PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14146, 23 August 1909, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

[from our own correspondent.] London, July 16Mb. George Beetham, who has boon an invalid for some time, is very much better. He has been out in his motor car several times during the- last few days. Mr. John D. Ritchie was last week in Dundee, revisiting, after an absence of 32 years, the scenes of his boyhood and youth in and around the Scottish city. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Donne (Wellington) have reached London. The former, who is now in good health, will enter snortly upon his new dutie&.nfc the- London office of tho New Zealand Government. The Hon. Dr. Collins, with his wifo and daughter, will return to the Dominion by tho Ruape.hu, on the sth prox. Mrs. Collins has been in England tor more than a year, Dr. Collins for only a few months. Mr. C. N. Worsley was honoured by a visit of tho Princo and Princess of Wales, who went to the. Modern Gallery, New Bond-street, last Saturday afternoon, to soo the exhibition of New Zealand watercolours. On his return from Geneva, Sir Robert Stout will go to Edinburgh to present a flag given by the children of the Dunedm High-street. School to the children of the famous old Royal High School of Edinburgh, at which many celebrated men have been educated. Outward-bound passengers by the P. find 0. s.s. Morea, sailing to-day from London, include: Dr. and Mrs. Scott Machal and infant, who are going to Auckland, Mr. John Foster Eraser, Mr. C. Schwab, who has booked to Wellington, and Mr. Mackay Clark, who is going to Cook Island. Mr. W. E. Webster (Auckland) and Mr. J. H. Cartwright (Hastings) have planned a tour through Scotland and the Midland Counties together: then they will go on to tho Continent. Some time in September Mr. Webster will sail tor New Zealand, via Suez, while Mr. Cartwright will leave for Canada.

Mr. Ben. Fuller has reached London by way of America. He had a very interesting interview with the veteran scientist, Edison, who presented Mrs. Fuller with an autograph photograph. Mrs. Fuller, by tho way, is at. present under treatment by a Ilarleystreet specialist, apparently with advantageous results.

The High Commissioner for New Zealand, who had the misfortune to hurt his kneo while entering a cab 10 clays ago, has sinew been confined to his house; the first few days he was obliged to spend in bed. Ho has now recovered sufficiently to get up and to take a little exercise, but ho is not yet able to attend the office.

Out, of 14 gentlemen who wore elected Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute at this week's meeting of the Council, six were New Zealanders, namely: The Hon. T. Kennedy Maedonald, M.L.C., Captain Alexander Davidson, Mr. T. H. Hamer, Mr. Hugh M. Sanders, Mr. Basil Smith, and Mr. Ernest Roberts White.

Mr. R. H. Hooper, of tho High Commissioner's staff, who has been chiefly engaged on exhibition work during six years' stay in England, has been under orders for somo timo to return to New Zealand, and was hoping to have sailed at tho beginning of tho month by the Ruapehu. He has, however, received notice to await Sir Joseph Ward's arrival in England, and it is understood that he may remain on here.

New Zealand medical students who have just passed tho quarterly examination in practical pharmacy of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons include: Mr. William Guy Embleton Allen, St. Bartholomew's Hospital (son of Mr. Frank Allen, lato of Wellington); Mr. Herbert Jack Rawson, St. Thomas' Hospital (son of Mr. Herbert Rawson, Wellington) ; Mr. William Alexander Dunn, Otago University, and St. Thomas' Hospital.

At St. John's Church, Wilton Road, a dismissal service, consisting of Holy Communion, was held on Wednesday for the Rev. R. E. Froeth, of Selwyn College, Cambridge, who is going out as a missionary to Melanesia for the first time, and for Mr. E. Bourne, who is returning to work in the Solomon Islands. In the absence of tho Bishop of St. Albans, the celebrant was the Archdeacon of Westmorland. Mr. Freoth and Mr. Bourne are going out. to Now Zealand by the s.s. Paparoa, and thence to their respective destinations by the mission steamer Southern Cross.

Mr. Gresley Lukin had a most interesting run down to Hythe the other day, a beautiful motor journey through the garden of Kent, which now looks quite its best. It was particularly interesting on this, the veteran journalist's first visit to England, to bo shown in the old Parish Church at Hythe the memorial window in honour of his own forefather of the end of the eighteenth century, Lionel Lukin, -who is honoured every year as the inventor of the lifeboat. Mr. Tunbridge, who was recently Commissioner of Police in New Zealand, is at present Mayor of Hythe.

Major G. M. Button. D.5.0., RE. (son of the late Captain Hutton, F.R.S., of Christehurch), who obtained a commission in the Royal Engineers some 25 years ago, on the nomination of the Now Zealand Government, is about to pay a visit to his homo in the Dominion, sailing next week in the s.s. Ruapehu. Since leaving the Dominion, Major Hutton has seen much of the world, including India, Burma, South Africa (during the war), Bermuda, Jamaica (during the earthquake). He is now going out to New Zealand on leave, accompanied by Mrs. Hutton and his baby son, with a view of possibly making his home there for the second time.

New Zealanders who havo this week left their names at the office of the High Commissioner are: Mr. F. Parsons (Kaikoura), Mrs. E. A. Parsons, Miss Parsons, and Mr. Rex Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. Ward (Kaikoura), Miss McDonald (Wanganui), Mr. Claude Bnrotrop (Nelson), the Rev. A. E. Worslcy (Wellington), Miss M. E. McPherson (Auckland), Mr. T. J. C. Warren and Mrs. Warren (Hawke's Bay), Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Williams (Hawko's Bay), Miss Trimnell (Hawke's Bay), Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Broad (Hawke's Bay), Mr. .1. F. Munnings (Christchurch), Mr. T. H. C. Bedford (Wellington), Mr. J. Clark (Auckland), Mr. Alexander Reese (Christehurch) and Miss Constance Reese, Mrs. M. W. Anderson (Wellington) and Miss Anderson, Mrs. Spencer Medley and Miss Medley (Wellington), Mr. T. E. Donne, Mr. C. A. Wray (Timaru), Mr. Morton Aldis (Auckland), Mr. J. S. Thomson (Port Chalmers), Mr. and Mrs. Ben. Fuller (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. H. Leonard 801 l (Dunodin), Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Davies (Wellington) and Miss Davies, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Luscomb© (Now Plymouth), Mr. G. L. Gook (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. G. Stead (Christehurch), Mr. Jehu R. Ngawaka (Whangarei), Mr. M. P. Ashley (Auckland), Mr. E. 0. Winstone (Auckland), Mr. W. H. Glibber (Auckland), Misses D. and E. Williams and Masters R. and A. Williams (Hawke's Bay).