PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18726, 24 June 1926, Page 13

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(fSO« OUB O'.VK CORRESPONDENT.)

I LONDON, May 21. gi r James Allen will presently be : suing invitations to an official welcoo ffhich will b° held in honour of S j»oa and Lady Parr. This will tal tJj form of an evening reception i jjrt WharnclifTe Rooms, Great Centr; tfotel, on July Ist. gj, F. H. D. 801 lis to be swor j,j ts » member of the Privy Counc jojne time in June. With his daugi krs, Mrs C. W. Rolleston and Mis ' Enid BeH. ho has settled down comfort Stblf in a furnished flat at 2 White jail Court, which will be his headquai jjm for tho next six months. He is of course, always ready/ to respond t a summons to Geneva, if called upon During the Whitsuntide week-end h and-bis daughters will be the guests o f) the Earl and Countess of Liverpool, a flgrtaholm Hal!, and the house parti w ill include Lieut. W. L. Rolleston BJS- (grandson of Sir Francis), who ii Rationed, with his regiment at Chat ham. < Doring the recent general strike, dis location and upheaval were the rule ir nearly every walk of life. It may amus< Sir Francis's New Zealand friends tt H know that, although ho owns a motorcar, he was obliged to join the long may of pedestrians .because his daughter, Miss Enid Bell, took possession of her father's car and used it all day for the benefit of City-bound workers who raise from distant south-western suburbs, situated too far away for them to walk. Miss Bell's passengers irere all thoroughly appreciative of her kindly help, and Sir Francis was very glad that his car was useful in the awkf»rd national emergency. Captain C. N. Reyne, who has beep, jpjxnnted to the New Zealand Naval Station to succeed Captain F. A. Somniorville on the expiration of the latter's three years, formerly commanded the cruiser Curacoa. He was promoted to his present rank in 1922. During the war be served as Gunnery fficer Mid.Commander of the Dreadnought in tie Grand Fleet. Rear-Admiral W. R. Napier, R.N., , who has been received by the King on nia\, appointment as First Naval Member of the Commonwealth Naval Board, wlleave England this week to succeed Rear-idmiral P. H. Hall-Thompson in July,' Paymaster-Commander Basil M. Pejk, who has already served a good ruShy years in Australia, will be AdHJru'Napier's secretary. For the past l&months Paymaster-Commander Peck hfiS bean at the Admiralty on the Com.jjfytee which is revising the King's Regulations and Admiralty Instruc-

II Cmtain E. It. G. R. Evans, C.8., S£A, R.N., has been appointed to tommand H.M.S. Repulse. [.He appointment is officially notified w-ihe Admiralty of Captain C. N. ««rrie to the New Zealand Station. XtptoUi Reyne has been lent to the N*r Zealand Government as Chief Staff flfiesr" to Commodore G. T. C. l'. fwibw, D.5.0., and as Second Naval l&Rber of the Royal New Zealand flcJvT'Board. His first duties date Mfto'July 16th, and the other from 'j&date of joining. He sails for New Inland by the Remuera on July 30th. /jMrand Mrs P. M. Warren (ChristMtUrch) and Miss Dora Warren, were jwbgers by the Ormonde, which ar--Hfga at Plymouth on the last day of tte;.«trike. The travellers landed at HJS port and had quite a good run up They had a pleasant Homewith, of course, a full ■sgffc and what the • passengers greatly jtajjariated was the.opportunity of goIJjishore at Suez and spending a day -jM'i half in Cairo. Mr Warren is s>'ps£ on. a holiday trip, and he and ; |w ; infe and daughter will see as much 'fMliey can of the United Kingdom "'Jpt-to their return via America. In they are staying in sjWchj awaiting the arrival of Mr and Jral?'-0. Clarkson, who are travelling t'iKntrt. TT_:i.j cii.i-_ °

SiJtiMUs United States. .||Mmander P. A. Worsley, D.5.0., pran* early volunteer to the British in connexion with the late larike. He was made a special and escorted the convoys of in ,from Thames Haven to One convoy a mile long, was n three armoured tanks and a constables. W. Sadlier, who has been at Emmanuel College. Cam* id lately at St. George 5 s Hosnow obtained the degrees of L.R.C.P. He will be re- » England to gain furfher exit the hospitals. Mr Sadlier Jy been travelling in France ather, the Bishop of Nelson. n. G. F. Earp, M.L.C., the isul General of Poland for and New Zealand,, arrived Jby air.a few days ago, acby Mrs Earp and their two i D, Wood (Christchurch) has where he has been gaining tperience for over a year. His juarters will be at Manchesffood may return to Chrisithe end of the year. '. J. D. Jones, chairman of Jgational Union, has left for rk en route to the United rtralia, and New Zealand, on ich will occupy about seven