PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13030, 22 November 1905, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

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London, October 21. I give elsewhere a complete . list of : passengers who are' 011 board the s.s. lonic on their way back to New Zealand. . Those who have booked for Auckland include Mr. and Mrs. N. Alfred Nathan and their family.

-Although .Miss L. Barnard Brown (Whanganui) has booked her return passage to the colonies by the Orient steamer ohi rah, sailing from London 011 January 13, it .is very probable that .she will defer her departure until September of next year..

Tho sad news of Dean Hovell's sudden death was , received with deep regret in London, particularly by the members of the "New 'Zealand colony" settled here. Widespread sympathy is." felt with- Mrs. Hovell and the family in their severe bereavement. and great sorrow.

It is announced, in the Morning Post that: A marriage has been arranged between the Rev. Arthur Lloyd Hansell, rector of Karori and Makara, New Zealand, youngest son of Mr. Peter E. Hansell, of Wroxham House, Norfolk, and Mary, eldest daughter of the Right Rev. Churchill Julius, D.D., Bishop of Oliristchurch, New Zealand."

TIIO callers this week at the office of the New Zealand Government have included: Mr. 0. H. Johnson, Mr. G. F. Withers (Palmerston North), Mr. John France (Dunedin), Miss B. Bellamy and Miss Ada Bellamy (Invercargill), Mr. T. Webb (Auckland), Mr. Robert F. Allen (Christ-church), Mr. H. Chesson (Canterbury), iii l . Edmund T. Savers (Wellington), Dr. G. W. Harly (Duuedin).

Mr. D. Pearce, tho gallant steward of the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Rimutaka, who jumped overboard and rescued a lady passenger some months ago, has decided to leave the sea and to settle down ashore. It will be remembered that the husband of the lady offered to set. Air. Pearce up in business if ho would accept the offer. This Mr. Pearce has now done, and he will shortly make a start in his hew enterprise.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Webb are now getting to the end of their visit to the Mother Country. They are spending their last, ten days or so in London prior to going down to Plymouth ; a few days will be spent there, and then Mr. and Mrs. Webb will work their way down through France and Italy to join, at Naples, on November 12, the Orient steamer Orotava, for Australia. They tell me that their stay in England has been a most enjoyable one, but that they are quite content to go back to the colony,to which they belong. , •"

I regret to hear that Mr: J. H. Witheford has met with a slight, though painful, accident recently. As I mentioned last week, he had left town in order to attend the Sheffield cutlers' dinner. He had proceeded as far as Leicester on his way to Sheffield, when he had the misfortune .to have a- finger so badly smashed that he had to leave the. train and seek the services of a surgeon. He called at the houses of no fewer than four doctors, who were all out," and so he made his way to hospital, where several stitches were* pub' into the injured linger. Mr. Witheford was able to go on to Sheffield and to attend the banquet, but the delay en route made his arrival rather late.

Sir. and Mrs. Kersey Cooper, who have been residing at Bexhill, near Hastings, for some months past, have decided to leave for New Zealand by'the outgoing steamer of the New Zealand Shipping Company, which sails from Plymouth on November 4. Mr. Cooper, who called upon me a day or two ago, tells mo that he and his wife find the English winter too trying, and this year it has set in unprecedentedly c-arly. At first he thought of going for the winter months either to the South of France or eke to Southern Italy, but on consideration he came to the conclusion that there was no place like New Zealand, and no climate like that of the colony. Accordingly Mr. and Mrs. Kersey Cooper will take their departure from England in time to arrive for the New Zealand summer.

