LONDON PERSONAL NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10304, 8 November 1911, Page 1

LONDON PERSONAL NOTES.

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD. [From Our Correspondent.] LONDON, September 29

A wedding of interest to New Zealanders took place on Wednesday afternoon at St Peters, Kensington Park Road, when Miss Phyllis Tribe, who was educated in Christchurch, and whose late father was a manager of the Union Bank of Australia in Invercargill, and Rangiora, was married to Baron Benedictus Stempell. Miss Tittell-Bruno, the actress so popular in New Zealand, appears next week at the Coronet Theatre in "Tho Woman in the Case." and the following week in "Sally Bishop," Mr Temj/1© Tliurston''s recently dramatised story. The death took place on Wednesday at Cokehurst, East Farleigh, England, of Mrs Jane Gould, widow of tho late Mr George Gould, of Christchurch. Madame Betty Brooke, of Christchurck, has seoured an autumn engagement at the Loomis, New York. Francis Le Moiue, the director of the Loomis, a sanatorium in America, upon Madame Betty Brooke's first appearance on his concert platform, ottered her such advantageous terms that she made arrangements to cancel a contract she had signed with a Western syndicate. She will be at the Institute until tho middle of December. The Re-v Erie D. Rico, late ricar of Robs, Westland, New Zealand, has resigned that living in order to come to England in search of wider experience, and to have the opportunity of coming in contact with Church leaders and up-to-date parish work. After three months' sightseeing, chiefly in the south of England, Mr Rice has accepted a position on the staif of tho parish of Eiland, a manufacturing town in West Yorkshire, three churches and a staff of four, who live in community. He will probably be there for a year before returning to New Zealand.

Mr James M'Coll, of Christchurch, was one of the passengers on the Olympic, the great passenger vessel which was crashed into last week by the cruiser Hawke. He had to postpone his departure for New Zealand, which he was making via New .York and Vancouver. He will now sail in three weeks' time from Liverpool for New Zealand, via Montreal and Vancouver, and will probably reach Auckland at the end of November. The first of a series of "New Zealand Sketches" by Mr W. H. Koobel appeared iii the "Academy" of September 23.

Next week Mr Fisher Unwin, the publisher, will bring out " My Climbing Adventures on Four Continents," by Mr Samuel Turner, who has done some very stiff climbing in Switzerland, Siberia, tho Andes and New Zealand. His traverse of Mount Cook for the first timo is said to be the longest continuous climb on record.

Recent callers at the High Commissioner's office:—Mrs G. W. Palmer (Wanganui), Mr I. E. Baigent (Upper Rutt) Mr E. Lightfoot (Auckland), Mis* Hunt and Mrs H. P. Slater (Christchurch), Mr A. M'Nab (Waianiwa), Mrs E. Chick (Auckland), Mr A. C. Birt' (Dunedin), Mrs F. and Miss Doreen Banks (Christchurch), Mr F. Stean (Christohurch), Mr and Mrs Aitcheson Smith (Nelson), Mrs H. and Master 11. Garlick (Auckland), Mrs A. F. Mason (Waikato), Mr D. P. M'Koe and Miss M'Rae (Canterbury), Mr A. Dick (Waihi), Mr M. Ccpelaud (Auckland), Mr and Mrs J. Colin Campbell (Wanganui), Rev A. H. and Mrs C'olville (New Plymouth). Now Zealand has not come "empty away" from the Roubaix Exhibition, which has given such a fine advertisement to New Zealand products at a most opportune? time—the day of a loud, insistent and general demand from the middle and lower classes of France for cheaper foodstuffs. From. the exhibition Now Zealand has taken five grand prizes, three diplomas of honour and no fev. r than seventeen gold medals. The New Zealand Government received the grand prix for the general collection of wool, another for frozen meat, a third for grain and seeds, one for the hemp exhibit, and a fifth for the display of kauri gum. The three diplomas of honour fell to the Gear Moat Company, Limited, for slipe wool, the Wellington Meat Company for slipe wool, and Messrs Nichols and Sons for a collective • exhibit of wool and skins. Of the gold medals no fewer than thirteen were awarded to exhibits of fleece wool, the recipients being Messrs Ernest Short, H. Hadfield, J. J. Bourke, Abraham and Williams, G. Gerrard, J. H. Kirk and Co., S. .11. Lancaster, James Little, R. L. Levin, R. D. D. M'Lean, A. C. M'Eao, P. Muugavin and Edward L. Lees. The Government of New Zealand received two gold medals for exhibits of preserved fruits and leathers, the Gear Meat Company, was awarded one for canned meats, and Messrs Maddren Brothers one for a collection of ropes and twines.