NOTES FROM LONDON

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 123, 15 August 1927, Page 4

NOTES FROM LONDON

(From Our Otcn Correspondent'i Mr. Charles H. Bettamy, of Auckland who has been travelling on the Continent, was present at the Beethoven Fee tival in Vienna. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Marks, of Chrw church, are visiting - friends in Louder and various seaside resorts. They vt. return to New Zealand via AustralMr. and s. AY. Brittain, of Auckland, who Rave been visiting the western and southern counties, intend touring the Lake District and Scotland very soon. They leave for New Zealand oz September 30. Mrs. and Mr. G. Hickmott, of ChrU;church, are making a pilgrimage to Caterpillar Cemetery, Longueval, when the name of their son, Lieutenant F. G Hickmott, is inscribed on the New Zeiland memorial to the missing. Jan Caryll, the New Zealand dancer who with his partner, Delyse, has hagreat success in his dance creation it London and on the Continent, is at present appearing in the new cabaret entertainment at the Piccadilly Hcte. London. An old Maori war veteran and U» oldest man in the British Isles, died i' Birr, King’s County, Ireland, a few day* ago. He was James Carroll who w» born on March 11, 1809, a few mite away from the town of Birr —80 tUmakes him 118 years old—the oldetf man in the British Isles. He enlist*in the 4th West Yorkshire Regim«' when he was between forty and fortyfive years of age and was accepted because he gave his age as 35. Shortly after enlisting he sailed witt his regiment to New Zealand where a* saw heavy fighting against the Mjj* He was wounded and lay untended rz the bush for some time, but was eventually found and taken to Auckland- "» invariably wore the medal of the Zealand campaign of which he was i** ordinately proud. He returned to Inland s*ome years ago and was a famfl* figure to the people of Birr. ' The Queen has opened Crosby h** as a residential clubhouse for | slty women of all nations. This i* first official international headquart of the kind in England. Crosby »■*; oned belonged to Sir Thomas More has considerable historic During the afternoon Mrs. T. A. ket, representing an< * F. Barden, representing New - were among those presented to Queen.