OUR LONDON LETTER.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 765, 30 December 1908, Page 4

OUR LONDON LETTER.

mPERSONAL AND QENERAL NOTES (From Our Special Correspondent.) November 20. Mr E. Harrison Jones, of Dunedin, came by the Paparoa. Ho arrived here at the beginning of August, and lias now entered the employ of Mr John Radlough, ono of the largest wool firms in Bradford. It is Mr Jones' intention to spend twelve months in Bradford picking up experience in the wool trade. Mr Augustus Hennikor, of Greymouth, who left this week by tne Lusitania en route for New York and AVellington, has passed an interesting twelve months in the Far East, He left the dominion about a year ago and first touched at Colombo, where he spent a fortnight. He then took steamer for Singapore and Java, whore ho spent seven weeks s eing ovor rubber and tea estates, and .journeying all over the country. Thence he went to Southern China, and afterwards he spent five weeks in Japan, crossed over to Manchuria, and visited all the principal battlefields of the Russo-Japanese war. Port Arthur, he says, is now omy known as Ryojin, and Dalny has Lecomo Tairen. Mr Henniker stayed ten days in Tientsin, and three weeks in Peking, and went out as far sv& the Great Wall of China. He spent another two and a half months in Japan, and then visited British Columbia and California, and so via Now York to England. I have just received further particulars of the marriage referred to in my last between the Rev. Sola, tne new incumbent of St. Andrew's, Bullb,*> and Miss Cicely Gregson. The cw«v mony, which was fully choral, was performed by the Yen. Archd-ncon of Leicester, uncle and godfather of the bride, assisted by the Rev. W. G Barclay, brother of the bridegroom, and the Rev. C. H. Rogers, vicvr of St. Albans. The bride wore white satin, trimmed with silver thread and embroidery, and carried a 6hower bouquet of white flowers. The brulojmaids, the Misses Barbara and Winifred Gregson, and Miss Ella Sola, were in pink, with brown hats, \r named with chrysanthemums, .md each carried -a shower bouquet of brown chrysanthemums. After the wedding a reception was held at the residence of the bride's parents in Valkyrie road, Westcliff, a charming seaside resort, adjoining, and, practica' ly, a part of Southend-on-Sea. (The honeymooners arrived in the dominion by the Tainui a few days ago). Mrs W. P. Reeves gave an interesting account of events which led up to the enfranchisement of wo non ••-; New Zealand at a meeting of the students of the Social Reform Society of the East London College iast week. On November 5, at St. Peter's, Cranley Gardens, Miss Winifred Mary Hunter-Brown, daughter of the late Mr Charles Hunter-Brown, of Nelson, was married to Theodore Acland Harper, son of Mr Leonard Harper, of Bruton, Somerset. Many New Zealanders may remember the Rev. W. E. Paige, whose death, at the age of 72, was announced last week. So long ago as 1870 he went to New Zealand from Antique, in the West Indies. He left again in 1891, and, on his return to England, became an active worker for the Society for the Propagation .»f the Gospel. Mrs A. M. Clark, of Canterbury, who has been her© for some time, has lately had to undergo an operation for appendicitis. This was most successfully performed while she was on a visit to her daughter, Mrs Knowles, at Weymouth. Miss Audrey Richardson was accorded a very flattering reception at a concert given at the St. Jude's Parochial Hall, Heme Hill, last week. The concert was organised by Mrs Richardson and Mrs Mcllwraith as a benefit to the widow and children of a cab driver. M. le Comte de Jouffray d'Abbans, who was for some years the French Consul at Wellington, has been lecturing before the French Literary Society of Liverpool on "Excursions in the Antipodes." The count is now the French Consul in Liverpool. Mr Arthur Alexander, the New Zealand pianist, is taking part in a concert to be held on Monday, organ- ! se <_ by Mrs Arthur O'Leary on benalf of the League of Empire. Mr Alexander is a native of Dunedin, and studied at Wellington College. Last y« ar he came to England, and entered the Royal Academy of Music, where he is under Mr Tobias Matthey. ■ A copy of the Wanganui Chronicle lias found its way into the editorial department of one of our leading stationers' journals It contains some particulars of the death of Mr A. D. Willis, one of the leading stationers of Wanganui, and, indeed, of the whole of New Zealand. "Mr Willis," it goes on to say, 'was a London man. He went out to the colony in 1857, and, after varied experiences as goldseeker, printer, ahd. newspaper proprietor, he started in Wanganui a printing and stationery business, which he built up into a large and important concern."