PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8202, 4 August 1906, Page 6

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(From Our Own Correspondent). LONDON, Mc W. Uray, the Secretary of the New Zealand Post Office, who accompanied Sir Joseph Ward to the Postal Congress at Rome, returns tn New Zealand by the Ventura. During his visit he has familiarised himself with the postal and telephone services hero, whioh may be of use to him on his return. Mr R. McNab ot Mataura, returns by the same boat. Mr John Prouse, of Wellington, the New Zealand baritone, is another voyager by this boat. Mr Prouse found that he arrived too late to fix up engagements for the autumn. The Misses C. M. and A. Wells, of Christchnroh, returned by the Ruapehu on the 18th inst. They have completed their musioal studies at Leipsic, where they gained the highest diplomas. The following New Zealanders have distinguished themselves over'here lately:—Miss Mary Stoddart, whose water colours were placed at the Baillie Gallery in Baker Street; Mr A. J. BuchanaD, late of Christchurch, who has written a novel under the title of "Bubble Reputations," whioh will be published in the autumn; Messrs L. A. Abraham, Gilterfc Anderson, Patrick Dignan, and E. W. Roper (Christ" churuh), who have been elected Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute; Mr W. Reed, of Palmerston North, who was included in the record entry at the Crystal Palace for the single handed bowling tournament open to the world; Mr Otto Heggis, who has been very successful at . the Theatre Roya!, Margate, and has had several offers from managers of provincial tours. He is Qot;, however, a New Zealander, but toured New Zealand several years back, and will no doubt be remembered as a member of Mr W. F. fiawtrey's Company. At St. Pancras, Woking, on the 19th inst., Mr Cyrus Eugert, third eon of the late Mr A. C. Eugert, of Higbgate, was married to Miss Juliana Coles, youngest daughter of Captain Coles, of Wakefield, New Zealand. At St. Margaret's, Westminster, on the 7th inst., Mr Reginald Tristram Harcer, the youngest son of Mr Leonard Harper, late of Christchurch, was married to Miss Gladys Wilson, only daughter of the late Mr Robert Wilson, F.R.S., of Edinburgh. The Rev. James Dunn, uncle of the bridegroom, and the Rev. Charles Coade, cousin of the bride, officiated. At. St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, on the 11th inst., Mr C. S. Stafford; a director of' the Kalgoorlie Gold M>nes, well-known all over New Zealand t was married to Miss de Labrosse, daughter-of the late Vicomte de Labrosse. I learn from a contemporary that Colonel Kitchener, a brother of Lord Kitchener, will succeed General Babington, as Commandant of the New Zealand Military Forces. Mr D. Hope Johnstone, M.A., of Wellington, has been paying a visit to his old College at Cambridge University. The present Vice-Chan-cellor of the University, who is also Master of Trinity Hall, Mr Johnstone's old College, says that the records of his Coli6ge ( and of the University, showed that New Zealanders were splendid all-round men, very self-reliant, with sound and healthy principles; ■Mr Hope Johnstone, when in Cambridge, iu 1895, resuscitated the Australasian Club' whioh is still in existence, but is not very flourishing.