OUR LONDON LETTER.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 744, 3 December 1908, Page 4

OUR LONDON LETTER.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL NOTES (From Our London Correspondent..) London, October 23. Messrs Sheltield, Grace, and Louis Pharazyn, of the dominion, have been elected* members of the general committee of the new Imperial Colonial Club. Tho appointment of the Hon William Hall-Jones as High Commissioner is received with great satisfaction in Folk.slone, where he is well known, being the member of a respected family there. Messrs Samuel Hesketh, Vernon Hutton, and George Turn bull were the Now Zealanders elected Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute at the last meeting of the council. Mr G. Bassett, of the New Zealand Department of Agriculture, is ono of the contributors to the new ' "Standard Encyclopaedia of Modern Agriculture and Rural Economy" which is just now being issued by the Greeahnm Publishing Company. The Earl of Ranfurly has lately undergone two serious operations, and is now making satisfactory progress towards recovery ; he has gone to Filey for a while to recruit. It may be recalled that his lordship is one of the Knox family, and a descendent of William Perm, the founder of the Quaker city of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Lord Ranfurly's earldom was only created during the last century ; but his English and Irish baronies are of older date. Formerly a Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria, lie was ai'terwar Is appoijited Governor of the dominion, which post he vacated in 1904. Ho owns several thousand a cits in New Zealand, and possoses a smaller property in the county of Tyrone, where he resides. He married a daughter of Viscount Charlcmont. The engagement is announced between Reginald Arthur (Regie) sec- \ oncl son of the late Charles Arthur Bcckham, an 1 Una, daughter of B Mr T. C. Williams, of New Zealand. '■ On loth inst. took place the marriage between Mr Henry Kemp-Welch, of 20, Embankment Gardens, Chelsea, and Miss Ethel M. Quick, eldest daughter of W. H. Quick, of Wellington. On November 18th next is to take place at Christ church, Doncaster, a marriage, between Mr Oliver VaughanPugh Bullied, son of the late Mr W. •Uullied, of Fligngraee, Invercargill, ami of Mrs Bullied, Pen-y-bryn, North Wales, and grandson of the late Mi Oliver Vaughan-Pugh, attorney-at-law, and Registrar of County Court, l.lnnf.vllin. and Marjorio Campbell. fJiUightcr of Mr H. N. Ivatfc and oi Mrs Ivatt. Madame Clara Butt and Mr Kennerloy Rnmford, with Miss Esta D'Argo, started on Monday last a toui which will last them right througli the winter. Lee-is was the town firs< honoured, and about fifty concerts altogether will be given. Madame Clara Butt and Mr Kennerley Rumford attended service at the Brixton Prisoi: a week ago, and sang a number oi vocal pieces. Between 600 and 70( prisoners were present, Madame Buti selected Dr. Co wen's "The Promise oj Life" and Mr S. Liddle's "Abide witi Me," and joined her husband ii Goring Thomas' duet, "Night Hymi at Sea."' Mr Rumford sang tw< songs by Gounod "There is a Greer Hill far Away" and "Nazareth." The ideal Homo exhibition whicli has been attracting enormous crowdi to Olympia has an exhibit interesting to New Zealanders. Miss Vida Reynolds, of Christchurch, is showing exquisite leather work, embracing artistic cushions, blotters, etc., whicl bear Maori designs and native flora: decorations. The Chaplain to the Bishop of Stepney informs me that the Bishop hat definitely accepted the invitation given him at the time of the Lambetl Conference by the Archbishops ahc Bishops of Australia and New Zealand to go out next spring for tht purpose of helping to hold a mission to men in their respective provinces. It is hoped that incidentally his visit may lead to the spreading and strengthening of tho work of the ' Church of England Men's Society there. The Bishop hopes to leave England after Easter. 1901). and to be back somewhore about the first fortnight of 1010. It is to be understood that his visit is independent of and distinct from the "Mission of Help" which it has been recently proposed to send out.