OUR LONDON LETTER.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1130, 10 March 1910, Page 4

OUR LONDON LETTER.

SOME PERSONAL AND GENERAL NOTES.

From Our Special Correspondent. London, January 28. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones has now resumed his duties at the offices of the Dominion, No. 13, Victoria street. He is completely restored in health, having very much benefited from his long stay in Folkstone. ■Mr W. Acton-Adams, well known all over your country, and referred to m previous letters, has gone to Algiers and Tunis for the winter. He is staying at the Hotel Continental. Algiers, and intends, as the weather gets warmer, to go up the Mile to Biskra, and thence to Tunis to see more details of the Arab life. Before leaving England he spoke at Caterham, Purley, and Kenley in favour of Tariff Reform and Colonial Preference. He assured the electors- that with a small preference the Dominions would soon grow all the wheat and meat required for Britain, and provide a certain market for British manufacturers. Among successful candidates in the present elections at least three wi 1 be well remembered in the Dominion. Mr Ernest Claude Meysey-Thompsor,, the Unionist member for Tottenham and Mr A. St. George HamersLey, X.0., the Unionist member for Oxfordshire (Woodstock). Mr MeyseyThompson is the sixth son of the late Sir Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson, and brother to Lord Knaresborougn. He was born in 1859, educated "at Eton and Oxford, and is a J.P. for the North and West Ridings of Yorkshire. He spent several years in New Zealand, and has devoted much time to the study and improvement of agriculture. Mr Percy Alden, born in 1565, and educated at Balliol College. Oxford, is a journalist and lecturer; social and labour problems, on which 'no has lectured here and in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia, specially interest him ; he was for many years Warden of Mansfield House University Settlement and a member of the West Ham Borough Council. Mr Hamersley was born in 1848, and is the son of Mr Hugh Hamersley, of Pyrton Manor, Oxon., who was chairman of quarter sessions for the county for many years. He was educated at Marlborough College, and was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple. Having practised for some time in England, he went to New Zealand, where he continued to practise, and where he commanded a contingent of the Militia Artillery against the Maoris. Subsequently he proceeded to Canada, and practised at the Dominion Bar. He was made a Queen's Counsel in 1899. He played at international Rugby matches for England for four years, and was captain of the English team against Scotland. He rowed for the Kingston Rowing Club at Henley, and other regattas, and was instrumental in starling and encouraging the Rugby game in New Zealand, where lie fouded the Grand National Steeplechase Club. With reference to the departure of Mr Smith, of Dersingham, referred to in yesterday's letter, I have just reoeivpd further particulars from the family. Mr Walter William Smith, of Hill House Farm. Dersingham. King's Lynn, left by the Pericles from London on January 16. He was educated at King Edward VII. Grammar School, King's Lynn, and had five years' experience with hie father on their farm. His father is a tenant both under His Majesty and under H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, who kindly wished to see him before his departure for the Dominion. Your visitor joined the Territorial Force, when tho Sandringham Company was first formed, and served imder* Captain Beck, the ¥-'■- 'o Agent at Sandringham. His idea in leaving home is to gain experience in. sheep farming. A wedding of special interest to Dqininionites took place at All Saints'. West Dulwich. last week, when Miss Audrey Tegetmeier, was married to Mr Hugh Vincent Harraway, solicitor, of Gray's Inn, the eldest son of the late James Harraway and Mrs Harraway. of Streatham Hill. Mr Tegetmeier' is well known in New Zealand as the chairman of the Auckland Tramways Company, and for some time manager of the Bank of New Zealand, and the bridegroom is a nephew of Mr Henry Har.raway,of Green Island, Dunedin. The bride was given away by her father, and was attended by two cousins, Mies Margaret Tegetmeier, and iMiss Ida Bloomfield, who acted as bridesmaids. The bridegroom was accompanied hy his brother, Mr Victor Harraway, as best man. After the ceremony a reception was held at the residence of the bride's parents, Sussex Gardens, West Dulwich. Mr and Mrs Harraway left for Bournemouth, where the honeymoon is to be spent preparatory to taking up their residence at "Llantwith." 'Purley. The following announcement appeared in the Times' of Thursday: Waterhouse.—On the 25th January, at her residence, Hawthomden, Torquay, Lydia, widow of the Hon. George Mareden Waterhouse, formerly of South Australia and New Zealand, and daughter of the late William Giles, of Adelaide, South Australia, in the 83rd year of her age. Australian and New Zealand papers please copy. Permission lias been. given to Lieuts. S. A. Grant and J. H. Whyte, of the New Zealand Defence- Force, at present attached to the 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers at Tidwortji, to visit some of the ships : at Portsmouth. ■ ■ ■ ■ Mr-Edmund B. Giles was the New Zealander elected a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute at a meeting of the Council held on Tueeday ' laet; Lieut.-Genpral Sir J. Beva'n Edwards, K.C.M.G.,0.8., in the chair. Dr. Pavid Smith, one of the candidates for the pastorship of Knox ; Church, Dunedin, has withdrawn his name, and has been appointed to the Chair of Theology in Ma gee College, Londonderry. He is the author of . "The Days of His Flesh," a book now become one of the standard lives of Christ, Mr Thoma6 Dunhill, who. it will be remembered, gave, when in the Dominion, as examiner for the Associated Board of Music, a series of lectures for studente, is the composer ol a new pianoforte quintet, which will be heard for the first time on February 5, at the S_alle Erard, at ;. chamber concert given by Mr Josef Holbrooke,