PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue VII, 17 August 1901, Page 323

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON. July 7. Captain Neill, of the N.Z.M.R.. was one of the officers who arrived last Saturday by the Simla. Miss Celia Dampier has so improved in health that she is expected to return to her home this week. Sir John Hall has. I am glad to hear, speedily recovered from his bronchial cold, and was able to go to the Royal Show at Cardiff, and to speak at one of the functions connected therewith. Mr. and Mrs. Oatts, who have just returned to Glasgow after visiting the Y.M.C.A.'s of the Empire, were welcomed home by a large gathering in the Christian Institute of that city, presided over by the Lord Provost. Mr. Oatts. in replying, said that he was deeply impressed with the necessity for Y.M.C-A.'s in India and the colonies, where the temptations were a thousand times fiercer that at Home, and there were fewer restraining influences. If the temptations at the Antipodes are a thousand times fiercer than those to be encountered of an evening in Piccadilly—well, "there’ll be a hot time in the young town tc-night.”

The Kev. L. Fitzgerald (Wellington and Auckland), who came Home with his sister. Mrs. Levin, by way of Vancouver and the C.P.R., and who is now staying with her at Turnstall House, Worcester Park. Surrey, has been so much benefited by the voyage as to have almost completely regained his health. Mr. Fitzgerald is taking duty for two months at the Old Malden Church, while the rector visits Germany. He intends to seek advice for his heart and his eyes, which have been giving him some trouble. Six months is the probable length of his stav.

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Thomson, of Auckland, after three weeks in America, landed here a couple of months ago. Mr. Thomson will sandwich mining and other business with visits to friends in or near London. His present headquarters are “Uplands.’’ Hadley Wood. Barnet, but he means before the close of summer to make some short trips with Mrs. Thomson to the West of England. Wales and Scotland, and possibly Ireland and France. They will flit again by way of the Canal in time to reach Auckland for Christmas.

Mr John Henry Howell, 8.A., B.Sc., science master at the County School. Aberystwith, has been appointed science master of the Auckland Grammar School. Mr Howell has had eight years’ experience in teaching at Craigmore College. Clifton, the Strand School. King's College. London, and the County School, where he has been preparing pupils for the London and Welsh University matriculation examinations. In addition to a successful course of study at University Colleges. Aberystwith and London, Mr Howell has done research work at the University of Strasburg and the Federal Polytechnic, Zurich. He is 31 years of age and married, and takes a keen interest in ail school sports. Mr and Mrs Howell will not leave for Auckland until August.

A New Zealand wedding took place at S. Paul's. Shanklin, in the Isle of

Wight, oa the iuth of last month. The contracting parties were Dr. Walter Pemberton Fooks, M. 8.. eldest sou of the lata Mr W. I'emberton Fooks of Otahuhu, and grandson of the late Mr W .Cm croft Fooks. Q.C.. of the Bowmans Lodge. Dartford. Kent, and Miss Maud Mary Appleton. youngest daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Appleton. of Arlesford Lodge. Shanklin. The Rev. G -Locksley tied the knot.

The “Church Chronicle" has the following "In Memorisin'' notice of the late Archdeacon Dudley. whom it terns “one of the oldest, most loving, and most loveable of the clergy in New Zealand.”

“His life and work speak for themselves. Few among us have equalled him in saintliness of character, and in labours more abundant for his Lord and Master, and those for whom He gave himself. The writer of these few lines was amongst those privileged to listen to the sermon which he preached at Bishop John Selwyn’s consecration. His text was ‘Hereby perceive we the love of God. because He laid down His life for us. and we ought to lay down our life for the brethren.’ These words exactly express the secret of that beautiful life which has just been taken from us. May the memory of it long be cherished by us, and help us to follow in the same steps in which he trod.” Archdeacon Dudley's eldest son. who is a B.A. of Cambridge, is a medical student at the Westminster Hospital.