PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 110, 12 May 1919, Page 3

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

(HIOM ODR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) . 18th March. On 25th February, at the Chapol Royal, Savoy, Lieutenant H. B. H. Chalmers, N.Z.8.8., son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Chalmers, of Mt. Eden, Auckland, was married to Bery) Leone; second daughter of Mr. B. H. Nolan, C.8.E., I and Mrs., Nolan, of Hawera, and 60, Bussell-square. The engagement is announced between Maurice G. Luxford, M.C., Lieut. N.Z. Bine Brigade, of Auckland, and Muriel, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Schulte, of iHillcrcst, Kenil worth, Warwickshire. The- engagement is also announced between Lieut. Stanley Temple, youngest son of-Mr. P. W. Temple and the late Mrs. Temple, of Mastorton, and Eda, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Schulte, of Hill Crest, Kenihvorth. Mr. G. F. King-Adams, of the Indian Civil Service, son of the late Mr. C. W. Adams, formerly Crown Lands Commissioner, is now at the India Office in London. He was educated at Otago Boys' High School and entered the Indian Civil Service in 1898 from Wadham College, Oxford. Since then he has been continuously in India. On 6th March the wedding took place of Anita Gladys Katz, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Katz, 69, Greencroft Gardens, N:W., to Abe Mark Salek, sou of Mx. and Mrs. Isaac Salek, of Wellington. The Rev., E. Levine, M.A., officiated. Mrs. C. E. Rankin (Pabnerston North) has taken a house in Oxford-terrace W., for a year. ; Lord Lisle, whose, death occurred the other day, saw active service as-a-volun-teer in the Maori War. He was then Mr. G. W. J. Lysaght. \ , In the five-mile crass-country race for the Southern Command at Salisbury last ■week there were 83 starters. Private Ferguson,. of the Auckland Detachment, was the individual winner. He ran with fine judgment, and completed the course in 29 minutes 32 seconds. The second home was Sergeant O'Neill, of the Boyal Minister Fusiliers; a former Army chaplain, who appeared five seconds later.

Captain Henry Cornwall Davies, R.E., younger son of the late .Major-General R. H. Davies, C.8., was married, en 15th March to Bertha Grace, youngest daughter of Robert James Matthews, of New Plymouth. The ceremony took place at St. Mary's Church, Midhurst, Sussex. . '

There are now about a dozen New Zealnnders at Cambridge, many of whom are on N.Z.E.F. scholarships. They have formed for themselves a New Zealand Club, called Hei Tiki, of which the High Commissioner is president, and Mr. PI W. Burbidge, 11. Sc, vicepresident.