PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11506, 30 September 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

! • [FROM OCR Correspondent.] | LONDON, August 12. Mr and Mrs Maurice Mason, of Hawko's Bav, who have been m England for three months, have been on a motor tour through .England a Wales. Thev leave to-morrow; by the Philadelphia' for Vancouver, where they join the Makura for New Zealand. Mr Shayle Gardner, of Auckland, nephew of Bishop Boyd Carpenter, who has been taking leading parts at several London theatres for the past two yeaxs, and recently played lead to Miss Irene Vanbrugh in " The Land of Promise, underwent a severe operation recently, and has booked a passage to New Zealand by the Tnrakina m order to complete bis convalescence. He hopes to civ© several concerts in tnc jJoEftinJon* and later on intends to enlist. He has already tried to enlist three times, but without Miccoas. Mr I. O. Donneli. of Christchnreh, who has bren with the engineering firm of Messrs Denny Bros-, at Dumbarton, Scotland, for some t'liie, has latelv been studying in London, and has just passed the examination for his chief marine engineer's certificate. Archdeacon and Mrs Richards, of Ota go. have come to England, with their youngest son, for a holiday, and also to be present at a gathering of their relatives, who are coming 9J 1 lvanv different parts of the world. They intend spending most of their time in Bristol ;md the West of Lngland. mnd leave on their return to New Zealand m January. Their _ son is going to the Leeds Lniversity, and later going on to Mivfield to be trained for Holy Orders. Mr George Mitchell, of Balclutha, who was a corporal in the 162 nd Battery of the Itoyal Field Artillery, has now bc-en promo-tod to sergeant, and is jit Bulford Camp, on the Salisbury Plains. Mr D. Manson of the Kaiapoi Woollen Company, is in London on a business trip after having visited New York, and is laying at. the Strand Palace Hotel. ! Mr Cotter, of Auckland, son of Mr Thomas Cotter, K .(*., is ui London on , a visit. j Mr T. P. James, of Hal come, who i«s in London after an absence of twen- i ty-five years, came to England to offer i his services to the Government. Mr j James is at present staying at New-caatle-on-Tyno mi y, visit- to his broth- j er, who is manager of the oxygen j works there. j Mr Eliot King, of New Plymouth, ; who arrived in lingland a fortnight ago, has come to offer his service® for the war. Mr Herbert Humphries, of Napier, and tho Missos Vera and Cara Humphries, have arrived in England via America., where they visited several cities and the San Francisco Exposition. At Seattle they stayed with Mr Ifonnphxies's son, D£l Aubrey Hum-

phries. After visiting relatives they intend returning to New Zealand via New York and the Canadian Pacific, stopping at different places of interest en route. They expect to arrive in New Zealand at the end of October. Sirs Mabel Manson, late of Dunedin, was one of the soloists at the big charity concert held at the Palladium on Sunday night. Sir James Thorp, of the Bank of New Zealand, Ohura. King Country, is in England on a. visit and staying at Shuttleworth, near Manchester. Mr B. Nordon, of Ohristchurch. secretary of the Licensed Victuallers' Association, arrived here from New York a fortnight ago. He went to America fiiri healtli! reasons and wh'le there visited the San Francisco Exposition. Unexpectedly important _ business in connection with his association called ln'm to London, n here, he only expects to be till the 28th of this month. He returns to New York by the St Paul and leaves Vancouver by the Niagara on September 29.