LONDON PERSONALS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20028, 9 September 1930, Page 2

LONDON PERSONALS.

(FEOM ODK OWN COHRESrOSDEST.) LONDON. August 1. Mr and Mrs V. Lecaldano (Oriental Bay), and their daughter. Miss Joyce Lecaldano, left Southampton to-day by the Ruapehu on their way home. They are due in New Zealand on September 10th. Airs A. Lutfcrell (Fendalton) , has taken her return passage by the Oxford in October. She has been touring in England, and visiting friends in Yorkshire and Cornwall. This month she will be in Somerset. Misa M. E. Joachim (Dunediu) had a wonderful five months' round of travel prior to arriving in England. She visited Jerusalem, Damascus, liaalbeck. Beirut, and many other centres of the Holy Land, and she travelled by air from Baghdad to Teheran and back. Then she went on to Cairo. Alexandria, and Greece, attending the Delphic Festival. Next Miss Joachim travelled to Austria, and saw the Passion Play at Ober-Am-mergau. During August she will divide her time between Dorset and Edinburgh, and in October she will be back in London to spend a few weeks hefore going abroad for the winter. She ex-. pects to be awav from New Zealand until the end of next vear. The Ven. Archdeacon J. D. Russell and Miss Ru«>ell have left Harrow for a tour in the West of England, including Bath. Salisbury. Exmoutb, and Plvmouth. Thev have no definite nlans ror the future, but they will probably leave for New Zealand in October. Dr. Dorothv K. Reynolds cb.ugb.ter of the late Mr Henry Reynolds and Mrs Reynolds (formerlv of the Waikato'i has resigned her appointment at the Cornwall County Mental Hospital, Bodmin, and is leaving for Brazil tomorrow. At Santos her marriage will take place to Mr C. S. Deighton. Dr. Reynolds is travelling with her brother and sister-in-law Mr and Mrs Harry Reynolds, who are on their way back to the Argentine. Mrs Margaret Eyre (Auckland) is touring generally in England and Scotland and thinks of going to France later. Colonel Weston Jarvis has been elected cnairman oi the Koyal iumpire Society. The Society has for the tirst time elected two deputy chairmen, one being Sir Malcolm Robertson, and the other Sir Archibald Weigall. The council oi the Society has authorised the formation of a women's section with three sub-sections, devoted to. respectively, Hospitality, Information, ana Educational Propaganda. Those responsible for the organisation of the three sub-sections will be Elibank, Lady Davson, and Lady Sandeman Allen. Membership of the Society has now reached 18,230. Mr and Mrs N. F. Lowndes (late ot Gisborne) are making a hurried tour of England and the Continent prior to their return to Sydney, in which city the former is employed by the Mutual Life and Citizens' Assurance Company, Limited, as branch organiser. To-day the travellers were to leave by air for Copenhagen, then tour Europe, and at the end of August join their boat at Queenstown for New York. The object of Mr Lowndes's trip is to study the agency and renewal systems of the leading British, American, and Canadian Life Assurance Offices. It is interesting to hear from him that in New South Wales there is a colony of approximately 34,000 resident New Zealanders. =.. Mrs V. Frankham (Deyonport) was a passenger by the Rangitata. Two days out from Panama, the vessel went to the aid of the German ship, Targis. Of this experience, Mrs Frankham writes: "I saw the smoke first, and took it to be a water spout, but one of the men said: 'No, it's an eruption of some kind.' This proved to be correct, for the fire started with an explosion. When the S.O.S. was received the Rangitata turned round with a mighty sweep and headed straight for the smoke. Wo got there in two hours, when wo found the crew and the passengers (only a few) quite safe in the ship's lifeboats. The sea was like glass, and we picked them up quite easily. The German captain did his best to save his ship, but it was hopeless, the decks being too hot to stand on. The Targis sank next night. The Rangitata was consequently two days late in reaching Southampton." Early this month Mrs Frankham is

e;oing to Paris. She has booked her return passage by the Maloja, leaving ia November, as she intends spending some time in Australia on her way home. At a nursing home, the death occurred on July 31st of Katherine Macey, widow of William Justice Ford and eldest daughter of Captain Browning, of Nelson. .Mrs Ford's funeral will take place.at Golder's Green Crematorium to»morrow> ~•;,-' The . death occurred in Loudon.. on? July 27th of Margaret Henry Candyr, wife-of lsr. Frank Saxby Candy, ? ,-o£ Hastings,. ,Mrs ; and Miss Candy» aj>rlvod in<Lojidon in the spring, ana the news of the,, former's death has come as a great shock to her friends in London. Mr and Mrs J. A. Steele (Sit. Eden) arrived at the end of May and spent a fortnight in Wales before coming to London. Since then, they have covered over 3000 miles on a motor tour of England and Scotland. On August 22nd they will leave by the Naldera on their way home. The remainder of their time in the Mother Country will bo spent in Lancashire and Wales. Miss A. H. Bassett Cwno is well known in leading centres of both' the North and South Islands) left to-day for a Continental tour, to include Belgium. Holland, Germany. Switzerland, Italy, France, and Ober-Ammergau. Since her arrival at the end of March, she has been travelling in Scotland, and stayine with relatives in London. Miss Bassett will return to New Zealand, via Suez, but she hopes to tour in Devonshire and Cornwall before her departure.' • ———— . i -