PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14218, 15 November 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

[from . ottr own correspondent.] i ■ - London, October 8. Among those admitted .; to priests orders on Sunday in London was the Bev. R. R, St. J. Hovell, of the University of Nev Zealand, M.A., and ? Ridley Haii,- Cambridge. - t '. v - " ■ '*, . 'A well-known New, Zealander, v Mr.; Harry B. Vogei, has had the gratification o.f having a three-act comedy accepted for production Vby the' London Playwrights' Association. ;• Overt a hundred - plays were sub- . mitted, out ■of which Mr. -VogeiV and a one-act " curtain-raiser" were selected. , Mrs. C. M. \ Brooke (Madame Betty • Brooke), formerly'of tObristcburch,; who has been ii» ; New York for some months past, his come to England fof a visit, combining pleasure with the prosecution of her profession. ' She has ? had' a ? number of good - engagements •in this cbuntry, and is looking forward to doing more here at a later date. Miss Dorothy Knight (Auckland), r . who has been studying singing .in: London with Madame Blanche Marchesi, intends to leave for the Continent at an early date, the object being to improve her French arid German. Dr- A. Osborne Knight is going back to New Zealand next month, after an absence from the Dominion of two years. The Hon. Mr. Hall-Jones looks a great deal better since his enforced sojourn at Folkestone, where he has regained a lot of the strength he lost as the result of the accident to his knee. -He came back to the city a few days ago, and is now installed at his office again, but he is still, needless to say, exercising the greatest care. Throughout his illness he has transacted the important office work regularly, either at his house at Earls Court or at Folkestone. ..' There were two delegates from New* Zealand at the Dental Conference latelv held in" Berlin— A. H. Elkin (Auckland) and Mr. Charles Hay. The conference was held in the Reichstag, and the great building was filled day after day by representatives from all parts of the world. After having seen something of Devonshire, . Mr. Elkin is going to Sussex to stav with his brother, the Rev. J. B. Elkin. He will be on this side of the world until next spring, when the return journey will ,be undertaken by way of the .United States and Canada. From Cumberland comes this morning the news of the death of Mrs. William Reynolds, widow of the late Mr William Reynolds, of Trecarne,\ Cambridge, New Zealand. The deceased lady, had lived in England for many years, with her daughter, Mrs. Grice, at Millholme, Bootle, Cumberland, and it was there that her death occurred on the sth hist Tho deceased lady, who had attained a great age, had been ailing for some considerable time, and her condition caused her relatives much anxiety. One son, Mr. Henry Reynolds (formerly of the Waikato, but now resident in the Argentine), was or. a brief visit to this country a few months ago, the greater part of his time being spent at Bootle. Mrs. 'Reynolds 'and her married daughter, Mrs. iFrancis Felton, from Perjiambuco, left London last week on the receipt of the news that the: condition of the patient was causing anxiety. Another son, Mr. Richard Reynolds, is well known in Auckland.