PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1715, 11 January 1905, Page 70

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, November 25

Mr W. Templer Powell, who is the second son of Mr W. H. Cheesman, of Christchurch, took to the stage here in England about two and a half years ago, adopting his mother’s name for stage purposes. In the provinces and the suburbs, Mr Powell has played several leading parts in recent London successes, including Mikishin in Tolstoy’s “Resurrection,” and Olivier Le Dain in “If I Were King.” He has just concluded a suburban tour, playing the French spy in “One of the Best,” for which part he was specially engaged. At present Mr Powell is resting in London, but at the beginning of January he goes to Manchester to play Paris in Mr Flanagan’s production of “Romeo and Juliet,” with a company nearly all of whom are from West End theatres. This year the Romeo is to be Harcourt Williams, Ellen Terry’s leading man, and the Juliet is Miss Margaret Halston, who made a hit recently with Rorbes-Robertson as the red-haired girl iu “The Light that Failed.” Mr C. Handley, late of Inglewood, Taranaki, who came Home this year to get married, intends being absent twelve months from the colony. He arrived in England by the P. and O. , route last May, and since then has been visiting many parts of the country. He returns with his wife to New Zealand by the Papanui, leaving Plymouth on December 2nd, and arriving at Wellington via the Cape, about January 18th. Mr Handley sold his farm at Inglewood before coming to England, but he intends to purchase another on his return. Mr Handley has friends in the Wellington, Auckland, and Canterbury provinces, as well as in Taranaki. Miss Agnes M. Duncan, of Christchurch, who came to England about twenty months ago, intends returning to the colony at the end of January. For six months after her arrival Miss Duncan travelled through England and Scotland, after which she spent a year studying music at tlio Leipsic Couservatorium. In July last she returned to England, and has travelled through Ireland, North Wales, and the West of England, and spent the remainder of her time in London, where she is at present studying voice production. Callers at the New Zealand AgencyGeneral this week:—Miss Dorothy M. Bteele (Christchurch), Mr 11. K. Foley (Christchurch), Miss Agnes M. Duncan (Christchurch), and Miss Bessie Laird. Mr Hugh J. Ward, the American comedian, who visited New Zealand with the “Trip to Chinatown” company two or three years ago, and who is now at the London Empire, has again been engaged for the Christmas pantomime at Drury Lane. “The White Cat” is to be the production this Christmas. It is not often that two doctors of philosophy are joined in the bonds of matrimony, but the marriage notices of “The

Times" provide an interesting instance this morning. Miss Agnes Kelly. Ph. D„ daughter of Mr Adam Kelly, of Ai jkland* New Zealand, was married in London yesterday (24th) to George M. Murgoci, Ph. D., of Bucharest, Roumania. The marriage of Mrs Mary Louisa Taylor, widow or the late Mr Arthur H. Taylor, of Auckland, to Mr J. M. G a Ivey Foley, UP., County Inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary, was celebrated at St. Peter’s Church, Wotton, Berkshire, on November 15th. Her future home will, I understand, be Newtown Manor, Kilkenny.

New Zealand papers are asked to record the death of Mrs Crowe, the wife of Mr W. Leedham Crowe, on the <*3rd inst., at 12 s a. Lancaster road. Laclbroke grove. The Rev J. T. Pinfold, who has been lecturing on New Zealand in various parts or the United Kingdom since July last, intends returning to the colony by the White Star liner Suevic, which leaves Liverpool on December 22nd. Last 4'uesday Mr Pinfold gave a lecture at Islington, N.W., on mission work among the Maoris. Mr Reeves, the Agent-General for New Zealand, was to have presided, but ill-health prevented his attendance, and Mr S. Hetlierlngton, of the Thames, took the chair in his stead. During the past week Mr Pinfold has been lecturing in- the Midlands and in Surrey. He goes next Monday to Glasgow for a fortnight, and afterwards A r isits Norfolk and Yorkshire before preoceeding to Liverpool to join the Suei ic. Mr P. A. Vaile is finding London a congenial and apparently a successful field for liis labours as author, journalist and sportsman. He has had three books accepted by the publishers, tivo more are completed, and a sixth is in preparation. His articles on cricket and tennis in tho “Field” and other papers haA-e attracted the attention of “Pearson’s Magazine," the editor of Avhich has asked him to contribute to that journal. And meanwhile the new golf clubs designed by Mr Vaile have been placed on the market by Messrs Ayres, and are selling well. Many in the colonies Avail share m tho sincere and general regret of the AngloColonial mercantile community here at the sudden death of Mr D. R. Kemp, manager and colonial superintendent of Messrs Dalgety and Co.. Avhich took place last week in London. A man of rare business ability, Mr Kemp Avas highly esteemed in Anglo-Colonial society; indeed he was a great favourite oivmg to his cheery, optimistic, and generous disposition, and his kindness of heart. hew were the Anglo-Colonial functions he missed, and fewer still Avere those in the organising of which he had no hand. He Avas an old. and A r alued member of the Royal Colonial Institute, and took an actrte part in the w ,ork of the Australasian Chamber of Commerce in London. Mr Kemp, who was formerly secretary of the Union Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh, res.gned that post to take up the position he held at the time of his death at the comparatively early age of 58. , - Young Boris Hambourg, Avho toured the colonies with his brother Mark, the pianist, in 1953, appeared as a solo ’cellist in London last Tuesday Avith striking success. The “Times" says of his performance : —“At odd times some years ago, and in a quiet way Mr Hambourg Avas occasionally heard Avhen lie was but a, student. Now he is a ii.ghly finished artist and a violoncellist ivho is able to make a large number of his elders brush up their laurels. In a delightful sonata by Valentini, in de Swert’s second, and not very exciting second, concerto, and other works Mr Hambourg played Avith a grace and charm, a beautiful tone and a command over Ins instrument that ''vill* one day, place hirn very high up indeed as a violoncellist." At the dinner of the Orwell Corinthian Yacht Club, ait Felixstoiv, Sir Cuthbert Quilter, M.P., told an amusing story of Fitzgerald, the translator of Omar Khayyam He began his yachting cai’eer, ho said’ Avith a 12-ton schooner, Avhich ho bought of Mr Fitzgerald. They would never think that a poet, or a translator of poetry, Avould have named his boat the Emetic, but such was the case, and he provisioned lier AV'itli apples, herrings, and a bottle of gin. The story was told of him that one day he was on board the Emetic, in his usual tall hat and frock coat, reading the “Times," when, the boat gave a lurch, and the translator of Omar Avent to the bottom. It Avas a most remarkable fact —and not a bit of Eastern imagination—that when Mr Fitzgerald came up again he had his pipe in his mouth, his tall liat upon liis heajl, and the “Times" in his hand. When he got back on board his little craft lie calmly finished reading tho article that Avas previously engaging lua attention.