PERSONAL AND GENERAL NOTES FROM HOME.

Evening Star, Issue 13162, 19 January 1909, Page 8

PERSONAL AND GENERAL NOTES FROM HOME.

[From Our Special Correspondent.] LONDON', December 9. Mr Joseph Kills, of Belfast. Ires been selected, through the High Commissioner's Department, for the post of instructor in carving, designing, and modelling at the Wellington 'technical School. Mr Kllis, who is twenty-nine years old, and unmar- ■ ried, has had fifteen years' experience as a ■ practical worker. He was foreman for six ( years in one of the leading firms in Bel- ] fast, where he specialised in wood-carving, ( stone-carving, and modelling, and also gained experience in cabinet-designing and decoration. He came second in the United Kingdom in the annual competition for the King’s Prize for modelling from life, and gained a first class in designing. He has had six years' teaching experience in woodcarving and modelling classes at the Belfast Municipal Technical Institute, and he ha*< been an enthusiastic and successful worker at the Belfast School of Art. His testimonials are excellent. Mr Kllis will leave for New Zealand towards the end of January, probably by the Paparoa. Dr John Craig, superintendent surgeon of Mercury Bay Hospital, is in London just now. He came to this country for a year's study at the hospitals, and has spent the greater part of the time at the Dublin Hospital, as that is his old college. He passed the examination for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland on November 21. taking a veryhigh place in the list of successful candidates. As his time was devoted entirely to study, Mr Craig has done very little travelling'. It is twenty years since he last, visited Ireland, and lie noticed a. great change for the better. The masses of people that make the country are immensely! improved, and that courteous manner so j characteristic of the Irish people made a •trong impression on him. He found him self received at once hy all the leading surgeons as an old friend, and they gave him complete opportunities to witness all the latest improvements of operative technique. Mr Craig has now come to London to see and study at the hospitals here. He was much pleased to meet an old New Zealand doctor who practised in Gisborne, with him Dr Welby Fisher. F.R.C.S.K. Through the latter's kindness he has been able to see a great deal here. Mr Craig intends leaving for New Zealand in about a month. Mr Harrv Rownlree I Auckland!, who has •Dine to tlie front rapidly in London as a black-and-white artist, and who is now a frequent contributor to 'Punch' and other magazines, is represented in the London Sketch Club's annual exhibition of sketches. The exhibition is held in the club's upper room, winch is parllv a studio, partly a club room. Kvery Friday the members meet, and. the subjects being fixed beforehand. exercise their gifts of imagination for the space of an hour and a-hnlf. Alter this stimulating exercise there is a supper, mid thereafter friendly talk and much burning of tobacco, as the _ various pictures are passed round for criticism. Mr Rowntree's contribution to the annual show is a delicate little drawing in tender mood called ‘Sere and Yellow’—a sympathetic study of a lonely old woman plodding along a country road. The Rev. Thomas Perkins, formerly of New and Nottingham Colleges, has been unanimously nominated by the Executive of the Colonial Missionary Society to the charge of the Congregational Church at St. Clair. Dunedin, and he will probably leave for the Dominion on January 9 by the R.M.S. Athenic. so as to enter upon his minictry on the first Sunday in March. The Rev. Dr Garvin (chairman of the society), the Rev, Principal Ritchie, and others regard Mr Perkins as a preacher of unusual promise, and as a. Celt he is most, likely to appeal successfully to Otago congregations, who arc noted for their appreciation of good sermons. Mr Perkins, who is thirty years of age, is unmarried, and is a native of the County of Carmarthen. a county which has given both to England and Wales sonic of its most celebrated preachers. The high distinction of Fellow of the ■Royal College of Surgeons has been gained this week bv three New Zealand Univer„;t.. \V V. farewell. M B Me

A. J. Crawford, M.8., and Mr R. Glendinning. M.8.. B.S. Mr Glcndinning. who is ag old Napier bny. was appointed physician to the Queen of Spain a year or w" ago. He graduated at Durham University and Guy’s Hospital. Mrs H. A. Nielsen (of Auckland) and her son, who were exhibitors of kauri gum, greenstone, and New Zealand curios at the Pranco-British Exhibition, gaining a Grand Prize and two gold medals, have gone on the Continent for a holiday trip. They will return to London after the arrival of Mr Hall-Joncs, to confer with the new High Commissioner regarding next year’s Imperial Exhibition at Shepherd’s Bush. 1 understand that they propose to have a stall at this exhibition, whether there be a New Zealand pavilion or not. At the Franco-British Exhibition the Nielsens, after bringing their fine collection all the way from Auckland to Shepherd’s Bush, were not allowed to set up a stall for the sale of their greenstones and curios in the New Zealand pavilion, the sole right fox such sales having already been granted to a London firm of jewellers.

They wore not told of this before leaving New Zealand. Aa it was, they had to secure a site in the Crown Colonies building, which was in no way connected with New Zealand, and the handicap to their brfsiness was thus considerable.

Mr Herbert F. L. Bean (of Christchurch), who arrived here by the Macedonia at the end of September, will leave again about the end of January, returning as he came, via Suez. Mr Beau has spent most of las time in England and Scotland, and he will visit the Continent before sailing. He has enjoyed a spell of golfing on the fine links at St. Anne’s-on-Sea, where he has been staying with relatives.

