OUR LONDON LETTER.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1169, 27 April 1910, Page 4

OUR LONDON LETTER.

SOME PERSONAL AND GENERAL NOTES.

(From Our Special Correspondent.! London, March 18. Miss Mary Cooper, of Auckland, who has been studying in London for the last three yeans with Mdlle. Olga Tismelli and Mr Gregory Hast, gave a farewell .recital on the 14th inst.. and sails for New Zealand on April 1. She is giving concorts-in all the large centres, and will probably be associated with Mr Cyril Towsey, another well-known New Zealander, in some of them. Mis* Cooper had the honour of appearing before Princess Henry of ' iJattenburg, Princess Christian, "the ■ Duchess of Bedford, tho Ranee of Sarawak, and many other distinguished people. She has been living in London with her sister, at the residence iof her father-in-law, Sir Henry Cun- : mngham, and she tells me she can never suitably express her thanks for the wonderful kindness and appreciation she has received everywhere in London. She leaves it with tho ."rentest regret, and earnestly hopes to return again. She had the honor of being shown all over the private apartments at Windsor and the Mausoleum at Froginore by Sir Dighton Probyn cjuito recently. Mr Justice lienniston, of Christchurch, h:is just arrived from the Dominion. Ho is on n holiday trip and is accompanied by his* wife and'M'ss Denmston. J Mr F. E. Btoiiip, K.C., M.P., the : well-known Auckl.-mder, has been very ; seriously ill,-and lias gone to Bauj heim, in Germany, for a stay of twelve months in order to recruit Before returning to the Dominion be I will probably come to England to study British politics. Mr and Mrs Moss Davis, of Auckland, and the Misses Blanche and .Muriel Davis, arrived hero last week, ihey will probably take up their residence here. Mr Leslie Gardner, of Auckland lias arrived in London on a business visit. , M , r T ;_ W , cir, of Christchurch, and of the V.aih. Gold Mining Company, left Liverpool for tho Gold Coast Colony last week, in the interests of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Miss May McKay, of Dimodin/has entered the Royal Academy of Music as a piaiin student under Mr Howard Jones. Miss Li:«ie and Mir--& Eileen -Vleivay are in Vienna, and the fourth sister, Edith, is at .school in Switzerland. Madame Betty Brooke, the Christchurch soprano, sang last Thumlay at a concert given in London by "the Aorthamptrin Polytechnic Institute She has also had several engagements , for "At Homos - ' in the West End London. At one given by General and Lady Hutton -at 3S Cndo<'a hquare. she s:iii,i; four sonn-s Mr Walter Kirby. tho Auckland tenor also sang. Mr A. J. I'.all'our was present. Profo«-or W. S. Thomas, conductor ol tho Auckland Liedertafel and Choral Society, has been awarded by the Surrey Madrigal Society, of which Sir l> ro'.,k. Bridge is conductor, first prize Jura madrigal submitted h* a competition. ■ Dv T<>mr;ost Anderson, president of the York*-nire Philosophical Sociotv lectured before Irs sor-iety on "New /Soj'land" kst week. The Maoris at -Kotorun. he tli'ink.s, have been nearly all spoiled by becoming Europeanised ])r Anderson acknowledged the great ■. kindness •md hospitality extended to ■Jum in the Dominion, and commented on the marked patriotism of the Domnnonites. ■Mr A. F. Wilding, your famous champion tennis player, will commence his playing tour in the South or J. , ranee. The Archbishop of York has conferred the Probendal Stall and Residential Canoury in York, vacant by 'the death of the Bishop of Hull, on the Key. A. D. Tupper Carey, Rector of Lowo-tok, who, it is understood, will the whole of his time to Church work in the diocese, especially to parochial missions. It is his intention to resign his Lowestoft living in time to allow his successor to take up duty before he* leaves for New Zealand on July 16, where ho is to conduct a special missionary campaign. The new Canon will bo absent about ' three months, and upon his return will take up his new position in the t .'lortiicrn diocese. ■ The Scotsman to-day states that Jolui' Co., Clydcbank, and tho I'a-'rneld Company Govan, Glasgow, have each booked one; of the cruiser battleships for the Australian and New Zealand navies. The orders were fixed yesterday. i