ABOUT PEOPLE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1913, Page 3

ABOUT PEOPLE

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON (From Our Own Correspondent.) -. LONDON, 14th' December. Ah -obituary' list from ' Cheltenham contains the name of Captain James P. Danbery.' late ' of the 18th Royal. Irish Regiment, who ' ,was one of the participants in the New Zealand wars, where he saw a good deal of strenuous work. , Captain Danbery was in his ?4th year. , -, ' , " ; T.he late- Mi. T.-G. Macarthy(\Vellington) left estate in the United Kingdom valued at £789 ss. , , The inventory of the personal estate of Sir Thomas 'Borthwick, Bt.. of'Whitburgh, Midlothian^ has been lodged with the Sheriff Clerk, Haddington. The aggregate amount of the estate is £345.437, comprising £24,867 of heritage and £320,569. of persdnalty. The net personalty is sworn at £307,795, and consists chiefly of Sir -Thomas's -interest in Messrs. Thomas Borthwick and Sons, Ltd. He bequeathed. the Whitburgh estate to his eldest son, Lord Whitburgh. There are. no, public bequests. New Zealand doctors who have just, been- admitted as Fellows of the Royal College •of Surgeons include : A. B. O'Brien, M.D., Lond., , Guy's Hospital; L. S. Wilson, M.D., .New Zealand,"London Hospital; Kenneth Mackenzie, M.D. Edin., Otago .University and -Edinburgh University. Dr. Mackenzie is a son of the High Commissioner. An Edinburgh N University pass-list contains some New Zealand names, viz. : Forensic Medicine , of . the Final Professional Examination — Robert M. Mackay, Edward. A. Seager. Filial Professional Examination in Public Health— Louis Levy, Robert M. > Mackay, Edward A. Seager. Midwifery Final Professional Examination— W. W. Walsh. ' Mr. Stuart Seddoh, Who is -leaving for New Zealand' at an early date by the s.B. Argyllshire, has lately been putting in a good deal of time 'with the > architects who are engaged upon the big new hotel which "is to be erected in Piccadilly. Students who have lately joined the "Westminster School of Art include two NeW Zealand young ladies— Miss Mary Mackenzie,) daughter of the High' Commissioner and Mrs. Mackenzie, and Miss Nelca Chappie, ,daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Chappie. Miss Kathleen Mail" (Wellington), has settled to work at an art, school at Kensington. The following non-commissioned officers of the Army .Service Corps have been placed-at the disposal of the New Zealand Government for three, years : Horse Transport ( Branch— QuartermasterSergeant J. J. Wass and Sergeant-Major J. W. F. Cahill. Supply Branch— Staff I Q.M,S. P.M. Petty and Staff-Sergeant F E Ostler They will leave by the s.s. Remuera next week. Mr. C. Wray Palliser represented the High - Commissioner at the ; annual-ban-qUet of the Paris -Chamber, of Commerce last Friday. Sir Francis Bertie, ' the British Ambassador, and the French Ministers for Canada and the Interior -attended the function. Mr.' Howard Butters (Bournemouth) has just sailed -from' 1 Liverpool' for New Zealand by the. s.s. Mofayshire. ' It is understood that business in connection j with the development of the May Morn Timber Company, of Wellington, is the purpose of the . trip. „ ' . Mr. and .Mrs.', A. B. Kernot (Wellington) are on their way.- back to ;New Zealand j travelling' xia' France and Italy.* At Chester' Cottage, sß'usheys B'ushey Heath, Hertfordshire, . the death occurred on Bth December ' of ; Allan Frederick Barraud, second son' of i Frederick Philip Barraud, after.a.few hours' illness. ., Mr. Barraud, who was' 65 years of age, had connections in -New Zealand. "Forward" itl'the Athletic > News fore- 1 sees "trouble .for someone" regarding Barrow's colonial acquisition. He. writes : "I hear the New Zealand League has cabled its consent to the registration to the Barrow ' Club, and in North Lancashire the threat is hekhoUt that, 'should further, opposition, be made, something will- be said about other clubs whoiiave made overtures, to Thomas. I have no concern with the threatened refusals, but the cable' savours of 'locking the stabledoor after the horse, has strayed.' Barrow should have obtained the' requisite permission before. they signed on Percy Thomas, for the agreement between the New Zealand League and the Northern Union, has been, in 'operation for .more thail one season, and if Thomas pleads .warit of knowledge on this essential I do not v think Barrow will be so excused. I have no 'desire to (prejudice any case, but that there will be "trouble for someone appears certain." During the past' week the following New Zealanders have left their names at 13', Victoria-street.:— Mr. J." Thomson (Port Chalmers), Mr. J. C. Hanna (Wei-* Ilington), .Miss Laura Beaglehole (Wellington), Miss M. Kelton (Auckland), Miss M.'-X. King (Nelson), Mr. P.,H. Powell (Christchurch) Mr. C. J. Moreton (Balclutlia), Mr. J. H. Beamish (Auckland). v Owing toia slight accident to her propeller, the P. and 0. s.s. Morea has been slightly. delayed^ in her departure for Australia ; she was ,to, .have > sailed yesterday. It is not expected, however, that her detention will be long. Passengers who, are going but to" New Zealand by this vessel ihclude :— For Wellington, Miss I. Bankß, Miss M. A. Dive, Mr. John Ewen ;. for Lytbelton, Mr.' and Mrs. 'Walter I;. . Clifford, child, and maid, the Hon. S. Joic'ey, Mf. W. Raymond; for Auckland, Captain G. -P. Hutton and Mr. A. M. Nayktr; Mr. and 'Mrs. R. H. Meade.and 1 infant are booked to' Picton. •_ Lord and tady Plunket'have taken •a house in London for a year, so that his address for the' immediate future will be 60, Draycott-place: - At Willeßden yesterday, William Barnard Rhodes Moorhouse, of 166, Piccadilly, the well-known aviator and keen motorist, was summoned , under the Motor-car Act for procuring. William de Baghlegh -Whittaker^a journalist, to drive an ' Unregistered motor-car. After hearing defendant's previous convictions for • various offences under the Motorcar Act. Alderman Wright, said it was the longest list ever produced against any.motorisf' in that Court. The Clerk said' there was hardly' room to enter anym ore convictions 'on 'the '"cense. Moorhouse was fined £5 and costs, and Whitlaker £3 and costs for driving an unregistered motor-car, and, £5 and costs for exceeding the speed-limit.