PERSONAL AND GENERAL NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 11661, 16 December 1902, Page 2

PERSONAL AND GENERAL NOTES.

[Feom Our Special Correspondent.] . , T LONDON, November 7. Lord Hawke was best man last Wcdncsclay afternoon to his old cricketing comrade Captain . the Honorable ‘ Francis Stanley Jackson,,younger son of Lord Allerton.'who v as married, in . the presence of a* large congregation of society folks, sporting and military men, and ‘‘flannelled fools” at St. Helens Church, Welton, neariHull, to Miss Juna Henrietta Harrison-Broadley, daughter of Mr H. Harrison-Broadley, of Welton House, Brough, East. Yorkshire. The service was fully choral, and tho bride, who was arrayed in silk gauze, was attended by nyo bridesmaids (in white cloth dresses, with black Rembrandt hats and bearskin muffs) «“ d J* P a S e (ti'e bridegroom's nephew, Master Billie Mnsgrave, in. white satin). The m ®? n "d rs .of the Yorkshire cricket team iwled up in force, and tho Yorkshire County Cricket dub Committee sent three solid silver rose bowls and a solid silver salver, vnth the .inscription; “Presented to the vril F-‘ Jackson by. the members of the Yorkshire Country cricket team, on his tnarriage, November 5, 1902.” A pretty afternoon tea service came from Ranji, with this greeting:—“ Wishing you a long, happy, and prosperous life; may all good luck attend you.” Lord Hawke sent a. pair of handsome silver candlesticks, and the gift of the officers of the Ist Volunteer Battalion East Yorks Regiment was a largo silver bowl on an ebony stand. Other presents included a silver salver, from Mr T. 1 L. Taylor j ‘Pictures of People,’ by Charles Dana Gibson, from Air P. F. Winner; a walking stick, from Mr F. E. Lacey, the secretary of tho M.C.C.; and a framed “ score-card ” in silk of the recent test match at the Oval, wherein the bridgegroom had home so prominent a part. Mr F. G. H. Moore, A.R.A.AI. (Dunedin), who sails by tho Corinthic on 20th [November for a tour in his native land. . gave a farewell recital in. the Steinway Hall last Tuesday to a large and appreciative audience. His programme consisted of four items; (1) Bach’s Third English Unite and Brahms’s Rhapsody in B Alinor; (2) G.irlo Albanesi’s Sonata No. 5 in D Minor, performed for the first time; (3) a nocturne, three etudes, and ballade in F of Chopin; (4) Schumann’s Camaval Op. 9. Chopin, Liszt Deux Chants Polonais, Weber Polacca in E, Rubinstein Etude in C. Air Aloore pleased both audience and critics, and the sonata of lira old master, which ho will no doubt introduce to New Zealand, came in for warm praise. But the critics shall speak for themselves. The ‘ Morning Post ’ says ; “Air Aloore is a talented pianist, with a very neat and crisp execution. It is such a very extraordinary thing to find a new work of importance on the programme of a piano recitalist that the fact deserves special menticn. The work is a sonoto by Carlo Alin.esi, the well-known professor of tho Royal Academy of Music, and is admirably ctmrtractcd and brilliantly effective. The ideas; arc clearly presented, and the author m-’.vr leaves one in doubt as to his meanre. It includes a gay, frolicsome scherzo, brimful of spirit, and a tender andante, the impressiveness of which might have been more accentuated by the pianist Altogether the sonata is a work of decided interest.” ‘The Times’ says: “Mr Moore is a player of decided accomplishment, sound musicianship, and good taste; his touch is powerful but nob unpleasing; and his technical skill is quite remarkable in passages of a somewhat dashing, rattling kind. The gentler qualities are less prominently displayed, but these will come, no doubt. The most important place in his programme was occupied by a sonata by Air Carlo Adbanesi, a work admirably written for the piano, and possessing undeniable merit as music. The recital was a distinct success,” The ‘Daily Telegraph’s’ verdict is this; “The artist, who exhibited a strong technique and an agreeable crispness of touch, made a good impression at the outset by his dear and neat performance of Bach’s third English Shiite, the familiar gavotte being capitally played. He was less successful with Brahm’s Rhapsody in B Minor, his interpretation being deficient in subtlety and lacking in variety of expression. Air Aloore played a new sonata by Mr Carlo Albanesi so skilfully as materially to assist the melodious