NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 126, 20 February 1908, Page 5

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

PERSONAL JOTTINGS FROM - LONDON. / London, January 9. Professor D. Konnody Picken, tho now Professor of Mathematics at Victoria College, Wellington, .will sail for Noiv Zealand by the Itiuiutaka, leaving London on January 23. Mrs. G. M. Rylance, of Auckland, who has been studying operatic singing in London for somo months past, has gone to Milan to continuo her musical training there. Recent callers at tho High Commissioner's OlßcsMessrs. E. G. Atkinson (Wanganui), Mr. and' Mrs. E. >W. Morrison (Auckland), MivC. H. Otterson (Wellington), Mr. F. E. Ritldiford (Palmorston), and Mr. Godfrey Hill(Christchurch).

Tho death is announced of. Mrs. Fenton, widow of tho lato Von. Archdeacon Fenton, of Oamaru, who was tho first clergyman'lll Otago appointed by Bishop Sclwyn. Mrs. Fenton returned to England after her husband's death in - 189S, and went to livo with her sou, tho Rev. H. 0. Fenton, of All Saints!, Sydenham. She died on December' 22.

The Bishop of Auckland has appointed tho llev. Marriiaduko Warner to bo Diocesan Missionary in Taranaki. Mr. Warner mado many :friends .during the two years in which ho was chaplain of tho Theological College at Ely. Ho saw eighteen months' active service in the South 1 African War as a member of the Volunteer corps raised by tho University of Cambridge. : .'A wedding of Anglo-New Zealand interest took place at St. Mary Abbot Church, Kehsingtori,; on December' 28, when Miss Evelyn Patience Willis, daughter of Mr. J. Armino Willis,'of 6 Marloes Road, London, W., was "married to Mr. Charles Godfrey,' headmaster of tho. Royal 'Naval College at Osborne. The •ceremony was performed by tho Rev. F. E. B. Wale, vicar of Heaton, cousin of the brido,' 'assisted by .tho Rev. Canon Penne'iathe.v. " :

Mr.; and Mrs. G. B, Holmes, of Wellington, whoiarriveilin London recently via America, .will probably bo hero for several months. Mr. ■Holmes is on business in connection with the sale of the'patont rights' in tho Holmes-Allen trolleyrhead inventions. 1 Hd and his wife will afterwards leave "for the Continent, with the intontion of motoring across Europe to one of. the Italian port 3, and there taking steamer for New Zealand, stopping on tho way in Egypt and Ceylon.

The Hon. W. P; Reeves, Sir Montague Nelson, and Mr. Hal." Williams, have been appointed members of the Executive Council 6f the International -Congress on Refrigeration, which is to bo held in Paris next summer. Mr.' P. B. Proctor, secretary of the Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company, will read'a paper at the Congress on " Tho Value of Refrigeration in tho Food Supply of the' Poor." Pho Cohgross will' take place at a tim'o when London is full/of colonial visitors; and invitations will bo widely extended to those connected with' tho frozen meat and colonial fruit industries.

Tho Now Zealand Association gave a very successful Cinderella-dance on Monday evening iii tho Crown' Room of tho Holborn -Restaurant. , Mrs. \ Pombe'r ll'ebves, the' wife of the High -Commissioner for New Zealand, acted .as ho'stoss 'for the. occasion,' and Mr.' ■Reeves, who is president of the Association, and-Dr.-.-Parkinson; chairman of tho committeo; wero also present. Some forty couples took tho floor, and dancing was carried on from 7.30 till 12.'15.- An' excellent cold supper was served in tho restaurant in tho course of tho evening. This was tho first timo that tho Association had tried the oxporiment .of giving a dance, and tho result I fully, justified the, venture, tho function proving one of the most enjoyable' and sue-, cessful that tho Association has vet held. The'arrangements wero in tho'capable hands of Mr. C. Wray Palliser, wl/o also acted as 'M.C. ' ■