LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 52, 29 August 1925, Page 8

LONDON PERSONALS

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

(rSOH ODK OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, 7th July,

Mr. and Mrt. E. T. Barthorp (Lower Hutt) have decided to leave for New Zealand by the Corinthic in September. For some time Mr, Barthorp was suffering from severe illness, but his friends will be glad to hear that ho has made a good convalescence. With his wife he is going to Oxford via the Thames, and after a few days there they will motor through to Scotland by the English Lakes.

, Dr. Graham Robertson, 0.8. E., F.R.C.S.E. (Wellington), has been on the Continent, where he has been pursuing a post-graduate course of study. He has returned to London from Vienna, and has accepted clinical appointments ;n the medical and skin diseases departments at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Chidren.. He has also received appointments in the Radio-Therapeutic and Ultra-Violet Light Laboratory at St. John's Skin Hospital in London, as well as other appointments there. Dr. Robertson expects to return to Wellington some time in September.

Mr. and Mrs. James MizracEi (Wellington) are making preparations to leave' for their journey to Smyra, where they intend spendinj a few weeks. They will come back to London via Paris some time in October. No definite plans have been made for their journey back to New Zealand. Mr. V. Hutchinson (Wellington), passenger representative in New Zealand for the Cunard Line, is making a business tour of the various offices in England, France, and. the United States. At the present time he is in London, tut on Ist August he will sail for New York. Travelling thence to Vancouver and San Francisco, he will embark finally from the latter port for Wellington on 9th September. LONDON, 16th July. On 7th July, at Bournemouth, the death occurred of Colonel Malcolm C. Farrington, C.8., late 51st Yorkshire Light Infantry, who had friends in New Zealand. Colonel Farrington retired from the staff in 1890. He commanded a brigade during the Burmese campaign, 1886-1889, for which he was awarded a medal with two clasps and appointed a Companion of the Bath. The impending alteration in the official designation of Mr. L. S. Amery has now taken place. The only official announcement is the intimation in the Court Circular that the Colonial Secretary attended a meeting of the Privy Council at Buckingham Palace and received from the King the seals of office and Icissed hands upon his appointment as Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

Commodore Charles Royds, C.M.G., R.N., of the Royal, Naval Barracks, Devonport, who commanded the Discovery in the Antarctic Expedition, 1901-4, will unveil the memorial to Captain Scott and his companions at Devonport early in August. Commander G. P. Sheraton, R.N., formerly commanding the sloop Laburnum in New Zealand waters, is to command the Dublin. H.M.S. Dublin has recently returned from service at the Cape.

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Skinner (New Plymouth) and Mrs. Gertrude Martin are travelling together, and they intend seeing as much as possible of the Mother Country. They hope to spend most of the winter on the Continent, dividing their time between France, Switzerland, and Italy. A year or eighteen months' absence from New Zealand is contemplated.

A long list of successful candidates in the April examination at Home stations of officers of the Regular Army and Royal Marines and Supplementary Reserve, Territorial Army, Regular Army and Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, with a view to promotion, includes the names of Captain Robin Elsdale, R.C.S., and Lieutenant F. W. Vogel, R.A. The latter is one of the sons of Mr. Harry B. Vogel.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edward Grigg was received in audience by the King this week on his appointment as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Kenya. With the Hon. Lady Grigg, he will leave England for Kenya early in September. An informal dinner was given at the House of Commons this week to Sir Edward by his colleagues, who were with him in Parliament du'rjng the three years during which ]f> has been at Westminster. Those present were Sir Robert Hutchison, General Seely, Sir William Edge, Mr. 11. Fildes, Sir W. D. Mitchell Cotts, Mr. W. Robinson, Captain J. Tudor Rees, Colonel Guest, Sir Thomas Robinson, Mr. J. Hugh Edwards, Sir Archibald Sinclair, Sir William Sutherland, Sir Murdoch Macdonald, and Mr. Ellis Davies. Colonel England was in the chair, and Mr. Lloyd George proposed the health of the new Governor of Kenya Colony. Mr. A. St. G. Ryder, manager of the London branch of the National Mortgage ' and Agency Company of New Zealand, has been in indifferent health during the last two months. In May he contracted influenza, and the after-effects were rather serious. He is now recuperating at Harrogate, nnd he was able to go over to Bradford yesterday to attend the conference of the Wool-growers of the Dominions and the Manufacturers, and Wool Buyers of Bradford. His numerous friends hope that he may ere long make a complete recovery.' Mrs. Mason Chambers and her son, Mr. John M; Chambers (Havelock North) are leaving London for a short motor tour through England and Scotland. In October Mr. Chambers hopes to go up to Oxford to begin a three years' course at the University.

The New Zealand friends of Mr. Kenneth J. H. Ainslie (Kelburn) will regret to hear that he has had to submit to an operation. This took place a few days ago. His plans naturally have been very much upset in consequence.

Mr. G. N. Baggett (managing director of the Simplex Machinery Company, Wanganui), has left for Sweden on a business visit, and ho hopes, to spend a few weeks in England before returning home. . Captain William Buffey, K.A. (T.A.), Wellington, is at present acting us private secretary to Mr. Charles Holdsworth,- managing director of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. He arrived by thn Ruahine at the end of June. Mr. and Mrs. Holdsworth are at present staying at Bournemouth.

Mr. and Mrs. S. Dalgleish (Wairarapn) are leaving London to visit relatives in the West, of England. Then a tour will be made to Scotland. They expect to remain in England for about four months.

Mi', and Mrs. .11. 1). Dinneon (lileiiheim), on'arrival, stayed with relatives in Wiltshire, and while they were there they niadiH extended lours, of the surrounding counties. After three weeks in London they will go to Scotland and lieland. A Continental tour will follow, and the Ormonde will be joined at Naples.

The numerous New Zealand friends nnd admirers of the .Rev. Dr. J. H. Ililson will bo interested to learn that he has been formally elected to the presidential ohair of Hie Woslryan Confersues, At the. end of. 1630, at the via-

animoui invitation of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and with the full approval of the Wesleyan Conference, he was prevailed upon to accept the important position in the General Secretariat left vacant by the appointment of the Rev. J. G. Watt as editorial iuperintendent. Dr. Ritson entered upon his new sphere in 1900, and the twenty-five years' service he has rendered at Bible House has, it is remarked, fully justified the wisdom of the committee in appointing him as their secretary. During that period the work of the society has been greatly extended at home and abroad, and in this extension his initiative and advocacy have played no small part. "Whenever he has gone^" says the "Manchester Guardian," "his genial personality and his gift of ready and appropriate speech have won him acceptance in political and civic spheres as well as in all the churches. Dr. Ritson will bring to his new and responsible administrative ability, a capacity for leadership, and a broad and statesmanlike outlook, and. these qualities, allied to a kindly heart and brotherly spirit, should make him one of the most popular presidents the Wesleyan Methodist Church has ever possessed." In his presidential address at the annual conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Denomination, being held at Lincoln, Dr. Ritson remarked the progress of the last two centuries of the Christian Church had been unparalleled. Apart from the church at home and on the Continent, we had «een mighty churches come into being in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. The most serious problem to the Church or the mission field was how to put independence into the church. There were now more Christians than in the- time of Wesley, but there were also more non-Christians. There was vastly more shadow in the picture than in Wesley's day. The shadow was more extensive, but not deeper in tint.

Mr. _ E. C. Reid, the AssistantCommissioner, is intending to leave about the middle of December, with his daughters, travelling via Suez. The date provisionally arranged for the closing of the Exhibition is 31st October, but there is some idea that it may be brought to a conclusion with the ending of summer time.