PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18003, 2 August 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

(Fbom Oub Own Cobbespondent.)

LONDON, Juno 10.

Lord and Lady Jellieoe will be leaving for New Zealand by the Corintliic on her next outward voyage. Lord JeLlicoe is having a busy tune just now hihilling numerous engagements, but he has not yet made any appointments to his staff. Neither has he yet recovered from the effects of his recent illness. Relative to Lord Jellicoe's appointment to New Zealand, the Yorkshire Post, remarks: "Feeling in some of the dominions is running strongly in favour of tiro abolition of Governors, and it is now generally anticipated that this will be 0110 ot the changes oextuin to result from the recognition of the dominions as partnernations within the Empire. But much depends upon the personality of the Governor-General, and New Zealanders are about to give a great welcome to Lo r J Jcllicoe/' Sir Thomas 'Mackenzie went to Paris !asc week in connection with the signing of the Hungarian Peace Treaty, which took place in the Gallerie du Gnitl Trianon at Versailles. Other included Sir G. Perley (Canada), the Hon. A. FisLer and Mr Blackenberg (Au :*.rali;i). The session, ti eugh a sole.nn one, was devoid of interest an i lasted only a few r inutss M. Milleraini merely said the proceedings were evened, end incited the Hungarian delegates lo append their signatures to the Treaty decided upon by the Alii:s. The two Hungarian plenipotentiaries then signed at the bottom pago, 'oltowed by the delegates of all the Allied nations. On his way back Sir Thomas spent a week-end at Dover with Lady Mackenzie, whose health is benefiting considerably from her stay at this coast town with Mrs A. V. Mac Donald. iieturning to London on Monday, the High Commissioner went through to Cambridge, where lie was entertained to dinner by NewZealand students at the HeitiUi Club. He was the guest of Professor Shipley (Master of Christ's College). The High Commissioner, too. is having a busy time fulfilling numerous social engagements. An interesting function will be a reception which he and Lady Mackenzie are giving to Lord and Lady Jellicoe. Yesterdav the High Commissioner was present at the -Crystal Palace, when the King opened the Imperial War Museum, returning this popular centre "to the vises of peace." , Mr and Mrs Arthur Myers (Auckland)" wero among the guests at tea in the House of Commons of the Empire Parliamentary Association. The meeting was arranged to enable members of the Executive and Hospitality Committees of the assoo:ation in the Lords and Commons to meet the members of dominion Parliaments and their wives who are visiting London. Mrs Lowther was the hostess. At a court en June 24- Mrs -Myers is to be presented by Lady Ourzon of Kedleston. At the same court Mrs Alfred Nathan (Auckland) is presenting her two daughters, and another New Zealander to h;£ve a similar honour is Mrs Lawrence Chaytor, whose hushand is the brother of Lieutenant-colonel E. \Y. C. Chaytor, lato G.O.G'., N.Z.E.F., in Egypt. The official announcement of "no veils "and no feathers" came as a disappointment in the first- instance to many debutantes. The idea, of course, of the Queen was to reduce expense as far as possible, and her express wish, too, the dresses are to be less elaborate than formerly, and there are to be no long trains. £ After an absence of 17 years from England, Sister E. L. Moody-Bell Ims come to revisit her friends. Since the Convention of the TV. W.C.T.U., she has been addressing various meetings of the British Women's Temperance Association, and she has various other engagements on hand, taking as her subject "The Prohibition Campaign in New Zealand and its Prospect for the Future." Also Sister Moody Bell is collecting information relative to the IC.Z.Yv.C.T.U. department, 'Prison and Reform Work," of which she has been national superintendent for some -years. She hopes to visit various institutions and to obtain facilities from Scotland Yard and the Home Office in order to prosecute her inquiries. On account of the difficulties of securing a return passage, Sister Moody Bell may •stay in England for some considerable time if a sphere of suitable work opens up for her. This week she has visited the Borstal Institution at Aylesbury. . Mr S. Hurst Seagar has been on the Continent studying the lighting of picture galleries in preparation for a paper which he has _ been asked to read on this important subject before the National Association of Museum Directors at Winchester, where the annual conference is to be held during the first week of July. It is a matter to which Mr Seagar has given attention for a number of years. The Allied Conference on Housing was held in London last week, and Mr Seagar was present, with Sir Thomas Mackenzie, as representing the New Zealand Government. After the London meetings a series of conferences is to be held in some of the Dutch towns, and Mr Seager has been invited to attend these. Later comes the Conference on Forestry. As the result of the study of housing problems in Rome, Mr Seager has just brought out " Modern Housing in Ancient Rome." The Misses Elsie and E. M. Kay have come to England for a holiday after seven and a-half years' absence, and they intend to remain until October. They hope to include a trip to Scotland, but the greater part of their time will bo spent with friends and relations in Yorkshire. At present they are in Harrogate. 11/1228 a Corporal E. L. D. Lees, New Zealand Provost Corps, has had conferred upon him by the President of the French Republic the Medaille d'honneur avec Glaives (en bronze).

Mr George Chance (Dunedin) is on a business trip on behalf of his firm, Messrs Dawsons (Limited). He will be here until early in August, when he will leave for the United States, en route for Japan and China. Mr Chance, who has lived in New Zealand for ien years, says he finds London very little altered in the interval, but that he has no desire to change the town of his adoption. Mrs Lee-Cowie (Duncdin) has been laid up with an attack of bronchitis since her arrival in England, and this has rather interfered with her addresses at public meetings, but she is now making a good recovery. She has taken part in two successful missions in Wales, and has spoken at numerous meetings in various parts of England, where organised opposition was met with from the liquor party. In the middle of this month Mrs Lee-Cowie is going to Scotland to take part in that country's first, local option battle. A busy three months there is contemplated. In the autumn she hopes to leave on/her return to New Zealand.

