ABOUT PEOPLE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 93, 16 October 1914, Page 5

ABOUT PEOPLE

NOTES FROM LONDON (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, 27th August. Miss Ella Cook, one of the nurses in the Native Department in New Zealand, is at present on holiday in England. Mr. M. A. Eliott (Palmerston North) expects to cross to New York by the Lusitania about a month hence. Mr. W. H. S. Brewer (Wellington) is endeavouring to put on the market an improved saucepan handle. It has already been favourably received by a large firm in Birmingham. On Sunday, 23rd August, the wedding took place, very quietly, at the famous old Church of St. Bartholomew, Smithfield, of Miss Janet Katherine Mary Anson, daughter of the late Mr. P. A. Anson, of Akaroa, and sister of the late Sir Denis Anson, Bart., to Mr. George Kenneth Thompson Fisher, eldest son of Bishop Fisher and Mrs. Fisher, of Burgh House, Flaggburgh, Norfolk. The ceremony was performed by Bishop Fisher and the Rev. T. L. T. Fisher. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wallace (Wellington) spent a pleasant time in Canada and the States. They will see a good deal of England, but their intentions for the Continent have, of course, to be abandoned. Mr. Cyril S. Brice, eldest son of Mr. Sidney Brice, of "The Brae," Wellington, is engaged to Miss Molly Berth a Green, eldest daughter of Major J. Green, R.A.M.C. (London). Mr. Brice has joined King Edward's Horse. Mr. J. W. Chapman-Taylor (Wellington) is spending a short time in England studying the latest developments in domestic architecture, so that ho hopes to return to New Zealand with some novel j and up-to-date ideas. Callere at the High Commissioner's office during this week have included :— • I Mrs. and Miss Curran (Wellington), Mr. Cuthbert S. Harper (Christchurch), Mr. S. G. H. Hoben (Christchurch), Mr. W. Dobbie (Christchurch), Mr. and Mrs. Chapman Taylor (Wellington), Miss Alice Cane (Christchurch), Mr. B. Freyberg (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Cox (Christchurch), and Mr. Sydney Cox, Mr. J. H. Massey (Invercargill) , Mrs. T. P. Coffey (Christchurch). Mr. A. Shirley (Waimate). Mr. H. Palmer (Wanganui), Mr. J. S. Melville (Dunedin}, Mrs. MAdam (Oamaru) and the Misses MAdam, Mr. A. Vyvyan Hunt, Mrs. and Miss Hunt (Auckland), Mr. John Pomeroy (Invercargill), Mrs. Kenneth MAdam (Oamaru), Dr. H. D. Robertson (Wellington), Mr. C. H. Barton (Feilding), Mrs. Orbell (Dunedin), Miss Orbell and Mr. I. Orbell, Mr. and Mrs. S. Hetherington (Thames), Mrs. J. M. Ritchie (Dunedin^, Mr. John M'Eldowney (Wellington), Mrs. D. M. M'Leod (Hawkes Bay), Mr. D. M'Leod, Captair le Francois, Mr». Hocken (Dunedin), Mr. D. Spence (Christchurch), Mrs. Spence, Mr. C. A. Ewen (Wellington), Mr. W. Turnbull (Dunedin), Mr. J. P. Little (Dunedin), Mr. W. Randall (Waikouaiti) and Mrs. Randall, Mrs. W. T. Griffiths (Auckland), Miss Griffiths. Mr. T. Cook (Invercargill), Mr. J. A. B. Hellaby (Auckland). The Orient liner Osterley leaves tomorrow, having on board the following passengers booked for New Zealand :—: — For Wellington : Mr. F. L. Hornabrook, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Rawson, Miss K. Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. T. Geary, Mr. E. Goodman, Mr. G. Wenton, Mr. J. MacLennan. For Lyttelton : Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Silver, Mr. J. S. Tabart, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Cox and Mr. S. Cox, Miss E. J. M'Gregor, Miss J. Shirlaw, Mr. and Mrs. J. Pipe. For Dunedin and Bluff : -Miss Ruth Carr, Mr. and Mrs. J. Crombie, Mis 6E. Gregory, Miss J. Grieve, Mr. T. Harvey, Mr. S. Kroner, Miss F. Knight, Mr. J. Lee, "Mr. J. R. Little, Miss J. Millin, Mr. and Mrs. Roes. For Nelson : Miss E d'Arcy. For Napier : Air. L. Wood. For Auckland : Mr. C. T. Beesley, Madame J. Bartalot, Mr. C. J. Craig, Mr. G. Craig Miss E. White.