PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12592, 6 June 1904, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

[FROM our own correspondent.] London, April 29. A capital portrait of Sir Walter Buller, by Ethel Mortlock, is among the pictures accepted and hung at this year's exhibition of the Royal Academy. I mentioned in a recent letter that Mr. W. P. Beeves had been suffering from an attack of influenza, which had somewhat pulled him down. He leaves London to-day for a short spell at Sandgate, in the hope that tho rest and change will build him up. Mr. H. G. Wells, the well-known author, is to accompany Mr. Reeves. Once more a New Zealand lady artist has won the honour of 'acceptance for her pictures at the famous Paris Salon. Two of Miss Margaret- Stoddart's pictures have been accepted by the Salon authorities, for the annual exhibition, which has just been opened, and which will continue during the next two months. Miss Stoddart is still staying at St. Ives, in Cornwall. < Mr. Charles F. Minnitt, Eastern inspector of tho Now Zealand Insurance Compaq', has come Horn* for a couple of months, partly on business and partly on a holiday. He has just made an extended tour in the Far East and in Egypt. Before returning to his duties by an Orient liner, Mr. Minnitt proposes visiting the south of Ireland, spending some time with his relatives there. Last Tuesday a wedding of New Zealand interest was solemnised in Edinburgh at St. Matthew's Church. • The bridegroom was, Mr. Thomas J. Stuart, of Tutira Lake, New Zealand; the bride was Miss "Ally" Smith, daughter of the late Rev. Henry Wallis Smith, D.D., of Kirknewton and East Caldor. The wedding ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. Webster, of Row, assisted by the Rev. D. Mclvillo Stewart, of St. Matthew's Church, Edinburgh. There was a small colony of passengers from Now Zealand on board the P. and O. steamer Oceana on her last voyage from Australia, The names of those who booked through from New Zealand were, according to. the official list: Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm, *■ r. and Mrs. L. Samuel, Mr. and Mrs. J. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. O. Wveherley, Miss M. Robertson, Mr. L. G. Barrett, Mr. G. do la Poor Boresford, Mr. R. Edwards, Mr. E. .1. Herriot, Mr. E. F. Sneddon, Mr. E. D. ! Skinner, and Mr. H. C. Webster. This week's callers at the Now Zealand I Agency-General have'included : Mr. Percival I W. Woods (Wellington), Mr. Frank D. Johnson (Wellington), Mr. G. P. Hayes (Waimatc), Mrs. Allan Douglas (New. Plymouth) and Mr. C. Allen Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. F. Z. Moore (Dunedin), Miss Edith Moore (Dunedin), the Rev. James Paterson (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. Lane- (Wellington) and Miss Lane, Miss Cowlishaw (Christchurch), Mr. R. Price (Christchurch), Major Nelson George, Mrs. Nelson George, and Miss Sutton, Mr. H. W. Anthill (Wellington), Mr. H. F. Bcrnan (Napier), Mr. Cyril Coventry (Dunedin), Mrs. Richmond (Wellington), and the Misses R. and B. Richmond. On Monday in the current week the funeral of Bishop Hobhouso took place in the churchyard, of Pitoombe, Somersetshire. The- body, which had been brought from Wells, was mot at the churchyard gate by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Canon Church, and the Rev. D. A. Norton, the vicar, who preceded it into the church, saying the opening sentences of the burial office. The 90th Psalm having been chanted, the hymn " Father of Heaven, upon Whoso Love Profound," Was sung, and, after tho lesson, "Jesus lives!" At the. grave the hymn was "On the Resurrection Morning." The mourners were, besides the relations and near friends, a largo number of influential clergy and laity of the neighbourhood, as well as many villagers. Interesting and appreciative notices of tho late Bishop have appeared in the Times, the Guardian, and other prominent journals. