PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13938, 21 December 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

[FROM OT/R own CORRESPONDENT,] '' ' '. ..■-■• liONDON, November 13. . Madame OPatti may probably visit Australia shortly. •' '• 1"• .' ''"'-''•"'—-— -.'. Miss Elsie Playfair, a New Zealand vio- \ linist, played last week at the Beethoven Hall, in Berlin. '■' • • The congregation ■of Cambridge Lniver. -/ sity has decided to confer the degree, of D.D., honoris causa, on the Right Raj. |1H Cecil Wilson, Bishop of Melanesia. - ' Various New Zealanders are staying at Brighton for the winter months, including Mr. and Mrs. F. Bull (Napier) and Mrs. and Miss Binney (Auckland). Mr. Binney is in France at the present time. : Mr.. Cyril Towsey, of "Wellington, is still with Madame Meiba's company. His playing at somo concerts in Liverpool received V-i very flattering notices.' Mr. Towsey accompanied the diva horself at her farewell concert at the Albert Hall on Saturday. The Hon. James Boyle, second son of. " Lord and Lady Glasgow, has loft En-land.' ' for Melbourne, in order to take up his duties on the staff of Sir Thomas Gibson ' 0»r----michael, K.C.M.G., the new Governor of vVictoria. : Among the passengers by the outgoing P. and O. Steamer India is Sir Henry Greene Kelly, Chief Justice of Nigeria, whose destination is New Zealand. . He has been acting in a judicial capacity in the Niger Goun- . try since 1891. Mr. J. H. Wood (Auckland) has come y.'-p;'.] from tho North for a few weeks to attend to business affairs. Mrs. and Miss Wood-; ~ are still staying with relatives in Cheshire and Shropshire. . Christmas is to be spent in the Mother Country, and the return voyage to New Zealand will be begun in February. The Rev. J. L. Dove, the newly-appoint-ed headmaster of Wanganui College, is coniing up to London from Durham shortly." - On December 23 he is giving a dinner ',/•;. the Trocadero for " old boys" of the Wangs- ;cm| mii College, who happen to be on this sideof the world. There are a good many in j. and about London. St. Peter's Church, Cranley Gardens, Lon- - ! don, was the scene of a quiet wedding on Thursday, the sth inst., when Mr. Theodore Acland Harper, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard ! Harper, of Bruton, Somerset, formerly g{ . Chnstchurch, New Zealand, was married to Miss Mary Hunter-Brown, daughter of the late Mr. Charles Hunter-Brown, of Nelson, New Zealand. /;. ; _ 1 Mr. Maxwell Walker, M.A.,_ B.Cora.. . I lecturer on modern languages at "University, College, Auckland, spent only a week' in 1 London before going over to Paris to . ntor at the Sorbonne (University of Paris), for the purpose of studying educational methods, and specialising in "languages. He will go on to Germany and Italy later, returning to England to see it. thoroughly before going back to New Zealand. ■ ' . Sir James Mills was confined to a nursing home in Wimpole-street-'for about 12 days. He entered the institution in order to hare a slight operation performed by the eminent surgeon, Sir Watson ; Cheyne. The operation was very successful, and Sir James made a capital recovery. He returned to his flat at Parkside last Wednesday, and he proposes to spend a few days at Brighton [ with his family, in order to regain complete restoration to health. Sir James expects to leave for the Dominion before the.end of December. ' - . * '-. ..;. ■ ■ '. ,: ; ; . New Zealand readers— perhaps* '■ those in Auckland— be interested to know that Miss Catherine r Aulsebreok has lately been having a very busy and success-/" ful time. There is a probability that she • will be heard in grand opera at no distant ' . date, as she has been '■ engaged to understudy two parte (Siebel in V Fanst" and an- -;f other character in Wagners " Die Walkerie'/) | for the English opera season soon,to open at Covent Garden. The New Zealand contralto has a beautiful voice, and she sings really well—with feeling and expression^ \ . The Right Rev. the Bishop of Wellington,,, and Mrs. Wailis have now brought-1«> a close i their somewhat lengthy visit to the Mother ■ Country. ; : They started from London-to-day. bound for Naples, there to ■ join Oft the 22nd : inst. the Orient liner Orotava. Transhipping at Sydney, they expect to land in Nwr Zealand on December 30. .An important outcome of Bishop .Wallis'- visit to England " : has been the arrangements he has been able r to make for new- clergy to go out to the Wellington diocese, so that all the. vacant cures there are now thought to, be filled. V Clergy from this country are going out respectively to Bulls, Martinborough, Raetih%. Karori, and (possibly) Brooklyn. ~ '^v.ji'u ,

I> ■■ ■:■•■'. ■ : - - ■-■ . ■ ■ ■ ; ...:■"■■■,-■..:■■■■ !.■■,' .■. .■ ■::!-■:■,-;■- \ A quiet, but' pretty; choral wedding to9*i§lli place last Tuesday, the 10th inst., at Stoke r Church. Guildford, Surrey. The bride "aras - Miss Marian J. "G. Cooper, niece of Dr. sod Mrs. F. W. King', of Auckland, New 'Am > ' land. The bridegroom was the Rev. T. K? Allen, vicar of St. Paul's' Church, Slough. ; The bride, [who is well known in Auckland, _" wore a white crepe dress, trimmed with old lace, and a white picture hat. Therewith; one bridesmaid. At j the: conelusio^.'of M"»' ceremony was performed by the<R«v, Grantley Martin (rector of the parish), as-'" sisted by the Rev. Stuart Cox (vicar. of , Christ Church, Clevedon, and uncle of th> - bride)a reception was held at Stoke t«fr tory. Dr. F. W. Pennefather, who was a re* - >. porary judge of the Supreme Court of Kg/ Zealand for 12 months in 1898-9, received'a severe shock in a motor accident in Cheshire last week. On Wednesday moraine Mrs. , Foster, an old lady, of 64, and Dr. Pennefather, left in« a motor to spend'. the day at'; Chester. Approaching a - level crossing, about ICOyds from the railway station at Northwich, the three occupants of the car,noticed a man standing with a red flag,, TTie ; chauffeur slowed down, but did not stop/jaßfeS the car was struck violently by 'the auard's , van-of a train, which was backing. The or , was thrown on to the line* and pinned against, the post of a gate. ' * 'The advancing train tore jit away: from this obstruction, and.-, hurled it 10yds along the line. Mrs. Foster was first crushed and then thrown beneath the wheels of the van, which passed over '~. her; head, the wreckage of .j the car also falling upon her. Death was almost instantaneous. Dr. Pennefather was thrown clear of, the main portion of the wrecked car, and was severely shaken, while the chauffeur re-, ceived scalp wounds and internal injuries." .