PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13886, 25 April 1907, Page 2

PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

LONDON, March 15. Lord and Lady Medway have been spending (lie winter montlix at Villa St. (Jecile, ilyorcs, whero thev have just been joined by the Earl and. Countess of Cranbrook. Probably to somo New Zealand readers the youngest daughter of Lord and-Lady Glasgow will bo" unfamiliar in her recently-acquired titlo as Lady Medway. ' •

Twolvo gcntlcmon wcro clectcd Fellows of tho Royid Colonial Institute at 'tho meeting on Tuesday. Tho names of two will bo known in .Now Zealand—viz., Mr Arthur F. Williams, C.E., and Mr Julius L. F. Vogol.

I luvo been o-slced to record tho death of Mr Ernest Alfred Jones Biss, fourth child of Mr C. Y. Biss, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P. The lato Mr Bits passed away quite suddenly on tho 7th inst. at 46 Belsizo square, Hampstcad, in North London. Ilis ago was only 32 yean.

• Mr :B. G, Riches (Christchureh), who ca'mo to London by tho last trip of the : B.s. Ruapehu, is having a general look round boforo going into business in London. Ho has already been about a good deal, and intends to icavo for Scotland at an early/date, going to Franco immediately afterward.

j Mr Gcorgo Thomson (formerly of Oamant) loft England last Saturday for Mexico, via tho United States; ho sailed from Liverpool in tho s.s. Lusitania, accompanied by his wife. Mr Thomson is going out to; Mexico in his official capacity as mining engineer, the principal objcct being lhat ho shall superintend tho installation of a mining plant at tho San Francisco del Oro Mine, at Parral, Chchuahua, Mcxico.

, Mr 11. C. R. Darling (Otaeo) who is continuing his medical studies here, continues to mako gratifying progless. lie has recently gained tho Followcs medal in junior clinical mcdicino awarded by tho examiners 110 is still a student of tho Uriivorsity Collego Hospital.

; I hear that Mrs T. 11. Ilamer (Wellington) and her daughter tiavo reachcd London; they intend to make a prolonged .fltay in Great Britain.

Captain J. K. Camoron, R.N.R., has been appointed 'general superintendent • at Southampton to tbo White Star and Arnori- . can Shipping lines in connection with the removal of tho Whito Star's principal business from Liverpool to Southampton. Captain Cameron, who was in command of . ono of tlm Whito Star steamers which inaugurated the Shaw, Savill, and Albion ' Company's diroct steamer servico botween ■ Now ZoaJand and London, is a Liverpool man,, and has been with tho Whito Star Company for 30 years—ever since 1877. 110 has Commanded nearly all the largest and most modern steamships of tho White . Star lino, including tho Ocoanic, of which ho now has charge. 110 is recognised as ■ ono of tho company's ablest and smartest officers. It may not bo remembered that Captain Cameron married a Wellington • young lady, the third daughter of the late Hon, John Martin, M.L.C., of Wellington.

Durinp tho debate on the Women's Franohiso Bill, Mr Athorloy Jones, supporting the second reading, said: "In New Zealand tliero was permanent testimony to the influonco of women's suffrage in favour of temporaries. To sccuro tho co-operation of women in tlio work of .social reform this stop should Iro taken, and it would conduce to tho wolfaro of tho wholo oommunity." This roforenco to Now Zealand brought out Mr Cathcart Wason, who is a determined opponent' Of tho enfranchisement of women. Ho, while acknowledging Ihe influence of womon in'social qucstions, donied that such influence would bo better or stronger if wqmon took part in tho turmoil of .parliamentary elections.

j In Juno of this year (threo months hence) tho "Grandi Old Man" of tho, AngloColonial ' world', Sir Frederick Young, K.CJ.M.G., tho principal founder of' tho Royal Colonial Institute, and its guide, philosopher, and friend during its existence of all but forty years, will complete the ,90th year of his existence. Everybody who knows anything about the matter is well acquainted with tho many years relations .between Sir Frederick and the institute, which has been his principal interest and earo ffom tho time of its first inception. Every New Zcalander who pays a visit to tlio Mother Country endeavours to bo present at tho annual convcrsazinno of tho institute, and never fails to carry away permanently in his memory his reception on arrival by tlio tall, slim, and erect olil knight. It is intended to' prosent a testimonial to Sir Frederick Young upon his nintieth birthday, in recognition of his eminent services to tho Colonial Institute. A committeo, which includes Mr R., D. Douglas M'Lean, has been formed to undertake tlio necessary arrangements. . Sir Frcdorick was a Fellow of tho Institute as far'back as K69, ho bccamo a councillor in 1871, and acted' as honorary secretary from 1874-76, when ho was elcctcd to his present position of vice-president. Long may ho live to hold it I

My Bon Tillctt loaves for Now Zealand and Australia by tho's.s. Essex, which sails from Liverpool on the 30th inst. His object in taking the voyago i 9 purely for tho sako of his health. ■

Mr Logan, of tho Now Zealand Telegraph and Tclophono Department, is in London. Ho has been seoing' , oll tho latest inventions iu telegraphy and telephony.

