PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 43, 20 February 1905, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, Jdauary 13. Mr and Mrs Chamberlain were among the visitors to the OHfcuial Product. Exhibition at Liverpool yesterday afternoon. In the course of his tour of inspection a message from Mr Seddon was conveyed to Mr Chamberlain by the New Zealand representative. -Mr H. C. Cameron, and the latter also preseated Mrs Chamberlain with a handsome Mosgiel rug of the Clan Cameron tartan. Mr Chamberlain was greatly pleased with the exhibition, and also with the interest taken in colonial matters in Liverpool. Miss Ellen Bridgens, of Auckland, came home on a pleasure trip last June and has since visited many of the South Coast watering places, and places of interest in and around London. She intends making a tour of the northers districts at an early date, prior t« leaving for New Zealand in March next. On her return journey to the colony Miss Bridgens intends making a short stay in Allahabad, India. The visitors' book at the Agent-Gen-eral's had only one entry this week.;-— Misa Ellen Bridgens (Auckland). From Plymouth comes the news that on January 5, Miss Sybil Isabel Deven-isk-Meares, daughter of Mr W. Deyen-ish-Meares of Christchurch, was married at St. Emanuel?, Compton Gifford, to Engineer Lieut. Reginald W. Skelton, R.N., son of Mr Wm. Skelton, of Norwich, who was a member of the Discovery expedition. Mr and Mrs J. Banbury and daughters, of Auckland, who reached London ju3t after Christmas, are spending the remainder of the winter in Devonshire. They purpose visiting Scotland and' Ireland, in the spring, and then travelling overland to join an outward sto*mer at one of the Mediterranean port 3. After spending some time in the principal centres of the Commonwealth, they expect to return to Auckland via the Bluff about the end of this year. The Shaw Savill liner Athenic left London yesterday (12th inst.) for New Zealand, via Capetown and Hobart. She takes the following passengers for Auckland: Mr and Mrs J. McDonald, Mr and Mrs W. J. Nathan, Misses 1 Nathan (3), Mr J. Crawford. Mr and Mrs J. S. Drought and family. Miss F. ! Fi'oome, Mr M. A. Keeplie, Mr E. Keeplie. According to a London paper a welldressed woman called at the Totnes (Devon) workhouse last Tuesday ap--1 parently under the impression that it .was an hotel, and asked the master if !her girl was there. She was unable to give any account of herself, except that she had come from New Zealand, and was very tired. Inquiries showed that she travelled to the workhouse "in a cab | from Paignton, insisting in riding on the .box seat. She was wearing several valui able rings, and in a handbag she carried was a black-bordered envelope, with ttrtr name "Mrs Eard, Maori-street, CTiristehurch, New Zealand," written on it. I communicated with the Master of the Totnes .workhouse- with a,.-.view to ascertaining whether the lost lady was really a New Zealandcr, and -forwarded a batch of New Zealand newspapers in the hope that a sight of tltent migii- , awake in her helpful memories. At the same time I suggested that if he rcifairly certain that the lady was, from Maoriland it would be advisabb ta--_Ht-inunieate with the Agent-General so that prompt steps might be taken to rests-re her to her friends. This morning 1 received from Mr W.. Beer, the Master of the Totnes Wprk- : house, the assurance that the lady had ] been identified as _ Mrs .West, cf Paign.toa, that she had never even been to ! New Zealand, the address found upon. I her being that of an old friend, and that ] she had been removed to her home at 'Paignton by her daughter. Mr C. W- Coker. of New Plymouth, iwa3 amongst the arrivals from the cotSony by the Rimutaka on her last voyage iHome. He has come to complete his -training in the piano trade, and is at • present going through a finishing course at Messrs J. BTinsmead and Sons, in London. He expects to remain here for about a year or eighteen months. Mr W. T. Quinton, who came Home last June for medical treatment of his eyes, has been pronounced cured by the doctors, and expects to leave London for Wellington by the s.s. Scliarnhorst, which sails on the 29th inst. for Australia, via Suez. Mr Quinton will spend a week or so visiting his friends in Melbourne and Sydney before going on to I Wellington. During his seven months' ;stay in this Country, though suffering to ia certain extent under repeated opera - : tions upon his eyes, Mr Quinton ha**. managed to enjoy Ida visit thoroughly. Mr Arthur R. Andrew, B.Sc. of Danedin, has been at Birmingham University i for the past three months. He found that that institution afforded greater facilities for research in geology than the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, where he originally intended to study. Mr Andrew has been playing football for Moseiey, the leading Rugby Club of- the Midlands. English players, he says, seem to play more for mere pleasure: Colonials are more in earnest over the game, and keener at seizing on its finer points- A noticeable feature in club matches here is that the spells are seldom more than 35 minutes each way; in New Zealand they are always the full 45 minutes. Consequently in England, one can play in a hard game, though not in the best of condition. Toward the end of the season jslayers. here do not have that feeling of having had enough, of it, a feeling not uncommou at the fag-epd of a New Zealand season.