OUR LONDON LETTER.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 5118, 10 November 1903, Page 6

OUR LONDON LETTER.

PERSONAL NEWS AND NOTES. (From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, September 20. The Agent-General, who has been spending a holiday in Wiltshire and the North, returned ts town this week. "Old boys” of the A-uckland College and' Grammar School will abe interested to learn that -Mr "Jock” Anderson. a former master of the school, is now Auditor-General in British Columbia, and that .Mr Parquhar AlcCrao, formerly headmaster of the Auckland Grammar School, is also in British Columbia, practising in Victoria as a solicitor. -Mr J. 11, Dixon, a Grammar School " old boy,” is another Aucklander who has found' his way to Victoria. 8.C., where ho has a position under Air Anderson in Iho Audit Department. Mr Hai+y King, of Auckland, tells mo that he met all three while on a recent visit to Victoria. New Zealanders in London wiio called at the Agent-General’s during the week include:—Prom Wellington—Air and Airs Briggs, Aliss Rose Nicoll and Messrs R. A. Webb and Edward Kersey Cooper. Prom Auckland—Aiks F. At. licwin, Air and Alr.s J . W. Shearer. Messrs Hugh H. Lusk. P. J. Jordan and Air and Sirs C. J. Heniery. Prom Christchurch— Aleesrs H. J. Pothill, Thomas Douglas, J. W. Whiteman and Robert Al. Lamg. From Oama.ru—Alias Bell Aitkenhcad. Prom Balclutha, Otago—All's J. Crawford. Prom Millertou, Westport—Air John Al. Stewart. From Hokitika—Air and Airs D. J. Evans and Air and Airs W. AloKay. Prom Timaru—Air S. Barker.

Air Patrick J. Garvey passed the second and final section of his first professional examination in medicine at Edinburgh University last July, and has since been spending a holiday in Ireland and France. He spent five weeks in and about Cork, and afterwards journeyed to Paris, returning to Edinburgh this week. Next month Air Garvey commences work for his second professional examination, which is duo in 1905. Aliss Grace Joel is back in town from her visit to Holland. The pictures delighted her, and, in addition, sho had tha pleasure of meeting that excellent master of the art, Joseph Israels, whose work Aliss Joel has always admired. Speaking of the New Zealander’s own work, Air Israels said some very moo things which perhaps made matters a little mutual. Aloreovor ho gave Miss Joel three beautiful etchings underwritten with his own signature. On the Bth October, Air Rupert Guinness, son and heir of Lord and Lady Iveagh, will wed Lady Gwendolen Onslow, the elder daughter of Lord and Lady Onslow. Lady Gwendolen, who is one of the most charming girls in society, has been very busy during the week in town getting Tier trousseau together. Already she lias received a number of very beautiful wedding presents, one being a handsome electric car, which, as she delights in this form of recreation, is much appreciated. The details of tho ceremony are not yet arranged, but it is said that the bridesmaids will include her younger sister, Lady Dorothy Onslow, as well as six liittio girils. There will also bo two small pages. The movement to erect a statue in Now Zealand to tho memory of the late Air William Rolleston has been advanced a step further. A meeting of the committee appointed to make the necessary arrangements hero was held on Thursday afternoon at tho AgentGeneral’s office, those present being Sir John Hall, Air Oliver, and the Hon W. P. Reeves. Mr Alfred Saunders, formerly of Christchurch, was asked to form ono of the committee, hut he lives at Sou thampton, and was unable to attend- the mooting. The names of four sculptors were selected, and it was decided to ask these four to submit designs for tho statue. Tho committee expect to report progress in two or three weeks’ time.