work to favor. The sonata as a whole may be set down as an attractive and musioianly composition, grateful alike to performer and audience. Mr Aloore afterwards asserted himself as a capable and sympathetic interpreter of Chopin.” Your readers will soon be able to judge for themselves of Air Aloore’s ability, as he will give recitals in the chief towns. Tho Concerto in A Minor of Greig, which he is to play in Wellington with the Orchestral Society, is the one he played in the Queen’s Hall under Sir A. 0. Mackenzie’s batonThe representative in London of the New Zealand Pneumatic Heel and Sole Company (Atr W. Lingard) is to be heartily congratulated on having achieved what must be something like a record. Six weeks ago he approached the War Office with % suggestion that they should conduce to the pedal comfort of Tommy Atkina by adopting pneumatic beds for his boots, and submitted the usual .specifications and samples, together with the opinions of leading boot manufacturers in England, etc. Thereafter he pressed his suit with such tactful pertinacity 1 hat at the beginning of tho present week ho received a trial order from the War Office for 1,000 pairs of pneumatic heels, wlich are. to be fixed on a like number of service boots about to be manufactured. If his good fortune should come to tho ears of some of the unfortunate gentlemen who have haunted the AVar Office day in, day out, for months on end, their surprise will be great indeed. Air Lingard’s quick success argues that the invention he submitted has, at any rate, a reasonably good chance of becoming a commercial success, for whatever the shortcomings of the War Office may be, the authorities arc not prone to quick aceptance of any patent placed before them, and their preliminary tests are usually veiy severe. Alore often than not tho person introducing a patent of any kind to the department is required to assist financially in making the necessary experiments, but in Air Lingard’s case the trial order has been given at a price which I understand is quite satisfactory. If this experiment, which is on a seme calculated to give results of a reliable kind, toms out satisfactorily, tho Pneumatic Heel and Solo Company should have in War Office business the nucleus of a profitable business in the Old Country. Air Henry Zander paid a brief visit to London this week in order to “place” a little invention of which bo has become possessed. It is a handy little contrivance, designed to save the legs of Mary Jan© and preserve the patience of her mistress and to act as messenger between the head of tho firm and his subordinates. It is called a micro-telephone, and will undoubtedly prove a boon and a blessing, being the essence of simplicity and so cheap that oven the economicafiy-minded man could hardly grudge the expense of putting it into use at home or office. In a house where there is an electric bell installation the wires and battery of that system can bo used as the means of transmitting micro-telephono messages from garret to kitchen, or wherever the “’phone” is fixed. Where there are no electric bell wires the cost of a dry battery and the necessary lines and fixing, of course, accrues, but as tho price por pair of the micro-telephones in England is but 15s, the absence of battery and wires need not appal the would-be speculator in this handy little instrument. The new domestic “’pbeme ” has tho ear-piece and mouth-piece in one plane, and there is no need to speak into the mouth-piece. Talking in a normal voice anywhere near it, your message can be heard very distinctly from one mid of a large building to the other. The “’plume” weighs but a few ounces, is elegantly yet strongly marie, so that it is not at all an unsightly adjunct oven to the drawingroom. Of its utility and efficiency there can b© no i doubt. Mr Zander came to London last Monday, and introduced his novelty to the National Telephone Company. On the morrow- it waa tested by the engineers of that company, and before forty-eight hours had elapsed tho company had onterd into an agreement ivith Air Zander for'tho explantation of the instrument in the United Kingdom- He has now arranged for, Messrs S. Hoffmmg and 00. to' introduce it into Australia, and Messrs Benjamin have secured the New Zealand rights. Of course, your tariff will make tho invention a trifle more expensive, bat I understand that tlx* ."’jolumes” can tl»t.ia.

