PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16916, 31 January 1917, Page 8

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

CFfiOM Ocb Own Correspondent., , vr t LONDON, November 21. . itfr D. Jenness (Wellington) has arrived m iuigland irom Canada, Having practically completed, for the present, tL sciSc wto tSf Ul t S l f,Om ] " S S ° jOUrn * witti the btophanson expedition. 1 under stand tlmfc Air Jenness wieiies to joi up tor scrv.ee. Ho was previously tt menaber of too King Edward's Horse while at Oxford, whore ho distinguished himself jn anthropology. ■ - J " Mr \V A. Curzon-Siggers, B.A. (Dunedm) who was awarded the MucMahon t-iw btudentsliip at Cambridge a few months ago, has been reading lor tho Bar i £ 0 m^ C teL Cmi,lo ' aUd WM Called at Mfchaef-

Young Lngland " is tho name of a very attractive hght opera". London has not X had the opportunity of hearing it, Birmingham having beer, chosen for its first pZh.ction. lho music is hv Mr a w ™v .ud Lict. Hubert" &J} °i'S] joint work „[ tbo,, ,„„ comrj.m vt L-iutsam ,s credited with luvfni thrown his wc.Ejt inlo tho gener.l ph,, aSd th°"o,o,d ~nmte, «»d Mr Bath iith WinTSrf mmmm story deals with tho" fiko An* parently the east is very efficient .n 7 t P " n, r. ■ B[l{ie 'nan and the members «f the Dom.mons Royal Commission reached Liverpool this week on their return from Canada The work of tho interrupted ,n Canada by the outbreak »( war but within the last three nwnthY Hs members have completed tho ovraea io.ir ™yj by'vis.ting the central and wX'n parts of tho dominion western Major A. A St Hill (Duko of Wellintons Regjment) who has been stationec fn Sim a for some time, has just got back to England accompanied by his wife. Thw were on board tho P. and 0. steamer \rabia at tho t.me she was torpedoed, and suffered severe personal losses. For 36 hows were at sea m an open boat, until finallV rescued by a trawler. Major St. Hill h« come Homo to join his regiment in Franco Ho and Im wife a™ both very W ell known in New Zealand and their friends will be fflad to hear that they are now wifolv in Ji/ngland.