ABOUT PEOPLE NOTES FROM LONDON.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 27, 25 February 1913, Page 3

ABOUT PEOPLE NOTES FROM LONDON.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) . LONDON, 17th January. I Sir Joseph and ■ Lady Ward have passed a comparatively quiet week. Sir Joseph declined several invitations, to speak, including one for the lecture on 'tropical medicine, at which Mr. | Austen 'Chamberlain presided, and 'another for an All Red Route meeting at- Caxton ,Hall last night. On Tuesday night Sir Joseph aud Lady Ward I and Miss Ward attended the New Zealand cinderella dance ,at the Holbovh. Next Thursday Sir Joseph ,will be ontertaincd at luncheon by the Empire Parliamentary Association at the House of Commons, Mr. Harcourt presiding, and in the first week in February he will be the guest of the Leathersellers' Company. Sir Joseph was in the distinguished strangers' gallery of the House of Commons most of yesterday to hear the third reading debate on the Home" Rule Bill and to witnes^ the division. Archbishop Redwood was also a spectator. Mr. F. G. B. Waldegrave (Wellington) has returned from a. visit of two or three months, to the Continent, most of the time .having been spent on the Riviera and ill Italy. Sir. Douglas' Archibald Sinclair, wellknown as a swimmer and orchid hunter, has decided to make New Zealand his home, and he left London yesterday by the .Ruahine for New Plymouth, where he intends to settle-. Mr. Sinclair is about- thirty-three years of age. He is an enthusiastic swimmer and a member of the "Twickenham" Swimming Club. Mr. William Henry, chief secretary of the Royal Life Saving Society, who 1 toured New Zealand' two yxjars ago, has taken advantage of Mr. Sinclair's journey, to ask- him to . make certain enquiries in the Dominion with reference to life-saving matters. Mr. Sinclair is a keen horticulturist and naturalist. Quite recently he explored Dutch Borneo for orchids, and he has now been commissioned by Sir Marcus Samuel and the Hon.- N. .0. Rothschild to study the bi^dylife of New Zealand. He is the eldest son of ' Mr. Archibald Sinclair, who is assistant editor of The Referee, the founder of the London Water Polo League, and a vice-president of the Royal Live Saving Society. Professor Ernest Butherford has brought ' out , a. new book— "Radioactive Substances and Their Radiation" — which it is expected will replace the one he wrote on the same subject in 1904. The book he ■ then, wrote has been regarded as the standard work on radioactive phenomena.- But during the past eight years there 'has been a steady growth in knowledge of • the 'remarkable series of transformations which radioactive substances undergo. la 1905 (one reviewer points out) ' twenty such bodies were known j now the number is thirty-two, and there is some evidence that a few still remain undetected. So many have been tho changes and advances that Professbr Rutherford had >to write a new book, retaining ' from the former only a' few passages on the ionisation of gases , and the methods of radioactive measurement. THis will replace the former work a3 tho standard authority on ' the subject. An important four days' conference of officers of the Imperial General Staff has been held at Camberley this week, under the presidency of , General Sir John French. Colonel A. W. Robin has been present on behalf of New Zealand. The ■proceedings" have, ofcottrse*- beeu confidential. ■* « ' , Three 'Ne^w .Zealanders— Messrs. Hartgill'(captain), A. 'C.' Palmer, and 1 G.,M. Chapman— all, of London ■ Hospital, were chosen to play- for United Hospitals against >tlje . Army. Palmer was one of the best of the backs, and' he scored "the only try made by his team, after a' fine run by Morris. In the 'end the ,Army beat th« Hospitals, tho respective scores being ' 35 points to '3. <• Play was fast and of, good quality, and. the Army backs gave a specially fine display, of quick and well-tinttd passing. • ; The annual dance held under the auspices of the New Zealand Association took place -at the Holborn 'Restaurant on Tuesday evening, and was a most successful function-^a record so far -as number ' was concerned. ' Members and friends . turned -up so well .' that there were 150 people present. Mrs. Mackenzie acted as .hostess, and the included: The. High Commissioner for New 'Zealand, Miss Mackenzie, : Sir Joseph and Lady Ward and -Miss' Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Wray Palliser, t Miss Palliser and Mr. Palliser, jun., Dr. Chappie, . M.P., and Miss ; Chappie, Dr. Parkinson (who took a-party with him). Mr. J. A. Burt, Captain and Mrs. Moffatt, Mr. .Brett and .party. Mr. Ernest,,' Hart and party, Miss yon- Meyern, -Miss 'F., Simpson, Mis 3 Hornsby, Mr. Cecil Donne, Mr. Wbc, .Mr., and Mrs. J. A. Mason, Mr. and Miss Spence, Mrs. Bo»k, Mr. Boak, jun., Mr. R. Mill, Mr. E. M. Kennaway,- Mr. Carruthers, Mr. and Miss'Eley, Mrs. Foden and party, Mrs. Claydon and party, Mr. T. ■ Chamberlin - Chamberlin, Mr. P. Paora - Chamberlain. - Dancing • was continued'until midnight, with the exception'of the adjournment for supper, and the evening was thoroughly* enjoyed, Callers at the New Zealand Government Office during the week have been Mr. R. T. Thrqp (Dunedin), Mr. M. M. M'Callum (Auckland), Mr. John Baillie (late of Wellington , Mr. Arthur H. Reid, F.S.M.C. (Balclutha), Mrs.^M.-M. Mudge (Auckland) and Miss Alison Mudge, Miss Ethel M. Standard (NewPlymouth), Mr. George Kay (Kawa), Mi-. F. Shelton Smith (Epsom), Mr. R. G. Ross (Christchurch), Mr. L. H. Barren (Chrjstchurch),, the Archbishop of Wellington, Lieutenant-Colonel Richardson (Auckland), ;Mrs. and the Misses Richardson, Mr. Adam M'Cracken (Christchurch), Mr. Gehardt. Ulrich (Dunedin), Miss Ava Symons (Ha,wkes Bay), Mr. J. S. Magrath. In New Zealand regret will lie felt at the announcement of the death of Mrs. Tancred, widow of the late Henry J. Tancred, of ' Christchurch, and daughter of 'th^' late Colonel Matthew Richmond, C.8., The Cliffs, Nelson, New Zealand. For a number of years past Mrs. Tancred had lived in London, and her death occurred on 10th January at her residence, 47, Lansdowne-road. In " spite of ( long absence from the Dominion, however, her interest in the welfare of the country was always very keen, and' she was a prominent figure at New Zealand social functions in London.