PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12834, 6 April 1905, Page 3

PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

[fkom our own correspondent.]

London, March 4. It is announced that Lord Raufurly and General Sir Edward Hutton have become vice-presidents of the Lads' Drill Association.

Lord Onslow, ex-Governor of New Zealand, has been unanimously appointed Chairman of Committee of the House of Lords.

Tlio Hon. W. P. Reeves, Agent-General for New Zealand, has been reappointed a member of the Senate of tho University of London.

Some interesting comments are made in various London and provincial papers on the recent visit of Lady Onslow and her sou to New Zealand.

Sir William Russell, who is accompanied by his two daughters, arrived in London a few days ago, after spending two mouths on the Continent.

Mr. F. de C. Malet, chairman of the Bank of New Zealand board of directors, is at present in London, lie intends visiting Rome shortly.

Passengers at present on their way Homo from the colony include: Mr. Phillipson and the Misses Phillipson, Miss Griffen and Mr. W. C. Hunter, who are on board the P. and 0. steamer India.

It is announced officially that Mr. A. M. Mitehisou has been elected to the Board of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company to fill the vacancy created by the death of Mr. A. C. Garrick.

I hear that Sir 11. D. Sinclair-Lockhart and Lady Sinclair-Lockhart intend making a tour of the Australian colonies, visiting New Zealand as well. They have booked their passages by the Orient steamer Ophir.

The following *radle-column notice will probably be of interest to New Zealand readers: —"On Monday, February 27, at 32, Aberdaro Gardens! West Hampstead, the wife of Louis J. Nathan of a daughter."

New Zealand was represented at the last Court, held at Buckingham Palace on February 24. by their Majesties the King and Queen, in the person of Mrs. Joseph Gould, of Canterbury, who was "presented" by Mrs. W. Bnubhaw.

At. tar Working Men's College. Great Ormond-stieet, Sii Arthur 1". Douglas delivered an address hist. Saturday evening on " Twenty-seven Years of Colonial Life." hi the course if his remarks he paid a high tribute to the colonising ability of the British race.

Mr. John Malcolm, the newly-appointed Professor of Physiology to the University of Otago, has arranged to sail from Liverpool on the. 18lli of this month in the Cnnard steamer Ktruria for New York, en route to New Zealand. He will join the mail steamer Sonoma at, San Francisco on, April 6.

Information has reached me of the death of the Rev. Harry Clinton Baddeley, which took place at. Budleigh Salterton, South Devon, February 22. The late Mr. Baddeley was the eldest sou of Mr. H. Salkeld Baddeley, laic resident magistrate of Auckland. New Zealand, and grandson of the late General Baddeley, R.E.

Your late Governor, Lord Ranfurly, has just sustained a- bereavement through tho death of his relative, Lady Flora Knox, which occurred this week at her residence, 10, Gloucester Place. London. Lady Flora. Knox was the fifth daughter of the second Earl of Ranfurly, and was in, her 78th year. Heart failure was the cause of death.

Among tho latest wills proved is that of Madame Lucetta Belle Cole, the popular American singer, well known in, New Zealand, who died on January 5 last. She left estate in the United Kingdom which has been valued a! £1744 gross, with net personalty amounting to £1536, and probate of her will has hem granted to lor husband.

Mr. J. ('. Hanna is at present in London, making his headquarters at the Curzon Hotel. He was unfortunate in contracting fever at Pemambueo, in Brazil, while on his way from the Argentiue, and consequently has been ailing more or less ever since. He seems now. however, to be on the fair way to recovery, but naturally he feels tin' trying changes in the climate.

General Booth left London on Thursday morning on his voyage to Australia and New Zealand. He will go first to Palestine, holding meetings at Jerusalem and Jaffa: lie expects to reach Adelaide about April 10, which date happens to be his 76th birthday. Spiritual campaigns and officers' councils will be conducted at 14 of the chief centres of the Commonwealth and New Zealand. If Mr. Seddon is at one and the same time Prime .Minister, Colonial Treasurer, Minister for Defence, Minister for Labour, Minister for Education, and Minister for Immigration," remarks the Westminster Gazette, "wbv should not Lord Salisbury he Lord Privy Seal, First Lord of the Admi.iallv, and Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries? When, you are sacrificing yourself ihere is nothing like going the whole hog. - ' The Social Gazette, which is one of the organs of the Salvation Army's League of Auxiliaries, gives an interview with Nina Dowager Countess of Seafiehl, who recently joined' that body. The countess says that ,■-!)<> first became acquainted with the Salvation Army 14 years ago in New Zealand. "I fully consecrated myself to the cause of Christ, and became a soldier of the Salvation Army. I worn the dear Army bonnet, marched lie streets under the blood-and-fire flag, and'. I hope, conducted myself as a good Salvationist." Latest callers at tiro New Zealand AgencyGeneral have included: — Mr. D. Reese (Christchurch), Mr. J. S. S. Cooper, M.A., B.Sc. (Wellington), Mr. G. A. Sommers (Timaru), Mr. W. J. Mullin (Otago), Mr. J. S. Lawrie (St. Andrew). Miss J. McKean (New Plvmouth). Miss Ethel Standish (New Plymouth), Mr. J. P. Staples (Christchurch), Mr. 11. Hambleton (Greymouth), Mr. E. Newman (Turakina), Mr." A. W. Starle (Gisborne). Mr. F. K. Bird (Nelson), Mr. W. C. Talbovs (Dunedin), Mr. Adam IF. Johnston (Wellington), Mr. H. Miller, jun. (Auckland).

A wedding which will 'he of interest to readers in Auckland took place on February 24 at St. George's Church. Portsea. The bridegroom was Lieutenant ' Francis W. Hanan, R.N., of H.M.s. Powerful, and the bride was Miss Ditlcie Hume Willnox*. younger daughter of Commander Scott Willcox, R.N., of "Rangitoto." Shaftesbury Ro-id, Southsoa, and granddaughter of the late Hon. James C'Neill, M.L.C., of Auckland, New Zealand. The marriage ceremony was performed by the father of the bridegroom (the Venerable Archdeacon of Cashel). assisted bv the Rev. Cedric E. Crowley, M.A., and the Rev. J. Pullibank, B.A. Last week Mr. Donald Murray. M.A., read an able and interesting paper before the Institution of Electrical Engineers, his subject 'being "Setting Type by Telegraph." Mr. Murray dealt exhaustively with his new invention, the Murray automatic pageprinting telegraph systems. Two nights ago a discussion of his paper took place before the institution, and Mr. Murray showed 1 his apparatus at work. Last night he was exhibiting it again at the conversazione ot th " Royal Institution, on which, -ccasion Marconi delivered a lecture. Mr. Murray's numerous friends in New Zealand and Australia, will be interested to learn that his ingenious invention is at last on the fair way to being successfully taken up.