Mr Leslio V. Goyen (Dunedin) is still working at tlio National Dental: Hospital, whoro ho has been a student for the past 12 months. About Juno'ho hopes to. bo ablo to pay a. visit to France, and ho expects to bo back in Now Zealand about the end of 1 tho Current year, or, at anyratc, early in 1808.

. '11l tho current liiunlier of tho British- , 'Aiistralnsinn an interesting interview is published with Mr Tom Sullivan, tho exchampion of England and amateur • champion of New Zealand, who gives somo rcadablo particular of his . busy earoor. 110 still lives at Barnes Common, near tho river. In introducing his subject, lho interviewer- remarks:—"lt has long been a sporting truism—moro veritable than most— that. 'Everybody knows Tom Sullivan.' In far-away Now Zealand his namo ancl dcods

are still kept grcou in patriotic memories, andivhon tlio ' boys' come to England from Australian shores ono of tho first visits thoy \ pay is to 'Tom Sullivan.' He is a man "■ who lias dono mighty things in tho past, yot his years aro relatively so fow—as timo in tho sporting sense goes—his framo is still so sinewy, so limber and upright, his face 60 utterly freo from lines,- his hair without b streak of ago'in it, and his eye still fo bright that the word ' jiost' seems to liavo but littlo relation to him."

Mr and Mrs Robert H. Bowie (Tiniaru) .ind Miss Bowio canio on I from Australia by tlio s.s. Orontes, after first staying v a littlo whilo iu Melbourne, They reached London a fortnight ago after a vory good passage, and after they havo stayed a few weeks longer ,in tho metropolis they will go north to Edinburgh, which is to bo their headquarters during their sojourn in tho United Kingdom. Mr Bowio has come partly on business and partly for pleasure.

Latest' callors at tho London offieo of tho Now Zealand Government havo ineluded: Mrs Foot (Hawkc's Bay) and Miss Foot; Mrs Moody (Tiina.ru) and Miss Moody; Mr L. V. Goyen (Dunedin); Mr and Mrs A. L. Allan (lliuvke's Bay); Miss Rossi- Cuthbort. Williams (Tiniaru); Mr N. L. Bennett. (Auckland); Mr G. It. Talboys (Dunedin); Mr and -Mrs R. H. Bowie (Tiinaru) and Miss Bowie; Mr T. Enstnco Bridgcr _ (Duticdin) and Miss Bridgor; ihe Rov. F-athor Kgan, D.D. (Auckland)} Miss Mildred Trent (Chvietchurch); Miss M, Clifton-Mogg (Wanganui); Miss Ruby Fletcher (Christchuroh); Mrs Hamer (Wellington); Mi<e M. W. Homo (Auckland); Mr C. Krio IX Gcorgo (New Plymouth); Mr W. Ramsay Wilson (Bluff): Mr F. G. Hendry (Bluff); Mr William Belcher (New Zealand 'representative to tho Maritime Conference, Dunedin); Mr 9. G. Cowles (Wellington); Mr C. 11. Izard (Wellington)

Since'his recent return from New Zealand Sir .Tolm Gorst lias lost no opportunity of speaking in enthusiastic terms— both publicly and privately of New Zealand, its charms and its advantages. Only a fow days ago he was speaking at Hast Ham under the auspices of tile Labour Representation Committee, and he mentioned tlmt lie found There were no poor children to feed in New Zealand: in fact, lie had not succeeded in hearing of a single child not properly kept, and he had never in all his life 'and experience come across W!rh a magnificent, sot of human animals as the children of thai colony. ITc was tremenuC'Jsly struck with tho healthy conditions of licq swurcd for (lie mass of tlio

people in Neiv Zealand, and the good cffect thereof upon the national physique.

"New Zealand," says the Pall Mall Gazette this evening, " is the home of an artist who makc-3 her first London appear-and-at Mr raterson'i gallery, in Bond street. Miss Frances Ilodgkins lias sound ideas as to the proper use of water-colours, which she applies in a broad, wet manner, retaining to the fullest, their transparent quality. Hev chicf faults are poor draught-' nianship—the gondolas in her Venetian pictures arc lamentably inaccuruto—and an inclination to get that- pallid tintiness which is so trying in colour-etchings, and which so seriously inars the work of artists like Mr J/'O-llankoy. But she has not allowed horeelf to come too much under its defects yet, ami if she will wholly reject it—an effect, of seeing Nature through greenish bottle-glass—and will instead sound pure colour-notes; in fact, if she will avoid the minor key, she will make a roneiderable name for herself."

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