PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11495, 30 January 1903, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(mOU OTJB OWN OOKBISPONDENT.) LONDON, December 19. Details regarding Mr Edward Lloyd's trip next year are now available. Hβ will leave London toward the end of February, and will remain in Australia until September, when he will proceed to the United States for a tour there during October, November, and December. Hβ will return in the spring of 1904 to Australia, and, before coining back to London, he intends to visit New Zealand and Tasmania. In addition to modern soags, Mr Lloyd will be heard in a number of popular classics; the great tenor is now in the best of voice. Mentioning the arrival of Lord and Lady Onslow in town for the winter eeaeon, Mr T. P. O'Connor says: "Lady Onslow was Mies Florence Gardner, a daughter of the late Jbord Gardner, and married in 1875. !She is a bright, pleasant-faced woman, and the parties ehe gives at her well-known house in .Richmond Terrace are among tbc most successful in London. Lord and Lady Onelow have two cone and two daughters. Lady Gwendolen Onslow is a pretty girl of twenty-one, and an exceptionally good linguist. A few yeans ago she went through an examination at the College of Preceptors, and passed first in foreign languages, English history, and geography; and this when the competitors numbered no fewer than seven thousand. Lady Dorothy —a girl of seventeen—ie almost equally gifted, and has also been awarded first prize for foreign languages by the came educational authorities. Both young ladies are remarkably clever, and care mare for (literature and science than for the amu&emente of smart society. Lord Cranley is the eldest eon of the house, a man of twenty-six, who has already made for himself a certain position in the diplomatic service." The Bey. J. C. Andrew and Mrs Andrew, after a very pleasant sojourn in the Mother Country, leave iungland to-morrow on their return journey to New Zealand. They tell me they have enjoyed their stay most thoroughly, and both are in excellent health. Thevhave travelled about nearly all over England, and have visited numbers of relatives and friends, many of the lattei having lived formerly \n New Zealand. Mi Andrew naturally was much gratified to be present at the Tercentenary Celebrations of the famous Bodleian Library, Oxford, where toe represented the University of New Zealand. On one night during their travels Mr and Mra Andrew occupied the came bed in which Henry Vll.—the Duke of Richmond—slept on the eve of the Battle of Bosworth, in which he defeated Kichard 111., who was slain, in the fight, and whom the Duke of Richmond succeeded. Recent callers at tlws New Zealand Agency' General included Major W. Madocks, Mi E. C. Champion (Opawa, Mr J. C. McKil lop (Maeterton), who left by the β-e. Aγ cadda; Mr Archibald S. Weir, Mr Georg< E. Breeze (Dnnedin), 'Miss R. H. Rich mond (Wellington), Mr K. A- Wallis (late of Kitchener's Horse and of the First New Zealand Contingent), of Inveroargill; Sur geon-Captain JTS. Purdy, Sixth and Tentl New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Lower Hut* Wellington); Mr W. Giles, Wellington, Dr William Lenney (Hastings), i Now (tihttt the exploit* of "Captain Caci Walls'' have come to an end for a time otter casee of men who allege that thej have served with the New Zealand Con tinge ruts, and who have traded upon it are being talked of. I heard of one t-h< other day—this tdme a New Zealander" righ enough—who has been wearing medaLs abou London, which he bas no right to wear and who was warned by a friendly fellow colonist of the risks he was running. Ii this case t&ere was no other object thaj vainglory and getting a little cheap adula lion- The case of etriLl anofer person spoken of, however, is said to have jjon< much nearer the bardier line than this; h> ie being closely watched just now. A few days ago I had the pleasure of niak ing one of a small luncheon paity given a hia club by, my old friend Dr. Pennefather among my fellow gueete being toe Bishop Designate of Auckland, the Rev. M. R. N<\li gaia, to meet whom I was' specially invited Without infringing the etiquette- attachinj to club visits, I may'say that the new Bishoj impressed me greatly as a 'man who is,sui> to> make his mark prominently upon the Net /Setuand church, and who will certainly pui life into any dry bones that may i*appei to be lying about in Anglican Chimsh re gions. Ho looks even younger than hi photograph nmkes him appear; in iact, . should have guessed him at not a *lay ove: 30. There is something about !ois eye, and in fact, his aspect generally, that stamp Mm as a man of rema.rka.bLe energy on< ; initiative power. Evidently he is aso aa i entirely praoticiil man, wliollv devoid o that sort of fuzzy-whuzzy, fluffy goody goodyiMwe of style which spoils so maiij worthy clergymen. LONDON, December 27. It ie announced here that Mr 0. J. Bur nup has been asked to undertake the cap taincy for at least a year of the Keni Cotmty cricket team. A cable message conveying this invitation wa* sent to bin at Auckland, and his answer was re ceived here a few days ago accepting th< offer made to 'him. The marriage of Major W. Madocks an< Miss BuUer, only daughter cf Sir Wadte: Bulier, Las been fixedfe-r the 3rd oE Janu j «ry, next Saturday week. It will b< I strictly private on account of the healU iof tlie bridegroom's father, and only im mediate relatives will bo invited. Thi wedding is to take place at St. Peter , ! .Church, Eaton Square, and immediateh afterwards the*bride and bridegroom wil leave for Paris. Mies Bulier will wea .a.dtess of crwan cloth and a lovely hw of cream eilk beaver, trimmed wlt-'i- ; sweeping creamy-white feather and -beauti ful ornement. . The Bishop-Designate of Auckland feel I very strongly indeed on the subject cf th< Maori Mission in relation to certain i^cea questions of finance. I know he is de termined that this Mksion sJiall not be al lowed to fall to the ground or even t< I ekeken in activity. Hβ has already' beei i talking very freely en the subject, and ow result was seen last Sunday, when, amon; i the offerings to his churck was found ai J envelope containing . a £6 note and < memorandum that it was '" for, the Slaor ! Mission."

