PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1, 5 January 1907, Page 41

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(b’mni (Mir Special Vorres’Hintlettt.l LOXLNIX, Xovember 23. In the current hsue of bis journal, “John Bull,” Mr. Horatio Buttomlay, after much ” anxious ami sorrowful consideration.” tie* hies to lift the veil whicM he <xys has bidden the real truth concerning the 81. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain’s illness from the public. From his a i tide I extract the following: “The Press thioughout the country lias, with nauseating monotony, daily proclaimed that ‘ Mr. < lianiiiei lain is making satisfactory progress.’ Why. this foolish conspiracy <d silence? Do not Mr. (‘barn Leri a in’s family and friends realise that when the truth is known the shock will he a I the greater in proportion to the country’* un preparedness for it? .... If we thought that anything we arc about to say could by any possibility cause Mr. (hambcrlaJn himself a moment’s pain, we would cut off our right liand rather than pen these lines. We know to., well. however, that such cannot Im* the case for al this moment the Kt. Hou. Jo-eph ChainlierLa.ii!- he, who a year ago was the nui.sk virile, active, and militant politic il protagonist <f the day is a nerveless, voiceless, and almost sight loss paralytic. The original Fo;xurc occurred some four months ago. whilst the right hon. gentleman was absolutely alone. When, he was discovered be had been lying in a. critical condition far nearly two hours. He was subsequently removed from London surreptitiously, late at night, to his home at Highbury, where about twice a. week, and with the utmost difficulty, ho is wheeled into his favourite orchid, house. There is the bald and painful truth. Of cour-e. it will be denied, but after this specific announcement, nothing short of ocular demonstration will, we venture to think, satisfy the public.” There is. of course, another side to this picture of the ox-Cclonial Secretary. Mr. Austen Chamltcrl.iin. who ought to know, flatly contradicts Mr. liottomlcy’s alarmist statements, and records the fact that his famous father was yesterday able to indulge in walking exorcise in the grounds of his residence at Highbury, after many weeks of paitiaud enforced idleness caused by his old enemy gout. It is fre“ly admitted that Mr. ( hamberlain’s illness has pulled the veteran Tariff Reformer down very much, that his physical condition will preclude his accepting any political engagements for some time to come, and that he will not be fit to appear in the House of Commons again this year; but the suggestion that he is a mental as well as a physical wreck is pooh-poohed, and it is (H)intod out tliat even during his enforced rest he has managed to get through a vast amount of correspondence. and to keep in close touch with the political and other organisations in which he is interested. Amongst New Zealand artists now in Ixmdon is Miss Marjorie* Tempest, who hails from Auckland. Miss Tempest is a vocalist whose speciality is comic opera, but she also plays the harp, the violin and the pinao professionally. She studied in Sydney for five years, and then was engaged by Air. J. C. Wilihunson, and later by Mr. George Musgrove for Miss Nellie Stewart’s ‘‘Zaza” Company, and at Hip conclusion of its run she joined Air. Pollard’s coiiiklx company for a long tour in the Far East. After the company returned to Australia Miss Tempest took a second tour in the Fast, giving her own recitals, and met with much success. On May 15 she sailed from Culcutta for London, and siiitv her irrival here she has been taking singing le->ons under Madam Oudin and latterly umh i >iguor I’ao'o Tosti. Her present intention, she tells me, is to study iu 1 ondon for a year or so, ami then go to lt.il\ ami to Paris for further study. Meanwhile she has taken the name of Tempest A oik. to avoid confusion, ns there are a number of Tempests in the theatrical profession in London. Air. Duncan Strlfox. one of tin seniof partners of the firm of Messrs. Onyon, Lake and Co.. Manchester, leaves for the colony by the s.s. Rimutakn on the 29th November. Ah. Stclfox will travel through New Zealand, will visit the international Exhibition at ( hristchurch, and while in the colony will take the opportunity of n eoting all the loading producers and merchants with whom his firm is dealing in conno<tioii with diiu t shipments to London and the Wc«t Coast

