nearly a hundred domestic servants, whose destination is New Zealand. Thirty-five of them have gone out under the auspice's of the Women's Emigration Society, of which the Hon. Mrs Joyce is nros : deiit. Miss Chaplain! is in charge of tho girls. The Bisbop-Designaio of Melanesia (the Rev. Cecil J. Wood) will prohablv leavo tor New Zealand dining the middle of May. Before his departure there will be a valedictory service in AVestminster Abbey, and it i.s, hoped that'the Archbishop of Canterbury-will attend a reception at the Church House to bid the Bishop-elect "God-speed.'' Last night their Majesties the King and Queen held their first Court of the season, at Buekiiydiom Palace. Two New Zealanders had tlie honour of presentation— Mis Allied Kidd (Auckland) and Miss Maria Bnncho:> (AVellitictonV. Mrs Lewis Harcourt, wife of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, presenting them. At the Court of- the Mth Alarch. Mrs liven E. Ravmoud (invercargill) will present two of .her daughters, and nrobablv. at one of the Courts after Easter, i.-.idv Stout will prcsoot .Miss Janet Stout. Callers at the Hi-d. Commissioner's Office during the first half of this week have beep:—Mr T. D. Simnson (Auckland) Mr .V. C. Calbrnith (Nanier) the ; Rev. W. W. Brown (Stirling).' Mr'and ;Mn Vat»v McSkimmg (Stirling). Mr jW. M.-Grattan G„. m ie S .s. M.D. (\uck- ! land). Mr nnd Mrs Svdi.ev Johnson ! (WeOi„,.r to „). -\[ r f j; Tlorne Mrs \ jK. Watson (Dunedin). Mr W." Manev (Wairarina). Ah- 0. A. Piukorton (Ciir'stch-ircli). Mr A. Wvlos (Gisboncl. Mr R F-ddwick (Christchurch). Air and Mrs J. }\. DoWnoro and Miss T)-1.-H V oie .Gore). Mr H. F. Yon Tlaast (A\e!Jington).