PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14715, 24 December 1909, Page 8

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, November 12. Mr Hall-Jones continues to malm good progress towards recovery from his recent heart attack. Ho was able yesterday to leave his bed for a few hours, but "will not, even under tho best cicumstanccs, venture out of tho house for some time yet. , Mr G. E. Butler, the well-known Wellington artist who is now residing in Driotol, is at present engaged in painting an historic picture on commission for the Corporation of Bristol. It represents the King reviewing tho Crimean veterans. Two other artists very widely known in New Zealand have recently been made members cf the Royal Society of British Artists—namely, Mr C. N. Worslcy and Mr E. W. Christmas. Both aro in England at present, and thoy havo four paintings on the exhibition of the Eociety." New Zealand is reinvented by only one artist at tho Now Galivv Exhibition of portrait-painters, opened tli<'» week. Miss Grace Joel has a life-size prtrait of n little girl two years of age. It is well placed on the lino, and the work is doscribed as "charming" by competent friends of tho painter. The only other colonist who :s exhibiting at the New Gallery is Mr George Coatcs, a former scholarship student, 'of Melbourne. Miss Joel has been in France for some time, awl on the way back to London she broko the journey at Canterbury on a visit to friends • When the proposals of the Government with regard to military service were eahbd Home, I made an immediate effort to ascertain the views of Mr R. M'Nab, who took such a keen interest in tho question. Mr M'Nab expressed himself as delighted witli the turn events have taken, but asked to be excised from commenting at length on tho proposals. , Mrs C. M. Brooke, of Ckristchurch, who is now-residing in New York, has just paid a short visit to Germany for fh» imrnoo" of study.. In Lcipsig she met Miss Johansen, of Nelson, who is there studying tho piano, one? is well satisfied with her propress. At a concert by Ernest Dohnanyi, the celebrated Adrian, held in tho sitting school at Berlin. Mrs Brcoko remarked that the Clutsam Clavier, the invention of the New Zealp-nd composer, Mr George H. Clutsam, was used with complete Sucre-:*. Mrs Brooke now poos to Yorkshire, where sha has a number of cn"a""menls. '

A former student, of Canterbury College. Mr L. IT. Harrison, VlSc, \\s\s until last Juh- living in JTanolr-ster. first as a student at the local Univcrsiiv sm\ Intterlv ss private assistant in the University (■■> Professor Dixon, head of the "bemical sclwol v.f Hint institution. Mr Harrison resignr.-l that, position .in the summer, with fhe object rf snendine some little title in tho Continental Universities. At "resent be is workiii" with Professor 'oren7. Professor of Electrochemistry tit the Zurich Potvtechm'kum in Oermnn Switzerland, IT-a tolls i»o fhnt nV ',ibo:aV." : -3 llicr.T ar« sn'ondidly fitted UP. and lint every froilitv is fiven for th? eindunt of original work. The institution .d«orveiUv holds first pI.T-" as perhaps the finest in the world. While c:n-

ducting work with Professor Loron?. the New Zealand student-has been admittfd to the University at Zurich, and has the opponmiy of working with Werner in chemistry nnd Gmhemnann in mineralosie. Ho finds the climate and country delightful, ami is keenly interested in his studies at Zurich.

The Now Zealand friends of tho Rev. Edward L. Wocdhouso (South Dunedin) will bo glad to know that (hat gentleman H now practically restored to health, and that ho has been able to do a little preach"Jg- After a restful ami tsnelicia.l vovago of soven weeks' duration Jlr \Voodh'ou;e S, «. ,P rlstol ' i1,,tl ww,t <"> immediately to O.dhani to be with relatives. Some time has since beyi spsnt in the Lake country, an ideal locality for the recruit of impaired health. Mr Wcodhouso is in London just now.

lhc New Zealand medical students who ■ '\ v O-dmititd to tho degree of M.L.CS. iiiclwm:-.Arthur ,T 0 , US friedkmrier, Otago University and Middlesex and London Hospuals: Ernest Charles Linasay, London Hospital; John Mitchell Mohaftcy, New Zealand University and London Hospital; Thomas Alexander' Milruy, Otago University ami Glasgow; oidncy Ihrland Ward, Otago University .and London Hospitalj H. Grav, St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

Amongst those who witnessed the Lord Mayor's show from tho oflicc of tho Daily Times were :-Dr and Mrs Morico (Ueymouth), Mr and Mrs Hart (Winchmore), and the Misses Hart, Mr R. C Hcrton and Miss Horton (Auckland) Mr and Mrs Cookburn Hcod (Wairarapa), Mrs Rous-Marten, Mrs and Miss Scholcheld, Miss Halsc, Mb Brandon (Wellington), tho Misms Dalzcll (Oamaru), Mrs Alingbii (Ashburton), Miss Craig, and Miss Joyce.

Mr A. Barton Kent, who recently concuckxl a tour of 36,000 miles through Britoh territory, delivered a lecture- in Northampton last night. Referring to New Zealand, ho said in a prohibition town of many Scottish inhabitants ho eaw more whisky than ho had ever scon in his do before. In tho course of his travels he had followed closely on the proposod All Red" route. A great deal more might be done, he declared, for this scheme, which would reduce the journey from London to Sydney by two days, and mako us independent of tho Suez Canal, which could be easily closed by sixpennyworth of dynamite and an old "hulk.

Mr Will Brooke, who has been for some umo first oflk»r of tho Star of Australia, has now been preferred to tho command of t„™ °' England. 'I'ta popular author of Tho Log of a Sailorman " and " Over the Bravo Blue Seas" is not likely to w sc<m in Australasia again for some time, an tho Star of England will in all probability inaugurate a new meat-carry-pfe" service from Venezusla to England. Before entering on his now command Mi flrooko will go through his gunnerv course in connection with the Royal- Naval Reserve, in which he holds tho rank of lieutenant.