ports vf England. Mr. Ntelfox’e hotels in the colony will Le: The Star. Awr-k-Und; the Royal <Uk. Wellington; CokerV. < hri>l<-iiurcli: atxl the Dunedin: where correspondence may I* addressed to ki u. n.e British Empire League, in vieir of the approaching x i-it of the Prime Minister* of the Colonies. aie raiding a faixl for ihrir entertainment as they ♦lid in 1?*97. wthe Prime Ministers came for the Diamond Jubilee, and again in Itati. when they came tor the < onMMtticn. Mr. Chamberlain has forwankd to the British Empire 1-eague, as he did on each of those occasions, a contribution of £IOO from the CorJCompany of the Court, of which he is an honorary member. General Booth, whose amazing energy Wc\er seems t<» flag with th? passin* y<ars. announces that he is going to Japan at the beginning of next year, and hoj*e> to sp mi April in that country. The General will travel \La the V-uiled states and Canada. The object of his xi*it is to examine on the spot the work of thr- Salvation Army in lapan. To a reportri the Genera! expresjsed himself highly satisfied with the work of the Salvationists m Japan, where they hnd ma with excessive courtesy from •’it authorities. The salvation Army had I* l ” instrumental in girls fr the state of bondage in which they were held- Tbb army. Gen-f-r.ri Booth conduced. was also good work in Kor a. where tltey were every MssistaiK'e from the Japanese authorities. ar. .1 • a start would be made in Manchuria as -«*>n a* the country was again fully open. Ju*i at present the General is coixlm-lmg a vigorous "c.rnjpaign" in tSerniany. TK i dknring is a list <.f ofla-ers appcimcd 1«« the truk-r Pegasus, oh reat A ddend'-', for another luc year** sojourn in Australasian waters;- C<®cmauder <-forge (.. Quayle. nuuanding: Uenienant s R. M. Tabuteau 4first and eflic.-r *. J. B. Rat emaw. A. B. A. Raker -navigating » office: . aud J. F. Finlayson; Enginecslaeal XV. 11. < rid* ton and IL J. A. White: paymaster. E. T. M. Green; «latz surgeon. F. F. Lobb: sub-lieuten-ant. H. A. Francis: gunner. J. Pandoe; and Gerk, < . IL Rugeiss. Commander Quayle entered the -eixicv in January. Jsss. was promoted lieutenant in ISIG. ami reached his predial rank leu years later. IJeutenaut Tabuteau entered the navy in ISfU. and got his lieulenancy in 1902: Lieutenants Bateman, Barker, and Finlay *<4l neeived their resent grade tales fi m last year. Lieutenant _ a*s:s XV. IL < rirliton and White haxe , _ .... *•■•<■_ . _ . StaJff-Sur- - - e in t -i v- - panirciTi -lai ■- fr -u. M«y. IS9S. and be ?.ad the ;uuvanlage <f seeing active .• j - ' I hern Xi gfri-B. .4i>d ex]edj’i«*n up the iow<r \ _ _■ * • i. with g■> ■ - taker, to ’.he earth on foot. ■ : - ■ - ■ ***ntrv at on the go in various parts of the worli. them is s • ■- •• taken I >3il. -1 ter 2S.OCM -mfes ■ f w.’-- a griew y*?ri«-l for. a'leger? a ager i £ One w-u%! like kr a very mneh who * * ter !•♦ ■•-Ti their identity. < larke. < : by a f?rotrii rvdlie the will to leave thi* aeiwsal be bin! whenever v .c England*. » ■ - paper*, add a* *r» far * v**i ,i 13.000 toiler awl .I’.rp 2f j«air* of twot*. He mu«t neither beg. borrow, nor steal ♦ curing hi* war» lerin*'. le”. mu*t support writing for rs. He leaves for Xew York j-reseisHy. and pmpo-e>« tn wtak* bs* way ?>**••><* arr<**< the Mat**, tz N-r > at * ’*n to %u*xralta. beuth Afi>-a. Indra. • sina atm! Japur. a tel . D Aagla* by way of S ee a a- ■ ITt **iau

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