OUR LONDON LETTER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, 14 December 1908, Page 1

OUR LONDON LETTER.

irrom uur vjraggpxiisjfQuami*.) At pebsonal^teMs. ■i ■■■■rffjt->y-s, LONDON, 30th October. •r Mr 0. E. Stout, bob- of Bir- itobei e Stout, the Chief lattice of jtfew'lZe*** a land, is just now in London. He! ha „ come over to go into resiaencti&t ifCara a bridge University. MrTSWUt-.tashthre brothers studying in tKe-aOld'^iCdiintij , two of them being medical student* a Guy's Hospital. '* The Koman Catholic Bishop of -Auch land, who came over to attend the Euch c aristic Congress, journeyed to Borne las 1 week with a party of 225 pilgrims. t In reading over my notes of last; week I, I notice I gave nest- Monday (that is 1 • last Monday) as the day on. whicli ttji x Bishop of Auckland would leave in tfii . Tongariro. It should have read "nex r month," tho actual date js^^o-^nbe: s 26th. lam now able' iS~give you tlji t names of the clergymen who will accotri . pany him. They aris the'Revs. G. ;0 a Cruikshank, F. G. "Harvie, Cecil How- . ard, C. Mortimer Jones, and E. H 1 Strong. The. ' Bev:" G. C. Cruikshani 1 was priested-this year only. The- Bey, 1 Francis Gia^w?H&iviS''gnA&a&ii''B.&. ■ with second-class" theological honours, 2 at Merton College, Oxford, in lbo4. Rev. Cecil Howard js just now at /""tt* > Christchurch Mission in . Poplar. Thie 3 Bev. Clyde Mortimer Jones graduated « B.A. at Wadham jDbllege, Oxford; is i 1903. He studied-'.theology at Leeds i Clergy School in 1904, and a year lata r was appointed curate of : St. . James's, t Fulham. The Bev. E. H.. Strong is b , New Zealander, and graduated M.A. of , the Univemty of New. Zealand in 1900. ( He then cams to Oxford, where he was senior colonial student, and won the Casberd Exhibition, and took the dej grees of B.A. and B. Lit*. After taking ! Holy Orders he was appointed in 1907 1 to the parish of St. Barnabas, Balsall ' Heath, Birmingham, i — .— _ ' Mr John Thornton,- Principal of Te , Ante College, Hawke's Bay, is jnst now , in London. He caine by the Macedonia, arriving on September 28th, and has since made a bicycle tour of the Eastern 1 Counties. Mr Thornton is here chiefly to arrange for the publication of a short popular history of India. Mr John Percy Gabbatt, M.A., M.Sc, the new Professor of Mathematics at Canterbury College, Christchurch, isdue to leave for the Dominion by the I lonic in the first week in December. Mr Gabbatt is 28 years of age, and married, and has been mathematical lecturer at University College, Nottingham. He won many scholarships in his school and college caneer, and was bracketed^ Eighth Wrangler in Part I. of the' Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge in 1903, and a year later took a first-class in Part 11. of the Tripos-*-* high dis*^ tinction. He holds also the Teacher's Diploma of London University. Mr H. C. Cameron, the New Zealand Produce Commissioner, gave evidence on, Monday before' the Departmental Com-' mittee appointed? by the Board of Trade to inquire iiato combinations in the meat trade in .tlrß> .United Kingdom, but the evidence; 6o?:far, is only of a formal eharaet4r. : - *<y;sh-. Ad^ujArngs • -. The new steamer built for the Shaw-,? Savill, and Albion Company Ney ,. Zealand line, the Tainui, had -he^trial trip last week. She lias been tried over tho measured mile, satisfactorily. The; steamer 'is a 10,000 k ioii#Jfij(jßdJto carryfrozen produce, of 6500* 'hOrse-powei-jZ and has five decks.