PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 1449, 3 October 1910, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

[.FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] London*, August 26. It is announced that the Rev. R. J. Hall has accepted the pastorate of the Unitarian Church at Auckland. Ho will leave Aiudell in November for New Zealand. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Warren (Christchurch) have been travelling about the United Kingdom for some weeks. Just now they are in the English lake country, and they seem to be delighted with the charm of their surroundings. h Mr, and Mrs. E. T. Taylor (Wellington), who have been travelling about the United Kingdom for three months, left this week for the Continent en route to Naples . to join their steamer. Mr. Taylor has been combining business and pleasure. On the Ist pros. Mr. H. Fortune (Whakatane) is going back to New Zealand by the s.s. Ruahine. He will be followed later by his uncle, Colonel Kettle, late of the 19th Hussars, who intends to make a tour of the Dominion. Mr. Fortune is in Edinburgh (his birthplace) this week. Mr. E. S. Pees (Palmerston North) and Mrs. Pees have been doing a. good deal of motoring in the South of England, the Midlands, and Wales. Business has occupied a good deal of time. On the 2nd prox. Air. and Mrs. Pecs will sail by the Orontes for Australia and New Zealand. Mr. H. T. B. Drew (Wellington) and Mr. G. E. Woolley (Hamilton) have just concluded a bicycle tour of some 1500 miles in the North of England, Scotland and Ireland. They intend to leave England by the Suevic, on September 22, on their return to New Zealand. Mr. L. Alfred Eady (Auckland) is here largely on business ; ho has been over many of the most important pianoforte factories here, and he is now about to start for tho Continent with the same object in view. •Mr. Eady has taken his return passage by the Otway, to sail on October 14. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Holmes. (Auckland) have returned from an extended motor tour through England and Scotland, and they have settled down for a time at West Kensington. They will be in England until the end of October. Mr. Holmes has been attending some of the big tennis tournaments in London. Mrs. E. H. Palmer (Wellington), with her niece, Miss Maclean, are leaving for the Continent, and they may be travelling for some little time. Both daughters of Mrs. Palmer are on the Continent. They will be accompanied as far as Brussels by Mrs. Batkin (Wellington) and her son. who will spend several weeks in Belgium. Mr. W. Macnaughton (late of Masterton) has been spending some time in London, combining business with pleasure; his New Zealand friends will be glad to hear that he is looking very well. Mr. Macnaughton, with his wife and daughter, lives now at Ardenlea, Carnoustie, Scotland, and they enjoy the bracing climate. It is a pleasure to them all to meet New Zealand friends who visit England and go through to Scotland. An English actor now on his way to New Zealand is Mr. Neil Kenvon ; the trip is being taken under medical instruction. Mr. Kenvon had a prominent part in the recent play, "The Islander," and if his health will allow, he may accept the offer to appear in the same part during the Australian season of this musical comedy. He has in view a short American professional season, and he is due back in London in February to appear at the Pavilion Variety Theatre. Mr. Allan O. Knight (Auckland) who came to England three years ago to enter upon a course of medical study at the Middlesex Hospital, has been somewhat handicapped by the dampness of this climate, which has not suited him. Early this year he went to Switzerland for three months, and he seems to have benefited by the change, although he landed there during an unsatisfactory winter. Mr. Knight has been in camp at Aldershot with the University of London Officers Training Corps. Late arrivals from the Antipodes include Mr. John Holmes (formerly of Wellington), who has just come from Australia by the French steamer Dumbea. Leaving Melbourne on July 14, and coming via Colombo, Bombay, Suez, and Aden, to Marseilles, he disembarked at, the French port, and was met there by his son, Mr. Garnet Holmes, who has been engaged in business in London for the past three years. Mr. Holmes has come to this country on private business, and he is entrusted with several special commissions, not only from New Zealand, but from Australia as well, which he hopes successfully to accomplish before going back to Australia. He is now staying with his son at Putney, and his future movements will be largely controlled by the negotiations now proceeding in connection with the development of the Holmes-Allen trol-ley-head. The month of August is always a deadly dull time in London; it is the great holiday month for the business man, while for the tourist it has few attractions. Of new arrivals there are never many. Recent callers at the New Zealand Government Office during this week have numbered only a few, viz., Mr. John Holmes (Wellington), Mr. L. Alfred Brady (Auckland), Mr. Jesse Hollobon (Christchurch), Mr. Reginald A. Webb (Napier, Hawke's Bay), Dr. Oswald Earp-Thomas (Wellington) and Miss Madeline EarpThomas, Mr. Walter Macnaughton (late of the Wairarapa, now of Ardenlea, Carnoustie, Scotland), Mr. J. A. Wilkes (Napier and Nigeria),' Mr. A. B. Hansen, Mr. James Duncan (Temuka, Canterbury), Mr. H. T. B. Drew (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. H. Hill (Napier) and Miss Hill, Dr. W. Purvis Chrvstall (Christchurch), Mr- George Tattle (Wellington), Mrs. Tattle, Mr. G. S. Prouse (Wellington) and Miss Prouse, Mr. George Winstone (Auckland), Dr. Ernest C. Winstone (Auckland), Mr. William Brittenden (Christchurch), Mrs. and Miss Brittenden, Mr. H. C. Dreaver (Dunedin), Mr. W. Parker (Ma3terton).

So far, this son, New Zealanders who have entered their names in the book at the New Zealand pavilion of the AngloJapanese Exhibition total more than 2000. For the week ending last night the following visitors had registered : —From Auckland : Mrs. M. Massen, Mr. F. J. Porter, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Warnoek, Mr. J. Marks and Mrs. Marks. Mr. C. Chegnill, Mrs. C. Heropath, Mrs. A. 0. Knight and tho Misses Knight. From Wellington : Mr. M. E. Black, Mr. E. Waldeii, Dr. and Mrs. Tudor Jones, Mr. and Airs. W. Dimnck. Miss A. Curry. From Canterbury : Sir Walter and Lady Kennaway and Miss Kennaway, the Venerable Archdeacon Harper, Mr. E. Smith, the Misses Smith, Mrs. A. Kave, Air. R. Jory, Dr. W. P. Chrystall. From Dunedin : Mr. C!. J. F. Townsend, Mr. T. Waters, Mr. W. P. Fleming, Mrs. H. C. Rowme. Mr. W. F. Cameron. From other centres : Mr. S. Carelers. Mr. .M. I. Taylor, Mr. P. J. Fenn (Wanganui) : Air. W. M. Copcland. Mr, and Airs. E. S. Pecs, Mr. A. E. Whitehead (Palmerston North) ; the Rev. P. Jones (Palmerston South) ; the Rev. W. A. Williamson (Westoort) ; Mr. W. Jansen (Picton) ; Mr. and Mis. S. Fitzherbert (Feilding), Air. W. Whitehead 'Feilding) : Tktiss F. Fitzsimmons, "Mr. H. Piper. Air. and -Mr?. W. R. Barker (Gisborne) ; Mr. F. Strack (Tomoana).