LONDON GOSSIP.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 11 September 1909, Page 1

LONDON GOSSIP.

(From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, 18th July. The names of .many New Zealanders appeared at the 'Little Gallery" of the. •■ Amateur Photographer and Photograp-' ; hit- News in Long Acre, where an exhi- ! bition is on view of work by colonials. There are also exhibitors from Austra- . lia, Canada, South Africa,- India, Ceylon, the West Indies, and Hong Kong. 1 The New Zealanders are, however, very : much in excess of the others. 1 At about the end of this year Canon ■ H. C. Pollock, of Rochester* Cathedral, , will go to the Dominion, he having been chosen to hold there a Mission of Help, similar to that held in South Africa some time ago. The Eev. H. A. Kennedy, Vicar of Horbury (Wakefield). will be with him. The -work in New Zealand will comemnce about Ash Wednesday, and six weeks or so will be spent in each island. I am just advised of a marriage which took place on the 15th ult., at St. Thomas' Church, Portman Square. This was between Miss Charlotte Evelyn Kinsey, eldest daughter pf the late Mr O. E. Kinsey, of Eenwicktown, and Mr George J. Davis-Goff, fourth son of the late Mr Charles Dayis-Goff, of Picton. From Paris I am advised of the mar- • riage at> the Temple Israelite, Rue de la Victoire, of David, only son of the : late Lawrence D. Nathan, of Auckland, and Simone, daughter of Mpnsieur and Madame Camille .Oulman, „ ofl 2 Hue: Penthieve, Paris. . j During the last days of June there ' died at St. Leonards on Sea; Mr Freder- i ick E. A. Graham, the husband of Mrs '• Edith Annie Graham, formerly of Christchurch. ;. The new contralto discovered by Madame' Melba during her New Zealand tour, Miss M. Thompson, is a resident of Stewart Island, where her parents are the owners of Greenvale, a wellknown summer residence at Half-Mcpn ' Bay. They have lived there for many years, but the family came originally from the Shetland Islands. It was in ! reply to an old school friend that Ma- 1 dame Melba agreed to hear the girl sing; but .hardly had Miss- Thompson; sung half a dozen bars that she realis- 1 «d that she had found a prodigy, and called out to Mr John Lemmone to <pmo and listen. "It is a wonderful voice," enthusiastically declared the great Australian singer, "from two and a-half to j three octaves, and without a break." Miss Thompson from childhod has been noted for the sweetness of her voice, ; and has received -lesrpns in Dunedin j from Mr Maitland Gardiner and Mr Barth. She and a younger sister, who teaches music at HalfMoon Bay, are well-known at concerts at the Bluff and Inverrargill. They are cousins of Professor Franklin Peterson., of Melbourne. i