PERSONAL AND GENERAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4734, 16 August 1902, Page 7

PERSONAL AND GENERAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, 4th July. Airs AVillcs and Airs Heaton Rhodes gave a very pleasant reception to New Zealanders at 12, Elvaston Place lasj>Monday on an oppressively hot afternoon while a heavy thunderstorm was browing. Music was tho nominal attraction, but the foregathering of old friends and their natural desire for a confabulation at times led to tho predominance of tho conversation. Of the eight items tho violin , solos of Miss Dorothy AYilles and Aliss -nlico Hollander’s songs were most appreciated. Tho fanner has -made; steady . progress during the last year and now plays with ease, brilliance and feeling. Aliss Hollander’s rich, full voice would be heard to more advantage in a larger hall. Air and Mrs Scddori, Aliss Seddon, and Air and Airs Frank Dyer looked in for a little while and Air Seddon had to give many diplomatic answers to tho inquisitive’s who wished to find out what honour had been offered him. His remark that lie had come over for the Coronation and-meant to stay until it took piaoo was interpreted by some to. indicate that the ceremony .may lake place a good deal earlier than at- prosent anticipated. ' ■ , Among those present I noticed Sir AVestby and Lady Perceval, Air and Mrs R. Oliver, Aliss Courtney, Air and Airs Frank Baden-Powell, Airs and Aliss Coleman, Air and Airs John Studholme, Air and Mrs J. F. Studholme, Airs Kimbell, Airs Fortune, Air and Airs von Haast, the Alissos Aloorhouso, Air and Airs Geo. Rhodes, Air and the Misses Dymock, Airs Cathcart AVason, Air and Airs G. Beetham, Lady and Mrs Tancred, Lady Clarke, Airs Findlay; - Airs Willes wore a black and white foulard trimmed with black lace; Mrs Heaton Rhodes a cream voile skirt and pale pink and cream blouse bodice; Aliss AYilles was in pale grey sheeny silk; Miss Dorothy AYilles in a white China silk muslin with lace insertion. Lady Clarke was gowned in black and white foulard, wore a heliotrope toque and a bunch of pink clove carnations on her breast. Mrs J. F. Studholme wore a graceful and simple dress of white crepe do chine with a blue chou. Mrs .AVason au elaborate cream guipure polonaise over frills of cream net and lace and a large picture black hat and plumes. Of the other dresses among .the prettiest were the pale blue crepe do chine with touches of black velvet worn by Airs Fortune, Airs von Haast’s cream figured silk gauze much trimmed with lace over pink, relieved with green velvet and a* large picture hat, and the stylish black voile and lace of Mrs George Rhodes. ‘On 28th June, at the Presbyterian Church, Camberwell, Air Percy Frederick Fairn, only surviving son of Air Richard Fairn, of 85, Talfourd road, Peckham, took to wife Miss Mary Aladdison, second daughter of Air Joseph Aladdison, of 200. New Kent road. S.E.

Miss Alice Hollander made her first public appearance in England at St. James’s Hall last "Wednesday. “The Times” pronounces her “well suited for oratorio. Her voice is rich, full and of very great power; lie upper and lower notes are particularly fine.’ Her middle notes, however, still show signs of insufficient training and it is to bo hoped that she will take steps to mend this one weak spot in her armour. . . Somervell’s ‘Shepherds’ Cradle Sotig’ served to display her fine voice at its best.” The “Standard” says “her voice is a pure contralto of the most artistic proportions. . . Her emotional qualities are a little below the physical properties of her organ, but the Cradle Song and Napoleone Tardo’s ‘To the Angels’ were 'given in a manner instinct with fine feeling/’ Eight or nine gentlemen have sent in their names to the Imperial Bowling Association as desirous of joining the association’s team of bowlers which is to proceed in the autumn to Australia and New Zealand and play matches in A'ictoria.. New South Wales and New Zealand. The lion, treasurer of the association. Air Henry Southall, will captain the team. You sometimes have to go from home to hear the news, so perhaps this little story told by the “Daily Express” may be new to some of you:—“A kind-heart-ed man in New Zealand had a sudden shock a little time ago. Ho was standing on a railway platform giving apples to a. circus elephant caged in a cattle truck as the circus was on the move. Tho train started, and the elephant, not. to lose the last apples in the basket, promptly seized the man in bis trunk and carried him along with the train. The train bad to be slopped and the kind-hearted man rescued from the trunk of the travelling elephant.” An interesting article on “A A'onng Maori Partv” hv Air O, T. J. A triers, ann oo rs in the .Tidv nnmher of the “Empire Review.” Air -Hners hones that ti e _ “Kota.hita.nqrn” or, ‘(One-ness” movement “may ennKe the race to'snatcb from the new civilisation something of its buoyanev and to float on the eddving current that threatened to engulf it.”