PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13455, 4 June 1907, Page 3

PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

V" ,; " '11' ■•-"- - " '•' i " ■ _■; .-• [feom OUB owk CORKESPOSDEST.] Losdos, April 26. It is very unfortunate that owing to illness— severe attack of influenza and complications— Amy Castles has been compelled to; abandon for the present her appearance in. grand opera. ■;'_;. ; Mr. Mervyn J. Stewart, son of; Captain Stewart, of Auckland, called to see me just before the closing of the mail. Captain Stewart •is now staying 'at . Falmouth, and his health has much improved. ; Mr. J. H. Withefordis living at Sutton, as he -finds it better to be a'little way out of London for the sake of his. health. He comes into town every day, having offices at Palmerston House, Old Broad-street. A recent arrival from : Auckland is Mr. Percy Holt, who came by the Orontes";;' asfar as Plymouth; ho landed there and spent a ; few days in Cornwall before continuing his journey to London. He intends to remain in the United Kingdom for about three months. ■-...'''" ■ Mr. and Mrs. Colegrove (Auckland) and their daughters reached England by the s.s. Gotbio after a very delightful voyage, and Mr. Colegrove is now enjoying a well-earned holiday; he had not revisited his homeland for 27 years. At present they are all staying with relatives at Banbury. - , * Mr. and Mrs. J. Lawry (Auckland) and their two daughters reached; London by the P and O. steamer Marmora, after a remarkably smooth trip from Australia. Iney are on a holiday visit, and in the course,of a few davs Mr. and Mrs. Lawry will go -to Edinburgh to see their son who is a ; medical student at the Edinburgh University. t Callers at the London Office of the New Zealand Government have again been tair numerous this week, iuoluding as they have done the following:-Mr. ■ Sbolto '/■ Dickie (Auckland), Mrs. R. J. West V (New Plymouth) and Miss Amy B. West, Mr. and Mrs. Colegrove (Auckland) and the Misses Colegrove, Mr. J. B. Logan (Napier), Commander Morgan and Mrs. Morgan. Dr. Gleadining. a young New Zealand doctor, received somo short time ago tin*, high compliment of being appointed physician to the Spanish Court, and "as boon living in- Madrid for some time . past, iv was announced that he would take; special charge of the young Queen during her, impending illness, together with an English nurse, who had been engaged to work under him. / ■",,.'. . '■■■."' . . ■.'"'■'■ '. Mr. and Mrs. H. Connell (Khyber Pass Road, Auckland) left the colony early in, February for: an extended tour of the Old Country and Europe. Landing at Plymouth early this month, Mr. and Mrs. Connell paid flying visits to Dawlish, Exeter, and Sidmouth before coming on to London. "•■■■.From now until the end of July London and. its immediate vicinity will be their i headquarters, v ' * It will interest readers in the colony to learn that three New ■", Zealand medical students have passed their final examination at Edinburgh this month, namely, Messrs. Francis L. Scott, David Golding, and John' Hugh Simpson. They have been duly admitted licentiates of the. Royal College ;of Physicians and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Mr. Arthur Edwin James, another medical student from the colony, passed the third examination of his five years' course. • . The list finds publication to-day of a number . of candidates who, having passed the final examination in medicine, surgery, and midwifery of the examining board in England, have had conferred upon them the license of the Royal ■; College of Physicians of London. Included in the list I notice the following New Zealand names:—William Aiken Fairclough,M.B,,Oh.B.» New Zealand University; Erio LaohlanMarchant, M. , Ch.B., New Zealand University ana London Hospital: Charles Arnold. Pember-! 