Mr and Mrs Pchnuchel {of Dunedin) arrived via the Argentine on November 25, after a fair-weather voyage all the way from New Zealand. They are on a pleasure trip, and after touring the Continent for a while and visiting relatives in Berlin they will proceed to Glasgow. They return to New Zealand via the Suez canal in three months’ time.

Mr C. L. W. Hawkins (of Wellington), who arrived here in June last, has been having a look round the Old Country before finally settling down in New Zealand. Next spring he hopes to pay New \nrk a visit, and then the Continent, returning to New Zealand via Suez.. Mr Hawkins has formed strong opinions on the subject of inimi/rafion. TTe thinks New Zealand is getting tmi many mcr!iar.iis Bom England and not enough small farmers. He points to tho state of the labor market in Canaria as a warning against importing ton manv artisans.

Mr Reginald J. Mentiplay, son of Mr Men tip lay. of the Bank of New Zealand. Wellington, is in T/nulmi to gain experience in engineerin'-. He recently resigned his mist as a junior engineer in the Atlantie Transport Dine to become foreman of one of the leadin'' engineering works in London. Mr MentipOv served his apprenticeship with Messrs Cable and Co., Wellington.

Among the passengers by the Turakim. which arrived from New Zealand a few days ago, was Mr .Sidney Blythe fof Wellington), who has mine Home to gain further experience in electrical engineering. Tie nivthe. after the New Year, will go to Manchester to enter the employ of Messrs Mather and Platt, a firm which employs 12.000 men. and which manufactures high-lift turbine pumps, doubleacting gas engines, and • bleaching and printing iviai hnierv. Mr Blythe expects to remain about four years in England. Another paoenger by the Tiirakina was Mr Thomas halvcv. also of Wellington, who has come to London to endeavor to place on the market several inventions of ills own. including a reversible turbine, a patent fire alarm, and an electric totalisator. Another recent arrival from Wellington is Mr fedm-holm. inn., who rnme h\ the Tome, and who has entered the employ of the well-known electrical engineering firm of Siemens, of Woolwich. Mr S. N. Ziniail. the New Zealand Rhode* scholar for 1908. has he n n elected to an honorary mathematical scholaiMdn at Bailiol College. He intends mialifvim? for the Indian Civil Service, Miss Effie M. Kmght (Timarul. who receritiv passed the nursing examination at the Edinburgh Boval Hnsoital. is in London for (he Cliri.stim'.s holidays. Shortly before i’online; smith A|ks Kni’dit took part iri a motoring excursion to Swanson, the birthplace of Robert Lems Stevenson." and now May home of Lord Guthrie. Seventeen Edinburgh doctors, each driving b**; own car. took a party of purses from the Royal Infirmary and the R o v a l Hc-mital out, to Swanson, and L'dv Guthrie entertained the party to tea. and showed them over th-* interesting old house.

Mr Taster. <i'o- London manaypr of (he of Zt aland. In.*- boon seriously ill with p'l-uiisv and pneumonia. At one time his condition was critical, but be has now safely "turned the corner,'' and is now on the road to rernvei-y. Mr .1. A. Voiiny. of the Waimanui Chronicle.' left by the P. and 0. Morea a.st Friday (December 4) on his return to Slew Zealand. Mr M ilbam Henry Cut ten (Dunedin) rear, narrierl oi, December ?, to Mies Adelaide Dora. Hall, daughter of the late Rurceonnaior A. R. Flail. R. A. e Tl;e colonial students alfmidbic; the nnireveitv at Oxford as Rhodes scholars sorvntv-eiyht in number) have been elected FFr>n. Fellows of the Royal Memorial Institute duriny the period which they hold their scholarship. Mr* Herbert Cnrnmell Henson, a clerk in the Share. Savill and Albion Company’s ■iffice in larndon, and Miss Elsie Gertrude Hitchcock, a muse, of Forest Gate, were

yesterday found dead together in a room in n Brighton hotel. They had engaged the room the night before in the -name of Mr a.nd Mrs Roberts. When tho servant knocked at. the door in the morning there was no response, and eventually the door was forced open—it hail been barricaded from wnhm-—and the lovers were found Iving on the bed. both shot. 'Hie girl's pillow was strewn with pink carnations and white chrysanthemums. On the table lay a hastilv-written note (limed 5.45 a.m.j, stating that the couple had resolved to die together. It appears that Bauson, although a married man with two little sons, had met Miss Hitchcock two months ago. and became "engaged" to her. representing himself to he a widower. He was received in the family as her fianee. passing nnder the name of Herbert Roberts. Their engagement was to have been publicly announced at Christinas, and it was understood that after the marriage they were going to New Zealand, where the girl’s mother is staying at present. On Tuesday Bauson and Miss Hitchcoek left town togeth-r. ostcusihtv In stay with Bauson’s married sister at Kingstonmn-Thames for a, day or two. Tbe first intimation of a tragedv was an incoherent letter addressed from Brighton by Ranson to a. friend at Tlfnrd. saying;—“By the time yon get this ( shall have one foot in the grave.’ - Mps Ranson appears to have been wholly unaware of her husband's friendship' with Miss Hitchcock. Recent callers at the High Commissioner's Dffiee : Mr John M. Mcttafv (Invercargill). Mr Kdwaid Spencer (Wellington), Mr Cecil 1 1 . A. Hankins (Wellington), Mr Bernard C. .Arrowsmith (Christchurch)! Mr D. Campbell (Chiistchurch), Air Thomas Fa 1v ey I We! li ngt on).