PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 79, 30 September 1905, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(From Our Own Correspondent). ■ LONDON, 19th August. Mr. P. J. Garvey is spending a week of his annual vacation in London. Ho came up to London from Edinburgh recently and stayed for a fortnight at the Royal Army Medical Corps camp at Netley Hospital, just outside Southampton. Mr. Garvey is leaving immediately for the Continent, where he expects to spend six or seven weeks. He goes first to Amsterdam, then to Rotterdam, down the Rhino to Colognfe and Heidelberg. Biussels, Bruges, Ghent, and Ostend will also be included in Mr. Garvey's return route to Edinburgh via London. Mr. J. Hunter, of the firm of Messrs. Paterson, Martin and Hunter (builders of the Wellington Town Hall), arrived in England at the end of May, after coming Home via San Francisco and New York, and visiting a great many places of interest en route. He has lately been staying with friends in various parts of the South of England. According to present plans he will start for New Zealand about the end of October. Mr. and Mrs. Leggett, who came Home recently via Suez, and who landed in the Mother Country after a pleasant voyage, are now staying willi friends at Gravesend. As the result of the Homeward voyage Mrs. Leggetfc is now in much better health. Since I last heard from Mr. C. M. Luke he and his wife have had a very busy time, travelling about extensively and visiting leading engineering and shipbuilding Avorks and hospitals, etc., throughout the Kingdom. Mr. and Mis. Luke intend to sail on the 15th September from Liverpool to New York by the s.s. Celtic, and to leave Vancouver on the 13th October on their way back to Wellington. Mr. Luke characterises Great Britain as "truly a great workshop, ready to" adapt herself to the growing requirements of the age." The manufacturers, he says, "are now, I think, as the top of their profession, and ready to sacrifice themselves in the interests of the trade of the country. I have been struck with their readiness to throw out a comparatively good plant and to replace it by the most modern and up-to-date machinery to be found anywhere in this wide world ; ready to adopt new ideas and to vary old standards to meet new circumstances." Mr. and Mrs. Joseph. Mandel and the Misses Mandel reached England by the last trip of the' Gothic after an enjoyable passage. The trip is purely one of pleasure, and they will remain in Europe for about eighteen months. The members of tho congregation of St. Matthew's Church, Hastings, New Zealand, will, I have no doubt, be glad to learn that their Vioar, the Rev. J. Hobbs, has now completely recovered, 'from the throat trouble which compelled him to come to England some months ago. Mr. Hobhs's departure on his return to New Zealand has been postponed from October of this year until January of nest year. The largest bequest of the year for public puqioses is that of Mr. John Innes, of Merton, Surrey, who died on the Bth August last at the ago of 75 years. Probate of his will was granted in London this week ; the deceased gentleman left estate of the gross value of £338,026, of which the net personalty has been sworn at £315,029. The will was the subject of the action Scott v. Innes, in which the President . of the Probate- Court, on the 24th July last, pronounced for the validity of the document. 'In consequence of this decision nearly £200,000 is available for public and 1 charitable uses. The late Mr. Innes bequeathed £1000 to Mr. Chas., Barclay Innes, of New Zealand, and £500 to Mr. James Innes, also of that colony, in addition to numerous handsome legacies to relatives and servants, while he left his house, the Manor Farm, Merton, with eleven acres of ground, to his trustees, upon certain trusts, one being that the house and two acres of the ground should bo used for the establishment of a school of horticulture. The vi6iting colonial tennis players havo just been playing at Ostend, where they spent a very enjoyable week and met with the utmost possible hospitality, as had previously fallen to their lot .it Maricnbad. Mr. H. A. Parker (Wellington) won the Singles Championship there, beating A. F. Wilding (Christchurch),' 4—6,4 — 6, 6—3,6 — 3, 6—o. In the handicaps Parker and Wilding were put on the ?amo mark, but they did not meet, as M. Storms (Brussels) put Wilding out by two Kets to one ; he was afterwards beater, by Parker. Paiker and Murphy (Australia) won the Championship Doubles, beating Wilding and Trasenster (Liege) by three sets to one The first two sets were very closely contested, but after that Parker and Murphy went away and won the last two sets, 6—3, 6—o.6 — 0. The following New Zealandcrs are among those who have called at the office of the New Zealand Government during the past week: — Mr. B. B. Swinbum (Wellington), Mr. J. Hunter (Wellington), Mr. J. F. Kerwin (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Belhune (Wellington), Mr. P. J. Garvey (Wellington), Mr. O. Monckton (Gisborne), Miss M. E. M'Leod (Auckland), Miss M. Eraser (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. Cook (Palmerston North), Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mandel (Wellington), and the Misses Mandel, Mr. arrd Mrs. Rob*rfc Martin (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. Leggetfc (Wellington), Mr. Clifford Bowers (Canterbury), Mr. John M'Gregor. (Diinedin), Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Trownson (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. John Snell and "Miss Sncll (Christchurch), Miss Moser (Wellington), Mr. H. Pcterkin (Wellington), Mr. Adolplnts Kyngdon (New Plymouth).