PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14481, 9 October 1912, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

1 (-"BOM OCR OWN OOBRESrONDENT). LONDON, August ■■ 30. Lord Liverpool, accompanied by Lady Liverpool and liis staff will make tho journey to New Zealand by the P. and O. line, leaving here during November. He will travel on the Malwa to Australia, and Wellington should be reached by December 20th. It -was stated last week that the Governor>elect might decide to reside at Auckland for the first few months, but it has now been definitely arranged that Wellington shall be tbe initial headquarters. It ig possible that Lord and Lady Liverpool will join the Malwa at Marseilles. Some twenty servants -will travel by the liner in addition to the members of the- staff, whose names have not yet been formally announced. A couple of favourite ponies belonging to Lady Liverpool will be sent out shortly. The Earl himself is exceedingly busy arranging his Englisb affaire preparatory to his five years' sojourn in New Zealand. It is expected "that the new High Commissioner •will arrive in London by October sth, in which case a month will intervene beforo tho departure of Lord Liverpool, who will thus be able to meet the Hon. T. Mackenzie. Exactly what form any passible ceremony of fare-well to the Earl and Countess of Liverpool may take will not bo decided until the arrival of tho Hi_di Commissioner. The peerage granted to the late Sir Thomas Borthwick, who died before the necessary formalities had been completed, has b,ecn conferred by the iving on the deceased's baronefs eldest son, Sir Thomas Banks Borthwick, and the new peer's title will be "Baron Whitburgh of Whitburgh, in the County of Midlothian."' The King has also decided that the widow and children of the late Sir Thomas Borthwick shall bear the same style and enjoy the same preced.nce as they would have done had Sir Thomas lived. That means that tho younger children have the title of Honourable. The new Peer was 33 years of age last week. Before putting in a term at th© Royal Dental Hospital, Mr F. W. Thompson (Christchurch) has entered upon what the Americans would call ''a real good time." By a'coincidence" he is at the moment 6fcaying at Christchurch, and he is fishing for salmon in the Avon —both in tho oounty of Hampshire. At Bideford,. where he will be tho guest of an old New Zealand friend. Mr W. T. Charieword. Mr Thompson nones to havo some fishing, and to have some good golf at Westward Ho! Then he will make a stay at Wcstbn«surier-Mare with his brother, who is the Vicar there: next ho will be the guest of the Rev. Dr. West, at his euro in Gloucestershire. Paris, too. will bo s?en before work b'rgins. Mrs C. J. Mountfort (Christchurch) leaves on Friday for a short tour of Switzerland and the Italian Lakes. On her return she will go to Scotland Mrs Mountfort has booked her return by tho Orama, which sail« on October 25th. Mr and Mrs,D. Hawke (Oxford, Canterbury) have greatly enjoyed .tbe-'r visit Home, and they may leave for New Zealand by tho Rermicra which sails in the middle of December. Thi.« is Mr Hawke's first 3ight of England for 34 years, nnd : ho has spent some timo in his native county of Cornwall. He has been c'osely investigating the frozen produce • trade, with special reference to the demand for New Zealand goods, and on more than ono occasion he has been instrumental in clearing away the prejudice which sometimes still exists against frozen meat. ' Established in 1906, the Anglo Colonial Lodge of Freemasons, No. 3175, has dono much valuable work in cementing tho friendship of English and colonial Masons, for the chief "object for which it was founded was to provide a homo in London for colonial nnd Indian Masons. Lord Milner has just been installed as master for the ensuing .year. He was initiated in Egypt some twenty years ago by Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, P.G.W., assisted (as deacon) by Lieut.-General S'r Francis Wingato, P.G.W. It wa? not until he joined the Anglo-Colonia! Lodge, where he received his final degree, that Lord Milner took a very keen interest in Freemasonry, and V has ever since taken an active part in promoting the special object for which the lodge was founded. Among the passengers for Auckland by the s.s. Otranto at tho end of September, will be Mrs J. Ulric Collins. She has recently been staying at Winchester with Sir Charles and Lady Nepean, who are relatives of her hus band. Miss Hnmct Newcomb, hon. secretary of the Australian and New Zealand Women Voters' Association, is leaving for South Africa, Australia and New Zealand in the middle of next month. She will spend