1 ton, New Zealand University and Middlesex . Hospital. ; ; This week's- Paris Figaro refers in most 1 complimentary terms to the singing: of "the ' sisters Sybil et Dorotbie Tancredi" '(Haw, 1 kins), at Madame Marchesi's ■ matinee, 'of ' some compositions of the Landgrave of ' Hosiie, which ho had expressly asked that those young ladies might : interpret. Le Figaro saysl translate, of course: ''Twelve 1 items, very well; sung by the sisters Sybil and Dorothy Tancredi, exhibited vividly , both the genius and the musical skill of the royal composer, f who was a pupil of. the ! eminent Gabriel Faure. Both the; composer and [ his exquisite interpreters were enthusiastically applauded." It is also mentioned that Miss Irene Ainsley sang successfully at the same matinee. ■■■..■•;•, > It is announced that the vacant captaincy] in' the 7th Princess Royal's Dragoon; Guards, ; at Canterbury, has been filled by the pro- : motion of the senior subaltern, Lieutenant Michael E. Lindsay.' : Captain Lindsay; I ; understand, joined -; the ; gallant Black » Horse'' in March, 1900, from the New Zoa-. " land Contingent, then at the. front, j his 1 t grade being that of second lieutenant in the I New Zealand local forces. ; He served with the New Zealanders in.the fighting for the > relief of Kimberley, : and was in General ; Mabon's dash ; for that place; he served in i the operations in Orange Free State;; the actions of Driefontein, and Zand River ■ the operations in Cape Colony, < including i the action- of Oolesberg, and the operational li in the Transvaal, in the course of which he • was slightly wounded.; He is the possessor of the Queen's medal with four clasps. " . J .-.'.'. _ ;'•• ■.■■■■■,..■.■'■.■_.;.• '- The New Zealand Shipping Company's r steamer Rimutaka left London a few days 1 ago, commanded by Captain Greenstreet; ' and with Dr. H. W. Simpson as medical - officer on board. Naturally at this time of f year there are /.riot 1 many people leaving I England for New Zealand. Those in the 5 ' saloon of the Rimutaka are: Mr. and Mrs. ? B. H. Bradley, Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Billiard, Mr. and Mrs. F. Wheeler and Miss • Wheeler, Mrs. H. F. Gotz and family; (3), Mrs. K. Logan and Miss Logan, Mrs. Simpi son and Miss M. Simpson, Mrs. C. Wilkinl son, Mrs. E. M. Willis, Mrs. :C. Durham; ' Mrs. Woodhead, Miss M. Nelson, Miss M. ' J. S. Evans, Miss S. Musgrave, Miss F. Par- • kinson, Miss E. Richardson, Miss L. Woods, • the Hon. R. T. R. Rowley, Mr. N. W. Ed- = wards, Mr. R. G. Raw, Mr. : L. Cullis, ; Mr. ' A. R. Furse, Mr. R. Garroway, Mr.". R. f Semple, Mr. L. B. Simeon,. Mr. G. D. Simp- . son, Mr. G. Woodhead. In the third-class ' there are about 170 passengers. l r Some , notes about' Sir , E'ldoh Gorst -. are [ published in M.A.P. this week. The writer says: "Lord Cromer's successor as 'British [ Agent at Cairo ; is Sir Eldon Gorst, who ' thus gets a nice, little 'rise' from £1200 a ; year as Assistant- Under-Secretary ;at [ the • Foreign Office to £6500 and a palace. The Gorsts descend on the distaff side from the " ancient Cheshire family of Lowndes, and Sir Eldon's grandfather took that name. | The son inherits the singular ability of his v father, Sir John Gorst, but he has it under ' much better control. The father never got r beyond minor office because he could not ' ' suffer" fools gladly,' or indeed on any terms; the son, trained for nearly twenty ' years in the hard school of Lord Cromer, ° is externally the bland, impassive diplomat; ! incapable of the ' blazing indiscretions' of tongue and pen in which Sir John used to ■ revel. Another quality which Sir Eldon in- ; herits from his father is an iron constitu- • tion, testified by ruddy cheeks and sturdy frame. Ho was born 46 years ago in. New ' Zealand, his mother being a; daughter of • the manse there. The Khedive did him the ! ™.I, oi , bem g present at his marriage to ; Miss Evelyn Rudd, daughter of Mr. C. D Rudd the great South African financier, ' and they have one little girl. Lady Gorst, wife of Sir Eldon Gorst, is a pretty, attractive woman, who will make a charming chatelaine of the British Agency at Cairo She is fair and petite, with" soft, light hair and tiny, regular features.:: Her father, Mr. Rudd, is one of our richest South African financiers, who owns ; a-fine estate and the forest of Ardnamurchan, in Argyllshire "