ABOUT PEOPLE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 99, 28 April 1909, Page 9

ABOUT PEOPLE.

NOTES FROM LONDON. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 19th March. This week Mr. A. R. Andrew, a distinguished young student of Otago University, gave me a cail, fresh from the heat of Nyasaland. Mr. Andrew left New Zealand in 1904 as Exhibition Scholar, and came to continue his studies in geology at Birmingham and in North Wales. completed a distinguished college career with the degrees of M.Sc. and 8.E., and then accepted an appointment from the Colonial Office to undertake mineral survey work in Nyasaland. There he has been for the past two and a half years, working in the tropical district to the west and south ot" Lake Nyasa. He has enjoyed the best of health, and his appearance to-day is another evidence that a tropical climate need not be injurious to a white man as long as he leads a temperate life. On Wednesday next Captain Robert F. Scott, R.N., C.V.0., will take up the duties of Naval Assistant to the Second Sea Lord of the Admiralty. This is a distinctly valuable preferment for the leader of the Discovery Expedition. There was quite a little colony of New Zealanders on board the s.s. Morea — the latest addition to the P. and O. Company's splendid fleet — on the occa- j sion of her recent voyage from AustraI lia. Altogether, in the first saloon there were about 500 passengers. New Zealanders who joined the steamer at one of the Australian ports included Dr. and Mrs. Chappie (Wellington) and their daughters, Mrs. A. C. Begg (Dunedin) and the Misses Begg, Mr. W. G. Williams (Hawkes Bay), and his family, and Misa Palmer (Wellington). All these are staying on the Continent for a few weeks, chiefly in the South of France. » Dr. and Mrs. Chappie and their daughters are in Paris, where the young people are having lessons in French and making a study of the art wonders of the French metropolis. A passenger who came by tho Morea tells me that Dr. Chappie was presented by fellow-voyagers with a thermos and an illuminated address. He was an active member of the Sports Committee, which collected nearly £80. Over twenty of the prizes were won by the Misses Chappie. Tho presentation was made by Sir John Anderson (Governor of the Straits Settlement), while the address was specially decorated by Mr. T. L. Corbett, M.P. Mr. R. H. Hooper, who has been in tho office of the Produce Commissioner for six years past, will return to the Dominion on promotion at an early date. The experience he has gained here will make him a useful link between the department in New Zealand and tho office in Victoria-street. Mr. E. E. Booth, the old "All Black," who has been touring England with the Wallabies, is in London just now. He will probably go, back to New Zealand as soon as the England versus Scotland representative match is over. Mr. Victor Booth, his cousin, who has done so well in musical circles, is now teaching in Kensington. Mr. J. F. Andrews arrived in London just in time to receive the news by cable of his appointment to be secretary to the Cabinet. Acommpanied by his two nephews, Masters Cyril and Lionel Andrews, he arrived here on Saturday. Mr. Andrews has visited Cairo, the chief cities of Egypt, Naples, Rome, Genoa, Turin, and other Italian centres ; he came through to London by way of Mont Cenis and Paris. Tho principal towns of Great Britain arc to oe visited, and then Mr. Andrews will leave by the Federal liner Devon for Now Zealand, via the Cape. He hopes to reach the Dominion on 2nd June. His frneds will bo glad to learn that his health is fully restored. After a two months' tour in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, Mr. E. West (Palmerston North) is again in London. He will be absent from the Dominion for some time longer ; a tour in the United States is planned for next July ; ho will come back to England from America, and in about a year's time he will put in some months on the European Continent — France, Germany, and Italy. Callers at the London office of the New Zealand Government this week have included the following : Mr. and Mrs. F. Harper (Dunedin), Miss M. Harper, Mr. Ernest G. Gribble (Auckland), Mr. A. "P. O'Leary (New Plymouth), Miss Dorothy Trowell (Wellington).