LONDON PERSONAL NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 14316, 15 March 1910, Page 7

LONDON PERSONAL NOTES

NEW PROFESSOR FOR DUNEDIN. AUCKLANDER SELECTED. [From Our Special Cobhesi-okdbjit.] . LONDON, February 4. For the post of bacteriologist and lecturer in oublic health at Otago University, and health officer under the Government,! Dr Sydney T. Champtaloup was selected thia week in London through the High Commissioner's Department. Dunedirt thus secures the services of a New Zealander who has proved himself one of Edinburgh's most brilliant students. Dr Champtaloup went from Auckland to Edinburgh University, and carried off there nearly all the available prizes and. honors in the medical schools. In all he won eighteen prizes and medals, including the Ettles Scholarship, perhaps tho most highly prised of all the medical honors at Edinburgh. In qualifying as M.8., Ch.U., he passed each of the four professional examinations, "with distinction." Later he qualified as Bachelor of Science in the Department of Public Health, the two course. for which embraces the work for the lesser • qualification of Diploma of Public Health. Since his student days Dr Champtaloup* has held hospital appointments in Edinburgh, Manchester, and Cardiff, has Tcvieited New Zealand as ships surgeon, awl for two and a-half years has bad teaching experience in practical pathology, bacteriology, and public health at the Usher Institute, Edinburgh Ln-versity, besides conducting a private class in these subjects, attended each session 1 y as nany as fifty or sixty students. Ho has had public health experience under the medical officers of health at Edinburgh and in the county of Midlothian. At present he is employed asassistant to the Professor of Public Health, Edinburgh University, Professor Hunter Stewart, D.Sc, who fays of him: " His knowledge of tho whole subject of hygiene is quite exceptionally good, and he is an excellent and painstaking teacher. "I do not.think there is inyono of his years who has had so magnificent a training for tho post as Dr Champtaloup,' soys a well-known medical man, who has followed the' Aucklander's career will interest for some years past. "I am very well and hearty, and not at all unhappy,"" said Mr Will Crooks, the genial ex-member for Woolwich, addressing a large crowd at Pophr Pock gates this week. "Deputations of .sympathisershave not left off calling yet sinco my defeat. I lest my seat, but I have been transferred from a small constituency to a much larger country." Continuing, Mr Crooks said that there were still parts of the country in which real raahood had not yet got into tho men. Ihe Deople of the colonies were astonished to learn that the fear of tho squire and the parson was in many hearts. "Tt is no good getting old, if you don't get artful—at any rate, artful enough to urderetand your position." At the annual distribution of prizes to the members of the Browning Settlement P.S.A. Brotherhood this week, Mr Crooks was presented with a silver medal bearing the inscription "Will Crooks, Champion of the Poor." Mr J. A. Dawes, M.P., said the Walworth division had special reason for thanking Mr Will Crooks for having been one of the first members of the London County Council to impress on the body the necessity of feeding half-starved school children. Mr A. A. Stewart ((of Greymouth and Kumara), where he was employed in gold dredging, has just come to London from Tierra del Fuego to spend a brief f oliday in the Old Country before going b.ck to New Zealand. An engineer by profession, Mr Stewart has made a specialty of mining dredges. His line of business is building and erecting steel dredges, and then taking charge of and running tl:em. "I was engaged," he told me, "W the t'ompania Rio Perez to work on their dredge in Tierra del Fuego, and hist winter I had charge of tho Corapania Sutphen ce Lavaderos de Oro. Both companies have their head offices in Buenos Ayres. I went out to Monte Video in September, 1908, travelled to Punta Arenas, and crossed the Straits of Magellan. The dredging in Tierra del Fuego was a failure. A party of New Zealanders, under Mr E. H. Watson, have the Company Rio Verde, afd the ■ Company Rio del Oro under tribute this year, and I understand aro doing well. Mr Watson is well known in Alexandra South (Otago). On this present trip 1 came, up from Punta Arenas by the Hamburg S<juth American line to Buenos Avre3, crJimg at all the small ports along tfie Eat,t Coast. I am very favorably