ABOUT PEOPLE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1912, Page 8

ABOUT PEOPLE.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON [fBOM OUB OWM COBBESPONDKNT.] LONDON, Ist December. Mr. R. H. M'Callum (Auckland), who hae just arrived in London, via Canada, will leave England on his return journeyby the e.s. Rotorua on 21st December. He spent some time in Alberta, where there is at present a big land boom. Two years ago, Mr. M'Callum bought some land outside Calgary through an agent, and last month he disposed of some of it at 100 per cent, profit. He 6ays he was favourably impressed with the way in \vhi»h the Canadian Pacific Railway Company finances its settlers>. So long as a man is making improvements, it does not worry him for repayments. The policy of the C.P.R. is to fill the place with settlers. Mr. M'Callum describes himself as more than pleased with prospects in Alberta. A good attendance is expected at the illustrated lecture to be given by Lord Plunket on "The Outlying Islands of New Zealand." It will be delivered under the auspices of the Royal Colonial Institute, and Sir William Hall-Jones will preside. Alec Taylor, the well-known Yorkshire professional, is likely to visit New Zealand next year. ', During the last thre« years he has played billiards in Asia and South America, and is now in England for . Christmas. It ia Taylor's ambition to play in every country in the world where there is an English billiard* table, and with that object in view he will restart his globetrotting early in the New Year. He will sail direct from this country for Durban, and thence to New Zealand "'and Australia. On his return to England he will tour Egypt, which he hopes to reach at the end of April, 1913. Taylor, who looks bronzed and well, intends to settle in Canada, eventually. Apropos of the latest appeal for funds for the Scott expedition, Punch this week contains a cartoon by Mr. Raven Hill, entitled "The Great Barrier,',' in which an Ice Maiden, emerging from behind a wall of snow, addresses 'Captain Scott, who is standing pondering beside his sleigh, as- follows: "Courage you have, but you must have gold, too, before I let you,paE3." » Mr. and Mrs. 0. Bunny (Masterton) will be in England until next week, when they leave on their way back to New Zealand. ■ " ' At the British' Women's Patriotic League dinner, held at the Cecil .Hotel la6t week, Lady Stout delivered a speech on " Our Colonies." Mr. C. L. Boak (Auckland), who holds the position of assistant to the Chief of the Technical Department in a London firm of electrical engineers, has been awarded the diploma in electrical engineering, and admitted an Associate of the Glasgow Technical Institute. Some yea.rs have passed since Mr. Boak left Auckland fo enlarge bis experience ac an electrical engineer. Mies Tittell Brune is appearing at Eastbourne in a new play called " Dwellers in Glass Houses," for which she has secured the right. Birthday congratulations fell yesterday on Surgeon-General Sir Anthony Dickson Home, X.C.8., one of the veterans of the New Zealand war, 1863-1865. He served in the Crimea, in the * Indian Mutiny (when he was at the first relief of Lucknow, and in the v Residency during the siege, being awarded the Victoria Cross for his gallantry in defending and attending to the wounded), in China, and in South Africa. He was principal medical officer in Cyprus in 1878-9, and in India from 1881 to 1885. General Home is now in his 87th year. Mr. Reginald Clarke, the New Zealand pianist, was a very successful accompanist at the matinee musical o arranged by Miss Marta Cunningham, and held at Claridge's Hotel. Other artistes included Madame Kate Roonoy, ' Miss Evangeline Florence, Mr. Lane Wilson, and Signor Amando Lecomte. The Rev. W. Tudor Jones, Ph.D., the popular organiser of the Unitarian congregation at Wellington, has just seen through the press (Messrs. Williams and Norgate) his translation of Professor Eucken's "The Truth of Religion." It is a very important publication, and a heavy piece of literary work even for the translator. In fact, Dr. Tudor Jones remarks : "It would not have been undertaken had ifc not been for the affection which I possess for my old teacher and friend, and for the influence which he exerted over my life when I had the privilege of spending neai'ly three years with- him in the ancient University of Jena." Dr. Tudor Jones is now in charge of Unity Church, Islington, one of the most flourishing Unitarian congregations in this country. The many friends of Mrs. Bowdon (better known as Miss Kathleen Beauchamp, a daughter of Mr. Harold Beau champ, of Wellington) will be interested to know that she has.published, through Stephen' Swift and Co., her first) book, "In a German Pension." Miss Beauchamp is a very skilful satirist, and her sketches of boardinghouse life in Bavari-i show a keen insight and maliciously smart power of expression. Her pen name, "Katherine Mansfield," is likely to become better known to the reading public. % The newly-elected vicar of Havelock North, the Rev. J. A. Lush, is goring out to New Zealand by the s.s. Rotorua this month. He will act as S.P.C.K. chaplain during the voyage. The late Mr. Edward Pembroke was so well known in business circles in the City, that a suggestion made that a memorial to him should be. erected in sonft conspicuous place in the Baltic Exchange has found great favour among the members. It 'is undei-stood that a powerful committee has been formed to forward the suggestion and to put up some' memorial to commemorate his sterling qualities. It will be remembered that Mr. Pembroke was chairman of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's Board, and in this capacity lie had a large number of New Zealand friends.

A private telegram received hereetates that Mrs. Wiltshire, widow of the, lato Mr. George Wiltshire, for many yeaiu city engineer of Wellington, and Mr. and Mrs. Mason, who were injured yesterday in^a motor car accident in the Ngapaeruru district, fourteen miles from Dannevirke, are progressing favourably. Mrs. Wiltshire, who was very- much shaken and bruised, will be confined to hur home for some time. To-morrow, at 2.30 p.m., at their rooms, 196, Lambton-quay, Messrs. Haroourt and Co. will eefl tho privilege* of the Wellington Racing Club'e Summer Meeting, to be held at Trenihum racecourse on the 20th, 22nd, and 24th inst. The privileged comprise the grandstand bur and publican's booth under the people's stand. i Mr. A. M. Salek, late managing clerk to the legal firm of Messrs. O. and R. Beere, has>_commoncecl the practice of his profession as a, solicitor, and hat> tttken officer in LambtOn-quay, next to the Uiuou