PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16002, 19 February 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(From Oon Own Comiesponoent.)

LONDON, January 7. Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oulrs, of Getting) horpo Hall, Castle liediimluim Jvssex, and of the 6th (Innkkilling) Dragoons, formerly of Ballincollig, County Cork, who joined Captain Scott's Antarctic! expedition, and who, in the official phniws of the i Grant, ■•'died on 17 th dny of Maivli, 1012, in (.he Antarctic region;;, 1 in circum;>!,unce«i iiiiinortalisi'd in Captain Scott's • nary, left, estate valued for probate ;ut of tlic gross value of £23,tiZS, of which the net personality has been sworn at £15,811. llifl will is dated May 15, 1906, and is witnessed by two brother officers of bin reg.nii'nt. Iho will stated: "1 give, devise, and bo Uueath all iny real and peisonal property, whattioover u.n.d wheresoever of, or to which 1 shall be possessed or entitled, or over which I shall have a-ny power of appointment or disposal at my death, to my brother, Bryan William Grace Gates, absolutely." Captain Oates was 32 year* of age at his dftcenso, and was the elder son of the late M" William Edward Gates, of Gceiingthorpc Hall. Of the other members of the ill-fated party, Captam Scott left estate valued for probate at £3231, "as far as at present can be ascertained," and Dr Edward Adnen Wilson left estate of the net value of £965.

There ure many people resident in New Zealand who will* learn with rcgrot of the suddrn death of Mr George Cowie, who has lived in Iyondon for a number of years. Mr Cowie was staying with his daughter at ilur.st.intoii, Norfolk, and his death occurred there on January 2.

Only thra; days of this week have elapsed, but the callers at the High Commissioner's office who have entered their names in the visitors' book in this period are: Mr L. G Walker (Gisborne), Mr 11. Da vies (Levin), Mr J. S. M'Grath (Invcrcargill), Mr S. Mackenzie (Wakatipu) and Margaret Mackenzie, Mr and Mrs L. C. Gibbons (Auckland, late of Wellington), Mr and Mrs R. A. B.ggsira (Hawkc'e Bay), Mrs G. Payling (Christolrurch) and Mr Alan Pay-'-ing, Mr R. S. Black (Wusttrn Australia.)

The Gangatira is sailing from London on Friday in charge of Captain 11. D. Lowden, and w.lh Lh- F. A. Scatinell as medical officer. The cabin pasei-ngers arc : tlie ltov. W. K Campbell, Mrs aiid Mi.o Campbell, Miss \V. Cramp, >lies E. Eny ldow, Mr .T. Kcrk'ton. Some 350 passengers havo booked to travel third class.

Mr T. R. Quill, of Kow Zealand, well known in lawn tennis circles, has entered for the covered courts tournament, to b , . played at Dulwich.

The Rev. 11. Allan is going out to Zealand next month to take up new dut Ho has recently been attached to a paush in Liverpool, prior to which he was cuiatt of Crookham, Hants.

Mr Hugh Latter, M.A., the recentlyselected now head master of Wang'anui Col legiate School, has now finished his work at Cheltenham College, and is busy settling up affairs and making ready to sail. He will leave by the s.s. Orsova on February 13, and should arrive in Wellington at the beginning ;of April. Mr Latter had various presentations made to him on severing his connection with Cheltenham College, including- a silver tea service given him by h:s house.

Mr Robert Jack has booked his passage for Dunedin, via Australia, by the Orama, due to sail from London on January 30. Ho is going out to New Zealand to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Profossor Sluind,

Mr Archibald F. Nicoll (late of Christchurch and Auckland) has just been elected a member of the Society ol Scottish Artists. Twelve new members ,were proposed and voted for on submission of work; only four were elected and the New Zealand artist was one of tnese. Mr Nicoll, who has been living in Scotland for tl'.e nast two yea.rs, having a studio at 34 York place, Edinburgh, has' recently been spending a little while at Concarneau, South prittany, sketching harbour and fishing boats principally. Since his return ho has disposed of o«o of his oil paintings, a market scene, to Mr Jas. Paterson, R.S.A. During the autumn the New Zealander had exhibited at tho Liverpool Autumn Exhibition, at the Manchester City Art Gallery, and at tho Royal Scottish Water Colour Society, where one picture painted at Concarne'au was hung on the line. At tho present moment a fair-sized oil landscape—"Afternoon, Brittany"—hangs on the line at the exhibition of the Society of Scottish Artists.

Mr A. F. Wilding is back in the South of France. He is going to take part in the second international lawn tennis tournament at' Cannes, and great interest attaches to the meeting. Wilding is now the champion of the world on grass courts, hard courts, and covered courts.

Sir Claude Phillip?, the art critic of the Daily Telegraph, makes reference to the work of tho' artists who are now showing at the landscape exhibition, held at the gallery of the Koyal Society of Painters in Water Colours. Of the exhibits of a New Zealand artist he writes:—"Mr Leslie Thomson still seeks in landscape for long horizontal lines in parallels, as expressing those calmer aspects of the fair world which ho prefers. An exception, not in the mode of composition but as regards mood and intention, is his ambitious fantasy, "Sunset." A huge globe of fire, filling the whole canvas w:th its rays of red-gold, just touches with its edges the bosom of gently rippling blue waters, enveloping in the glow many nude figures of nymphs, or fair mortals, which- are grouped together with a somewhat academic elegance on the seashore. In .'On the Exq' the opaque surface of waters, yellowish white, in a curious veiled illumination, is well given."

Tho Athletic News states that the dispute between L. B. Todd, the colonial threequarter back of the Wigan team, and the officials at Central Park, has advanced another stage during the week. The New Zealander, at his own request, has been placed on the transfer list, and as the fee can be regarded as fairly moderate, early developments are anticipated.