PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19156, 12 November 1927, Page 4

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

—• — (iTKOa OUE OWN COKRZSPOKDENT.) LONDON, October 8. Sir William Harris's five years' term as Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, has been extended by three weeks until . January 14th, until Sir Alexander Muddiman, his successor, returns from leave. Sir Robert Home is due to take the chair at the annual meeting of the Scottish Unionists' Association next month. Immediately thereafter he leaves for Burma, where he has a business engagement, and then he hopes to carry out' his projected visit to Australia and New Zealand. Mr R. M. Macdonald (Christenurch) has returned to London, after a 6ix weeks' tour in the North of England and Scotland. Mr and Mrs John Montgomery (Christchurch have had shooting in Scotlaud during tho season with Sir Francis Boys. They have now gone for a. motor tour of the Continent .is far as Austria. Mr Norton Francis (Christchurch) has returned to London after a holi'day in Scotland. His two daughters are with him, and his son, George, has gone up to Cambridge. Mr Robert Bell (Christchurch) intends to leave Southampton on October 22nd for Quebec. He will go to Montreal and New York. In New York he will confer with the executive of the Press Congress of the World and discuss tho question as to when and where the next congress will be held. From New York he will go by the Sunset route to New Orleans, San Di>go, San Francisco, and Vancouver. At Vancouver, Mr Bell joins the Empress of Russia and sails for Japan. He will then' visit Shanghai and Hong-Kong, afterwards joining the P. and O. steamer Mantua, for Singapore. From Suez he goes to Batavia (Java) and then to Sarriarang, where he joins the Burns Philp steamer, Marella, for Sydney. He is • due to arrive in Sydney on January 18th. Young Peter Scott, son of the famous explorer, who is staying at Geneva with his mother and step-father, Commander Sir Edward Hilton Young, is said to be making a name for himself. While Sir Edward is occupied at the League Assembly Peter spends his time cruising about the lake in a small yacht, which he handles with unusual skill. In bad weather sailing on Lake Geneva is a very difficult business, but it has no terrors for Peter, who seems to have inherited ' all his father's genius for navigation. When first h 9 arrived on the scene the local "salts" were not at all in favour of such a youngster being allowed to go out alone. Now, there is keen competition among them for the honour of helping him to get his frail craft under sail.

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