OUR LONDON LETTER.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 530, 25 March 1908, Page 4

OUR LONDON LETTER.

-♦" PERSONAL AND GENERAL NOTES. Tour own correspondent.] February 10. Mr Rowland St. Clair, of Auckland, has just returned to London, after a month in Norway, spent nartlv in pleasure and .partly on business. In his official capacity as Norwegian Consul at Auckland lie made the acquaintance of the iNprwegian Minister of Commerce during his stay in Christiania, and was introduced to the King of Norway, the President of the Storthing, and several members of the Government. He found them all greatly interested m the industrial and social legislation of the dominion, and he had to answer many questions regarding the working of the various democratic laws for which New Zealand is notet Mr& Georgo Thomson, formerly of Oamaru, has arrived here on a visit from Mexico, where her husband is engineer at the San Francisco del Oro mine. ir „ Mr James Adamson, M.A., LL.ti. (Edin.), the new Dean of the 1' acuity of Law at Victoria College, Wellington, leaves England by the 1. and O. liner, Himalaya. Mr Adamson is 37 years of age, and unmarried. He is a member of the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh, ana a practising member of the Scottish Bar, to which he was called in 18_b. He had a brilliant career in the law classes, and as a law graduate at Edinburgh University, taking many prizes in many subjects. Ihe Professor of Scots Law at Edinburgh University, who was one of his examiners, wrote him: "I beg to congratulate you on the best set of papers I have ever had to examine. Mr Adamson, who is both deeply read and thoroughly versed in his profession, gained the degree of Bachelor of Laws, "with distinction," m 1896., Two veterinary surgeons, Mr Blair and Mr Brown, leave London this month for the dominion under engagement to the Department of Agriculture. Mr J. M. Geddis, one of the proprietors of the Wellington Free Lance, and of the Auckland Observer, is due here shortly by the Mongolia, which left Sydney on 4th ult. Another New Zealander to visit us will bo Mr G. S. Maben, the contractor for the pumping installation at the Ross goldfields. He is coming in connection with the ordering of tho plant. "The Anchorage," a story of a New Zealand sheep farm, by Mr W. H. Koebel, which is being published in London, is described by the Times as a pleasant and wholesome narrative.