PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13273, 4 September 1906, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

[FROM OrR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Londox, July 27. ■.■■■' r i .'Mr He.vrt Berridge (Waibi) after having been away from the Mother Country for 2* years, is now here on a visit to his mothet and other relatives. I hear that Mr. R. H. Walton, M.8., Ch.B. (Auckland), one of this year'* graduates of the Edinburgh University, has been | appointed house surgeon to the Infirmary &t Huddersfield. , '■ Sir. and Mrs. W. Bell Common (Gisborne) came Home by the s.s. lonic. Mr. Common undertook the trip Home to seek medical advice, and he . has put himself under a well-known specialist. ' Mr. Charnptaloup is one of two men of his year who have passed each of the four " proiessionp.k" for the degrees *' with distinction,," and record shows, th«tlduring his course of study at the University of Edin- £ burgh . this student from New' Zealand has i secured some eighteen medals and prizes.

; Mr. C. Lodder, of the Waibi Gold Mining Company, arrived in London k little while ago, having travelled via San Francisco. ll© will remain in London for a. short time as he has made 'arrangements to have frequent consultations with the chairman and directors of the Waihi Gold Mining Company. Several business : interviews have already taken place.

; : The following visitors from the colony have left their names at the London office of the New Zealand i Government:— Mr. C. G. Hutchinson (Waikato); Mr. A. W. Kirby; Mr. G. W. Dent (Waitara); Mr. W. Jones Smith (Auckland); Mr. St. Claire-Evelyn. Liardet (Auckland); Mr. R. S. Dickie (Auckland): Mr. Kirkwood Jones (Auckland); Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Proud .(Auckland); ''Mr. A. A. W. Button (Auckland); Mr. anil Mi«. Arnold Weston (Pahiatua); and Dr. W. H. Pa ikes (Auckland). ;

Mr. F. Wilding and his son, Mr. A. ._F. Wilding (Christehurch), have been playing tennis at the Shrewsbury Tournament. Flaying- together, father and son won the Gentlemen's Doubles Handicap; (Ik latter won tlw Gentlemen's Singles Challenge Cup, defeating the holder (Mr. E. R, Allen) in the final; and in association with Miss Pinekney he ran through the Mixed Doubles Handicap, and divided the prize with Mr. H. Chiswell and Mrs. Hawker, time preventing the arrival of a definite issue.

Some of the prize-winning', students of the Boyal Academy of Music took part in a pianoforte recital at the Bcchstein Hall a few days ago. One of the performers was the * New Zealand. student;*; Master Frank Hutchens, who played the '" Va'riiitions'' ot Chopin numbered Op. 12. as wcllas York Bowen's "Miniature Suite." Hit?,- performance occasioned much V applause, and a musical ;' critic who was - present says that Master Hutchens "showed fluency, neat inns, precision, and careful attention to detail." He is studying under Mr. v Tobias Matthay.

Miss Irene Ainsley, the Auckland contralto, had the honour/of singing to the Prince and Princess of Wales, by special command, at Marlborough House, last Wednesday evening. Her song was that lamentation by a Hindoo woman upon her deceased hushed,, so expressively set by the French composer Bcmberg, upon the interpretation of ; which by Miss Ainsley I commented in my notes upon her first public appearance in London. The Prince and Princess cordially complimented her upon her performance, •■ and:.presented her with a beautiful ■ brooch bearing the monogram "G. arid M." in diamonds.

Information has reached me that Mr. ; Samuel Tinsloy, chess editor of the London S> Times, and the Times Weekly Edition, will ', this week begin the publication in the chess column of those papers of a series of articles on New Zealand chess problem composers, ,: illustrated by /selections of their problems. There will bef twelve articles, and they will - be published weekly. The article and problems are compiled from material furnished', by Mr. S. . S. Blackburne, of Ohristchurch, , and the articles are written:;-by'; Mr. Allan 0. White, a well-known American chess pro- W. blemist, in continuation of ; other international sketches of chess problem composers which,, he has/, been : contributing to the \: Times during the past year or two. -

Elsewhere I give as complete a list as possible of the names,of New Zealand /students who have been, successful in the recent , examinations in connection ...with theifaculty of medicine of , the University of Edinburgh, and , the representatives of the colony have again done very : well. It will be * noticed that Mr. Peter McNab (Auckland), who is,in his . first year, has started off i most satisfactorily, as he is the holder of three, medals. Mr. -; Claude Tudehope ' (Auckland), in his second year, is a medallist, and to is Mr. Lawry (in his third Year), as well as Mr. A* G. Hamilton. Mr. C. C. Ties Mr. H. G. Feltham, and Mr. M. M. Morrison, while the prizeman in the subject "Diseases of, the Skin" is Mr. W. Bartholin .Sornmers (Christchurch). "■:«..-'■ "'. ' ;•-, .

Yesterday the Shaw -Savill and 'Albion Company's steamer . Kumara sailed from London, outward bound for New Zealand. Captain A. Morton is in command,* and the medical, officer on board is Mr. Sydney T. Champtaloup, M.8., Ch.B. (Auckland), who is going out to the colony for trip during the summer vacation of the Edinburgh University. The steamer lakes a large number of passengers, 'about 200 in all/including: The Rev. A. vbus and Mrs. Pybus, Mr. and Mrs. B. Ashby, Mr. A. 15. Banner, Mr. S. ;Bernstein) Mr. J. Berry, Mr. J. Buchanan, Mrs. F. L. Cunningham, Mr.: and Mrs. W. Dean, Mr. .T. Denton, Mr. R. Faber, Mr. and Mrs. (J. Fillmgham, Miss Fraser, Miss 0. Fraser. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gilfillan and Miss Gilfillan, Mr. and Mrs. J. McMillan and son. Mrs. MaeArthur, Miss MacArfchur, Mr. F. Prenderarast, Mr. and . Mrs. O. Rasmussen and Mrs. A. Rasmussen. Mr. and Mrs. D. Scott, Mrs. 0. Waterhouse and family (4). ' '\-V'<'