PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 122, 19 November 1914, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

(FROM OUR OWN CORRKSPOHDINT.) " LONDON, 16th October. The Hon. W. Pember Reeves had an exciting experience during his vacation holidays. For the cake of the experience, and to ccc for himself something of the ravages of war, Mr. Reeves visited the portion of Belgium and Northern France which remained unoccupied by the Germans. At a French town he was suddenly seized upon by French soldiers as a epy, aoid he spent rather a precarious half-hour trying to explain that he was merely the director of the London School of Economics, whose sympathies are thoroughly with the Allies. He did not appear to be making much progress with the explanation, when he noticed a French officer lighting a cigarette. Taking out his own cigarette-ca«e. Mr. Reeves said : "Donnez moi une lumiere, s'il vous plait." "Ah," exclaimed the officer, "it's all right. He is an Englishman. Nobody else would ask for a ! light in that way." And Mr. Reeves regained hia liberty. Amongst the new students at the School of Economics this year aro severaJ Belgians. Mr. Aubrey Williams, of Christchurch, who went with his brother to Petrograd at the beginning of the war, has return ed to London, having found it impossible to 'get to the front with tho Russian Army, as he had intended doing. ' He spent some time in Copenhagen, which ia now the great fountain of German news and views. Mr. Williams had to return from Russia through Finland aiio. by way of Tornea, a port at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia. Dr. W. H. Johnston, formerly of Wei ltngton and Otago, is attached to General Hospital No. 1 at St. Nazaire, on the west coast of France, where his duties are largely in connection with the reception of trains of wounded from the front and the classification of th« cases for the different hospitals. For some time Lieutenant Johnston was acting as censor of letters at this base. It is announced in London that a marriage will take place at Hongkong on 3rd December between Alexander Hugh Skinner, M.D., only son of the late Mr. Alexander Skinner, M.A., of Auckland, New Zealand, and Keith, Scotland,' and Mrs. Skinner, and Winifred Mary Beney, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Beney, of Beckenham. The Rev. Clivo M. Jones and Mr. Frederick Nassau Haire (Wellington) have become Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute. Miss M. M 'Lagan and Miss Hilda E. Moorhouse (Wellington) have joined as Associates. The name of Mr. James dimming (Wellington) appears in the LondSn University pa-ss-list m the 'Colonial B.D. Examination for Honours, ,1914. Miss Violet Mills (Wellington) is a passenger by the Orontes. sailing to-day from Tilbury. Miss Eyres, also of Wellington, is on boa.rd, while Miss Ewart and. Miss 'Hawke are among those booked to Dunedin. Mr. D. C. O'Rorke, son of Mr. E. D. O'Rorke (Auckland), who has beefi a student at Lincoln College, Oxford", has been nominated for admiesiin ' to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Callere at the High Commissioner's Office during the week have included : — From Wellington and the district: Mr. D. M'Gimpsey and the Misses M'Gimp.sey, Mrsf. Spottiswode Brodie, Mr. M. Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Porter, Mr. R. B. Godfrey, Mr. E. Sefton Adams, Mr. W. Stanley George, Mr. W. R Hackworth, Miss L Lind. From Auckland : Miss Chinnery-Brown, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Garratt, Mr. F. J. Munro, Mr. G. Campbell, the Rev. H. G. Tighe. From Christchurch : Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Cohen, Mrs W. H. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. G. Kinnear, Mrs. J. G. Davits. From Dnnedin: Mr. James Howlison, Mr. and Mrs. F. Harper and Miss Harper, Mr A. J. -Taylor, Mr. H. H. Watson. From elsewhere : Mr and Mrs. W. H. Tylee (Napier), Mr G. CottonStapleton (Hawkes Bay) Mr. R. Wilson (Rangitikei), Mr. and Mr». C. Dahl (Palmerston North) and Miss P. Dahl, Mr. W. A. Keiller (Palmerston North).