PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13874, 11 April 1907, Page 2

PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

(Fhom Oun Own Correspondent.)

LONDON, February 22. I am informed that Mr Arthur R. Andrew, lato of Otago University School of Mines, has been granted the degree of M.Sc. by the University of Birmingham for his thesis " Tho Geology of the Goldbearing Lodes of Merionethshire, North Wales." Mr Andrew's friends will bo interested to hear of his latest success. "If," says a London paper, "the machine invented by Mr William Da.ll, of Dunedin, New Zealand, does all that is claimed for it, thoro will soon be no more spoilt papers at elections, and no more waiting till the lato hours of tho night for the declaration of the poll. Tho electors .will record their choice by merely pressing a button, and when tho doors of tho station are closed at the legal hour tho machine will tell at a glance which of the candidates are in and which aro out." Mr A. Bartleman (Dunedin). shortly after his arrival froni New Zealand,, spent about two months visiting the various manufacturing towns in England and Scotland, going as far north as Aberdeen. Since his return to London ho has made up his mind net lo go back to Now Zealand at present, but to go out to the Argentine, and with that object in view ho has been making a special study of Spanish, as a knowledge of that language is so essential to anyono going to South America. Mr Bartloman sa-ils to-day from Southampton by the s,s. Araguaya, en route for Buenos Ayres. On Tuesday his Majesty held a., second levea at St. James's Palace. Among thoso who had tho honour of presentation were Colonel J. M. Bubington. C.M.G., " on return from special service abroad," and Lieutenant -colonel W. J. I'ergusson, Ist (King's) Dragoon Guards, "on appointment to command of regiment." In each instance the presentation was mado by tho Chief of the General Staff in tho absence of H.R.H. the Inspector-general of tho Forces.

On a recent evening a lecture on New Zealand was delivered before, the Oxford Branch of the Tariff Reform Association by Mr F. H. Templar, of Auckland, who is now on 'a visit to the United Kingdom. The lecturer said it appeared to him, as ho wont about, that the only part of tho Empire which knew little and cared Ics3 about the Empiro was the Mother of Iho Empiro itself. In reply to tho argument that a tariff would increase the cost of living, ho said ho found tho cost of living in Freotrado England to bo just, as much ae it was behind tlio tariff wall of Now Zealand. At the close of Mr Templar's address a voto of thanks to him was moved by Mr J Allan Thomson, tho first of tho New Zealand Rhodes scholars. Describing the newly-appointed Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering of the Auckland University Collage, the Principal of tho Portsmouth Education Committee, says:—"Mr Lamb is an able teacher, thorough in his methods, a, good diseiplin- ■ Brian, and withal'popular, maintaining a high a-verago attendance to the end of the ecesion." According to a London paper Mr Charles Carter, the young Now Zealand tenor, has been receiving great praise on tour for his performance of tho name-part in "Lohengrin" with tho Moody-Manners Opera. Company. This company is expected to bo in London again shortly for its annual visit. Since last October Lieutenant J. Ei Diiigun has been undergoing a course of instruction at tho School of Military Engineering, his fellow students being a batch of Royal Engineer officers, and tho party will contimio its course of instruction together until October of this" year. Tho Now Zealand officer has dono tactics, workshops, electricity, musketry, and ho will do fortifications and survey between the present timo and October.' Then, ho is to gp to Plymouth to take an advanced courso of search lighting and wirolosjrtelegraphy, telephony," etc. Immediately on arrival in England last May Lieutenant Duigau went to Portsmouth for a. course of instruction at the School of Electric Lighting. He expects to remain in the Mother Country until about the middle of 1908. when ho will return to New Zealand, via Canada. His survey work will bo done in Wales. Recent callers at tho London office of the Now Zealand Government have been: Mr A. J. Newbould (Uawke's Bay), Miss I). Bartleman (Dunedin), Mr James Williams (Uunodin), Mr T. D. Bennett (Christchurch). Mr R. F. Hooper (Christchurch), Miss F. Ilodgkins (Wellington), Mr .J. Stuart White (Dunedin). Mrs Montagu Pym and Miss Johnson, Mr J. E. Moore (Auckland), and Mr A. E. Moore (Auckland).