OUR LONDON LETTER.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 220, 20 July 1909, Page 7

OUR LONDON LETTER.

(From Our London Correspondent.) London, May 27. Mr W. A. Parkinson, of Hawera, mentioned m my last, will, after a short stay, return by the Suez route. Mies E. M. NoTrie, of Auckland, has just arrived here, and is staying with Dr and Mrs A. 0. Knight, also of Auckland, at their residence at Harrow. Mr Arthur Eady, of the same city, will come by the Omrah. He will visit Great Britain, Europe, and America, and will be absent from the Dominion about six months. Mt Henry Peck, also of Auckland, is just now m Londlon. He will. visit Henley, Manchester, Liverpool, and' the Isle of Man, and will make a short tour on the Continent. Mr Peck is accompanied by Mr D. F. Whitaker, from the same city. Two other Aucklanders, Mr and Mj*> J. R. Self, came to Marseilles by the Malwa, and) thence overland to London. Mr Self is combining business with pleasure, his intention being to do considerable buying for his business m Auckland' while here. During the summer his Avife i and he will totur the United Kingdom, as well as France, Switzerland, and Italy. They lea\e for the Dominion at the end of September, travelling yia New York and Vancouver, and arriving home shortly before Christmas. Mr W. J. Cuttle, of Dunedin, came by the Asturias. He will visit Scotland' and Ireland and then proceed' to America. He is travelling to gain experience m V.M.C.A. work. Mr Alexander Dawson, of the same city, i 6 just off to Scotland. Afterwards he- returns to London for six or seven weeks, prior to a brief tour on the Continent. Mr Dawson will probably return, by way of America, leaving London some time m August. Mr and Mrs Chas. W. Hay. also of Dunedin, came by the Orontes. They will spend' part of their holiday m Scotland, mostly m the > vicinity of Dundee. Mr Hay will attend the Dental Congress m Berlin m August, and will visit various dental schools 'm London and elsewhere. They propose to return via New York and Canada about the middle of October. Mr John Roberts, of Dunedin, and his wife and daughters, who came by the Moldavia, are now staying at Selkirk, and will pay a round' of visits to friends m various parts of the country before leaving England, about October Ist, on their; return home via Vancouver. ,Mr Duffield, of the Telegraph Office, Ch.ristchur.cn, and Mrs Buttei-field arrived here on the 15th instant. Mr Duffield! is on a twelve-months leave of absence, three months of which will be spent m the United' Kingdom. Mts C. W. Fisher, Miss Clara. Fisher, and Messrs A. J. and F. C. Fisher, of the same city, have juet arrived. They will remain about four months m England, returning to New Zealand via Suez, during which time Mr A. J. Fisher and his brother will make an ext^ndied visit to the West Coast parts and to various Midland centres on a business mission. Dr Geoffrey Clayton, of Christchurch, has left London for Parie and Berlin for the special study of methods m the maternity hospitals m those citi-es, and also to pick up the latest ideas m hospital methods generally. Mr H. D. Bell, K.C., of Wellington, has arrived. He will represent VictoriaCollege, Wellington, at the Darwin centenary at Cambridge, and' he is also engaged m two cases m the Privy Council. Mrs Cecil Wroughton and; Miss Wroughton, of Canterbury, left the Friedrich der Grosse at Naples, and spent several weeks on the Continent, visiting various places m Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and France. They have now arrived; m London, where they will remain for the season. The Hon. Oliver Samuel, M.L.C., of New Plymouth, and Mrs Samuel left Wellington at the beginning of January and arrived m London on May 6th. On the way here they stopped for some weeks at Sydney, Melbourne, Colombo, Egypt, (visiting the upper reaches of the Nile as far as Assouan), Italy, and the Riviera. At Marseilles they joined a pleasure trip to Corfu, the Isles of Greece, Smyrna, Constantinople, etc. They expect to leave for home, via Canada, on August 13th. Mr Crosby Smith, President of the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce, and Chairman of the Southland Education Board, is revisiting Halifax, his native town, after ap absence of 33 years. As a boy he worked m the mills at Halifax, and then emigrated l to New Zealand, where he has .had a successful career. While over here, Mr Smith will arrange for the publication of his botanical work on the flora of New Zealand, to be illustrated with two hundred plates. He lectured' a few nights ago on New Zealandflowers and plants before the • Halifax Scientific Society. Mr and Mrs Arthur Ballance and Mrs Holniwood, of Wellington, came by the Medic. Mr Ballanoe will pursue his studies m singing m London, and has brought with him several introductions to well-known people m the musical world. Mr B. J. Ager, of Christchurch, after a tour of Australian capitals, came to London by the Orontes. He, will visit some of 'the large manufacturing towns of England and Scotland, and probably France and! the United States also. He will probably be back m the Dominion by October. Mr Arthur C. Hart, with his sieter-in-law (Mrs R. W. Hart) and his nieces (the Misses Hart) arrived by the Asturias. They will stay m London for the season, and will then go on tour m Europe for a time. Mr Charles Worsley, the New Zealand artist, has arrived here, •accompanied by his wife. They landed at Naples on their way m order that Mr Worsley might do some sketching <on the Continent. They have visited' various 1 places m Italy, the Tyrol, Switzerland, and) France. Next month Mr Worsley hopes to hold an exhibition of his pictures, which will con- . sist exclusively of New Zealand scenery, m London. -, Your late High Commissioner, the Hon. >, W. Pember Reeves, lectured' yesterday at [ the London School of Economics, of which s he i 6 the director, on "Invalidity Pen- ' sions." i What industry and thrift can do m * humble*" life is exemplified m a Lincoln- » shire case, where a couple haye 4 just cele--1 brated their golden wedding. Mr and * Mrs Burgess, of Belchford, brought up a. * family of fourteen sons and daughters, 1 and brought them aip 6O carefully that all * now occupy good positions. One, the Rev. * T. C. Burgess, is vicar of a parish m , New Zealand, whilst the youngest, who * is about to take holy orders, is now a master of Ellesmere College, and last year took his B.A. degree at Cambridge. g Mr Arnold Trowell, the New Zealand :. 'oellist, mentioned m former letters, apfl peared' with much success at the concert .. given by Mile. Alice Varlet, the French q prima donna, at Queen's Hall, on the 21st i. instant.