PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7141, 31 May 1910, Page 5

PERSONALIA

Our London corrcsporxlcnt writes, under date April 22ud-.—Lord Islington, the Governor-Designate of New Zealand, who has just been created a peer, will meet the New /inlanders in London at a reception to be given by the High Commissioner and Mrs Hall-Jones. Tho West Indian Club are givin;,- him a dinner next week, at which Mr Hall-Jones and Sir Charles Lucas will be present. Lord Islington has expressed his intention of visiting Bristol and going over file Avonmout'n docks beforo his departure. Avonmouth is the nearest port to his Wiltshire home, and Bristol business men hope to enlist the new Governor's sympathy in the question of promoting direct trade between New Zealand and the western port. Tho Tory "Saturday Review" thinks Lord Islington should do well in his_new post in New Zealand. It describes him as " earnest and interested, hard-working, and a glutton for detail. It will bo interesting," adds the " Saturday Review," " to see whether colonial experience modifies the creed of the Manchester school. Perhaps in tne Laboiii-lmpeiiahstio policy of New Zcalund the now Governor may find his political ideal at lust."

'■ Ministers of the Crown to-day are lecated as follow :—The Primo Minister at Oliristchureh (with his Excellency tho Governor); Hon. J. Carroll, VVanganui; Hon. Dr Findlay, Raweno; Hun. 0. Fowlds, Rotorua; lion. T. -Mackenzie and lion. J. A. Millar, Dunedin; Hen. A. T. Ngat.t, Ruatoki; Hon. R. McKchzie and Hon. D. Buddo, Wellington. The- Australasian Methodist Qcnieronco now sitting at Adelaide has agreed to transfer the Rev. H. A. G. Keck, of New Zealand, to Victoria. At u meeting of tho Board of Governors of Canterbury College yesterday tho chairman (Mr J. C, Adams) mado feeling reference to tho' death of Professor Cook (says a Press Association message).

Among tho passengers who landed in Wellington yesterday from the Ruahine from London were Mrs E. Ballaneo- and Miss K. Biillance, booked through to Wangauui.

'Tho death occurred at tho Mnsterton hV-'spital on Saturday of Mr Jacob Jacobsen from heart trouble. Tho deceased was born at. Dryerton, big parents being pioneer settlers of Mauriceville. A widow and two children aro left. Tho death is announced of Mr Frederick B. Mc-Beth, of Kiwitea, who, after a very painful illness, passed away at the resilience 'of his brother-in-law, Mr T. F. Battle, ar Wanganui, on Friday. Tho deceased, who was tho seventh ton of tho late Mr John Mcßeth, of Duu.sinane, Marton, was ono of the first settlers to go into the Kiwitea Block, ho and his brothers being atrtong .tho pioneer settlers _of that district. He was one of the eight sons of tho original owner of Dunsiuauo, who was one of the earliest settlors in the Eangitikei. Tho deceased's oldest brother, Mr J. P. Mcßeth, was Sor many years chief postmaster at Wanganui. A widow, a son and a daughter aro left. Dr J. Malcolm Mason, lato chief health officer for New Zealand, does not intend giving up medicine because he has qualified as a barrister, and it is medicine, and not law, that he will practice on his return to New Zealand. He told our London correspondent that lie intends to specialise in the treatment of consumption. Dr Mason qualified for tho Bar in six months,. which is about the shortest tima on record. He bad passed in general knowledge and Roman law before he came to New Zealand, but ■he took up the remaining subjects—a formidable list—six months ago, without, however, giving up his medical work at the hospitals. Even in the world of aviators there are few men who have had a more romantic career than that of M. Paulhan. M. Paulhan, now one of the world's leading Hying men, not so very long ago was earning something less than four pounds a. week' as an: ordinary mechanic in an aeroplane factory. He began lifeas a performer in a travelling circus, 't-ourir.ig round the smaller towns and villages in France, His lot, as ho puts it, " was one long, dreadful line of routine labour, performing during the day and travelling at night." M." Paulhan liimself combined the work of a general engineer and that of a performer. Ho was a bare-backed rider and an expert tight-rope dancsr. In the latter capacity, he remarked recently, ho first learnt the art of balancing, which has proved of the utmost value to him since. Mr Cyril Tow-soy, the well-known New Zealand pianist, returned by tho Ruahino from London yesterday. During the last three years ho has been engaged ill concert work in England and the Continent. He acted as accompanist to Miss Mary Cooper at her concert at the Bochstein Half on March Ith, and will epatinuo to act ia that capacity in her proposed tour of tho Dominion. After the concert tour he hopes tie. settle in tho Dominion. Mr Towsey, left by the espresa for Wanganui ' yesterday. "Music," says Mi Totrs-~y. "is becoming moro and more coninvsruiai. In England tho question is not 'ISow da you sing?' but rather 'What are you worth?' In other words, the agents judge you by your drawing powers, not by your quality. Singers whose voices are long past their primo cau still command good terms if their names on the programme are still a good 'draw,' whereas an unknown man with a better voice will bo lucky to get engagements at all. I have noticed even in my three years in England a great chaugc for the worse in the outlook from the professional point of view. When I first went to London it was the regular custom, for artists on tour to be paid fixed fees. Now a concert party usually tours on snaring terms. It is a sign of the times. It cannat be impieasetd. too strongi'y on young .colonial musicians that it is folly to go to London in tho belief that they have only to display their talents to find London, at their feet. They must not take too seriously tho flattering comments , on: their abilities mado by famous artists who visit Now Zealand. Let them remombor also that London is the c-asicst place in tho world to starre in."