Germany they can be sold at a good profit for about 12a a pair—ergo, a sovereign a pair should Dot do exceeded in the colony. In a house or office ■where there is an electric bell system any person of average intelligence can, with the aid of tho direction:) supplied, couple up any two rooms of tho establshment m about ten minutes, and even where wires are not the “ ’pbimo” can be introduced at far less cost than speaking tubes, which it'will certainly supersede. I regret to announce tbs death last Sunday, in his sixty-second year, at. Fnth Lodge, Northwood, Herts, of Mr Lennox Browne, tho doyen of practising throat specialists. Soon after obtaining his M.R.C.S., in 1863. ho went to Australia, where he practised for some time, publishing in 1865 a work on ‘ Australia for Invalids.’ On his return to England in 1857 he became assistant to Sir (then Dr) Moroll Mackenzie'and attached to the staff of the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, Golden square. In fe74 he severed his connection with Morell Mackenzie, and founded the Central London Throat and Ear Hospital jn Gray’s Inn 'road, to which he was senior surgeon for many years. He was surgeon and aural surgeon to several dramatic and musical societies, aud one of the original fellows and at one time president of the British Laryngological and Ethnological Association. Ho was the author of several books on the voice, throat, nose, and ear, and in collaboration with tho bile Emil Bebnke he produced a work entitled ‘ Voice, Song, and Speech,’ the eighteenth edition of which appeared in 1897. His artistic gifts (he was originally trained for an artist) enabled him to illustrate his books and make the illustrations a special feature. He had a largo acquaintance with members of the dramatic, artistic, and literary world, and was one of the oldest members of the Savage Club. He was a prominent Freemason, being a Grand Officer of England and a Past Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand. It will be remembered that Mr Seddon was entertained by him just prior to leaving for New Zealand. Mr Lennox Browne took a great interest in Now Zealand, and was present at tho annual New Zealand dinner and the tallow chandlers’ luncheon to Mr Seddon. The case of Nairn v. the New Zealand Shipping Company came before Lord Stormonth Darling at Edinburgh last week. The action was brought against the company by Airs Annie Naim, wife of David Mathewsou Nairn, L-R.O-P. and L.R.C.S., Ediu., practising as a physician and surgeon at Blenheim, New Zealand, for £3,000 damages in respect of injuries snstained by her as a passenger on the Wakauui from Wellington to London. While tho vessel waa coaling in May last at Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, Mrs Nairn, with her husband and other passengers, wore proceeding to disembark into a small boat to go on shore. Ae she was passing down a gangway at the side of the vessel into the small boat, the contents of a shuto from the Idtchen galley were discharged upon her, with the result that she fell into the water. She was rescued, but avers that she sustained a severe nervous shock, and has suffered since in health. She attributes this occurrence to tho fault of those in charge of the vessel. The company admit that they are validly convened before the Scotch Courts, but do not admit that they were at fault for the accident, and plead that the contract with them under which Mrs Naim was a passenger exempts them from all liability for the negligence of their servants. As the case raised the right of the pursuer to damages for an occurrence in Spanish waters, and also the question of whether the terms of the contract bound the pursuer. His Lordship considered that the caso should be tried before himself without a jurv. Mr John Holmes has been at Manchester this week, and the inevitable interviews followed his appearance in that city He advocated a direct steamship line to Liverpool and Manchester, which lie said he had urged the New Zealand Government to subsidise. He expressed his belief in the subsidisation by the British Government of steamers trading with the colony, and advocated, as the best means of increasing England’s export trade with New Zealand, the appointment by English manufacturers of neutral indent agents, whose duty it would he to canvass the various importers in the colony and forward their orders for the furnishers, the exporters, hero for shipment to the various towns in New Zealand.

