PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13355, 8 December 1906, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

[FROM our OWN correspondent.]

London, November 3. I heak that Miss Ida Locking (Nelson and Napier), intends to remain in England for tho winter. * L ■

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander J. Laurie (Onehunga) came Home by the s.s. Corinthic, arriving here about the end of September..

The name of Mr. A. P. Buller appears in the passenger list of the Orient steamer Ortona, which is to sail from London on the 16th ipse.

Mr. W. Cowern's oil separator and filter for eliminating the waste oil from the feedwater of steam engines is still under trial at the Admiralty, and so far has given most satisfactory, and encouraging results, some of which have come under my owu personal observation.

It is officially stated that "His Majesty the King has been pleased to sanction the retention of the title of honourable'■■ by Thomas Young Duncan, Esq., and Charles Houghton Mills, Esq., who have served lor inoro than three years as members of the Executive Council of the colony of New Zealand."

During the past few days the callers at the New Zealand Government Office here have included: Mr. Nealo Jackson (Wanganui), Mr. A. Fitzgerald, Mr. John Fitzgerald, and -Mr. W. Croniu (all of Temuka;, Mr. Arnold Weston (Pahiatua), Mr. Keith H. Izard (Wellington), Mis. Sunderland and tho Misses Sunderland (Uisborne).

. ' Mr. A. C. Caughey (Auckland) is now bringing his visit to the Mother Country to a close, and in tho course of a few days he will travel overland by way of Paris, Lucerne, Venice, etc., in order to join the P. and 0. steamer China at Marseilles, leaving that port on November 16. Mr. Caughey expects to be in New Zealand by Christmas.

i A Now Zealand wedding took place in London on Monday last, It was specially noteworthy from the fact that the bride had only reached England from Now Zealand barely three hours before the ceremony. She was Miss Ethel Dorothea Harris, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Chantrv Harris, formerly of Wellington. The bridegroom was Mr. Robert Hope.

Lecturing last evening at the Women's Institute, Victoria-street, Miss" E. A. Bar-n-eft took for her subject " Social Experiments.in New Zealand." She said that the people in that colony had gone further in regard to social experiments than those of any other country she knew. It was said that voting power was given to women there because they had not clamoured for it., (Laughter.) Trades unionists in the colony thought it hud boon given too soon, and that the women had not a sufficiently grave sense of the responsibility attaching to it. It had not apparently had much result except that of almost doubling the men's votes.

■ On Saturday last the Lady Mayoress distributed, at, the Guildhall, the medals, prizes, and certificates gained by the successful students of the Guildhall School of Music. These included Miss Audrey Richardson, from New Zealand, who is a pupil of Johannes Wolff. Her contribution to the musical programme on Saturday is characterised by one critic as quite the most outstanding feature of tho afternoon." Another writer remarks that "her playing of the 'Introductia' and ' Rondo Capriccioso,' by SaintSacns, earned her a great reception and a recall, and gave promise of a brilliant future." I learn that Miss Richardson, who is only thirteen years of age, and who has this year taken the school prize for the violin, possesses remarkable talent at her instrument, and this talent was discovered by Dr. : Cummings, tho principal of the Guildhall School of Music.

I According to tho Loudon ■ papers tho escape from Sunuysido Asylum, Christchurch, New Zealand, of Lionel Terry, the traveller and author, who shot and (killed a Chinamail for tho confessed purpose of advertising his book, "The Shadow of the Empire," was riot known to the, members of his family in London until they read of it in Tuesday's paper. .Terry's father left for a holiday in the : ,south of France last Saturday, out his brother, Mr. C. F. Terry, told a representative ..that the news of the escape came upon him as a surprise. "We have had three letters from him since his detention." he said, and were expecting a fourth. In his last letter, received some three months ago, my brother seemed very cheerful. He' said that he was being treated with every consideration, and—a significant fact, in view of what happened afterwards—expressed the hope that he would not be long in confinement."

Commanded by Captain Jaggard, and with Dr. W. H. Simpson as medical officer on board, €he New Zealand Shipping Company's s.s. Ruapehu took her departure from Louden the day before -yesterday; She is to leave Plymouth to-day,'on her way out to the colony. The saloon passengers on board .tin's vessel Lieutenant-Colonel J. E. Collins, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Abraham and .Miss S. Abraham. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Fielden and son, Mr. and Mis. F. E. Moore, Miss Moore and Master Moore, Mr. and Mrs. 11. Brewster and the Misses Brewster (2), Mr. and Mis. .1. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Hume, Miss Hume and Master Hume, Mr. and Mr.:. .7. Stone, Mr. and Mrs. J. •Wailc, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Weston (Pahiatua). Mrs. M. J. Favrer, Mrs. and Miss Marciel (Christchurch), Mrs. 11. Power, Mrs E. C. Sprott, Mrs. A. M. Butler mid Hie Misses Butler (2), Mrs. M. Nicholson, Mrs. and Miss Warrington and Master Warrington, Mrs. T. Mill, Misses Campbell. E. Wauchope, F. J. Wauehone, M. L. Ashby, F. Awdry, A. M. Chamberlain, L. Dee. E. Fcoks, A. Gorton, A. E. Hartley, A. Waldron, M. Wilson; Messrs. .1. Bray .1 B Colbeck, W. W. Fuller, .T. Holli'd'av. M Horner, A. Nicholls, C. Nicholls. L." PeelWalker. A. R. Wilson. A. von Zoltowski H. Cox. K. W. Cracknel!, 11. Cunningham, G. H. Gavin, R. Hcrworth, J. Hoffman, .T. Long B. Loxlcy, S. C. Marshall, A. K. Pitt. E. Roper", S. Roper, J. B. Russell. W. A. B. Russwarm, ■I. Shuley, C. E. Tipton. In the third class there, am about I<s passengers going out by the steamer.