PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

Otago Witness, Issue 2623, 22 June 1904, Page 49

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

LOXDON, May U. Among callars who )-a.-\e left their nai^e.s at th© Agency-general this \ie«k I notice ihe following:— Mr Angus M'Nab. iJ.B. (Invorcargill), and Mv 3 M'Nab; Mr Arthur M. Rhodes (Chrufccliurch) ; Mr C. Leek (Auckland) ; Mr A. Connell and Mr J. Ccnnell (Durwdin) ; Mr T. W. Maude and the Misses Maude (Christchurch), who are staying for a time at 25 Princes square, Bayswater; Mr and Mrs S. F. Smithson (Timaru)r Mr W. Stephen. 8.A.. M.B. (Rivtrton); Mr Charles E. Beccroft (Napier) ; Miss Hargreaves (Christchurch), and Miss N. Roso; Miss E. Woollacomibe (Timaru) ; the Misses L. and L. Rattray (Dunedin) ; Mn, and Mrs G. E. Parsons (Kaikoura) and Miss Parsons; Mr H. B. Smith (Wellington); Mr H. Price (AVellington); JMr W. Ware (Auckland).

Miss Jean M. Dunsmuir (Dunedin) is now staying at Glasgow with some friends, and she expects to remain there for about three months. Then she will come to London for tliie purpose of studying singing and voice production, from, some of the best wellknown masters here. According to her present plans she will be in the United Kingdom for about two years.

In the current number of the Monthly Review the Hon. W. P. Reeves has a poem entitled '" The Colonist and His Garden." which has been highly and deservedly praised by the London critics, for very appreciative notices of it havo appeared, especially in the Spectator and the Pilot. The idea which Mr Reeves had in view was to describe the feelings of an early New Zealand colonist who receives a letter from an old friend in Great Britain or Ireland endeavouring to lure him back to the land of his 'birth. To this letter the first part of the poem is devoted. The second part describes the reply of the old colonist.