I see that Air Seddon has been reviving the old fallacy of balance of trade England again. I commend to his notice the lecture by Professor Ashley, lecturer at the London School of Economics, on ‘The Aitodem Theory of International Trade,’ to the Fabian Society last month. In dealing with the equation, of indebtedness the lecturer raid: “We hear much of the excess of our imports over our exports. In addition to goods there are (1) loans, (2) interest, (3) payments for services, such as freight, tribute from dependencies, and similar items. The United Kingdom is not unique in its excess of imports. In every large European country except Ausbro-Hungary tho same excess occurs. Indeed, the total of all imports exceeds the total of all exports, which seems absurd,, the goods being identical, till we recollect that locality is an dement of value.

In response to a circular issued by the Organising Committee in Brussels of the International Social Congress of 1905, asking for resolutions for the • Congress, the Fabian Executive have sent in the following (inter alia) on behalf of (he society; “Compulsory Arbitration.—That, considering the suffering caused by strikes and look-outs to the ■workers, 0 especially the women and children, and also to other persons indirectly deprived of their livelihood, and the injury to industry from the waste of productive force, the Congress condemn such methods of settling industrial disputes as barbarous and antiquated, ana instead thereof urge the workers to unite in using their political power to improve their conditions by legislation, and especially to obtain the establishment of Boards of Compulsory Arbitration, composed of equal numbers of employers and employed, such as those already existing in New Zealand and New South Wales, countries where organised labor has for some years had a large share in shaping legislation for its own protection.” I understand that when the Agent-General first arrived in England tire Fabians were strongly opposed to compulsory arbitration. Their suggested resolution is of no small importance. The Fabian Club, though small, is composed of men of intellect, who thresh out every subject thoroughly before making up their minds on it. As the club comprises men of every political shade, its opinion carries no small weight with it among thinking people. The resolution is distinctly a feather in Mr Reeves’s cap. Mr and Mrs J. P. Firth (Wellington) leave London to-day for Liverpool, where they will embark in the Lucania on their return journey, in the course of which they will spend a month in America-. Since the original Coronation. Day they have been touring extensively in England, Ireland; Wales, and Scotland. Going up to Inverness by way of the Canals, they spent a week at Oban, and made the usual trips to Staffa and lona, Glencoe, and other beauty spots. They came south from Inverness via KiDiecranMo and Forth, and paid a visit to the English- Lakes, to Rugby, and to Oxford and Cambridge before getting back to London, Mr Firth was not able to see the Scottish schools in active operation, as the summer holidays were on; out he had an opportunity of seeing how the young idea Was taught to shoot at Rugby, and he will, no doubt, bring back with him to the colony a store erf useful pedagogic and scholastic experience. Mr John A. Butler (Christchurch), who has been wandering in South America since he left Christchurch, w now connected with the Monaco Harbor, Limited; which is constructing a harbor “way bank’* on the Amazon for the shipment of rubber and nuts. Mr Butler will probably pay another visit to South America next summer. P. F. M*Evedy played three-quarter for Kent against the Midland Counties last Wednesday at Leicester. Ho was, however, witnoot the co-operation, of lies comrade, A. B. O'Brien, whose absence and that of six other of their beat players somewhat handicapped the Kent team. The Midlands won by two placed goals and a try to two penalty goals and a try. The Rev. Mr Leonard Isitt is now on a temperance mission in Wales, and addressed a crowded meeting at the New Town Hall, Pontypridd, a few nights aga He declared iit was- not right or branch.

of the Christian Church to solicit ,or accept ir.cnoy made in the liquor traffic to carry on its work, nor for any section of the church to appoint men to olli.ee who were unfortunate enough.to,be liquor-soHors.' It. was not right for churches and assemblies to pass resolutions condemning the trade and at tho same time seel;: to get a share of its ill-gotten gains. At the annual meeting of the Bristol Baptist Association last, week the Rev. J. J. Doko, newly returned from New Zealand, received a hearty welcome. Ho said that the- greatest difficulty the Baptiste had to face in the colony was," perhaps, the difeulty connected With their miserable independency. They were not in touch with the trend of the age in the colonies, which was towards co-operation. They stood amongst the churches for individualism. Until tney as a denomination so amended their policy as to be no longer mere individualists, until they drew more closely together, they would hinder (lie progress of the truth, and would not lie able to lay hold of the bright; opportunities around them on every hand. In New Zealand, ho observed, they had no educational problem such as existed in this country pressing on their village churches, and the real reason, was that they had no Establishment. He thought the. education problem would continually become more involved in this country until they also ceased to have a State Established Church.

