PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 97, 21 October 1904, Page 6

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

♦ (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 17tfe September. Mr. aad Mrs. P. Stevens (Wellington) are having a very pleasant time in Ireland, where they are touring extensively. At the termination of tbeir stay there they will cross from Cork to Bristol, and be back again in London about the end of October, preparatory to leaving for New Zealand b,y the s.e. lonic on the 17th November. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens are enjoying eplendid health. Mr. and Mrs. Lane (Wellington and Dunedin) with Miss Lane, have just, returned to London for awhile. They have had a most delightfuL time travelling about in Devonshire and the South and West of England generally for some months past., Mr. Donald M'Lean (contractor, of Wellington) was in London for a few days recently, but he went back to Scotland this week. ' The greater part of his time so far lias been passed in his native Scotland, and he spent six pleasant weeks "doing" Glasgow, Edinburgh, the Highlands, and the East Coast. Mr. M'Lean will remain chiefly in Scotland until it is time for him to join the Orient steamer Orontes, which sails from Tilbury on the 7tn October, on his way back to Wellington, via Australia. Mr. H. T. Minogue (Wellington), who left the colony some two years or so ago in order to continue his dental studies in America, is now in London. He studied chiefly at the University in Chicago, and Lately took his degree of D.D.S. in Toronto. While in London he will take a short course at the leading dental institutions here, and then will spend a few weeks on the Continent in company with his mother and sister, who have recently arrived Wellington. Mrs. Minogue and her daughter stayed some weeks in America, visiting the St. Louis Exhibition, Salt Li:ke City, Chicago, Niagara, New York, etc., and at the last-named place they joined the American liner St. Louis, which, brought them to Southampton. Tbev will be back in Wellington in time for Christinas, but Mr. Minogue lias made up his miud to go back to Canada in order to practice his profession; he will leave England in October. Mr. and Mrs. A. Stone-Wigg (Pahiatua) have recently been in the North of England, visiting some of the interesting cathedral cities in that part. v Among those who were recently ordained at the Trinity Ordinations, was Mr. W. Fancourt, son of Archdeacon Fancourt, oi Wellington. Mr. W. Fancourt, who was for some time carrying on his studies at the Clergy Training School at Cambridge, took as his title St. Jude s, Liverpool, in which parish he is now performing clerical duties. I hear that Mr. and Mrs. Martin Kennedy (Wellington) are returning to the colony by the s.s. Cbrinthic next week. They were in Dublin during the horse show week. Mrs. Van Staveren (Wellington) and her daughter have been having a very pleasant sojourn on the Continent, but are now back in London ; they are staying at Maida Vale. Mrs. Van Staveren has decided to return to New Zealand by the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's steamer Gothic, which is announced to sail from London on the 20th October. Mian Van Staveren will remain in London for some time longer. I hear that Miss Brady (Wellington), who has been m this country for several months, and who has spent some of that time in Ireland, will leave on her return to New Zealand in the course of a weeks. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Tasker (Palmerston North) are at present In London; having travelled from Australia by the P. and 0. steamer Egypt, and having experienced a fine but quiet voyage, owing to the small number of passengers travelling at the time. They will join the s.s. India some time in December, on their way back to the colony. I have to record with regret the rather sudden death of Mi-. Henry Clinton Baddeley, formerly District Judge of New Zealand, who has been resident for some years in this country, and who latterly has been living at Falmouth, in Cornwall, where he passed away on Monday last. Mr. T. C. Dawson (Wellington) came Home by the last trip of thb Shaw, Savill and Albion steamer Gothic. Mr. Dawson has come Home on business, his object being to secure some good agencies for the colony. Mrs. C. H. Seville (Wellington) is staying for a while in London. I have no doubt that her friends in the colony will be glad to hear that her general health, ' for whose benefit the trip was undertaken, has already greatly benefited. The Duco was unable to get a line on board the barquentine La Bella yesterday afternoon on account of the southerly swell, which made it dangerous for the tug to go too close inshore. She went out again this morning, however, and succeeded in towing the vessel to port. The barquentine is now lying in Evans Bay near the Patent Slip, but it is not anticipated that she will be pub on the cradle for repairs before next Tuesday. The vessel made very little water during the tow from Happy Valley. Where municipal works are being carried oat in the main thoroughfares of the city, the public must expect to be inconvenienced. The Corporation can, however, do much to lessen the inconvenience by attention to minor matters, chief amoßgst which is street-deaning. As it is, Tef-use has been allowed to accumulate on the wood-blocked portions o/ the streets in process of transformation in a disgraceful manner. At frequent intervals the dust is raised in clouds and blown about the streets, to the annoyance of pedestrians and injury to the goods of shopkeepers. Purveyors of edibles, particularly, have cause for complaint; while consumers would not be so numerous did they reflect how much -of offensive matter they are required to swaliow, because of the failure of the Corporation dust-carfc to previously remove it from the street. An attempt to abate the nuisance has been made by using the water-carts on the street. This, however, only places a temporary check on the dust, while, when rain comes, it is hardly lees objectionable as mud. The whole trouble might be minimised were the Council to have the streets swept each morning. The work could easily be carried out without in any way interfering with the wood-blocking operations. The Corporation, it is supposed, desires to conserve the public health ; why does it make the citizens swallow the triturated odure of the (street t