PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME

Evening Star, Issue 14526, 30 November 1910, Page 8

PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME

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Cobbsspondsnt.j mm-r' K ' ■ -LoSjCffir, October 21. the EngHah muter by paying, a ZeatamLia Admiral Six Wilwho is leaving the Old some months on tour. The active service commenced with m campaign, during which he BP wvm two medals, after which he served in ■Etiw China War of 1856-59, winning the Kvjnedal and clasp. He has also the Royal KI jßiunane Society's medal for lifesaving. ||| Kennedy is a keen sportsman with Ip rod-and gun, and has to his credit several ! liberal productions dealing with sporting feadwmtuna of the Pacific, sport and travel I’lE; Newfoundland, and sport in South AmeB< Mr Henry C. Miller, of Auckland, eldest 4e<m of Mr Henry Miller, was married in H on Tuesday last to Miss Elsie Raphael, only daughter of Mr and Mrs A. fi Raphael, late of West Norwood. Mr ’’ fiCflerb 3 ® resided in London for some I - years past, acting as London agent for his - 1 father's firm. • Gertrude Lonsdale, a singer who has made several visits to New Zealand, was one of the artists at the concert held fJ - in connection with the annual ladies’ dinner - of the London Frees Club on Saturday night. S Jtr Robert Wilkinson, of Dunedin, and his wife anil family, who arrived in EngJaud at the end of April on a visit* of Justness and pleasure combined, are now [ raiding at Hove, near Brighton, for three ■ months. They took up quarters in Ealing V during May and June, and the younger !r members of the family were at F school, July, August, and part of Sepal tember were spent in visiting relations and ; various places of interest, including the Isle of Wight, Scotland, Chester, and Ilfra- 1 combe, where they stayed a fortnight. They will remain at Hove till their departure for New Zealand by the Mulwa on December 16, Mr Wilkinson making visits to London meanwhile in search of " novelties in connection with his business. Mr Francis L. Croshio, late of Dunedin, has gone to Glasgow to enlarge his experience m engineering, and intends to remain a couple of years there before returning to the Dominion. He spent several weeks in , Deland and a fortnight in Loudon before settling down to work on the Clyde. Mr and Clara Lady Fitzgerald have left Oarrigaran, County Clare, for New Zea- : land, as Lady Fitzgerald has been advised lo winter abroad. It is thought the long lea voyage should prove beneficial to her I: health, which is never very robust. The following New Zealanders have been elected members of the Royal Colonial_lnstitate: — Messrs James H. M‘Kay, F.R.LB-A-, Jceiah Martin, F.G.S., Charles J. H. Nairn, Arthur L. Barker, W. R. Barker, Wm. Crichton, F.R.1.8.A., and Lawrence Wilson. Miss Florence Jones, • of New Zealand, has been elected as an Associate. Mr S. Highman, of Sydenham, Christchurch, who came to England last May by the Rimutaka, intends returning by the Turakina, which leaves London on Novcmher 26. H© has come to England on holif day, and sinoe landing has made many i visitfl to relatives ttnd friends. He spent '■. four weeks at Torquay and a fortnight in i London, seeing all the notable sights, ini' the White City. At the end of the F mouth Mr Highman nail, return to Cornwall to say good-by© to friends. During his slay here he has gained the diploma of the National Fretwork Association. Lieutenant Thomas Campbell, Royal Ar--4 -tillery, son of Mr Stewart Campbell,, o£ r ’Wellington and Hamilton, New Zealand, was married recently to Miss Daisy Jessie, third daughter of Mr Alfred Read, of • Gravesend and Ipswich. The wedding ■ took place at St. Peter’s, in Thanet. Mr F. J. Dight, manager of the Manu- - lacturers’ Agency in New Zealand, has r come to Europe on behalf of his firm. Mr j Dight returns to Wellington in January. Mr T. E. Sedgwick’s scheme for a trial ghipmenfc of fifty English town lads to New F; Zealand farms is now approaching fruition. ‘ H© ♦Mia me that the Central (Unemployed) ; ‘ Body, for London have rescinded their rcso--.lnfion of two memtha ago, “not to cooperate unless the cases were unemployed “ cases over rightoen years.” Mr Sedgwick i will therefore take twenty-five of the Central Body’s eases, who are none the worse lor being unable to find work, and twentyfive others of KLs own selecting, for whom i ihe has collected the necessary passage ttnoney. “The advertisement should do "New Zealand good,” said Air Sedgwick, .“although the dehiy has been annoying.” Mr and Mrs W. R. Holmes, of Auck- • (and, brought their visit to England to a a’oao to-day, leaving by the Morea for i, Sydney. They are duo home on December Mr, Airs, and Miss Howley (of Timaru). 1 who.have been travelling in England, Ire- ( land, Scotland, and on the Continent tor 1 the past three years, left London to-day ' by theP. and O. Morea on their return to New Zealand via Sydney. On the invitation of Mr’William Charles Dawes, chairman, and the directors of the i New Zealand Shipping Company, a large ' party had the opportunity this week oi inspecting in the Royal Albert Dock tlie ' new steamer Rotorua, built on the Chile by Messrs Wm. Denny and Bros., am kitted with the combination of turbine and ’."•©cl procuring engines. Mr Dawes, who is A son Of the late Sir Wdwyn Snadys Dawes, was one of the first shipowners in : the mercantile marine to recognise the advantages of the turbines in long-voyage vessels, and his discrimination has been .. rewarded with success. The Rotorua s are of the latest design, the outfit from stem to stem is perfect, while the lyywmgam ents for first class passengers diatoms, dining rooms, smoking moms, cosy plooms, and nurseries— are all the most Frlastitiboas could desire. Second class ami ’."’'EirdtJass passengers have also excellent it- and, indeed, the whole vessel may be regarded as a fine floating “ hotel, flying the British flag, and actin': ; pg a handsome and commodious meiuis m ' 1 on between the Mothcrlse.' -*nd Mew Zealand. The vessel will_ star; !> on. her maiden voyage at the end of next (week, and Captain Sutcliffe, in respond- “ ing at the luncheon to the toast “ A Sues'* oessful Career to the Rotorua,” mentioned ■'[that this was his sixty-fourth voyage, and vih» never felt more confident of a successand comfortable time than on h;s new and magnificent vessel. V ‘ Recent callers at the High CVunmisy rioner’a Office; — Alexander Elder (KakaTp»p), Mias Hewitt (Waikato), 8. E. Cooper ■ (Wanganui), W. L. Young (Wanganui;. jjvjCeith Boon (Nelson), M. M’Kellar ll’lipaf'i.jnp), R. H. Rogers (Corel, (1. 8. and .Miss feJSRx (Wellington), E. F. O'Brian (WesLliport), Harold H. Brinkman (Christchurch 1 . and Evelyn D. Isaacs (Wellington), play JjJ, Barr (Dunedin), Mrs and Mis.FOatier (Wellington), Mr, Mrs, and .Miss Iptoiriey (Timaru), C. L. Ayson (Oamarm,