PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6937, 29 October 1900, Page 3

PERSONAL.

♦— — Dr. Symes, and Messrs F. D. S. Neave J. Murchison and D. Wood were passengers for the south by this morning's express. . ! The Hon W. Hall-Jones will be unable to be present at the opening of the Jubilee Exhibition, in consequence of the Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Show taking place a-t the same time. Mr Hall-Jones will be here at the Jubilee celebrations, anfi he will afterwards proceed to Australia, to be present at the reception of the Duke and Duchess of York, and the opening of the Federal Parliament. Mr Gilbert Anderson, manager of the Christchurch Meat Company, who has been on a visit to Australia, returned to Christchurch by Saturday night's express train. Messrs J. W. White, Crown Prosecutor at Tima.ru, and T. I. Joynt, arrived from Wellington by the Tarawera. yesterday. Messrs W. B. and G. Clarkson, who have returned from «, visit to England, arrived at Lyttelton by the Tarawera yesterday. Mr T. Congreve also returned from a visit to the Old Country. The London correspondent of the "Lyttelton Times" writes:— l hear that there is some likelihood of Sir Westby and Lady Perceval returning to New Zealand before very longi Lady Perceval has, I believe, always longed to be back in the colony again, although Sir Westby has become quite acclimatised as a city man. Mr A. S. Clarkson, who was sent to South Africa on a business mission, by the North Canterbury Co-operative Stores Company, returned to Rangiora on Saturday. M. Zola, it is stated, is contemplating a visit to Scotland. He is engaged on a study of the relations between capital and labour dn England. The wife of Li Hung Chang is said to be the most liberal of all the Chinese women of her position, and, through her husband's sympathy with some of the ways of the foreign, devils, succeeded in acquiring more education than any other woman dn a similar place. She is now fifty-five years old. After her marriage with the Viceroy she continued her studies under his direction, and has been always the most accessible of the titled women.