ABOUT PEOPLE. NOTES FROM LONDON. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 63, 12 September 1911, Page 3

ABOUT PEOPLE. NOTES FROM LONDON. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

LONDON, 4th August. Mr. Justice Cooper expects to be in this country until the beginning of next year. He is accompanied by Mrs. Cooper and three daughters. Before coming up to London they stayed for several Weeks in the We.«t of England, visiting Bath and other places of interest. The "Judge and Miss Cooper have been staying in Norfolk as gueete of the Rev, C» B. Nash, at Wattan Vicarage. After a few weeks ,in ' London, Miss Cooper will go to Ireland for some time, uhile her parent* and sisters are making a tour of the British Isles generally. A Continental tour will be included in the programme for the future. Mr. J. S. Tennant, Inspector of Schools, Wellington, is spending this month ill Scotland ; afterward he will work by easy stages south to Cornwall and Devonshire. During October Mr. Tennaut purposes visiting as many of the best primary and technical school* as time will' permit, and he is specially interested in what i* now being don© in rural and elementary agricultural educational institutions. In November, Mr, Tennant. who is accompanied by his wife and Miss Zohrab, will leave for the Continent, joining at Brindisi or Port Said one of the P. and O. liners in December. Miss Zohrab is spending a good deal of her time in visiting the best libraries with a view particularly of making herself fully acquainted with the working of the children's sections in libraries and museums. Mr. and Mr&. H. S. A. Clench (Wellington) will go to Ireland in September and stay therp until early in October; then they will take a trip on the Continent, returning to England to spend Christmas with relatives in the south. They will be in England until June of next year, and New Zealand should be reached ift October twelve months, via America. Dr. AAes Bennett, who has just had conferred th© Degree of M.D. of Edin« burgu, is now taking a month's holiday, to be spent partly in Yorkshire and partly in Ireland. In September she will go back to Edinburgh for the Post-graduate courses. ' Mr. J. M. Batham (formerly Regis-trar-General of Lands and Deeds) leaves on 19th August on his return to New Zealand. Mr. Batham has quite recovered from a recent slight eye operation. The death occurred at Long Sutton, Somerset, the other day of Mr. James Hoyte Fry, formerly of Punga, Iwi, Feilding. He Was 73 years of age. The funeral took place at deceased's native place, Curry Rivel. ( Sir William j Hall-Jones has accepted life membership of the Royal Societies' Club, offered to the High Commissioners in honour of the Coronation. The Earl of Onslow has unfortunately had another relapse. He had practically recovered from his latest heart trouble, when he attended a village show and contracted influenza. In his weak state it haa assumed a serious form, and he is still ill at Clandon, London University issues a long list of passes for the First Examination for Medical Degrees, for internal and external students. The list contains the following names : Martin B. M-. Tweed, E. N. Glover, P. G. M'Eyedy, K. C. M.^Woodruff, all of Guy's, G. S. L. Kefflp (University of Sheffield). j Miss E." M. Baber (Wellington) i& paying a brief visit to England for the purpose of selecting mistresses for her school in Wellington. During the summer vacation she will go into the country, returning later tt> visit a number of the principal educational institutions and learn something of the latesb methods; employed. Should Miss Saber's ?;uest prove successful within the alotted time, she will sail for New Zea« land at the end of October. One of the latest arrivals in London ig Mr. A. Chase-Morris (Wellington), who has been stationed in Sydney for the past eighteen months. Business is expected to occupy most of his time here. Mr. H. H. Vassal! has gone out to British Central Africa under appointment by the Colonial Office. He is accompanied by Mrs, Vassall, " who wjll perhaps be more readily recognised under her maiden name of Mi«s ChaaeMorris (Wellington). They have gone to Nyasaland,. and two years will elapse before a holiday will entitle Mr. Vassall to take a trip to England, The High Cotnmimoner has just appointed, two new veterinarians for employment on the inent inspection rtafl in New Zealand. Mr. Thomas Arnold BlaKe, M.R.C.V.S., who is only 29 years of age, gained hi? first experieDc? in meat inspection at the Islington meat markets and has since been three years in Rangoon in charge of the meat "inspection department for Captain Stevensou, M.R.C.V.S. The other appointee iff Mt. James Stafford, M.R.C.V.S.. who is S2 years of age. He gained his experience in Edinburgh, and in three years' practice in England atid Wales with Mr. A. C. Stewart, M.R.C.V.S. For three years he has acted in Cardiff a* awistaut lecturer to £he Glamorgan County Council en meat inspection. Mr. Blake'p vposel to N*»w J^aland will probably be the Ttiraldna. but Mr. Stafford who is married and has two children, has not yet booked his passage. Mlsi Paul, who is on the staff of the Onh Locke Deaf and Dumb School at AValworthj, has been appointed to ihe staff of the Fchool at Sumner. and ivill 3r<-ue «'>« soon as possiMo for New lie;* land. On a visit to Oak Lodge school recently, .Sir William Hall-Jones was esj struck by ihe work' r.f the pupils that, l^e offered prize* to tbo?e w ho* ehoul'l be adjudged to have most influence for good upon the other scholars. He hafc received interesting letters written by the succesiu'ul girls. Mr. J. D. Henry, the oil expert, hes jttf-b completed a voUibib on the oilfields of New Zealand, which will be .published shortly through AfessrF. Brae]bury, Agaew, and Co. Mr. Henry is. strongly of opinion that New Zealand oil will get its first great opportunity in London this year. ThiA week's callers afc 13, VictoriasMtfjet have been : Mr. B. J. Williams (Dimedin), Mr. Walter J. Abum (Dunedin). Mr. and Mrs. Toogootl (Masterton) and M 5« Toogootl, Mr. H. W. Mayo (Tower Hill, Dorking, "who is going out to New Zealand to settle), Miss yon Meyern (Auckland), Mr. W. H. Thomas ]Ch rist church). Mr. and Mr?. J. S. Tennant (Wellington) and Miss F. Zohrab, Mr. D. B. S.Galbraith (Auckland), Miss Clara. G. Eden (Hope, j Nelson), Mr. George Thomson, Mr. Charles Lawrence (Wellington), Gertrude Lawrence, Mr. A. G. Smith (Wellington), Mr. J. ft. Colqnhoun (Petone), Mr. H. E. Strut hers (Weetpovt), Miss Dale (Chitstchurch), Mrs. Daley (InverfittfiiU)t Wei Baber OVe.Uissos), Mt

M. W. Powle* (Wellington), Mr. E. Bowen (Turakina). Mr. O. H. Bectham (Masterton), Mr. Arthur Cooper (Wellington), Mr. A. H. Jones (Christchurch), Mr. Cecil J. Wray (Wanganui), Mr. P. MacCallum (Dunedin), Mrs. F. P. tfniacke, Miss Frances Uniacke, Mrs. Dillon Carbery (Stratford). Mr, and I Mrs. Stuart, Mr. ,1. E. C. Maguire (Wellington). Mr. W. P. Hopkins (Christc-hurchti), Mr. Cecil Ryan (Chrislchurch).