LONDON LETTER.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5748, 17 November 1905, Page 2

LONDON LETTER.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL NOTES. {Prom Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, October G. Mr and Mrs. A. F. Carey, of Auckland, have been holiday-making in S-cei-I'-md, the English Lake district, and Ireland, and arc now spending a few days at Brighton. They lca"e Southampton for Colombo by the Grosser Kurfurst on November 6th. and intend to travel for eight weeks in India in company with tho Rev S. P. Car- y, of -Melbourne, and the Hev W. Carey, of Borisal, Bengal, who join their breui. • at Colombo. Mr and Mrs Carey leave Colombo for Sydney on January 27th, bv tho Frcidrich d-er Grosso.

Mr Arthur Mack, of Wellington, who arrived by the Gothic bust July, is enlarging his experience in London. Ho expects to be away from the colony about two years.

Sir and Mrs A. C. Bogg and daughters are returning to Dunedin by the lonic, leaving on the 19di inst. During the latter half of the summer they have been touring in Norway, the English Lake district, and Scotland, and spent a fortnight in Swansea with Dr Bcgg before returning to Loudon tins week. Mr Begg’s younger son, Dr Charles rsogg. who gained his M.D. at Edinburgh last July, is at present house surgeon at Northampton Hospital, but expects to go out to New Zealand shortly. Mrs Hardcastle. of Christchurch, who is on a visit to the Old Country, will return by the Tnrakina, which sails on November JOth. She left the colony last March, and broke tho journey at Monte Video, staying till tho middle of July with her sons and daughter, who are settled in the Argentine. From there she came on to London by the Rimutaka, arriving on September 9th. -Mrs ilardcastlo has greatly improved in health during her travels. air Reynold, Denniston, of Dunedin, arrived this week from South Africa, where he lias spent the past three or four years in the theatrical profession, with an interlude of fighting in tho Boer war, Mr Deiinistn was fortunate enough to secure an engagement within three days of Ins arrival in London.

Callers at the , High Commissioner’s office this week:—Mrs J. D. Lance, Christchurch; Mrs Ballance and Miss Ballance, Wanganui: Mrs H. Orump, Wellington; Mr A. D. Otterson, Christchurch; Mrs J. G. Garforth, Christchurch; Mr F. T. Glasgow, Taranaki; Mr J. O’Sullivan, Taranaki; Mr James J. Taine, Auckland; Miss Muriel Darling Wellington; Mr and Mrs William Cowern, Hawera; Mr F. W. Cowem, Hawera; Mr Charles Taylor, Auckland.

For the second year in succession an Australian has headed the list in the examination of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwiph. Mr Esmond M. Sinaeur, formerly of Brisbane, was the winner this year with a record number of marks, and he also gained the King’s Gold Modal, the Bollock Gold Medal, and eight other prices. _ Mr Sinaeur will now receive his commission in the Royal Engineers. Miss Henrietta Watson, an. Australian favourite, is in the cast of Mr Sutro’s new play, “’The Way of a Fool,' with which Mr Lewis Waller will reopen tlio Imperial Theatre. . . Another Maori war veteran joined the great majority this week. Major Reynold A. Clement, the clerk of the course at Royal Ascot, who was born in 1834, died on Monday last at Hove, Brighton. Major dement was educated at Rugby and Cambridge, and from the University he joined the 13th Light Dragoons, exchanging later into the 68th Light Infantry, with which regiment he served in the New Zealand campaign, 1864-66, receiving the medal and clasp. But is was rather as the popular official at Ascot than as the soldier that Major Clement was familiar to the public. In 1881 ho was appointed secretary to the trustees, and clerk of the course three years later. During his term of office many improvements and additions to the buildings and appointments of Ascot racecourse have been accomplished, and Major Clement will be much missed. After leaving the Regular service, Major Clement was prominently connected with 2nd Battalion Bucks R.V.C. He was a member of his Majesty’s Corps of Gentiemen-at-Arms. Miss Eugenie Marguerite Faulkner, only daughter of the late Dr Faulkner, of Havelock North, New Zealand’, was married last Tuesday at All Saints’ Church, Margaret street, W., to the Rev Percy T. Pryce Michell, vicar of North Petherton, Somerset. The service was conducted by the Rev A. Montford, of St. Alban's Mission, assisted. by tie vicar of Barnstaple.

Tho sensation of the week in the athletic world has bean the “permanent suspension” of your recent visitor, Alfred Shrubb, by the Southern Committee of the Amateur Athletic Association “for malpractices in connection with athletics.” These malpractices appear to have been of a kind which do not merit very severe condemnation, namely taking expensesfrom promoters of athletic meetings anxious to secure his services. Pos sibly, on appeal to the A.A.A., the heavy penalty decided upon by the Southern Committee will he mitigated; if not, We have, of course, seen the last of the brilliant runner as an amateur. Of one thing, whether he has infringed the A.A.A. laws or not, ho can always feel proud, and that is his reputation as a “straight'goer.” Shrubb always ran to win, which is moro than can he said of many other men who have fallen under the"A.A.A. ban, and hie “grit” was never called in question. Apart from this fact, he has to his credit some wonderful “bests on record,” several of which seem likely to live as long as W. G. George’s great mile performance. Shrubb has fallen a vicitm to tho purity crusade among amateur athletics, and it may be that by singling out such a prominent figure in the world of sport for condign punishment the Southern Committee have done more fo promote the cause of “pure amateurism” than the barring of a dozen smaller fry would do.