PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18682, 4 May 1926, Page 3

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

IV coamssrojnDEvr) •IfDON," Inarch 27.lien is expected to week-end with Lord 1 at Hartsholme Hall, lpp has aimed in outh of France. Aci Tupp, he travelled fai as Marseilles, disand spending a few lera Mrs Tripp is i, but in the middle i will go to Paris to ;ether they will visit nvo in London early hey i expect.to bo in less until leaving for )ctober. Mr Tripp is into the meat and o will represent the eponners' Federation lal Meeting of Sheep iill be held in June, to bo present at the ference, as well as at connexion with trade olson is continuing to nd lecturing engagearts of England, setiros and needs of the Continental Church sera lectures on New enjoyed. Franks, the Christis giving his first rem Aprifrl3th- at the : Franks was in Sydreak of war and ho • Australian Artillery. ;e from the Army ho i Angeles to try his business. He was Bars and made a livFrom California he study, singing. He iree years, working no*n instructors as *o. On returning to igo, he obtained enf te. "at homes," and fe in grand opera at He has another con'arden this year, and i next month, he is J» November, and Clayton, the founder « d . a hige number of "S°» Club, and effort would be made at tWclub. They f l>mld up an organid it as tte City. Co v have, bnt had not. ianthester there were «, T£ ?n »Ascribed, the other £2OO. One

of these men shared _ a room with a member whoso subscription wa3 only 2s 6d a year. Again, in London, a man who was a scholar at Eton and Trinity College shared a room with a chauffeur. The Eton man, who was also a rising barrister, paid £4 .a week, and thechauffeur 255. "Snobbishness, that one deadly but unforgivable sin, has been. eliminated in our ranks,"- ho added. The "Daily Telegraph" has an appreciative review of Mr H: Guthrie Smith's "Bird Life on Island and Shore," published .by Messrs ..Blackwood. . The book is spoken of as being well'written and well-informed. Mr Samuel Turner (Wellington) is in Manchester, where this week he delivered a lecture to members of the Manchester Geographical Society on "Exploration and Climbing in the New Zealand Alps." The major part of hid address was devoted to his feats on Mount Cook and Mount Tutoko. The photographs which Mr Turner showed greafly interested his audience, who were very much struck with the extraordinary heauty of the country, lxith up among the peaks and down in the valleys.