Mr and Mrs Mainwaring (Christohureh) left London--on Saturday for the Riviera. Mm 0. H. Inglie and her children ere also at Cwnnee. Mr Inglis left London to-day to upend the Christmas holidays -with them. Mi - Thompson, who ha-s been buyer at Smithfield for the Few Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, has bern appointed by Messrs W. and R. Fletehar tj represent them in New Zealand as buyer of frozen meat. Mr Thompson sailed in the- P. aa<J 0. steamer Arcadia. Mr W. W. Baxter (ChrMehurch), who lias come from New Zealand to join the' London office of the Chrietchnrch Company, arrived in. London last Saturday by the Rhnutafca. Jfr Baiter, who was a-ooompanied by li» mother and sister, tells me heilail a very pleasant passage: Ai present they are staying at Stoke XewWtan, with* Mr Wynne Barter, who aan trade of Mr W. W. Barter. The latter hae already seen a good, deal of Smithfield, where the Vfficce of his Company we situated. According to present arrangements Mra and Misa Batter will reoara in'Englaixl for some time, probably about a year, and wiE pay a> round of vjisita among Mends. They went out of Lon-

don for Christina*. I near that Mr John Gell, of the Ntw Zealand Telegraph Department, hae made great pjQigresw with: bis invention of a new system «f telegraphii traneniesion to supersede the Mows method now in ttse. His apparatus tends greatJy to eiinphfy and shorten telegraphic work, and I hear it is likely to be taken op and pushed by a strong monetary syndicate. It mto be officially tried, I believe, in London at an early date. The following obituary notice appeans in •'The Tun**, ,, with tbe iequeet for >*w Zeafeotd papers to copy:—"On Thursday, i 18th Dvsember. at the Colonial Hospital, 1 QibTriter, of Franca jgdamnd

mm of Franca and Minnie Garbett, Mount TJllab, Clayton, Hassocks* and grandson of the kte "Venerable James Qat%eti, Archdeacon 6f Chfchester, and Rector of Ca»vtoo-oam-Keyiner, 1836-1879, in his 25tfi year." Among this ye*r'e Christmas ordinations I notice th» name of the Rev. C. H. B. 0. Fenton, B.A-V of tie University of New Zealand, who was admitted to Priest's Orders at Tnm> Cathedral.

A week ago a wedding of interest to i New Zealandere took place at Pont street ] Presbyterian (established Church of Scotland) Church. The bride was Miss Alic* E. Dymock, eccond daughter of Mr W. Dvmock, of Hyde Park Mansions, London, formerly General .Manager of the National Bank of New Zealand. The bridegroom wae Mr Robert Watson, architect, a nephew of the lat« Mr Thomas Watson, manager at InvercargjJ] of t-b* Bank of New Zealand, and brother of Mr JWatson, of the same place. The bride, who wae giren away, by her father, wore a drees of white satin, chiffon and' silver, trimmed with real Carrickmacrose lace, it Honifcon lace veil and a wreath of myrtle. She was attended by the Misses Violet D-ymock, Dorothy Dynwck (sisters), and Lily Duguid (cousin). They wore dresses of Vale pink crepe de chine, with large brown hats and sable muffs—the latter the rafts of the bridegroom. The best man was Dr. Watson, of Harrogate, brother of the bridegroom, and! the ceremony was performed by the Rev. AKx McCrae. M.A. Aiter the wadding a reception took pace at BeWave Mansions, Grosvenor Place, at the flat of Mr Cathcart Wascro, M.P., end Mrs Waeon, tlie latter being an aunt of the bride. Among those present were the Eon R. Oliver and Mrs Oliver, Mrs and Miss Gibson, Mre and Miss CunninghamSmith, Mrs Dowell, Mrs Johnston, Mrs Wiilee, Mr and Mre McDonald, Mr and Mrs Selby (late of Dunedinh andJMr and Mrs H. yon Haaet. In «H ] 00 ruests were present. Later in the day the newly married couple left for the Riviera, there to spend the On their return they will settle in London-