PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16212, 15 May 1918, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

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v J-jU.N jL/OiN , JtUkCll 8. At Holy Trinity L-nurcn, toioano street, a war weauuig ot i>ew Zeaiauu tooJi piacc yesujiaay morning, iiio uiidpgiooiu was Captain Unaiics Anarcw x-ovuiwiine, K.JN., of Xsmroru iiaii, iMortoiKj a meinour of a very oid on oik iainny. 'I'no briao was jaiss Con&tanco -Viciiean, aauguter of Mr and .Mrs J\. Lt. v. vVlciican, of AiaraeKaiiano," iSeaianci, and 4 Cauogan xvi iacc, lvoucion. Tne eerc irony \v;fts il'iico on account of the recent dcaui vt tuo bridegroom's motnor, who passed away a lew uays ago. I'or tuo last niiio luontns Captain Fountaino iias ooen at sea, and tuo marriage was arranged at snort notice to take piace during ills ten days' snoro leave, 'inosd ! present included i<ady Flunket and ner oaugnter, Sir Fitzlioy Jlaclcan (Chief of tne Clan Maclean), .Lord Sudeiey (who, at the breakrast proposed the toast of the bride and briuegioom, and wno fought in the Baltic ana China war fifty years ago), Sir Thomas and Miss Mackenzie, iUiss Russell, and other IScw Zeaiand and J'Jnglish jriends of both families. Mr Maciean gave away his daughter, who lias been engaged in war work sinco the beginning or hostilities. For more than two years she was doing canteen work in Caiais and at Dunkirk, and both places were bombarded and shelled whiie she was there. Last October she came back to London, and has continued war work here. Captain Fountaine's ship is H.M.B. Cambrian. At the Jutland battle he was in H.M.S. Lion with the rank of Commander, and subsequently received promotion in recognition ot his services. Miss A. E. Bennett, N.Z.A.N.S. (Christchurch) arrived in England recently with tho 33rd Reinforcements, and is now on the staff at tho y N.Z.G.H., Walton. Miss Bennett had previously served in tho Mahono for one trip in 1917.

Miss Thurston, R.R.C., New Zealand Matron-in-Chief, is a member of an influential cominitteo which has boon formed to carry out details in connexion with a memorial service to be held next month in St. Paul's Cathedral to nurses who liaro died in tho

course of their duties during the war. The band of the Coldstream Guards will bo present under the conductorship of Major F. Mackenzie Rogan, and at the conclusion of the service they will play the Dead March from "Saul," and the bugles will sound the "Last Post." Staff-Nurse E. M. Findlay, A.N.S., has been discharged from the N.Z.E.F. at her own request. Callers at tho High Commissioner's office during the last few days have included:—Dr. S. G. Trail (Fairlie) and Mrs Trail, Lieutenant-Colonel F. Millar, C.M.R. (Ashburton), Miss Mary Findlay (Ashburton), Lieutenant N. H. Barlow, R.F.C. (Christchurch), Lieu-tenant-Colonel G. Gore-Gillon (Auckland), Miss A. E. Bennett, N.Z.A.N.S. (Christchurch), Colonel R. Heaton Rhodes, M.P. (Christchurch), and Mrs Rhodes, Private N. 11. Procter, N.Z.M.C. (Christchurch).

March 19

At St. George's Church, Pcrrv Hill, London, the marriage took place on March 13th, of Harry Edwin Redstone, N.Z.F.A., younger son of Mr and Mrs W. E. Bedstone of Hataitai, Wellington, to Constance Nellie, second daughter of Mr and 'Mrs J. F. Cox, St. Aubyn's, Woolstone road, Catford. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. Herbert Wesley, Kane, M.A. At Bolton Abbey, by license, Harry George Bateman, F.R.G.S., Staff Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, fourth son of Mr E. T. Bateman, of fc?t. Albans, was married to Marjorie, only daughter of Mr George Booth, of Bcamsley Hall, Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire. The ceremony took place on March 14th, and was performed by tho Rev. C. F. Tomlinson, M.A., Rector. Prior to the war, Lieutenant Bate man was out in China, where he worked for 2J years with the Inland Medical Mission. Previously ho was in the Lands and Survey Department, in New Zealand. The engagement is announced between Captain Richard Watkin 11-ichards, M.C., Royal Welsh Fusiliers, youngest son of Mr and Mrs R. S. Richards, of Glasooed, Llangollen, North Wales, and Elaine, second daughter of Mr and Mrs I. W. Raymond, of 64 St. George's square, London, and Invorcargill. Miss Kathleen Levi (Dunedin), who has for some .considerable time. been a 1 very successful student at tho Royal ' Acadomy of Music, has lately been awarded the Sterndalc Bennett prize for pianoforte playing. The many friends in New Zealand, especially in Dunedin, of Mr and Mrs R. H. Spence, will regret to hear of the bereavement that has befallen them in the death of their elder daughtor, Miss Dorothy Spence. She passed away at Haslomerc on" March 12th from tubercular trouble. Since the outbreak of the war, .as fur as health and strength allowed, 'Miss Spence engaged in war work in various directions —in Y.M.C.A, cantcens, in taking pai:t in concerts lor tho entertainment of wounded soldiers, and on the establishment of the New Zealand Officers' Club in Russell square she became an active worker there. For a whilo she went to Codford at the opening of the canteen camp, but at the end of a couple of months tho work there proved too arduous, and she returned to her home in London completely prostrated. Recovering somewhat, she took up work at the New Zealand War Contingent Association and persisted in doing all that ehc could despite her weak state of health. About the end of last year tubercular trouble supervened, sapping her remaining strength, and her death occurred last week at the age of 24. For several years past Mr Spence has been Resident Agent in London of the New Zealand Customs. Yesterday afternoon Sir Thomas and Lady Mackenzie held a small reception at New Zealand House, in the Strand. The guests wore the members of tho War Contingent Association, of which Sir Thomas is chairman, and they were invited to meet Colonel the Hon. R. H. ' Rhodes, M.P., and Mrs Rhodes. An i interesting feature of tho afternoon was the presentation to Major A. de B. Brandon, D.5.0., M.C., R.F.C. (Wellington) of the very handsome medal given by the Imperial Air Fleet to commemorate his successful attack on two Zeppelins. In reply, Major Brandon said that few people realised how .many fino planes had been presented to England by the oversea Dominions; that it was impossible to go into any aerodroino without finding some aeroplane subscribed for by Baroda or Bermudas or New Zealand, or some other distant place. Colonel Heaton Rhodes *poke of the satisfaction with which he had inspected the work done for the New Zealand forces in Egypt and in England. Splendid help had been given by tho bands of helpers, and this would in duo courso receive tome permanent recognition. Among tho guests, who were chiefly drawn from the ranks of active war workers, who could spare time to comc, were doctors and nurses from the various New Zealand hospitals, Lord Plunket and Dr. TruDy King.