_ The day before yesterday the Shaw, Sayill, and Albion Company's steamer lonic left London outward-bound for the colony, commanded by Captain Carter, with Dr. S. M. Dickson as the medical officer on board. She is taking a large number of passengers, those in the saloon being:—Dr. R. S. Anderson, Mrs. Anderson, the Misses Anderson (2), and Messrs. Anderson (2), the Rev. A. H. Sedgwick and Mrs. Sedgwick, the Rev. J. Urquhart, Major R. Hughes and Mrs. Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. A. Clarke Begg (Dunedin), and the Misses Begg (3), Mr. and Mrs. N. Alfred Nathan (Auckland), Mrs. Nathan, Mr. H. Nathan and tho Misses Nathan (4), Mr. and "Mrs. J. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. A. Craven, Mr. and Mrs. W. Douglas and Miss Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. W. Elliott, Mr. and Mm.. J. Fletcher, Misses E. Fletcher and R. Fletcher, and Mr. J. M. Fletcher, Mr. and Mrs. H. Innes-Jones and son, Mi', and Mrs. F. Logan and Mr. F. B. Logan, Mr. and Mrs. W. Macdouald and the Misses Macdonald (2), Mr. and Mrs. A. Robertson, Mr. E. B. Robertson, • Mr. and Mrs. G. Robinson, Miss Robinson and Master Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. J. Stenhouse, Mrs. M. Coleman, and the I Misses Coleman (2), Mrs. A. Gumming, Mrs. J. Evans and the Misses Evans (2), Mrs. Grigsby, Mrs. and Miss Hedley, Mrs. H. Hervey, Mrs. Issels, Mrs. E. Jones, Mrs. D. Mitchell, Mrs. E. Powell, Mrs. J. -Ramsden, Mr.*. E. Richmond and Miss Richmond, Mrs. R. Taylor, Mrs. C. Wliittall, Mrs. E. Wilkie, Misses L. Bond, N. Brophy, E. Caulder, L. L. Clayton, E. Dowding, A. Forbes, C. Grace, K. Greig, 8. Larnev, Love! '(2), B. McKay, E. Morrison, Pilkington, G. Plowman, Rattray (2), E. F. Rawson, B. Reston, M. Scott, E. Sheppard, Southern . (2), E. Tudor, E. Watfordi ; M. Walker, E. Waymouth, J. Whalley, M. Wood, Messrs. E. N. Balfour, 11. Bissekor, L. Cjessbvre, D. H. Grace, J. Hodgins, F. H. Mander, H. Meacher, J. Middlcton, J. O'Leary, A. R. Pilkington, H. Holland, R. W. Southern, M. J. Toss will, 0. Urquhart. In the third-class the lonic, which sails to-day from Plymouth, carries about 400 passengers.

Mr. Alfred B. Carlsen (Auckland) has come to London to study sculpture, and lie tells mc that he has met with much kindness from .several eminent men whose mimes are well known as sculptors. Armed with letters of introduction from Mr. Seddon to the High Commissioner,-and from the Hon. E. Mitchelson to various eminent men, Mr. Carlsen informs me that ho has met with every courtesy here, for all have been pleased to help and advise the young colonist. Through the good offices o'f Mr. Reeves, Mr. Carlsen has been enabled to visit several notable studios, including that of Mr. Alfred Drury, A.R.A. Acting on tho advice of that gentleman, and through his instrumentality, the New Zealand stu- | dent has now entered one of the Kensington studios, and has begun a course in the same circumstances as Mr. Drury himself went through. Mr. Carlsen also had the privilege of inspecting the sketch model of Sir J. Logan Campbell, by Mr. Pegram, of St. John's Wood. He considers that, taking all things into consideration, Mr. Pegram has done well, but in his opinion it would bo fairer to the artist if he could obtain sittings from the subject. Mr. Carlsen has, of course, found time to attend a football match, in which the visiting colonists were taking part; he saw that between.Middlesex and New Zealand, and he an occurrence that shows in what regard'the colonists are held in England. " I must first explain," writes Mr. Carlson, " that the members of the

team, clad as they were in close-fitting black, appeared to be much . taller than they really were, and their size was everywhere commented upon. One undersized Cockney, standing by myself, took exception to the New Zealanders' vast proportions, apparently regarding their size as an unfair advantage. Guessing from my

barracking that I also was a New Zea-' lander, this gentleman screwed _ up his face as only, a Cockney can, and in a loud voice denounced mo as ' a long haddock,' much to' my embarrassment. If the man had: confined his attentions to me, v the crowd would not have concerned themselves, but presently, just after the visitors had crossed the line for the third fcj>ne, ho, in a disgusted voice, yelled out that 'A covey could not expect. English? men to stand up against such bleeding long 'addocks as 'them* New Zealand era.' At this . the attitude of the crowd suddenly changed, and if our friend had not beaten a hasty retreat he would have received a" bad handling at the hands of the British public, for apparently that body will, not have the visitors slightingly spoken of."