PERSONAL NOTES FROM SYDNEY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 138, 5 March 1908, Page 3

PERSONAL NOTES FROM SYDNEY.

(feom 'OUE srEci^i.'coßßEsrosDEsa I V : ' ■ Sydney, February 29. His Eminenco Cardinal Moran and tho Bishops who accompanied him'to New Zealand: for the dedication ceremony of St. Pat-riok's'-Cathedral, Auckland, returned by theVictoria '..yesterday.;,''''. Bishop 'L'enihan, of Auckland," arid' Bishop Verdon, of Dunedin, who-'aro on their way to Rome, .were. also passengers by,,the..Victoria., ... : Mr.' William Allan, of Messrs. Veitch and Allan, Wellington,. .continues; his,;voyage to Europe by the Nbrddeutscher-Lloyd steamer Grosser left' Sydney on' Saturday last. . He." is;'accompanied by Mrs. Allan.' They\will','probably, be absent till October. . ;: Amongst, recent; visitors to Sydney are Mr; j. -F. M. Fraser, Crown Prosecutor in Dunedin}' Mi\ T.-'A.' Turnbuli, Wellington; and: Mr: and Mrs. W. H. Hazard, Auckland'. ' ' ; Mr. Philip Newbury, wlio may be claimed as' tho first Now Zealand singer who has made his mark in has returned to Australia'by the Orient liner Astiirias, which arrived- at. Fromaritle this week. Ho and his' : wife,. : Madame- Emily,'. Spada,--intend to give a ..'series of' concerts in Australia and New- Zealand. , ; Tho flight of Australian singers to Europe continues. Miss Ruby' Adams, a soprano whose voice, heard' here at a concert recently given'.'by . Miss Amy Sherwiri, is highly spoken of,' is now; on Jior ,way to Paris, where she is to take, lessons; from Madame Marchesi. Miss Josie'Miles, one of the prominent pupils ;. of; tho Garcia School in Sydney, and well'; known,'on .the Sydney concert'platform, is about, to; leave shortly. She has been appearing 'at the Theatre Royal' during the past , three weeks as one ofi the singing peasants. in "Claudian.", Miss Emily Marks, who has. played leads in amateur opera in Sydney with success, is also going, and Miss Eva Champion, the young New Zealander from Canterbury, will. leavo m May'next. - News comes ,of-..the marriago ill Glasgow of a well-known Sydney contralto, Miss Maud Dalrymple, who; toured New Zealand as a member of an important concert company a, few years ago. Miss Dalrymple's .husband .is ~ Mr.'Morrison, a naval architect in Glasgow, I whore her- home will be, as she proposes to withdraw''from tho concert platform." ■