PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17941, 21 May 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(From Ode Own Correspondent.) LONDON, March 15. It will ,bo remembered that when the King and Queen wove in New Zealand—as Duke and Duchess of York—Captain £. E. Donne ably performed the duties of Royal Commissioner. That their Majesties have not forgotten Captain Donne and his services js evidenced by the fact that they approached him quite recently, asking him for all possible information relative to the dominion that would be useful to the Prince of Wales. This Uaptain Donne' duly supplied to the Jfrince from whom,, a few days prior to his departure, he received a very cordial note of appreciation and thanks. At last Friday's investiture at Buckingham Palace, Major R, Eastwood, Rifle Brigade, and Wing-commander Outhbert T. Maclean, R.A.F. (Auckland) received ™ D.S. 0.: Captains William Congreve, K.lr.A.. William Pharazyn, R.F A and Howard Tripp, R.E., the Military Cross /a \ ls ?f c . lal ! y that Lieutenant (Acting Major) R. H. Mawvatt, D.5.0., sth Battalion, Worcester Regiment, Special Reserve, is to have rank of temporary Lieutenant-colonel, while commanding the 19th Battalion, the Essex Regiment, in the army of occupation. Referring to the Cambridge v Oxford b6xing contests light-heavy -weights en-tonts-when H. M Cushing (Norwich and F ™'u Colle , g £ defeated A. F. Meldrum (New Zealand and New College Oxford), the Cambridge Universfty Gazette says: "Although Cushing's viewry decided the final result of the evening's Middled ThfVT Very , <,ull Middles. The first round was sleepy, neither boxer doing much to score- the seeond was more lively, and honours stood even; ,n the .last CusW took thTinitL tive, and, scoring all the time, won comfortably on points." lOxfpn:l and Cambridge w[\\ hold] an athletic meeting at Queers ail' on March "/. K, R J. Saxon (Nelson College and Emmanuel) has been selected, with H M Abrahams (Cams) to represent Cambridge in vhe Long .Tump. In the Cambridge final meeting a few days ago, Saxon came second mth. Jump (21ft sAin), being Wen by H. M. Abrahams (22ft) Sir Thomas Mackenzie and the Hon. W. A ember Reeves were amonc the pucsts— representative of 45 different countriesat a banquet given at the Ritz Hotel bv Ma,or Dav,d Davies, M.P., to meet Mr Asqu.th, Mr Balfour, Lord Robert Cecil bir Eric Diummond, and the officials of .no Overseas S«b-committees of the League o. Nations Un.on. Unfortunately. Mr Balfour and Sir Erie Drummond were callrd r.way to a meeting of the Council of the League m Paris. Major Davies presided At the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Thomas Mackenzie attended a meeting at Lambeth Palace called to consider the question of the distress in Europe

arising out of the war, at which the following resolutions were unanimously passed: "lhat this conterenco is of opinion that the distress in Europe and Asia arising out ol tlie war calls lor both Governmental and private- action. It is further ot opinion that, if: private benevolence is to be effective, it is urgent that the work of existing agencies be 00-ordmated, and that the wiriest and most authoritative appeal be made." It was agreed to form a provisional committee to carry out the resolution. An interesting passenger to New Zealand by tne Aestor, due to sail on April &, will be Lieutenant i'lora Sancles, ot tin. Serbian Army, who has seen a considerable amount of active service during the war and who is about to be demouuised. Lieutenant Sondes is' the sister of Mr John Sandcs, who is going out to New Zieaianu in the Renown as Australian press representative. Long before she had her commission Lieutenant Sondes saw considerate service in other departments of tho war. Within a few days ot its outbreak, accompanied by seven other nurses, she served for three months in a hospital. Later she was instrumental in raising £2000, which she expended on hospital stores and took out to Serbia. At the request oi" the Serbian R.C. in Nish, sho took stores to VaJjwo, where she worked through the typhus epidemic until the middle of 1915, when she herself was stricken down by the illness. Subsequently she joined the 2nd Regiment as a soldier, and was promoted corporal ai Durazzo, at the beginning of 1916. She has seen fighting in tho trenches, and was on the battlefront through the victorious oifensive in the middle ol 1918. More recently Lieutenant Kandes has been training recruits and doing the usual work of an officer. M r and Mrs Arthur Ooxhead (Dunedin) have reached England from the South of JJ'rance, alter, having travelled through China, Japan, and India. They intend to remain in Europe until about the beginning of November, when they anticipate sailing for Now Zealand. Mr Stuart 11. J. Wilson, tho holder of a N.Z.E.F. scholarship, is talcing a course for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Applied Chemistry at Glasgow University. He is taking most of his classes in the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, which k a very well-equipped institution. He intends later to apply for permission to go to Manchester to do some research work and also to study specially electric chemistry, as that may be of importance to New Zealand in the future. At the outset Mr Wilson hod thought of becoming a student of the Royal College of Science, London, but that institution, would not make sufficient allowance for the work which he had already done in New Zealand. By several professors h© was advised to go to Glasgow or Manchester, as both these centres are more in touch with industry. Prominent professors at Glasgow just now include Dr Gray, professor of Technical Chemistry, and at present also director of the Fuel Board. Dr Desch, professor of Metallurgical Science, is shortly to be transferred from Glasgow to Sheffield. Mr Wilson comes from Green Island, and he was for three years a student at Otago University. He is expecting to receive news from New Zealand that he has been granted the degree of Bachelor of Science, which was to have been conferred last (Tanuary. Mr Neil H. Smith, Caius College, Cambridge (formerly on tho staff of Auckland Grammar School, and the holder of a N.Z.E.F. Scholarship) has been chosen to represent Onm-Widcre Univers'ty in the chess tournament against London clubs and against Oxford, thereby gaining the halfblue awarded to chess players. At a congregation at Cambridge on Friday, the degrees of B.A. and LL.D. were conferred upon Mr A. A. M'Nnb, of Christ's College (late N.Z R. 8.. and Nelson College), who is the.holder of an N.Z.E.F. scholarship as a law student.