PERSONAE AND GENERAL NOTES FROM LONDON

Evening Star, Issue 11695, 29 September 1902, Page 3

PERSONAE AND GENERAL NOTES FROM LONDON

[From Oub Special Correspondent.J August 22.' ’ Dr Findlay has been kept in town for the last few weeks by hi Midland BoQway negotiations, and will probably not leave London until they have been concluded. He and Mrs Findlay will probably leave next week for a short Continental* tour, including the field of Waterloo and a trip up the Rhine. A short visit to Scotland may follow, and on the 25tb September they take their departure from the Mother Country. Dr J. H. Neil, who for the last two months has been acting as-anesthetist at the Central Throat Hospital, has been appointed surgeon in charge pf the troops returning by the Tongariro, with Mr Hamilton Gilman, of Wellington, as his assistant. Dunedin people will regret to hear that Mr John Florence Franckeiss (formerly of Bing, Harris, and Co.’s establishment in this City) died last Tuesday «at Folkestone,, at the age of sixty-four. Mr and Mrs H. Gaynor Clayton, if they can stand the English climate, will remain on this side for a year or a couple of years, making their temporary home in Devon or Cornwall. The Agent-General’s new hook, ‘Social Experiments in Australia and New Zealand,’ will be published by Mr Grant Richards about the middle of September. Mr J- Upton Davis (formerly Baptist minister of Dunedin) was married last Thursday at St. Clement’s Church, York, to Miss Harriett R. Williams, formerly of Mount Yale, York. Messrs Peter Gow and W. Fergus Paterson (New Zealand and Middlesex Hospital) have passed the examination of the Board of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons in anatomy and physiology. Captain John Turner, who took part in the New Zealand campaigns of 1863-66, has passed away at the age of eighty-six. He joined the 60th Foot as a private, fought all through the Sutlij and Crimean campaigns, and was promoted on the field from color-sergeant to ensign. Mr Charles 'D. S. Moore (Dunedin) and Miss Moore have been up at Walsall, where Mr Moore has been looking at different manufactures, and are now going on to Ireland. After seeing something of Germany and Switzerland they will join the Oceania at Marseilles. t Mr William C. Macdonald (of Dunedin), NLB.B.Ch., Edin., New Zealand, and Edinburgh Universities, has been admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Though the Football Association refused to have any part or lot- in bringing over a New Zealand Association team, there seems every reason to believe that a Rugby fifteen from the island colony will be found on tour in this country before long. At a meeting of the Rugby Football Union on Tuesday evening an invitation from New South 'Wales to send a team to Australia In 1904 was discussed, and also a letter from the New Zealand Union, asking if the English Union could arrange matches in 1905, when they hoped to send a team over. Both matters were left to a subcommittee to report upon, but one who should know tells me there is hardly a doubt that everything will be arranged. Messrs H. J. C. Bond and F. Goldie (Auckland) have been roaming round the United Kingdom for the last couple cf months, including in their sphere of action the English Lakes, Edinburgh, the Trossachs, Dumbarton, Belfast, Dublin, Doughs (where they spent five days), Liverpool, Blackpool, and Manchester, before coming to london for the Coronation. At Dumbarton they saw in the stream the Moeraki, which will probably leave for the colony about the beginning of September. The travdlers are now off, first to Jersey, then to Paris, and will join the Omrah at Marseilles on sth September. On that boat they will have as fellow-passengers Mr and Mrs Charles Wood (Christchurch) and Mr Adam Bell (Kaikoura). Miss C. Lingard has for the past fifteen months been studying music (chiefly piano) in Berlin with Professor Klindworth. Her vacation (July and August) she has spent in England on a visit to her friends. In September she returns to Berlin to continue her studies, and in December will probably accompany Professor Klindworth to Northern Italy for the winter. She expects to leave for New Zealand in March, and on her return to Christchurch will take up music again there professionally. Mr and Mrs Herbert Humphries (Napier) on their tour through Canada found that New Zealanders seem to be persona grata with Our Lady of the Snows. They witnessed the Coronation procession from seats near the Abbey, the naval review from the Arcadia, and until the end of October will travel in Scotland, Wales, and the Channel Islands, on the Continent for six weeks, joining the Ophir at Naples on 14th December. Lieutenant Trevor Poster, who came from South Africa in the Mohawk after service with the First and Eighth Contingents, returns with his sister to New October. The art gossip of the ‘Morning Post’ thinks it curious that “though New Zealand is almost invariably represented in the Exhibition of the National Art competition prize works at South Kensington, no studies by pnpfis of Australian schools of fri are ever to be seen there.” He asks: Is this because no Australian school is affibated to the Art Department of the Board of Education, or is it that the art students of the colony compete, but never win * The first theory is probably the right one, for no one who has observed the conspicuous merit of some of the Ausstudents who have come to Europe to finish their training could doubt their ability to gain awards at South Kensington. In the exhibition of the National Art competition works now open at the Imperial Institute there are two prize studies by New Zealanders, both of whom axe women students of the-Art School at Wellington. Both works are studies of mtenors, and their qualities of ton© have drawn forth a special commendation in the report of the examiners for the section— Messrs G.D. Leslie, R.A.. W. P. Yeames, H ‘ 5? A- TThane. £ ne . A.R.A. One of the successfn! New Zealanders, Miss Mane Kimbell, has gained a bronze medal, the other (Miss Jessamine Evatt) a National book prize . Mr and Mr J Frankis Lane (Wellington) arrived about a month ago, their tear having been undertaken for the Mrs Lane s health. Before joining the Australia at Marseilles on 10th October they will make a short Continental journey visit mg France and Italy. * ’ Major and Mrs Urban V. Richards have now* permanently settled in the Old Country. Mrs Richards ? health was much benefited by , the voyage, and she is rapidly recovering her strength. They have spent a week at Bath, and Major Richards hasspent a week with his brother. Admiral Sir Frederick Richards, late First Naval Lord of the Admiralty; but their headquarters during the past few weeks have been the home of Mrs Richards’s father, Prebendary Michell, at Binder Rectory, Wells, Somerset. They left for Ireland last week, where they will spend some months, and where Major Richard's hopes to get some sahnoa fishing and partridge shooting. t The Rev. A. W. H. Compton, chaplain - t i? e Contingent, who came Home m the Tagus, is paying visits to his friends in England and Ireland, and will probably retnm early in 1905. Dr F. W. Pennefather (erstwhile a Supreme Court Judge in your colony), after seeing through the press the Criminal Code which he prepared for the Government of South Australia, is paying one of his periodical visits to England on legal and' other business. He is going over to Germany in the autumn. Now Zealand seems to be turning out almost as many dentists as doctors nowadays. One of the latest to come this way was Mr Otto Buchanan (Gore), who ‘stayed nearly four months in Philadelphia and New York studying the last work in dentistry. A month in Scotland was followed by a week, or two sightseeing in London. Hu sailed by the Ophir on 15th August. ( Mr J. C. Hanna 'New Zealand Insurance Company) crossed from Canada, last month on one of his periodical official visits. The length of his stay is uncertain. Mr George Aldridge (Auckland) has been preecliing in Baptist churches in Scotland and Ireland. Stoke Newington has been

