London News Items

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 243, 4 January 1928, Page 4

London News Items

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

(From THE SUN S Correspondent) LONDON, November 28. Miss Mary Herbert, of Auckland, after spending some time in Paris, will stay for a little while in Nice before visiting Italy. Miss J. Edmiston. of Takapuna, who has been staying in Scotland and in Devon and Cornwall, is in London again. She will return to Auckland at the end of tho year. Miss Marie Hall, the well-known English violinist, gave a concert at the Queen’s Hall, London, the other day. The hall was filled to overflowing and the artist scored a tremendous popular success. Miss Hall, together with Mr. Mark Hambourg, will visit Australia and New Zealand in the early part of next year. The High Commissioner for New Zealand entertained to luncheon at the Savoy, Sir Lindo Ferguson, Dean of the Otago Medical School, who is returning to New Zealand, and Mr. Victor Bonney, the eminent gynacologist, who has accepted the invitation of the New Zealand Obstetrical Society to visit the Dominion as the guest of the Annual Medical Conference and to lecture at the conference.

Not long ago Sir James Parr visited the little village of Bingham, near Nottingham. where his father, the late Mr. Reuben Parr, spent his boyhood before going out to New Zealand about 70 years ago. Sir James’s father was once a chorister in the ancient church which is seven hundred years old. Sir James was warmly welcomed by the inhabitants. many of whom remembered his father, and the whole village gathered to see him and shake his hand.

The engagement is announced between Captain Herbert Alexander Macpherson, the East Yorkshire Regiment, of Headingly Hall, Leeds, and Cicely Beresford, second daughter of the late Mr. A. F. Fitzherbert and Mrs. Fitzherbert, of Nettleworth, Palmerston North, New Zealand,

The British Empire Academy, a society for the promotion of all the arts, will produce early in 1928 the light opera “The Maori Princess,” by Ethel Mrumflt, a New Zealander.

Lady Marjorie Dalrymple has returned from New Zealand and is staying at Queen, Anne’s Mead, Windsor, with her sister, Beatrice, Countess of Eglinton and TVinton.

Dr. and Mrs. H. S. Gillcliff, of Ashburton. Canterbury, arrived in England recently. They will travel in Europe and America and will return home in two year’s time.

Mr. E. Murray Fuller, a New Zealand art expert, will sail this week with pictures by eminent British artists for exhibition in the principal cities of the Dominion. Sir Herbert Hughes Stanton. Sir William Orpen and Mr. Arnesby Brown will be represented in the collection.

Miss K. Holmes, M.A., of Whangarei. is teaching at a school at Lausanne and will remain in Switzerland for the winter. Miss Holmes, who spent some time in Canada after leaving the staff of the Whangarei High School, arrived in England in June.

Miss Mary Plimmer, from 'Wellington, made a successful debut on the professional stage in Cyrano de Bergerac, which is now being produced by Robert Loraine at the Apollo. She previously appeared in repertory work and has been studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In Cyrano she plays the double role of the Orange Girl and Sister Martha, and although her parts are small she has won a flattering mention in Mr. St. John Ervine’s critique in the “Observer.”

The death is announced of Colonel Sir St. Vincent Hammett, Bart., who served in the New Zealand war of 1864-5 and was mentioned in dispatches.

Miss Marjorie Myers, who is well known as a teacher of dancing in Christchurch, is now staying in Hampstead. She is now taking a course of dancing in Novikoff’s studio and will later go on to Paris for further study.

The engagement is announced of the Rev. W. G. Burgis, 8.A., M.C., vicar of Cheddleton, and Mrs. Harris, of Basford Hall, Leek, widow of F. C. Harris, 1.M.C.. China and daughter of Mrs. Deans, of Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.