ABOUT PEOPLE. NOTES FROM LONDON.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1908, Page 3

ABOUT PEOPLE. NOTES FROM LONDON.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 3rd January. It is with regret thai, I have to record the death of Mis. Fcnton. widow of the late Venerable Archdeacon Fcnton, of Oamaiu, New Zealand, who passed ;»v,ay at her lcsidanre, Newlands Park, iSydcnhiun, on Sunday morning. The deceased lady arrived in Dunedin in 1b52 by the fhip Duke of Portland, joining her husband there for ho had some time previously been appointed by Bishop ifolwyn as the first clergyman in U<.?go. his position being vicar of \> aikouaiti. Alter eleven years of pioneering, Mr. Fenton returned to England as Bishop's Commissary. Soruo years later the family went out again to Kow Zealand and lived at Oamaru. Archdeacon Fonton died in 1898, and a few years after his death Mrs. Fenton came Home ag.vn and took up her residence at Sydenham with her son, tho Rev. H. O. Fenton, who is now assietant-priest at All Saints Clinch, Sydenham. Mrs. Fenton loaves one daughter, Mrs. William Rattray, of Parnell, Auckland. Among the passengers now en route for new Zealand by the s.s. Ruapehu, which sailed f6r New Zealand at the end of last week, is Dr. Karcl Witsen, L.L.D., of Holland. Tho Rev. Mavmcduke Warner has lately resigned his position as Chaplain of the Ely Theological College, and he is going out to New Zealand as Diocesan Missionary for the Archdeaconry of Taranaki. During the two years he has been at Ely Mr. Warner has been exceedingly popular. He went to South Africa at the time of the war remaining there for a year and a half, going out in the corps from Cambridge University. The following statement appears in the Westminster Gazette : "Ihe . death took placo yesterday, in her 95th year of the widow of the late Prebendary Jackson, Rector of Stoke Newington, who was designated for a New Zealand bishopric, but returned before consecration. Mrs." Jackson's lundness to the poor is still remembered at the East end." After a round of travel extending over six months, Mr. and Mrs. Garnet, B. Holmes (Wellington) have reached London. The trip has been undertaken miiinly for the purpose' of exploiting Mr. Holinos' non-fouling swivelling and flexibie under-running trolley heads, 1 throughout the 2j countries in which his invention is patented. Mr. Percy C. Hamerton (Wellington) is on the whole, feeling better for his holiday trip, for which he obtained a year's leave of absence. During the last two months he has been undergoing the ''rest cure," his health previously not having been altogether satisfactory. Mr. Hamerton expected tp leave England on his return early in but as this was not possible he will start from London next week, travelling overland to Marseilles in order to join tho P. and O. steamer Mooltan which sails from that port on the 10th inst. On the Homeward journey Mr. Hamerton had a long round, coming by way of Japan. This week's callers at the London office of the New Zealand Government have been : Mr. Godfrey Hall (Christchurch) ; Mr, G. van Asch (Sumner) ; "Mr. and Mrs. F. Barnard Blown (Wanganui) and Miss Brown ; Mrs. R. KyfTe'nKenrich (Canterbury) ; Mr. Arthur B. Pearson (Canterbury) ; Mr. R. Newton Vanes (Dunedin). In the new Orient liner Asturias, which is to sail on her maiden voyago on the 24th ins.., Mr. Phillip , Newbury and Madame Emily Spada will be among the passengers' They are going out for a tour in Australia and New Zealand. Misses Eileen and Doris Woods, who arc described as "the clever New Zealand twins," are contributing some bright singing and dancing in the pantomime of "RoDin'son Crusoe'' at tho Fulham Theatre.