Dr J. R. Elder, the newly-appointed professor of history at the University of Otago, is leaving by the Athenic from Southampton early in July, accompanied by Mrs Elder and their family. Dr Elder's new book, Spanish Influences in Scottish History, 1488-1603," is expected to be out at an early date. Just.before the earlier of these dates France and Spain began to recognise tho importance of Sqotland under a strong monarch as a menace to England, and consequently as a useful ally in the quarrels that these countries might find or invent with Scotland's southern neighbour. The relations between Scotland and -franco are sufficiently well known; but those with France, including the exchango of diplomatic missions which began them, are more recondite. This, therefore, is the subject Mr Elder has set out to examine in the forthcoming volume. The volume also treats of the Catholic revolt in northern Scotland, and of Scotland's part in the Armada struggle. After a lapse of six years on account of the war the Royal Caledonian Ball was revived this week bv the president, the Duke of Atholl. It took place at the Coniiaught Rooms, and one of those takin" part in a reel was Captain D. W. Blair.

Mr and Mrs W. Efford (Rangiora) spent some time in South Africa with friends on "a farm en route to England. They thus had a first-class experienoe of the African farm labourer, and they found the blacks there a regular study and very different in every way from the New Zealand Native. They went to Johannesburg and Kimberleyj and saw a good deal of the mining industry' and were very much struck by the enormous use that is made of native labour, which seems to be very well organised in 1 !iis important industry. En route to Capetown they went to Ladysmith, Newcastle, and Bloernfontcin, and were* particularly struck by the tremendous expanse of country covered, and they think there is room for much closer settlement all over South Africa. Mr and Mrs Efford arrived at Tilbury in the middle of May, and before long they will start for a motor tour of England and Scotland, very likely going also on the Continent. Whilo in South Africa a railway strike prevented a visit to the Victoria Falls.

Miss Ina Bosworth (Auckland) was the violin soloist last week at a musical "at homo" given at the Mansion House by tho I.iwlt Mayoress.

Lieutenant-commander A. D. Boyle, R.N. (Ohristchiirch), has been appointed to 11.M.5. Thunderer. Mr and Mrs Alfred O. I/unn and Miss Lunn (Auckland) have come to Europe on a three months' visit, and they have planned to make tours in Scotland, the West of England, and to go to tho French battlefields.

As chairman of the Auckland branch of the Navy League., Mr Lunn intends to confer with the head office in Ijondon. Lord and Lady Islington, a short time ago, moved Chesterfield Gardens to their new home in l > ortmnn Square, and tho remaining contents at their fonner'honie have recently been sold by direction of Lord Islington. At, this wret's sale the following prices were realised:—Louis Quatorze bouUo and ebonized cabinet. 55gs; Louis Seize kingwood oblonar writiuc table. 68gs; walnut refectory table, 43gs; old French boulle and ebonized iu'nioii-e, 105gs; Croimvellian oak draw table. 52trs; 'pair°of Queen Anne gilt side tables. ~ 52gs; oak refectory tablo, 40gs; Italian marqueteric and gilt walnut hall seat, 44gs; and a gilt laocruer and silver vase and cover. 33gs. Mr P. R Sargood (Dunedin) arrived bv the Atlionic after a somewhat lengthy trip, much delay being occasioned at Newport News on account of the difficulty of obtaining coal. Mr Sargood expects to remain on side of the world for sop;o months, combining business with pleasure.

Mr F. J. Du Croz (Dunedin) will be in England until August. He is staying in Surrey.

Mrs Pennethorne (Napier), daughter of tho late Mr M. R. Miller, is in England with. her Irusband, who has come home from Egypt on four months' and a-half leave. He is district locomotive superintendent in Lower Egypt of the Egyptian State Railways. Mr and Mrs Pennethorno are staying the Isle of Wight with Cantain Pennethorne, _ R.F.A. They sailed "from Alexandria in the middle of May. and arrived in England a week ago. New Zealandors will be interested to hear that Mr H. M. Butcher (Dunedin) the architectural student, has been successful in winning the Lever Prize in connection with town planning. Thi s i s an annual award given by Lord Leverhulme of the valuo of £50, and is tenable for two years at London University. Mr Butcher has for tho last six months been a student at the Architectural Association in Bedford Square, where he has recently passed the examination of A.R.1.8.A. At London University he wall study for his diploma in ' townP, Ih® subject of the award was "A School for the Re-construction of Clnring Cross and Strand. Linking u-> to the Proposed Memorial Club, also w'th'thc Proposed Bridge Across the Rive? 'Jhasncs" Before going back to New Ze'J.'.nd, w!i;>ii. of course, now will not be for f-ome considerable time, Mr Butchcr hopes to soend some time on the Continent—nctablv in France and Italy, and possibly in Germany —and to return home by way of tho United States.

Mrs F. M. Wallace (Waverley). who arrived by the Ruapehu, has booked her return passage by the Orvieto, due to sail -at the end of Octobcr. Sho has come to this country on a pleasure trip, and will spend July in Edinburgh and Aberdeen.