Air L. IT. G. Greenwood, the old Christ’s College boy, who is now at King’s College, Cambridge, in spite of his success in classical studies, finds time to appear on the cinder track. - In the Freshmen's sports at Fenner’s last week ho took second place in the open mile handicap He was given 90yds start,, and defeated by W E. Coward (Cains), 30yds start. The time was 4min 45sec.

At the ordinary quarterly meeting of the Royal College of Physicians last week the following, having passed the required examinations, had licenses to practise physic granted them: —W. B. Ainger, St. Bartholomew’s; D. 11. Bett. New Zealand; A. J. Hall, New Zealand and London ; AY. F. Paterson, New Zealand and Aliddlesex. Major Edward Francis Clayton (Scots Guards), who in 1892 was appointed A.D.O. to Lord Glasgow, when Governor of New Zealand, is one of the three officers soketed for the Duke of Connaught’s staff on His Royal Highness’s visit to India. Since his arrival by the Gothic at the end of September, Air J). gladden (Wellington) has been visiting relatives in Fast Kent, bcotlaud, ciikl Worcestershire, varying his holiday by a business trip to Rotterdam. He proposes spending most of November in. London, looking after tbc interests of the AA. Company, and leaving by the AATiakatanc on 4th December.

Dr Alexander R. Falconer (Dunedin) arrived at the beginning of last month, after a. short, tour through the United States of America, in the course of which he made brief stays ar Safi Lake City, Chicago, Niagara, and New York. He will remain about twelve months in London, engaged in general hospital work, and in the special study of bacteriology and hygiene. At present he is making the University College Hospital his headquarters. The Right Hon. St. John Brodrick. Secretary for War, is about to take unto himself a second wife. Air Brodrick, who is fortysix, married in 1880 Lady Hilda WemyssChartoris, who was the daughter of the ninth Earl of Wemyss, and who died last year. His engagement is now announced to Miss Madeleine Cecilia Carlyle Stanley, eldest daughter of Lady Jeune aud the late, Hon. John Constantine Stanley, a colonel in the Grenadier Guards, who died in 1878. Aliss Stanley is a clever, attractive, and popular girl of twenty-six. - Mr Chamberlain's entourage for South Africa will not, it appears, be large, and he will take out few “ornamentals.” His staff will include Lord Alonk Bretton, his principal private secretary, who has beenopening and tabulating the Colonial Secretary’s correspondence since December, 1900. For a statesman who started public life with a republican aversion to coronets and the gilded chamber, Air Chamberlain has evolved a remarkable fondness for peers. Since he took charge of the Colonial Office he has had three of them as private secretaries—Lord Amp thill, the Earl of Westmeath, and Lord Alonk Bretton. The last was formerly in the service of the Foreign Office, and was attached to the Embassies in Paris and Constantinople before he returned to London to become assistant private secretary to Lord Salisbury. Air H. AV. Juat, who is also going with Air Chamberlain a? secretary, has been con*' nected with the Colonial Office for a quarter of a century. He had previously distinguished himself at Oxford, where he was Taylorian exhibitor in German, and will doubtless be userid as an intermediary when Air Chamberlain comes to discuss the vexed question of the taxation of the goldfields with Air Beit and the other Teutonic magnates of the Rand. Air Just has been assistant private secretary to a succession of Colonial Ministers—the late Earl of Derby and the present one, Air Stanhope, Lord Rnutsford, and the Alarquis of Ripon. He is now the head of the South African Department of tho Colonial Office.