ABOUT PEOPLE NOTES FROM LONDON (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 70, 24 March 1914, Page 3

ABOUT PEOPLE NOTES FROM LONDON (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, 13th February. Parliament was opened on Tuesday with the customary ceremonial. His Majesty the King, who was accompanied by the Queen, read the Speech from the Throne in the presence of an unusually brilliant assembly. New Zealand was represented by the Hon. T. Mackenzie, who sat next to the Ambassadors, while Mrs. Mackenzie was given a seat in the Peeress's Gallery. Other New Zealanders present in tho House of Lords were ; Mr. Arthur Myers, M.P., and Mrs. Myers, Mr. C. Hall, and Mr. Malcolm Ross.' A few visitors from the Dominion were accommodated with seats in the Colonial Oflice to view the procession passing down Whitehall. They included Pro fessor and Mrs, White, Mr. J. W. H. Moore, Miss Winifred Hardy, Mrs. G. S. Richardson, and Miss Richardson. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Myers, Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Chappie, Mrs. M' Gavin, and Df. and Mrs. T. W. Parkinson were among the guests present at the reception given by the Prime Minister thiß week. On the 9th February the marriage took place at All Saints' Church, Mar-garet-street, of Miss Kathleen Eudora Laby, daughter of Mr. T. J. Laby. of Creswick, Victoria, and sister of Piofessor T. H. Laby, of Victoria College. Wellington, to Mr. George Frederick' Davidson, second *on of Mr. J. M. Davidson, of Brisbane. The bridegroom, who is B.E. of Sydney University, Science Research Scholar of the Exhibition of 1851_, B.A. of Caius College, Cambridge, is now on the staff of Messrs. Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, the well-known shipbuilders. Until recently the bride lived in Sydney. The wedding ceremony was performed by the Rev. H. K.'Archdale, M.A. (formerly of Sydney), and at its conclusion Prcfes9ot" Laby entertained a number of guests at the Welbeck Hotel, Welbeckstreet. A few days ago the announcement was made in the Morning 1 Post of the marriage of Robert Sefton Adams, only son of Dr. and Mrs. H. Adams, laite oi Wellington, and grandson of the late William Sefton Moorhouse, to Mary Stanley Carpenter, daughter of the late Mr. W. A. Carpenter and of Mrs. Carpenter, of Southsea. The marriage took place on 14th October, 1913, nt Holy Trinity Church, Kingsway, London, the ceremony being performed by the IJov. J. L. Evans, M.A. _ Dr. and Mrs. Adams have been residing at Southsea for the past two years. Mile. Adeline Genee, whose recent tour in New Zealand was so pronounced a success, announces a month's series of performances at the Coliseum next month, preparatory to her final retirement from the sta.ge. "A tiny handful of her sister artistes"— 'Pavlova, Kar-ea-viha, Kyasht, _ Ka-Tina, and Phyllis Bedells — are asking for contributions toward a little memento to the retiring danseuse. Mt. Donald Murray (one time of Auckland) is still at work adding to hie machines in connection with the transmission of telegrams. He spends half his time in London, the other half in New York. A recent issue of the NewYork Times devotes a whole page to his latest invention — a typewriter that may Boon be the transmitter of telegrams. vAnyone .who can use an ordinary typewriter will enter the telegraph office, $ay, in New York, click out his own message, and this message will immediately be printed in London, printed so that it will be intelligble to anyone who can read. Mr. Murray's invention is based on the French Baudot multiplex system. The British Post Office and the Western Union Telegraph Company have proved their confidence in it by buying the rights-of the system of printing and transmitting telegrams. With the new Murray multiplex it is possible to string several small towns on one wire, so that each can communicate with each of the others at the same time, on one wire. Mr. H. D.' M'Kenzie (Woodville) is leaving next week on his return to Now Zealand after a brief stay. Mr. M'Ken?.ie is spending a week in Scotland. News ha« reached London from To. ronto, of the death of Mrs. Ella B. Gabites, wife of Mr. Albert G. Gabites, and formerly Miss Ella Grubb, of Christchurch. Mrs. Gabites, whose mavriage took place at Chester on 19th Feb ruary, 1913, passed away on 23rd December, leaving a baby 'daughter, who was born on 10th December. A stay was being made in Canada, en route to New Zealand. The deceased lady, who wa-s only 27 years of age, died of heart failure. Mr. Gabites intends going on to New Zealand early this year. The Unionist candidate for the vacancy at Poplar, caused by the retirement of Mr. Sydney Buxton. is Mr. Puobertson Kerr Clark, who was for some time private secretary to Lord Islington in New Zealand. Mr. Kerr Clark ha 6 considerable oversea experience, having been private secretary to several Governors of New South Wales. His wife is a. sister of the Earl of Drogheda. Mr. O. S. Munro, who was manager of the New Zealand Exhibition in 1906. and is now in business m Liverpool, has just returned from a nine weeks' tour of jthe United States and Canada. He is' interested in frozen meat, and is very much impressed with the •mew position created" by the tariff reductions in the United States. Mr. Nicholson Barras, a well-known personality In the glass-making industry of the North of England, and a- native of Gateshead, is about to settle in New Zealand. Mr. Barras has been managing for some years past the Lemington glassworks, which manufacture nearly a million electric light bulbs per month. There have been a fair number of callers at the High Commissioner's Office this week, including the following: Mr. and Mr«. J. Wall (Invercargill), Sir. A. R. Atkinson (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Smith (Napier), Mr H. D. Mackenzie (Hawkes Bay), Mr. H. Freeman (Wellington). Mr. Ernest Street (Greytown), Mr. C. A. Johnstone (Woodville) Mr. J. P. Adam (Halcombe). Mr. E. V. Stewart (Dannevirkej. Mr. W. G. Stubbington (Nelson), Mr. Dampier Atkinson (Marlborough). Miss H. A. Vestis (Ashburton), Mr. Charles Harcourt (Auckland), Mr. Ventry Smith (Whangarei), My. W. Dawbin (Hunterville). Mr. R. W. V. Newton (Christchurch). Miss Dale (Cliristclnirch). Mr, Frank Suell (Hamilton). Mr. J. C. Calder and Mr. A. D. Hathaway (Titnaru), Mr. H. J. Clay (Wanganui). The Hon. Thomas Mackenzie, Professor Sir Ernest Rutherford. Professor Dendj. and Professor Laby this week met at tfie offices of the British Association to discuss the applications of tlio&e members of the Association who purpose visiting New Zealand, and to make amingemunts tor their visit. Mr. Mackenzie piesided. It is probable that the visitors to Nuw Zealand will include Sir Ernest TtuUwr. ford, Professor J . W. Nicholtou, Professor

H. B. Dixon, Professor W. J. Sellas. Professor H. Jungeisand (Copenhagen). Sir Charles Lucas, Sir Everard im Thurn, Professor F. C. Bowei^ and Professor J. Perry.