ABOUT PEOPLE. NOTES FROM LONDON.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1908, Page 3

ABOUT PEOPLE. NOTES FROM LONDON.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON,' 27th December. The neve has lately reached England of the death, which occuwod at sea, of Mr. Charles E. Leal. His death occurred en the 26th £"ovemb?r, dm ing th'i vnyr.s6 of the s.s. Rippingham, Grange from Liverpool to New Zealand. Mr. L?al was one of tlw officers of that slieaiaer. After a Ifiiiglhy visit to the Mother Ooimtry, Mrs. T. Hamer (Wellington) is about to leave on her return voyage to New Zealand. For the past three months she has bsen travelling in the Smith of France. Dr. Albert Martin (Wellington), is shortly to embark on his return voyage to New Zealand, accompanied by Mvz. Maitin. They havo been on a pleasure trip to this country since last May. Mr. Garnet Holmes (Wellington), son of Mr. John Holmes, is 0110 o£ the most recent 'an ivals in Loqdon. He has come to England on business, in connection with nis automatic trolleyhead invention. Much sympathy is expressed for Mr. J. K. Logan, the Superintendent of Telegraphs (Wellington), on account of the recent deni.li in London of his son, Dr. William Archibald Logan ,I' F.R.C.S., Eng., who was regarded by all who knew him and his capacities as one cf the most brilliant men of the New Zealand University. Dr. Logan, with his wife and two had been in England for some months past, partly on pleasure and partly on looking; into various developments in his profession. Dr. Logan psswd atvay after a brief 111nesa, and after the performance of several op*rationj. He had the best possible advice from London specialists, but in jfpits of all efforts he died last Saturday, ct University College Hr3pital, at the enrly ago of 33 years. The ctrarse ef death does not seem to be elearlv known, but he was treated for an affection of the ear and brain. His regains have been cremated, 'and arc to be cent ont to Wellington. Deep sympathy is expressed for the young widow, who, with nsr children, is leaving for Australia almost immediately. Referring to the results, so far, of the Rhodes Scholarships, some London pa?ers note the fine work achieved by the few Zealand "Ehodesist," ?.Ir. J. Allan Thomson, who "took a first -class in natural scienco (geology) finals, won a Burclott-Coutts Scholarship in geology «f £115 per annum for two years, and wan recently appointed lecturer in natural fcience at his own college, St. John's. Dr. G. I>. Parkin, in connection with the same subject, says :—"I: — "I am 1 inclined to say that the Rhodes Scholarships will bs nrneh more far-reaching in their effects thar< even Cecil Rhodes dreamed of. Of conrse," tho inftisien of 160 distinct and unfamiliar individualities ameng ZOOO English public school boys, who have all, as it were, b«en cast in pretty much ths «ame mould, is bound to have a far greater influence that the mere nnmliera would indicate. There waa at first just a suspicion that they migjit not blend with the mass, that their — in many cases— graduate standing at tbc-ir own universities might keep fhem aloof; from tho young undergraduate fresh from School. But these fears proved groundless, and thzy havo prov- | cd generally a-s succersful in th 9 rocial j as jn t]»a scholastic and athlouc life of 1 thi university. Tlit-ir influence is net \ w«relv something vague and indefinite. It tfhifi practical shape in this way. Of the hundreds of undergraduates who go down from Oxford each year thero would not bs a few who would bs attracted by tho life in one or other of 1 the colonies, arid by the eevtnin prospect ef falling among friends when they got otit thero. There could bo no better emigration officers thr.n thsse young colonials of tho bost typs, who' have been chosen from their fellows, to quote tho tbrms of tbo bequest, 'for qualities of manhood^ truth, courage, devotion to duty, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship, And for thoir display of moral* force of character during their school days,' no less than for their literary, scholastic, and 'outdoor' attainments. Then, again, there is another point which only practical experience has helped tis to realise. These five 0? six Australasians, for example, who have, in most cases, finished their term as scholars, are not returning home immediately. This wonld, perhaps, appear contrary to the intention of Cecil Rhodes, but, in point of fact, it seems likely to prove one of the beet things *b«fc can happen — that a few of Awstralit>'B mast capable sons and patriots should setfcla in London, always with this flue thought uppermost, they were bretyrht t» Enjlma for the ptirpose of furthering tke e»use of Imperial unity. Think, fer example, what great results can h* effected ey a clever jenrnai'st acting ts ths mouthpiece of his colony on one af tie greet London newspapers j or Then fkere is th« inberrel*fr»n ef the eolsnials themselves. "What an nnparralleled #pportnnity these scholarships have afforded by this reunion of Australasians, South Africans, and Canadians <Mn neutral ground, an it were, for linking the eoloninls to each other at; well as to the Motherland. And yet another beneficial effect, small at 'first, but tending to greater results, is tho increased prestige that the colonial universities are gaining through the fastgrowing recognition of the value of the sistineti»rts con£ei're<3 by thorn. Until the past few years a colonial degree was not thought niueh of in this country, nor wotild one colony have been likely to choose h, professor from another colony, as is the case ndw, in New Zealand, for oxamplc, where a Canadian professor has recently been elected to a vacant chair." Ml*. Allison Smith, C.E., who was formerly Locomotive Superintendent, successively on the Wellington and the Hurunui-Bluff section of tho New Zealand Government Railways, has just returned from Jamaica, whither he went en behalf of the Imperial Government to inspect and report upon the railways of that colony, alike as to their present condition, mode ef working, and possibilities, requirements, etc.', in regard to future development. On his way back to England, Mr. Allison Smith paid a flying visit to the United States, with tho view especially of going over tke famous Baldwin worlcs of Messrs. Durham, Williams and Co., at Philadelphia, which h«v« supplied the New Zo*l*nel raitn&ji witk » »any •f tk«ir m*at powtxful aad uwfiil loc«motivas, and which art u«w turning *ut 52 locometiY* engines par woek. H» was much interested to uota that on all the principal American railways, the progressive policy is bei'.ij carried out which ho himself advocated co strongly when he was Chief Engineer of the Viutoiian railways, Australia, some years ago, namely, that ot piovidmg engine:: powerful enough to grapple, not (inly the v.-oi-K of lhe imiasdiaf* present, biit ulse with thnt whirti mi^ht. roasonably 'be cxprcted to offer in Ihi rdalivfly tjily t'uhiif.