PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7292, 23 November 1910, Page 1

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

LATEST NEWS BI MAIL THE DOINGS OF NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD, lEO IS. ODE SPECIAL COBBESPONDENT. LONDON, October 14. Mr and Mrs Alex. Watson, of Broughly Ferry (N. 8.), are at present spending a month in London, and are putting up at Bailey's Hotel, Kensington. Mrs Wateon is a daughter of Dr Macpherson, of Dunedin. ■ •. Mil - T. A. Munro, of Mamgaweka., arrived l in England last week alter spending a mouth in the south of France and a couple of weeks in Paris. He left again on Wednesday for a tour round Scotland.

Mr Jas. W. Waits, manager of the Onehunga branch of the Auckland Savings Rank, and his brother, Mr Arthur Watts, are on a visit to London. They arrived • by the Persic on September 27uh after an enjoyable fair-weather voyage, and have since been sightseeing in the metropolis. Next week they will take a trip to Scotland, and they hope to visit Paris before leaving next month for Sydney, where they piopose to spend two months before returning.to New Zealand. Mr J. W. Watts is on holiday leave ol nine months' duration. .

■ Mr Francis Hutchens, the young New Zealand pianist, gamed a “commended” in the competition at tno Royal Academy of Music lor tho Liszt Scholarship for pianoforte or composition.

Mr Acton-Adams has ,returned from Redwood to 74, Dark Mansions, Kuightsuridge, for a month. Ho leaves ou Novemoer sth, via Canada and Fiji, for New Zealand, to visit his eons and'lns estates. He will remain there for, a couple of months, and • then retux-n via Australia and Suez or the Siberian indway to London, arriving about mid-May, I‘JIX.

■ Mr and Mrs W. R. Holmes, of Auckland, wno have 1 been spending the past summer ou a holiday trip to the Old Country, intend returning home _by the Morea, via Suez, leaving London on October 21st. They have done a good deal of motoring in Eugiandand Scotland during their visit and have thor* oughly enjoyed the holiday. The weather has been splendid, and they are charmed with the beauty of Old England..

Mr and Mrs Jas. Muhro, late of Dunedin, have arrived hero from West Australia -with the intention .of making their home in. England for some time.

.. Director: of the London School of Economics, tho ii.on. W. Pomber Beeves gave the first of a series of ‘eight lectures at the* school last evening-on Colonial'State Tribunals‘for the-Regulation of the Conditions of Labour. .He described iho New Zealand Aifbatratio-n Act of 1894, cl whmeh he was the' framer; the wages boards of Victoria,. 1890; resulting enactaiente in Now Zealand, Australia,! Canada and Great Britain;, social, and political causes of Australasian experiments; the growth' of i trades muonism; the sweating evil, and the industrial effect of low prices and over-borrowing. -

Air and Mrs FitzherWt, -of Feathorston have let their house in the' Garden City* at Hampstead and intend to leave on Monday for a holiday trip to Switzerland taking their baby with them.

Jtr Leslie D. Coombs,’ of Dunedin and Wellington, has just returned to loddon from a visit to "Combe Grange, Nailsea, Somerset, which was the home of his grandfather before, the latter s migration to New Zealand about sixty years ago. *'.■. : : . • ; V

Lady Stout, who is one of tho speakers at the Suffrage meeting at the Queens Hall on Monday, is "still busy j making speeches in .various parts of the conn-, try in support of votes for women, ioday she addresses two meetings of the Lancashire Convention of the \\ omen 6 Christian Temperance Union.

Mr William G. O'Callaghan, late chief clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Dunedin, and his youngest daughter, are staying at Howlands Castle, Hants.,,with Admiral O’Callaghan, Mr O’Callaghan s brother, whom he had. not seen since 1873. The visitors- travelled, from Auckland by tho Star, of Canada, in. which they were the only passengers, and reached Lon don at the end of August, after a very pleasant voyage of forty days.

Mr W. A. P. Clarkson,'a, Christchurch architect, is visiting the various centres in" England 'and Europe,,makingspecial study of ferro-concreto buildings in course of construction. In the summer he was joined by hie wife and daughter, Miss Kathleen Barclay, who is studying the pianoforte at the Conservatorium at Leipsic.- They returned from London to Leipsic by way of Brussels, seeing the exhibition, visiting Cologne ; Cathedral, and doing the Rhine to Mayence (which does not, in Air -Clarkson's opinion, compare favourably with the Wanganui). Then they styed at that delightful town Frankfort (on Main) returning through Bavaria to Leipsic. Hero Mr Clarkson was joined by friends, and they visrted Nuremberg. Munich, the Passion Play at Oboxammergau, Zurich. Lucerne, Interlaken, Montreux, Lausanne, Geneva, and* Paris.; : "What has , interested me greatly /' says Mr- Clarkson, *is that Germany is so wonderfully farmed, and without" exception, their large cities are the cleanest and have the best kept parks and gardens in Europe. For a city, however. I would award the palm to Vienna/'. • ,

, Visitors to the- High Commissioner's offices:—Mr Fredk. Clarion, Messrs J. and A. Clarkson /Christchurch), T A. Munro (Wanganui). Hr Stephan- Highman (Christchurch). Mr Wm. Stonrton (Hlcnhcim).,

last of New Zealanders at (he White City for th® week ending October 13th:— E Callaghan (Dunedin), ■: S. Highman (Svdenhom). C. J- McEean (Wanganui). D‘ C. Florence (Christchurch). Mr and Ml'S -L Maxwell (Auckland), EieutenantCofoncj. Mr.® and Miss Snow. Miss E. Tsitt- J. F.; L- Davies (Dunedin). D. G. Pipe’ (Christchurch), 11. C. Rutland (Timaru), Mr and Mrs Elder (Masterton). Mrs IT. C. Rutland (Timaru). Air and Atsr J. Hunter (Dunedin). Alex. Elder (Kakanui), G. Macdonald (Dunedin).