ABOUT PEOPLE

Evening Star, Issue 14187, 12 October 1909, Page 2

ABOUT PEOPLE

NOTES FROM LONDON. [From Our Special Correspondent.] September 3. Mr. Hall-Jones is, I am glad to eay, improving this week. His injured knee is a good deal easier, and he is hopeful about us progress, Presently the High Cbmmismoikm- will take a holiday at the seaside, probably at his native Folkestone, and the change should help to complete his re-tove-rv.

.Mr and Mi* Henry Brett, of Auckland, returned to London yesterday from a three weeks' trip to Wales and the Midlands They spent a fortnight at Cblwyn Bay, and idtei-wards visited relatives near Birmingham, winding up with a visit to Malvern, in tho West Country. They have booked passage 'or New Zealand by the new Orient liner sailing in December. Miss Vera Jacobsen. who arrived here from Auckland aboui two years ago, has been studying portrait painting at the French Impressionist School in London. .She decided to go right through the school course, and is now tho head portrait painter in this school. She has also had one of her pictures bought for the American Gallery. Miss Jueobsen intended leaving London for the Continent some weeks ago, but '■& remaining for the Ablet lectures, which she will attend next week, as it is the only way to learn his system. She leaves for the Continent shortly to further her studies in Paris and Florence, Munich and Rome, returning to New Zealand in the early part of next year. Mr Henry Isaacs, of Greencroft Gardens, West Hampstead, N.W., of the firm of Messrs Nathan and Co., Australian and New Zealand merchants, formerly Mayor of Auckland, New Zealand, who died on August 2, aged seventv-eight, left estate of tho gross value of £22.596 19s sd, of which the net personalty has been sworn at £18,633 15s 6d. Tho cabled statoiwnt of a New Zealand member of Parliament, that on no account must the Maori landowners be turned into a rent-receiving class, if they are to be saved from ruin, has inspired a. cartoon in the 'Westminster Grvze-tte.' A Maori chief 16 6liown saving to a British duke: "We are both landowners. Is it really true that to be turned into a, rent-receiver and to live without labor is the road to ruin?" The title of the cartoon is 'A Very Different Color.'

Mr J. A. Wilson, representing the Hawke's Bay Meat Curing Company, has been visiting Bristol to arrange for "direct (shipment of his company's products from New Zealand to that port. The first consignment of about 600 barrels, or about 100 tons, is expected to arrive about the end of this month. The handling and distribution of tho meat will he done by Mrcsrs Pnllin. Thomas, and Slade, in Bristol. The elfort has the special support of Sir Joseph Ward, through whom the Admiralty is expected to give these goods a thorough trial. As an evidence'of the (juality and cheapness of the goods, all the Kugliidi shipowners and ship chandlers will Ik.' invited to take a barrel on trial at the company's risk and expense in ease of disapproval. Messrs Pullin, Thomas, and Slade are most sanguine that the business will be large. Messrs Pullin, Thomas, and Slade are 'egistered as the legal representathues of the New Zealand company, and MiThomas has arranged that, although the goods will be distributed all over the Unittd Kingdom, they will be imported into Bristol Docks.

Mr E. 11. Nordon, of Christehurch, successfully underwent an operation on Friday, and .'s making good progress. The operation was performed at Guy's Hospital by Sir xYlfrod Tripp. Mr T. H. I firmer, who recently came to England to take up the duties at the New Zealand Office formerly carried out by the present secretary, has taken a residence in Sutton, Surrey, Mr and Mrs W. S. Douglas, of Auckland, who came to England last May for the Imperial Conference, are returning by the Rimutaka, which leaves Plymouth tomorrow. Mr Douglas tells me that he has thoroughly enjoyed his visit to the Old Country.

Mr and Mis Gerald Stead, of Christchurch, who have been spending a holiday in the Old Country, leave Plymouth tomorrow by the Rimutaka on their return vovatre to New Zealand.

[n connection with his Imperial scholarship scheme, the converse of Cecil Rhcdes's idea, Mr I'. Vaiie has just received a letter from Lord Rosebery stating that upon His Lordship's return to London from the country he will be glad to see Mr Vaile and go into his scholarship scheme with him. The New Zealand author has been asked to contribute an article to the ' Fortnightly Review' on his scheme. Recent (.alters at the High Commissioner's Office : Mr and Mrs Thomas R. Moore (Hawke's Bay and Palmerston North), Mr F. Holmes (Wellington), Mill. C. Edwards (Napier), Mr R. Young (Invevciirgill). Mr Joseph Metzger (Bluff), Mr J. W. Chapman-Taylor (Island Ray), Mr K. King (Wellington). Mrs Gainsbury (Oisborne), Mr li. 1). Cohen (Palmerston North). Mr Jno. H. Beamish (Auckland), Miss B. Old (Gisborne). Mr, Mrs. Miss, and Master Batkins (Wellington), Miss B. Selford (Gisborne), Mr T. G. Raymond (Tiniaiu), Mies Jacohsen (Auckland), Mr J. P. Colvvill (Christchurch and Wellington), Mr .]. H. Mathews (Timaru), Mr and Mrs .7. ,S. Phillips (Auckland). Recent callere at the New Zealand Pavilion at the White Oitv : Mr Geo. Brvce (Palmerston North). Mips M. Montgomery (Auckland), Mr G. J. Nelson (Christchurch). Mr and Mrs A. Maylett (Napier), Mr A. Billows (Wellington), Mifs G. E. Davie* (Auckland), Mr Geo. B. Hay (Kltham). Mr Joseph Metzger (Bluff), Mr Wm. J. Upton (Wellington), Mrs A. Cutt (l)unedin), T)r Alexander and Mrs Morison (Opunake), Mr John Beamishl (Auckland).