impressed with the Argentine as an agricultird and rastoral country, and I enjoyed the tights of Buenos Ayres and Rio immensely.'" During my travels in South America I "met many New Zealanders, and it was always the same whether in Tierra del Fuego, Argentine, or London, I received a hearty Melcome." Mr Stewart, who reach xl Loncon by the Turakina, will spend a foriniuht here, and then visit relations on the Clvde and tour in the 6outh of Ireland. On "his return to London he will leave- for New Zealand. That wonder of the football field, G. W. Smith, the veteran "All Black," is still a shining light in the forefront of the Oldham team in Northern Union football. "Smithie" showed on Saturday last, in the match against Leigh, that the passing years have, not yet dimmed his brilliance. He played a great game in the Oldham three-quarter line, and scored threes times in his old dashing style. His second try was the beat in the match. When the bail cume out to him Smith was close to the touch line, and with two men to face it seemed impossible for him to get through; but with a little short punt he Jobbed the ball over their heads, and, dashing on, gathered it again for a really fino try. Dr H. Pollen (Wellington) is a passenger for New Zealand by tho P. and 0. Mongolia, which left Plymouth last Saturday, ind sails from Marseilles to-day. Mr Spencer Gollan, formerly of Hawke's Bay, is also a passenger by the Mongolia. A former Hawke's Bay resident, who veils his identity under the pen-name of Napidr Hawke, is tho author of two recent novels in shilling editions published by Messrs Drane and Co. One is called ' The Premier and the Suffragette,' a fantastic romance in which the British Premier and the leader of the Suffragettes aro kidnapped and set to evolve a scheme of Imperial consolidation into which all party problems, including "votes for women," will l>e merged. The scheme, which is certainly original and ingenious, is outlined by the Premier in a clever politico-economic dis- ; '. ! course with his fellow-captive, the <J. : t>logue batween these two occupying nearly half the book. Tho other novel, entitled The Invasion which Did Not Come Off," is also written in a fantastic vein, and is, in ih> way, an amusing skit on the many "Gorman scare" stories now on the market. Hr Alfred H. Elkin (Auckland) took a hand-in electioneering work on behalf of the Liberal candidato at South Croydon. Although the Liberals did not succeed in getting Mr Lean in, they reduced the previous majority by over 3,000. Mr Elkin has also spent some time with his brother, tho Rev. J. B. Elkin, in Sussex, and has visited relatives in Bucks and Herts. He is now in Iceland for a week or two, visiting Dublin, Belfast, and other places. In Dublin last week ho struck the heaviest storm known there for twenty years. He sxpecta to remain in tho Old Country ujritil after tho spring. Mrs Charlotte Lowe (Taranaki), who arrived here on January 27 by the White Star liner Runic, will remain until the end af March. Her visit is a business one, and she will devote her time- to. studying for the benefit of her classes in New Zealand the latest methods in London (tarring schools, and also Swedish drill and rLvsk-al culture. Later she intends visiting Pans, principally to see Miss Isadora Duncan'.? famous school of classic dancing Mr Roger E. Fenton (Auckland), a recent arrival in London by the Mongolia, will bo away from New Zealand about twelve months. He proposes going ever to the Continent with his sister towards the end of winter, though he will remain in or about London for some time yet. Recent callers at tho High Commissioner's ' office:—Mcesrs E. N. F. Norman and son * (Neve Plvmouthl, Mrs C. Lowe {Tnraaakif, . Mr A. A. Stewart (Greymouth), Dr S» &

Champtakrap (Auckland). Mr E. 1L Andrews (Wetlmslon), Dr Arthur T. Pate—<n (Auckland), Mrs F. M. Gaukrodger (El tham), Miss W. Soli (New Plymouth), Miss. E. Chilman (Invercargill), Mrs C. Ranken (Invercargill), Mr ami Mrs G. Leo Walton (Otautau, Southland), Mr G. Shirtcliffe (Wellington), Mr W. G. R. Williams (Dunedin). Lieutenant E. R. G. R. Evans, R.N., Mr W. H. Donaldson (Timaru), Mrs Struthers (Christchurch), Mr F. W. Eaton (Auckland), Miss G. Ivey (Wellington), Miss A. Brandon (Wellington), Mr A. E. M. Ronland (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs 11. Rolland and Miss E. and Miss Rolland (Auckland). Mr C.'L. Nelson (Christchurch), Mr K. Coonly, Mr Roger E. Fenton (Auckland), Miss Isabel Coleridge (Wellington).