ABOUT PEOPLE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 44, 20 August 1908, Page 3

ABOUT PEOPLE.

NOTES FROM LONDON. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 10th July. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. H. Blake (Christchurch) are in England on a pleasure trip. They expect to remain away from | New Zealand for two years. They came : by the s.s. Arawa, and found that Captain Burton and all his staff did everything possible to ensure th* comfort and pleasure of the passengers. For awhile Mr. and Mrs. Blake will remain in London ; then a month will be spent at Pool'e with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Clement Govett (New Plymouth) and their daughters landed at Marseilles in March with the intention of taking two months over a OonI tinental tour — Italy, etc., having been ! included in the itinerary. Unfortunately, however, Miss Dorothy Govett was seized with - illness, which necessitated the whole family spending an uneventful three months in Grasse, in the South of France, with the exception of a hurried visit to Florence and Rome taken by Mr. Govett and his two other daughters. I They rejoined Mrs. Govett at Monte i ,Carlo. The Bishop of Auckland addressed a big crowd last Sunday afternoon on Hampstead Heath at an open-air mission service organised in connection with the Parish Church, Hampstead, Christ | Church, Emmanuel, All Saints' Church, and St. Stephen's. A long procession of surpliced choir, cfergy in full robes, and th,e bishop, headed by a brass band and a banner, marched from Christ Church to a snot on the upper heath where the Salvation Army was holding its usual service. The Army service was brought to a close on the approach of the party irom the church, and some of the Salvationists remained for the service. Bishop Neligan prefaced his address by thanking the captain of the Salvation Army for allowing the Hampslead Mission to use their "pitch" for this series of services. The Bishop of Auckland then delivered one of his appropriate and stirring addresses from the point of view of Christian Imperialism. His remarks were intersper&ed with appropriate anecdotes, and the service was brought to a close by the singing of a' number of popular hymns. Mr. Cyril Towsey (Wellington) is still getting any number of engagements in his capacity as pianist. He is making considerable headway in his profession as accompanist, and he is shortly to .go on tour with Madame Melba as accompanist and soloist. Mr. Towsey's New Zealand friends will be interested to know of the progress ho is now making. Mr. j?. M'Sweeney, the New Zealand artist, took his departure yesterday by the s.s. Tongariro on his way back to New Zealand after a very pleasant time! in England. From eminent English artists he has met with much encouragement, and kindly advice has been tendered to him. Through the good offices of Captain Hunter (late of Wellington) he has been able to see and do much that otherwise would not have been possible. Lord and Lady Glasgow have given up the tenancy of the hous* in Ennismore Gardens, London, belonging to. the Dean of Wells. Lord Glasgow is at Dunskey, Wigtownshire, with his daughter, Lady Augusta Orr-Ewing, and Lady Glasgow is staying just now at Felixstowe with her niece, Mrs. Dumaresq. Lord Kelburne's ship, the Cochrane, is cruising in the vicinity of the Firth of Forth, and Lady Kelburne has recently left Ennismore Gardens to be near her husband. She is staying at Queensferry. Captain Rupert England, R.N.R., » at Hull. He states that when he left the Nimrod the crew were in the best of health and spirits and were hopeful of success. It is officially notified that Major H. D. Tuson has been transferred from the Manchester Regiment to the position of major in the Duke of Cornwall'!* Light Infantry, supernumerary to establishment, with precedence next below T. L. Trethewy, and to retain his appointment as Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Defence Council, Dominion of New Zealand. The notification bears the date 6th July. Mr. John Wilson (Wellington) and Miss J. M. Wilson are staying with friends in Scotland— the principal object of their trip. They will probably begin their return voyage before the end of this yoar. The Hon. George M'Lean has had a long round of travel since leaving New Zealand. From January to April ne was abroad — in Egypt and on the European Continent ; London was reached in the middle of April, and Scotland and Ireland have since been visited with their principal centres of attraction. On the 25th inst. Mr. M'Lean will join the s.s. lonic at Plymouth, outward bound for New Zealand. According to a London paper, Miss May Moore Duprez, the clever Dutch impersonator and danseuse, has commissioned Mr. Thomas Humphreys, of Auckland, the author-composer of "The Tea Girl," to write her a musical play — a play to be written round the character of a jolly Dutch girl. Miss Duprez, who toured New Zealand and Australia under Mr. Harry Rickards's management, intends to produce the play in this country, A number of New Zealand visitors were invited to a reception at the Lyceum Club on Monday afternoon. It took the form of a farewell musical At Home given in honour of Madame Ada Crossley prior to her departure to Australia and New Zealand, the invitations being sent out in the name o.f the vice-president and the council of the Australian Circle of the Lyceum Club. The hostesses included the following members of the New Zealand Circle : Mrs. Chesney, Mrs. Downey Stewart, Mrs. Searle Grossmann, and the Misses M. H. and Vida Reynolds (Dunedin). Invitations were sent, among others, to Mr. and Mra. Kennerley Rumford, Lady Vogel and Miss Vogel, Mr. W. Acton Adams, Mr. James Gleeson, Dr. and Mrs. M'Nab, the Misses Rattray, Miss Michie, Mr. Ulrich, Mrs. W. 1\ Reeves, Mra. Lascelles, and Mr. G. H. Clutsam. Mrs. E. 11. Palmer (Wellington) arrived by the Runic. She will remain in London for some considerable time, and will not go abroad until next year. This week the callers at the London office of the New Zealand Government have included — Miss Eileen Nelson (Christchurch), Miss J. Morse (Invercargill), Mrs. B. Morse (Christchurch), Mr. John Wilson (Wellington), and Miss Jessie Wilson, Mr. J. P. Fuller (Auckland), Bishop Lemhan (Auckland), Mr. G. Knight (Auckland), Mr. C. B. Burdekin (Wellington), Mrs. W. B. Clarkson (Christchurch), Mr. J. Steel (Christchurch), Mr. W. R. Fairweather (Auckland), Mr. J. Burfort (Auckland), Mr. R. B. tipinks (Auckland), Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Macdonnell (Hastings), Mr. S. Kahn (Auckland), Mr. E. H. Bulls, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Duthie (Auckland), Mr. W. Galloway (Wellington), I Mi. G. H. G. P. Cross (Gore), Mr. J Bairfaut (Ashburton), Mrs. E. H. Palmer (Wellington), Miss Millie A. Parker (Wellington), Mr. G. W. Cockburn (Clinton), Mr. T. Cross (Hastings), the Messrs. Hugh and Grant Cro»»o, and the Micses Cvoaso (4), Misn Barkpr .(Hastings), Mr. and Mrs. E. A.

Summers (Christchurch), Mr. George Smith (Auckland), Mr. 0. Higgins (Wellington), and Miss Higgins, Mr. Alfred Mayne, Mr. W. P. Endean (Auckland), Mr. R. F. D. Abbott (Auckland), Captain A. Whitney (Auckland), and Mrs. Whitney, Mr. J. Thorpe (Wanganui), Mr. E. J, Turner (Palmerston North), Mrs. Aldrich (Auckland), Mr. E. R. Good (Rangiora), and Miss Ruth Good, Mr. F. H. Luxford (Wellington), Mr. H. Smith (Kaiapoi), Mr. J. Crawford (Woodend).