ABOUT PEOPLE NOTES FROM LONDON

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 72, 26 March 1914, Page 2

ABOUT PEOPLE NOTES FROM LONDON

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 18th February. Sub-Lieutenant Prince George of Battenberg, one of the most popular of the New Zealand's officers, ha-s been promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Prince George, who is juet 21 years of age, was promoted 'mb-lieutenant just before the New Zealand Bailed a year ago. It is less than nine years since he entered the Royal Naval College at Osborne. He passed out of Dartmouth fourth amongst 53 cadets, and after three years as a midshipman, took first-class certificates in all subjects for hie lieutenancy. It is to this that he owes his early advancement. He served the usual period of watchkeepmg duty on the New Zealand. The officer who is to relieve Major Maidlow as Assistant-Director of Ordnance ie Major Hugh T. Wynter, of the Royal Artillery. Major Wynter, who is 42 years of age, was an ordnance officer of the fourth class from 1989 to 1903; adjutant in the Royal Artillery from 1906 to 1908. and since then adjutant in the Territorial Force. Captain C. M. Gibbon, who is to be D.M.O. at headquarters, goes out by the Rotorua in April. The members of the British Association visiting New Zealand will include the Rev. James Marchant, F.R.A.S., F.R.S., who is deeply interested in raceregeneration, conditions of child life, and rescue work. He is also an astronomer and author. In 1911 he was consecrated for the work of public morals in Dean's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, by the Lord Bishop of Durham. Mr. and Mrs. John Myers (Wellington) and Miss Myers are leaving London for Stoke-on-Trent, to attend the great Pottery Fair now being held there. After that they will go to Leipsig, to attend ,the fair there. They expect to remain in Europe for about three months. Miss Irene Ainsley (Mrs. J. T. Pursaill), late of Auckland, lias left the Joseph O'Mara Opera Company to join the Castellano Opera Company, of which her husband is a member. Although Italian in name, the performances in England and Wales are being given in English; later, when abroad, the repertoire will be in Italian. The company has a lengthy list of engagements fof the big provincial towns. Miss Ainsley's sister" is with the company, and is appearing in small part 3. Mr. Joseph Blascheck is leaving London next week for Australia and New Zealand to prepare the way for Miss Ellen Terry's anticipated tour to Australasia. Miss Terry is to sail by the Omrah at the end of March, opening her lecture season in Melbourne early in May. In the University spprts, which took place yesterday, Caius College, Cambridge defeated Magdalen College, Oxford, by eight events to two. T. H. Kinder (Caius, formerly of Wanganui Colhgiate School) won by half a yard the 100 yds event, beating E. Britten Jones; time, 11 l-ssec. Jn the quartermile, however, A. G. Price (Magdalen) heat T. H. Kinder by two yards: time. 64 3-ssee. " In Auckland there will be many people who remember Dr. Murray Moore, whose death was chronicled a few days ago. After leaving New Zealand, he practised in Liverpool, and then removed to Leamington, where he died. For some considerable time Dr. Moore had been in indifferent health, and he passed away after a week of severe illness, at the age of seventy. He was buried at Leamington, the funeral service being conducted by a brother, the Rev. William Moore, from Ireland, and an old friend, Dr. M'Killiam (editor of The Morning Star, a religious periodical, to which Dr. Moore was a regular contributor), of London. Mrs. Murray Moore survives her husband. During the three days of this week that have passed, the following New Zealanders have entered their names in the visitors' book at the High Commissioner's office:— Miss Cherrett (Wanganiii), Miss M. A. M'Lean (Hawkes Bay), Mrs. M. Liggins (Dunedin), Mr. J. B. Liggins (Dunedin), Dr. and Mrs. Zobel (Te Kuiti), Mr. and Mrs. John Myers (Wellington), and Miss E. Myers, Mr. Percival Martin (Auckland), Professor F. D. Brown (Auckland), the Misses W. and G. Brown, Mr. L. M. Sandstein (Christchurch).