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Dodson (formerly of Hamilton and latterly of Omahu, Thames) are now in this country. They travelled by way of Sydney, joinine there the White Star steamer Medic, calling successively at Melbourne,, Adelaide, Albany, Durban. Capetown and Teneriffe. They experienced a good passage, the only bad weather encountered being between Teneriffe and Plymouth. Since arriving here Mr. and Mrs. Dodson have been visiting friends in different parts of England, and everywhere have been struck by the slowness with which things in England have moved during their 15 years' absence in the colony, so far as social and industrial works are concerned. Mr. Dodson is now interested in motor-car construction and.at Coventry, where he has recently been staying, is, of course, in the midst of the English hardware trade. Mrs. H. B. Leatham (New Plymouth) and her daughter were passengers from Australia by the P. and O. steamer India, which arrived in London early last month. Miss Leatham is to continue her educatioual studies in this country, and, accordingly, arrange-: ments have been made for her to attend ; the Wycombe Abbey School, in Buckinghamshire, the next school term beginning in the ] . course of a few days. It will be remembered that one of the mistresses at this justly-famed Abbey School is Miss Wallis. a sister of the Bishop of Wellington. New Zealand. During the school term Mrs. Leatham will travel about England, going'as far north as Durham, and rhe. hopes in August and September to be able to spend some time on the Continent with her daughter, but their route is not yet definitely arranged. It is the present intention of Mrs. Leatham to return to New Zealand about November next, travelling again via Suez and Australia. . It is announced to-day by a London paper that tho marriage arranged between Mr. Stephen Walter, younger son of Mr. Walter, of Bear Wood, Wokingham, and Beatrice May, only daughter of Air. J. H. Coleman, of Waititirau, Napier, New Zealand, will take place in London in the third week of July. Mr. Walter is a younger son of Mr. Arthur Eraser Walter, eldest surviving son of the late Mr. John Walter—tho third, and now chief proprietor of the Times. In relation to the engagement, it is remarked "That great newspaper owes its origin to the depredations of the French fleet in the latter half of the eighteenth century. John Walter the First was an underwriter at Lloyd's, and lost practically the whole of his fortune through the capture by a French squadron of a fleet of merchantmen, on which ho had taken large risks. Like many men fated by misfortune, Mr. Walter took to journalism, and tho Times was the outcome. He died three years before the battle of Waterloo, and was succeeded by John Walter the Second, who was horn in 1784, just four years before the first number of the Times was issued. It was this John Walter who originated the system of foreign correspondence, and who, in 1814, after innumerable difficulties, succeeded in getting the Times printed by steam. When he died in 1847 John Walter the Third took tho helm, and continued to control the fortunes of the paper until 1894, when the control fell to Mr. Arthur Frasei Walter, younger brother . of John Walter the Fourth, who was drowned in 1870 while skating." I have just received, a farewell letter from the Rev. James Paterson (Wellington), who is on his way back to the colony aftei a delightful holiday trip in the Unit d Kingdom. Sinca his arrival in the Old Country last October. Mr. Paterson has travelled a great deal through both England and Scotland, visiting old familiar places and some places which were unfamiliar, but most interesting, and he has seen many old friends whom he had not met for many years, and has made a number of new friends". A good deal of his time was passed in Scotland, viz., in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Crieff, Aberdeen, Kinross, St. Andrew's, Paisley, Greenock, the Kyles of Bute, in Argyleshiro and in Ayrshire— Paterson's native place. He travelled in all weathers— frost and snow, in wet and cold; but I am glad to hear that he kept well through it all, and up to the time of his departure he was eujoying excellent health. Mi. Paterson remarked that after his experience of a winter in the United Kingdom ho will certainly appreciate more | than ever the much finer climate of Now i Zealand. Mr. Paterson stayed for some i weeks in Liverpool, where he was formerly i minister of Ever ton Valley Church and first I minister of the congregation; indeed, I be- i lieve that he was instrumental in founding i the congregation and in building the handsome church and opening it clear of debt. I On the occasion of bis return after an ab- J sence of many years, Mr. Paterson met with p most hearty welcome from his old congregation, and preached to them ou three Sundays. On the occasion of his final visit there last Friday, a congregational "At Home" was held in Mr. Paterson's honour! for the purpose of bidding him good-bye, and the opportunity was taken at the same time of unveiling a stained glasg window and a brass tablet, which had been erected j in order to commemorate Mr. Pater3on's ministry among them. I

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