Vr Mnt audMlss - nhfe Coronalhmtn^ ; They-will 'spend a^liit^tim^wi ; Tln»whw), , before retjmiingjtol Newi Zealand;. V =St-'''-- ; Dr O’Neill at Dnivers!ty .Thcyvwiil see something ofr the! ■srorkmgof joth^hbs-' pitals later, and at ibr their -GoQege'ibf Burgetms examination early next year; - “ - _ Mr C. Ha W. .Desdder, is over to gain flirt her experierra .of electrical engineering, Part is his.headquarters. ° . F. H. G.. Moore (Dunedin) gives a piano redtal inthe Steinway Hall on 4th November. . ■ He .will give the whole programme himself, and introduce to London audiences .a- new; sonata in movement - - by S'.gnor Carlo Albanesi, who will be piesent to hear how it is interpreted. Shortly after his recital Mr Moore wfllleave for a visit to New Zealand. Dnring his three" months m the colony he will give lessons and a series of recitals. The first of the latter will take place in the'Ganison Hali, ... Dunedin, at the end of next January. ' Dr Dendy (of Christchurch), after some weeks in the mountains in Switzerland-mid. a visit to his brother at Ewhnrst, Snmtbnf Lancashire, is now viatingfriends in Essex. Mr William N. Clark (of Waipapa, Bay of Islands) has arranged to represent the Irish linen manufacturers, Messrs William Clark and Sons, Upperlands, Co. Deny, in Sgnth Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, and left for South Africa on 15th August by the Gaika>. Afterwards he will proceed to Australia and New Zealand. Mr John A. Macdonald (Dunedin) has been tcoxing pretty extensively in America, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, and will probably leave by the Rhein on Bth September. *