k'r S. Barker. of Timaru, late postmaster of Yaldhurst, Canterbury, arrived in London by the Rimutaka on the 17th inst. Mr Barker resigned his position in New Zealand on account of illheallh, and the object oMiis journey is to obtain medical advice in London and New York, whither he departs shortly for a two-months’, visit. From America ho goes to the south of France to recruit. and it is nnlikely_ that ho will return to the colony inside, the next twelve months. Mr J. Jamison, of Dunedin, proposes to harness the Mersey in order to generate electricity, and has written to the Liverpool Corporation giving particulars of ’his scheme. He considers that enough electricity could easily be generated from the tides in the Mersey to light the city and also drive the tramcars. His proposal has been referred to the resident electrical engineer. Mr Harry King, cf Auckland, is back in town'from his mouth's trip to Paris. The Gay City was much to Mr King’s fancy, and he thoroughly enjoyed his stay there. The weather for one thing was nearly all that could he desired. Booked to sail by the North German liner Bremen on October 19, Mr King expects to bo hack in Now Zealand about the first week in December, A full-page photograph of Mrs W. Pemher Beeves, wife of the New Zealand Agent-General, appears in “ The King ” this week. I had a visit this week from Mr Charles J. Hemery, of Auckland, who has come' to England in connection *with the business ho has recently established in the colony. Mr Hemery, who is accompanied by his wife, came Home by the Oroya, leaving the boat at Naples, and spending three weeks on the Continent before crossing over to England. A good deal of sight-seeing in Italy, Switzerland and France was crowded into the brief time at their disposal. Mr Hcmery’s business is likely to keep him two or three months in this part of the world. He expects to he back in Now Zealand by January next, returning thither probably via San Francisco. Mr and Mrs W. Hunter Jackson and family have been Home since the 24th May, on pleasure bent, and have spent their time chiefly in England. They leave for Sen bland in a few days, but will probably winter- in tho South, returning to New Zealand about April. Mr Jackson and his family will stay a short time on route at Melbourne and Sydney. Mr William McCulloch, of Auckland and the Thames, arrived about ten days ago in the Suevic, alter a very fine voyage. He is Home for a rest and change, and also in connection with machinery for the Thames. Mr McCulloch returns by the Persic on November 21. Mr A. Price, of the Thames, who is staying with Mr McCulloch at present, goes next week for a round trip on the Continent, afterwards catching a P. and O. or Orient boat at Naples. Mr J. C. Wilson, well known in Ashburton, is Home visiting friends. He leaves in a few days for Scotland. ’Mr and Mrs J. W. Shearer, of Auckland, camo Home via Fiji, Honolulu and Vancouver on a pleasure trip. Since landing in May last they have

done Ireland, Scotland and England. They leave to-day by the Orontes, and hope to reach Auckland about tho middle of November. Air K. B. Tredwen. of the well-known firm-of Gilbert J. AlcCaul and Company, and chairman of tho Australian Merchants’ Association, is leaving London to-day lor a trip to Australia and New Zealand. Ho proceeds first' to Singapore and Hongkong. Tho trip is undertaken for business and health purposes combined, and will make Air Tredwou’a fourth visit to Australasia. Tho estate of Air Isaac Peldheim, of 19 Pembridge-villas, has been valued at £59.9ia 7s stl gross, including £10,995 I 3 . :! 2d in net x>ersonalty. The deceased was a member of the firm of'Peldhoim, Gotthelf and Company, Australian and. New Zealand merchants, whoso London office is at 3, Basinghall street. Ho died on tho 6th of last month, at the ago of 79. Owing to ill-health, the Hou P. ,0. Glt'll has been obliged to resign his position as a director of Dalgety and Co., Limited. The vacancy thus caused will ho filled by tho Hon C. W. Parker, who has been duly elected. This gentleman has for several years acted os general superintendent -of the New Zealand branches of tho company. Tho retiring director has held office ever siuco the inception of tho company. Sir Richard Nicolson, to whom the late Lord Salisbury left £SOO, and who is, in fact, tho only person outside the late statesman’s family to benefit under tho will, was tho Alarquis’s solicitor for many years. Born at Hertford in. IS2B. ho was educated at Blount Radford School, Exeter, and afterwards joined the surveying staff of the New Zealand Company in 1813. After helping to lay out the towns of Wanganui and Dunedin, ho returned to England, where ho was admitted a solicitor in 1851. Ho was appointed Clerk of the Peace for tho county of Aliddlesex in 1869, and Pitot Clerk of tho Peace for London in 1888. Sir Richard was charged with Tho prosecution of tho claim of tho fata Karl of Shrewsbury and Talbot to t.ha title and estates, which was established in 1869. Ho is a keen sportsman, and lives, when ndt in town, at Eden, Banffshire, an estate which ho purchased from Air Thomas Adam, the transaction loading to m*uch hantcr abode Adam]oss Edens and Paradises Lost. Captain Edward diaries Ellioo,- who succeeded in defeating the Unionist candate, Alajor Anstrukhcr-Thomson by 38 votes in tho fight for the representation in Parliament of the electorate of St Andrews Burghs last Friday, is a son, of tho lake Air Robert Ellice, who was secretary to Sir George Grey when Governor of New Zealand, a nephew of tho late Air Edward Ellice, who for frty. years represented the St Andrews Dis- , trict of Burghs in tho Liberal interest in Parliament, and a grand-ncpheW of -tho late Air Edward Ellice, who for many years represented Coventry, and acted at the time of the Reform Bill aa Liberal Whip. Captain Ellico was educated at Harrow, and served for soma years in tho Grenadier Guards, from which ho retired in 1886. Ho is a major in the Ist Cinque Port's R.Vj, and served in South Africa as a subaltern in Lovat’s Scouts. Ho is tho fortyseventh now member returned to tha House of Commons since 'the general election, and his return on the present occasion is the loss of a seat to tho Government, counting two votes on a division.