OUR LONDON LETTER.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 494, 12 February 1908, Page 2

OUR LONDON LETTER.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL NOTES (Our Own Correspondent.} January 3. The Misses Colbeck, of Auckland, are spending a few months in Paris, after which they will return to the dominion. They have been visiting England during the last summer with their father, Mr J. C. Colbeck; who went back in the Oroya. Not a small part of the success of, I the pantomime at -the Fulham Theatre, "Robinson Crusoe," is duo to the fine singing and diancing of' those two clever New Zealand twin sisters, the i Misses Eileen an<l Doris Woods. Tlteir ! singing is always enthusiastically applauded. I learn that Mr; Krull, the German Consul at Wangariui, will short I* visit this and his own country. Ho is com. ing via Australia and the Far East. Mr JF. J. Shanley, of Hawke's Bay, having finished a successful course of study at the L.C.C. school of photoengraving and lithography, in Fleets street, will return to the dominion" b^ the Orient liner Asturias, leaving Plymouth on January 25. it is now definitely arranged that Mr Reginald Tuck, R.N., will leave for the dominion shortly travelling via India. In my letter or October 11 last I mentioned his engagement to Miss Muriel Moss Davis, a daughter of Mr and Mrs Moss Davis, of Auckland. Mr and Mrs Davis, who lately went out by the Macedonia, are expected to remain there some time, the. marriage taking place some time this year. Mr Reginald Tuck is the eldest son of the managing director of Messrs Raphael Tuck and Sons, whose immense business over here was referred to at some length in my letter of November 15. Mr A. S. Cook, late of Christchtuch. now permanently here, was married in tlio last week of December to Miss 'Alice E. Tubb, daughter of Mr J. Tubb, and sister of the well-known so- [ prano, Miss Carrie Tubb. Referring to the note in my last ! with reference to the tragic death at Paris of Mr J. C. Wilkin, of ChristI ohurch, 1 understand that his remains have been cremated, and the ashes will be takfen to New Zealand. We are just now welcoming the return of that famous combination, the Besses o' th' Barn, whioh has arrived by the China after their performances in Australia and New Zealand. At tho International Exhibition, at Christchurch, they received the sum of £2600, which establishes a record.