OUR LONDON LETTER.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1106, 10 February 1910, Page 4

OUR LONDON LETTER.

SOME PERSONAL AND GENERAL

NOTES

(From Our Bi>ecial Correspondent.!

December 31. I Mr and Mrs H. E. Gorringe, of 1 Mangaweka, will leave on January 1 for the Dominion. They arrived hero in June, and their visit was one of pleasure. They have epont a month , in Scotland, going as far as Inverness, • and much of their time lias been ! spent in London, and in Dorset. In I October they were on the Continent, and visited Paris, Lucerne, Florence and Monte Carlo. They are returning via Cape Town.

Mr 1). Lovatt, of the AVaihi Gold Mining Company's metallurgical staff, will shortly pay a visit to the Old Country. He has severed his connection with that company for the purpose.

Tho sight-playing prize (pianoforte) at the Royal Academy of Music has been awarded to Arthur Alexander, of Dunedin.

The New Zealand Association has opened its winter season with a whist drive at tho Westminster Palace Hotel. The attendance was the largest yet known at one of these functionsover seventy being present. Mr C. AY.ray Palliser had charge of the arrangements.

Arrangements have- now virtually been completed for the annual international lawn tennis tournaments on the Riviera. Your countryman, Mr Wilding, it will be remembered, won the cup in 190 S. The English exchampion was victorious in 1905 and 1906; tho following year Mr Ritchie beat him in the final; ancl this year it nassed to America tor the "firefc time.

• The Hon. Sir Robert' Stout has spent the last few weeks in Bournemouth. He is now so far recovered that lie will shortly return to London preparatory to commencing his .iourney to the Dominion. He hopes to be able to leave about the middle of January.

Next week there will be despatched from England to the Dominion a window of stained glass, designed and made by Messrs Jones and Willis, of thus city, which is to bo placed in position in the cathedral at Aueklau.l as a memorial of William Garden Cowie, D.D., who was -bishop of that diocese from 1869 to 15)0'2. and also for the last, six years of that period Primate of New Zealand. The- design includes some impressive life-size symbolical figures of our Lord in His triple aspects of Prophet, Priest, and King, one of which occupies the central position in each of the three lights. Above them are canopies with angels bearing descriptive scrolls, and below are shields displaying the arms of the diocese of Auckland, the arms and crest of the Cowie family, and those of the see. The cost of tho -memorial has been defrayed by public subscription.

The Hon. W. Hall-Jones is making very .favourable progress at Folkstone towards recovery from his illness, and it is fully expected that he will be able to resume his duties in the coiirse of next month.

Speaking at Cunning Town in port of the candidature of Mr AY. Thorne, M.P., Mr James Thorno, the; New Zealander, said that tariff reform in practice was simply and solely a capitalists' device for multiplying the existing opportunites to gather wealth. He declared that iNow Zealand mutton w r as cheaper in England than in the Dominion. "Wheat and dairy produce were also cheaper in England. The reason was that when a market was not subject to foreign competition prices were forced up, and one had to buy or go without. Anyone who knew anything about it knew that tariff reform was a deliberate scheme to delude the public.