PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14567, 2 January 1911, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

London, November 25. Me. R. Stout, who is a student at Guy's, lias-passed the third examination for the degree of M.8., B.S.

Professor W. A. Bickerton is to give a lecture on, The Romance of the Heavens," at an afternoon meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute. Sir George Reid will be in the chair. •

Lord Ran furl y has bought the lease of a house in Lennox Gardens, belonging to Mr. Richard Combo and Lady Constance Combe, anl he and Lady Ran fully enter into residence at once.

The Rev. Rollo Hovell, son of the late Dean Hovell, of Napier, who was recently ordained in England, has left for Rhodesia, to assume a position there. He "-.poets to be joined in South Africa by his mother and sister, who are already there.

Mr. Worley, M.A., a brilliant young Nelson student, who came to _ England three years ago, to prosecute his chemical studies at South Kensington, has won an important scholarship, valued at £300 for three years. This will finable him to further "his research under' Professor Armstrong.

This week the callers at the London office of the New Zealand Government have been: —Mrs. Arthur Nathan (Auckland) and the Misses; Nathan, Miss Florence Pratt (C-hristchurch), Mr. and Mrs. R. ,L Hawdon (Canterbury), Mr. Edgar F. La Hogue (Dunedin and Invercargill), Mr. Andrew Bryson (Timaru), Mr. A. Bell (Blenheim), Mr. and Mrs. A. Osborne (Woodville).

. Mrs. Kipling, mother of Mr. Rudyard Kipling, died the day before yesterday at the Gables, Tisbury, Wiltshire. She was Miss Alice Macdonald, one of the remarkable daughters of tho late Rev. George B. Macdonald, wh\se house, some 45 years ago, was a well-known centre of an artistic and literary circle. She married Mr. John Lockwcbd Kipling, C.1.E., in 1865, the year of his appointment as architectural sculptor of the Bombay School of Art. One of her sisters was married to Sir E. Burne-.Tones, and another, who married Sir Edward Poynter, died in 1906.

Sir William Jones will be one of the guests of the evening at the coming dinner of the Anglo-Saxon Club, when Lord Northcote will be in the chair. As the guest of the New. Zealand Circle of the Lyceum Club the other evening, Sir William spoke for New Zealand, for which section Lady Stout was the hostess. Representatives were present from South Africa, Canada, and Australia, and much amusement was caused as each speaker sang the praises of his own country, each one maintaining that his own was in every way superior to any other part of the Empire represented that night, the concluding toast, " Women of the Empire," was proposed by Mr. J. Henni-ker-lleaton, and responded to by Miss Agnes Deans Cameron. The guests included Lady Hall-Jones, the Hon. B. 0. Corney and Mrs. Corney, and Mr. Rangiuia.