two months at the Cape. During her stay in Austra lia, Miss Newcomb means to see wh.it can be done in promoting the federation of thft different women's organisations, political or otherwise, so as to ensure co-operative work on certain matters specially connected with women's interests. A fairly long list of names has this week been added to the Visitors' Book at 13 Victoria street, viz.:—Mr ani Mrs J. W.lson (Auckland), Miss Alice Marshall (Hunterville), Mrs and Miss Goodfeitow (Auckland), Mr A. H. Russell (Hawke's Bay), Mr Gordon Good (Milton), Mr Louis Kahn (Auckland), Mr H. W. Bealo (Auckland), Mi W D. Revington (Greymouth), Mr and Newbigm (Hawke's Bay) and MistNf wbigin, Miss Dumerque (Opbtiki). M'ss Ann Robertson (Rotorua), Mr E. West (Pahnerston North), Mr and M's Donald McLean (Wellington) and tho Misses McLean, Mr and Mrs C. A. Baukes (Auckland), Mr and Mrs F. V. Mills (Alarlboiough), Mrs Dick Irving (Auckland), the Rev. Eric D. Rice (Auckland), Mr and Mrs D. Hawke (Oxford, Canterbury), Mr J. H. Taylor (Rotorua), Miss G. Lodge (Auckland), Madame Betty Brooke (Chrisi>Miss K. A. Brodie (Auckland), Mrs and Miss McLaughlin (Auckland), Miss Chrystal (Wellington). Ever since Dr. G. E. Morrison, the famous correspondent, arrived in London from China on a brief visit, he has beeu much in the public eye, though he has tried very hard to keep in the background. He has been interviewed more than once, and he has been writing to the Press telling the people of this country all about modern China, but it was a surprise to most people that ho intended to be married in London. Indeed, the announcement was only made public on the morning of the wedding, and considerable interest was aroused when the bride was described as a New Zealand girl, who had been secretary to Dr. Morrison in China for two years, and who had only recently returned to London from the Far East to join her parents, Mr and Mrs Robert Robin, of '-Wenduyne," Lismore road, South Croydon. The ceremony took place at Emanuel Church, Croydon, and the •officiating clergyman was the Rev. R. N. F. Phillip, vicar of the parish. There were no bridesmaids, there wero no decorations, and there was no music, while it is on record that the Prayer Book substitute for the clerical address —the scriptural injunctions touching the duties of husband and wife to one another —was not read. Mr Robin, who has lived in Croydon for many years, was asked by a London newspaper representative to give some par-

ticulars of the marriace, but he courteously declined to say anything of the circumstances of his daughter's engagement. "No," he said, "we don't want nny fuss mado about it. It was simply a quiet little affair among ourselves. Even our neighbours did not know of it." "Until quite lately Dr. Morrison had occupied the position of correspondent at Peking of "Tho Times," and it is said that he first mot his brido there when sho was touring in China. Subsequently she became his secrotnry. Dr. Morrison who was born in Australia, is a man of fifty; his wife is not much more than twenty, and in comparison with her husband she looks very young. Lord and Lady Northland returned to Dungannon Park from their honeymoon at the beginning of this week, when scones of enthusiasm were witnessed in tho old Irish town of Dungannon. The streets were decorated with bunting and coloured lamps, while the decorations and illuminations of the shops and private residences were beautiful. Lord and Lady Northland had crossed over from England and had motored from Portadown railway station to Dungannon. Their approach was signalled by tho discharge of cannon on Cattle Hill, and bonfires wero lighted on that historic eminenco and in Market square. A procession was formed in Thomas street, consisting of brass and flute bands, and tho members of a number of Unionist clubs, marching in military order. It was headed by a great array of torch-bearers. The arrival of tho motor-car was hailed with loud cheers. On arriving in Market square, which was filled by the inhabitants of the town, a holt was called, and Mr T. J. Aiken, J.P., vice-chair-man of the Urban Council, offered Lord and Lady Northland tho heartiest congratulations of the inhabitants of Dungannon. In reply, Lord Northland said that tho welcome had been quite unexpected, and both he and Lady Northland wore overwhelmed by tho warmth of their reception. His family had lived in Dungannon for the past 250 years, and had always been on the best of terms with all creeds and classes. As such they honed to remain, and his wife and himself would carry out that policy. They trusted that they would ever be as welcome in Dungannon as they were that night.