ABOUT PEOPLE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 102, 2 May 1911, Page 3

ABOUT PEOPLE.

NOTES FROM LONDON. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 24th March. " Labour in New Zealand " is the title of two addresses which Mr. C. H. Chapman (Wellington) has arranged to give in London and" at Thornton Heath, in Sussex. Other addresses of similar nature will follow later elsewhere. Miss Mina Caldow (Wellington) waß again the vocalist at the second of a series of lectures, "Une Heure a travers la France," delivered by Mile. S. Diamanti. . She was in very good voice, sang with much effect, and had a gratifying Teception. Dr. Chappie. M.P., Lady Plunket, and Sir Everard im Thurn have been elected members of the Council of the Victoria League. Major G. N. Johnston, who is going out to Now Zealand as Director of Ordnance and Commander of the Permanent Artillery, will sail by tho Tongariro at the beginning of May. His family^ will follow in September by the Athenic. Captain Knox, A.S.C,, who is going to New Zealand to organise its Army Service Corps, will sail by the Turakina on 13th April, with Mr*. Knox and their two children. Lady Stout delivered a lecture on New Zealand at the Lyceum Club a few days ago, the title «he. cjiose being "Land oi Faith, Hope, and Charity." Faith — in the unlimited possibilities of the future; Hop<3 — ac shown by the early settlers; Charity — in its meaning of love and consideration for the weak, the helpless, and the unfortunate, which has inspired the humanitarian legislation of the Dominion. The lecture was illustrated with limelight views. A keen young aviator belonging to Wellington and Christchurch is Mr. W. Hulbert, who, this weekr had a successful aeroplane flight with Mr. Cresswell, one of Mr. iGrahame-White*& pupils. The flight took place at Hendon, and lasted about ten minutes, a height, of from 250 ft to 300 ft being attained. Mr. Hulbert immensely enjoyed the experience, especially when the engine stopped and the pilot volplaned down. Mrs. T. Macfarlane (Wellington), -who will perhaps be best remembered as Miss Louie Bremner. has come to England from South Africa with her little son, as the climate does not suit her. She will remain in London for a few months, and later she hopes to see something of the Continent, etc. For the past th-cee years 'Mrs. Macfavlane's home has been in Durban. Mr. Francis Hutchews, the clevev New Zealand pianist, who ha» done so well here as a student at the Royal Academy of Music, has chosen an interesting programme for his first London recital. He is to play the Beethoven Sonata in 0 Minor (op. III.), and selections from the works of Chopin, Tobias Mathay, Ctesar Franck, Brahms, Liszt. Debussy, and Dale. Mr. Hutchens is thinking of going out to New Zealand for a visit during the present year. Two New Zealand medical students in London have been taking part in certain of the United Hospitals sporting events. Mr. P. L. Foote disposed of Mr. W. R. Reynell (Guy's) in the heavy-weight boxing, and Mr. A. C. Palmer (Dunedin) was successful against Mr. F. J. Taylor (St. Thomases) in the middle-weighte. London .Hospital easily captured the Challenge Cup for the best aggregate. A party of women will leave by the lonic on the 30th March, under the auspices of the British Women's Emigration Association. '.'The Key. T. H. Sprott," writes a correspondent to The Guardian, "is a thinker and a preacher, a man deeply interested in social questions and vigorous in presenting the moral claims of Christianity. Withal he has the Irish gift of humour and a great power of making friends. His sermons, when ho was, an asaistant-curate at St. John's, Waterloo-road, in the early 'eighties, had already attracted attention, by their depth and power, a Lenten course on the Book of Job being specially remembered. A series of short papers on the Evidences of Christianity, contributed to t/he Parish Magazine, showed the bent of his mind and nis power of dealing with great subjects." This week the callers at the London office of the New Zealand Government have been : Miss Dallas Cowan (Auckland) ; Miss O'Neill (Auckland) ; the Rev. B. S. Giay (Chrisfcchurch) and Mrs. Gray ; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Sawers (Waikato); Mr. John H. Rhodes; Mr. H. T. Morton (Auckland); Mt. S. L. j Flyger (Palmerston North) ; Mr. A. 1 J. Davey (Hawkes Bay) ; Mrs. T. Macfarlane (Wellington) ; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. W. Kemp (Bay of Islands) ; Mrs. M'Laren (Masterton), Mr. H. M'Laron and the Misses M'Laren; Mr. W. H. Bryant (Wellington) ; Mr. C. J. Sebastian Hughes (Christchurch) ; Mr. T. W. Arthur (Canterbury).