PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12190, 9 February 1903, Page 6

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

• [FROM OCR OWN" CORRESPONDENT.] London, January 2. Mr. F. StEDEBEKC, Dunodin, is now i Melksham, Wiltshire, where ho has receive an appointment in the engineering depar inent. of an important machine factory. i There are now comparatively few callei " nt the Agency-General, most New Zealane vu era being out of town. The only visitc a-, this week has been Mr. Goodison, of And en land. ad ! — 7~, l | It is officially stated that '"the expense ,' c i incurred by the"candidates at the recent Or! :, ° ni'v and Shetland election were:—Mr. Cat! r's cart Wason (elected), £1232: Mr. McKinno •e- I Wood, £1431; and Mr. Angier, £1323." I t | Among recent wills is that of the late Mi . William Johnstone Steele, who died in Lor K * ! don recently at the age of 62; its gross valu .»• I is set down* at £10,241. _ Mr. Steele was on 10 I of the directors of the National Bank of Nei I s - i Zealand. ,r. I as j A dignitary of the Irish Church writes t n " i me: "The man who has been appointed t m j the see of Auckland, the Rev. M. R. Noli as I g&ii, is an excellent fellow, who will be ; a " I strength to the Church in the colony." coruiallv agree, re 10 ! Several New Zealanders have been spend t>l " ing the Christmas and New Year holiday a at Cannes, wkere delightful weather has boei J": experienced. Mr. 0. H. Inglis, who ha ! been holiday-making there, is expected bad l " in London next week. ?e 'J It is announced that the estate of the lati . Mr. Edwin Piper, of Rosemont, Yelverton b Devonshire, who died on October 12 a Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand, ha. a been valued at £83,065 gross, including °* £13,119 in net personalty. 10 ~ Mr. and Mrs. H. Wadgory, Taranaki, wh< 'R have been for the past yeai on a visit tc this country, purpose "leaving on their roturi by the S.S. and A. Company's new steamei l' lonic, which is to sail on her maiden voyage , f to New Zealand by way of the Capo on the Jr j 16th inst, l,! \[ | On December 24- the sudden death occurred ls ! of Mr. Robert Hawkins, who had boon foi 0 j 29 years connected with the firm of Messrs 3. Cassell and Co., Ludgate Hill. At the time j. of his death, which took place at 5, Barx. dolph Road, Tufnell Park, London, N., Mr. . Hawkins was 59 years of age. I have reasor , s to believe that the deceased gentleman hae [ s relatives in New Zealand. >s y I regret to learn that Mr. Hnckworth, wlic i- was for some years senior clerk at the Now Zealand Agency-General, is at present ill. [. On Christmas Day he visited his daughter v and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Row, .. but was so much indisposed that he had to l 3 take to his bed at once. Mr. A. S. Row n succeeded his father-in-law at the Ageneye General. n London papers noted on Saturday last that n Mr. F. Faithful) Begg. lately M.P. for the d St. Rollox division of Glasgow, was on that i- day 55 years of age. It was noted that ho k began his commercial career in New Zealand a in the service of the Union Bank of Auss tralia. Ho then returned to Edinburgh, a where he became a stockbroker, and finally, y about 11 years ago. came to London and es- •- ttblished himself on the London Stock Exn change. Ho presided at the first meeting r of the Primrose League in Scotland, and 0 organised the establishment of the Grand - Council in Scotland. t Sir George Whitmore's book on the Maori war has had a very good reception. The i. author presented a copy to Mr. Chamber--3 i lain on the day of his departure for South y j Africa, and he also sent an author's copy dI to Sir Robert Herbert, the late Under- , ] Secretary of State, who has expressed himC self in high terms of the work. Mr. Ed--5 ! ward Wakefield (no mean authority) says, I a. | hear, that it is ono of the best written books r| of the kind he has ever road. Already the 3 i publishers are considering the question of s i a second edition, which would probably cont ■ tain a good many more portraits. 3 I f I New Zealand's papers are asked to note s | the death of Mrs. Fanny Gayton Crause, ' J relict of the late Major Henry Crause. and - ' daughter of the late Captain W. Clark } | Harris. R.N. At the time of her death 9 , Mrs. Crause was staying with friends (Mr. - i and Mrs. Sollom) at Icklnford Road, Bre--3 ' chin. The deceased lady was in her 9th ? ! year, and passed away on December 27, Yet i | another death is announced which New Zea- - i land papers are n=ked to take note of. It s J is that of Mrs. Charlotte Townend, fourth ■ | daughter of the Into Mr. J. T. Bedborough, s j J.P., of Upton Park. Slough, and widow i of the late Mr. Frederick Townend, of Nets' ting Hill. Mrs. Townend, who was 76 ? i years of age, passed away at Hounslow on 3 i Christmas Eve. ; I Mr. Stewart Macpherson, who has been - i suffering for many weeks from a severe at- » I tack of typhoid fever, is now, I am glad to . j say, convalescent. ' Mr. Joseph Bennett, the ) I well-known musical critic of the Daily Tele- - ' graph, referring to the matter, says: "His - ; many friends will bo glad to learn that Mr. | Stowarfc Macpherson has at last recovered > I from his prolonged illness, and hopes to re- ! j sumo all his professional engagements at the 5 j beginning of the year. But he has felt com- ! polled, through stress of work, to resign his i post as honorary conductor of the Westminster Orchestral Society, which has en- [ joyed the advantage of his services since its , inception in 1835." New Zealand readers will remember that Mrs. Stewart Macpherson is a daughter of Dr. Kemp, formerly of Vvcli lingfcon, New Zealand, and that Mr. Macpherson visited the colony a year or two , ago on an official commission as musical examiner. Mr. G. H. Campbell (Auckland) arrived in Londdn about three months ago, but tells mo that he left town almost directly for Scotland, where lie has been staving: with relatives. He visited Edinburgh, Glasgow, and several other towns, and, of course, "did" the Trossachs and the Highlands. After leaving Scotland he went to York, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, and other English centres, and wound up with a fortnight at Folkestone, returning thence to London. Mr. Campbell says he is now settled in this country for some considerable time, probably for two years, ns he is connected with a large business firm in London, and expects shortly to go abroad on the firm s_ business. Mr. Campbell says he had a delightful Homeward voyage, and since his arrival he has met with" the utmost hospitality wherever he has been, and his only complaint is on the score of the English climate, which is such a contrast to that of Auckland. I regret to record the death, which took place on Monday last, of Mr. Henry Robarts Madocks, father of Major W. Madoeks. The deceased gentleman, who was in his 78th year, was formerly in the Bengal Civil Service. He was a son of Mr. John Madocks, M.P. The death occurred at his residence nt 32, Eaton Place, London. Mr. Madocks had been in ill-health for some time past. He passed away very peacefully at an earlyhour on Monday morning. The funeral was solemnised yesterday. In consequence of | the death of the bridegroom's father, the weeding of Major Madoeks with Miss Laura Bnller, daughter of Sir Walter Holier, which was to have taken place tomorrow, necessarily stands postponed for a time. I learn, however, that it will not be long delayed, as it will have to bo before Major Madocks enters upon his new' duties in connection with his staff appointment at lor*. It will, in any case, be, of course an exceedingly quiet function. " '