ABOUT PEOPLE. NOTES FROM LONDON.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 84, 6 October 1909, Page 3

ABOUT PEOPLE. NOTES FROM LONDON.

[FItOSI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON, 27th August. One of the "Talks About Old London' in the Evening News is by a -wellknown old figure, Mr. M. A. Carr, who tells the narrative of tho Temple Bar barber, whose shop had a door at each end, one being in the city and the other in the Strand. When there was some discussion about the Queen's request that tho ceremony of closing the gate of the city until she demanded admission should be abandoned, Punch suggested that if the city objected to do so, the barber might be willing to allow Her Majesty to pass through h^s shop into the city, independent of the gate. Mr. M. A. Carr, by the way, recalls his voyaging to Australia and New Zealand after the Crimean War. "'There were only about twonty miles of railway in Australia, and none at all in New Zealand, and the mails, for which there was no regular service, were carried by a little cutter. I was in Nelson when gold was first discovered, and I remember the excitement of Barney Rhodes, the celebrated millionaire, when he learned the news as h.e stood on the pier at Wellington." Mr. J. C. Morrison, of the High Commissioner's Office, who has been assisting at exhibitions for some years past, has succeeded Mi. B. H. Hooper as officer in charge of tho New Zealand Pavilion at the White City. Callers still continuo to muster in large numbers, and there is no doubt that the Dominion scored a good business advantage in continuing its exhibition for another year. Tho pavilion is quite a feature of the White City. Major J. G. Hughes and Mrs. Hughes are at present resting in London, preparatory to leaving for Scotland, where they hope to take part in some shooting. Major Hughes 'has not yet received his instructions from the War Office, but he is in hopes they will arrive in time to permit of his attending the training on Salisbury Plain. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Douglas, of Auckland, have returned to town, and are preparing for their departure- on their homeward journey, which will be made by the Rimutaka, leaving here on the 2nd September. The rapidly increasing members of the Victorian League in New Zealand will be glad to hear that the secretary of this useful patriotic organisation, Miss Meriel L. Talbot, is about to leave on an organising tour of tho British Dominions oversea. She will leave London on 3rd September, direct for Australia, where she will probably visit all the States before proceeding to New Zealand, where Miss Talbot expects to be in January. Mr. and Mrs. W. Wills and Mr. and Mrs. P. Wills (Wellington) have taken return passages to New Zealand by the s.s. lonic, sailing on the 18th September Motoring in > Devonshire and Corn- j wall has occupied a good deal of time, j and in tho interval remaining before departure the travellers will go again , to the North of England. Mr. Walter Kirby, the tenor, has gone to Sweden for a holiday ; he has a number of good engagements booked for the coming season. At the annual sports of the Bath Cycling Club, on Saturday, A. E. M. Rowland (New Zealand and Herne Hill Harriers), with 35 yards start, finished third in the One Mile Walking Handicap. Mr. J. Cunninghame (Palmerston North) left Liverpool this afternoon for Quebec. Tho greater portion of the last three months has been devoted to business matters, which have necessitated a- good deal of travel in tho British Isles In manufacturing districts, jur. Cunninghame found that New 'Zealand vri\s held in high esteem, several picminent people in different centres having told him that New Zealand and Australia had helped them over a very tight place during the last few years of depression in South Africa. Callers at the London Office of the New Zealand Government this week have been : Mr. Adam Werner (Canterbury), Mr. C. E. Hortcn (Auckland), Mr. W. T. Wells (Taranalu), Mr. J. Cunninghame (Palmerston North), Mr. and Mts. 11. Percy Brown (Feilding}, Mr. W. Davidson Smith (Wellington), Mr. A. E. M. Rowland (Christchurch), Miss Arndt (Wellington), Mr. G. Jameson (Christchurch), Mr. S. A. M'Gorman (Napier), , Dr. L. Mandel (Welling, ton), Mr. E. M. Jones (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs. F. P. Wallrlp.v (late of Morty Mile Bush). Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Lewis, of Wellington, who have been spending a few months in England, will leave by the Celtic on 6th November for America, v.hero they will spend a few weeks before catching the Makura at Vancouver. They are due home about sth January.