The Rev. Harry D. Burton (Trini Hall,- Camb.), Vicar-Designate of St. Michael's, Christchureh, will leave England for New Zealand, via Sydnev, oa June 30th, by the White Star lirjer Runic. Mr Burton was ordained deacon in 18S1, and priest in ISS2. becoming curate of St. James', W-edncsbury, Stafford, where he trained for mission work under Canon Bodington, Missioner of the Lichfield diocese. In 1883 'Mr Burton became curate to the lato Bishop of Colchester, at Chelmsford, and in ISSS priest-in-charge of the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock. In 1888 he went to Carshalton as curate to Lord j Victor Seymour, until in 1892 he was ! appointed first missioner of the St. Albans diocese. During the eighteen years that he has been diocesan missioner and organising secretary, tho woTk of the Mission 'Society has enormously developed under its organisation. Some 200 instructors are year by year supplied for Lent courses in all parts of Hertfordshire and Essex. Since Mr Burton's appointment he has arranged 116 chial missions, -12 of them conducted by himself. In 1895 a district in, the-parish of Sandridge was handed oyer to Mr Burton's care, and it was .entirely owing to his energy that the beautiful parish church of St. Saviour's, St. Albans, was erected, Mr Burton collecting for the purpose ,£15,029 in fourteen years. After serving the Church as a volunteer priest, for ten years, Mr Burton was appointed first vicar in 1305. He served in the Boer war as acting -chaplain to ths forces, attached to the lung's Own Scottish Bor, derers, and also undertook tho Reservists of the South African Mission of Help in the Grahamstown diocese during the year of 1907.

The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) is visiting Christchurch. to-day in order to attend to several departmental matters and bo present at the Governor's levee. He will return to-morrow morning with his Excellency.

The Hon. R. 11. J. Kee.ves, M.L.C., is lyinj,' seriously ill at his residence at Kelson. Mr lteevcs is seventy-four years old. .Mr J" I'. Clark, of Wellington, who is a step-son of Mi- Beeves, left for Nelson yesterday. Mr A. E. Scotland, of Gannaway and Co., Ltd., stevedores, Wellington, wjll leave Lyttelton toklay by the Fifeshire for England. Mr Scotland, who is accompanied by Mrs Scotland and family, are intending to mako a few mouths' stay at Home. Mrs Dawes, wife of Colonel Dawes, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Shipping Company, arrived from London by the Jfuahine yesterday. Mrs Dawes . intends to visit Eotorua, and will tour the Dominion Iwrforc returnins to England bv the Ihrahino. Mr Cecil Jameson, of Wellington, who came to this country to study art some four or five y-jars ago, has recently comu to London from Scotland, where most of his time has 'been sp?nt (writes our London correspondent under date April 2Jnd). Mr Jameson, after his arrival, put in a year at the' Koyal Academy Schools, and then won a scholarship entitling him to a four years' course of study under Mr George Ilarcourt at the Allan Eraser Art College, Arbroath, Scotland. Nino months ago, however, Mr Ilarcourt resigned, and after six months under his successor. Mr Jameson, being dissatisfied with the teaching, severed his connection with the college along with tjie two other Benior students, although he had nine" months of his course still to run. Since leaving Arbroath he has had a portrait hung at the Boval Hibernian Academy's exhibition at Dublin, and has also executed two or three portrait commissions in Montrose" "I am in London now looking for, more." he said tomejlns week, '• and am coining to the conclusion that it will be necessary to nrocure a particularly powd'ful pair of spectacles to aid me in my search. 1 have, been fortunate enough to secure an invitation to send to the New English Art Club s csliil)iUor. v which opens in. May, and m addition hope t*> have several _ things ready for tho New Zealand exhibition shortly. Although it is my intention to ssettle'in London, I always expect to bo away in the country landscaping during the summer months."