PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 86, 12 April 1911, Page 3

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 3rd March. Miss C. E. G. Gill (Wellington) returned to London, after, a pleasant round of visits to relatives in the Midlands and the North, in time to join the s.s Tainui, on her way back to 'New Zealand. Lord Onslow's progress toward recovery has not been so satisfactory of late. It is not expected that he will be in his place in the House of Lords prior to the Easter recess. On the 25th February the death occurred of Mr. Thomas Wallett Goldring, at the age of 63. Peritonitis was the cause. Mr. Goldring, who had connection with New Zealand, died at Woodview, Claygate, Surrey. His funeral took place at Hanworth. The fiev. A. B. G. Lillingston, M.A., who had a rather severe attack of typhoid fever at Colombo on his way Home from New Zealand, returned to Hull with Mrs. Lillingston last week. Mr. Lillingston said the mission found the Church of England in New Zealand not very strong. lb.e Presbyterians were the strongest body, and the Roman Catholics had a good hold. The people had been allowed to drift, partly by the nature of their life. It quite surprised him to find them all so prosperous. "The Church is thoroughly undermanned. They do not see enough of their ministers." Keenly contested, fast, and exciting was the Rugby match played this week ■by London Hospital against St. Thomas's, the former proving victorious by 8 points to 3. New Zealanders on the winning side were A. C. Palmer, A. S. Heale, A. B. Lindsay, and G. M. Chapman, while the St. Thomas's team included' H. K. Friedlander. Mr. F. E. Barber (Wellington) willremain in Europe until about the endof this year. Although it is a good many years since Dr. Edmund Shaw was in New Zealand — for he returned to England in 1867 — his name will be well-remembered as the doctor whose evidence was of' such importance in the Druce case, as establishing the death of Mr. T. C. Druee, whom he 'had professionally attended during the year 1864 and up to the time . of his death. After the patient's death he saw the body and signed the death certificate. All the facts .as to the character of the coffin, the use of chloride of lime, and the description of the dead man were fully corroborated when the exhumation took place. Dr. Shaw passed away this week at Southport in the eighty-second year of his age. Mr. G. «J. Bruce (Wellington) has just got to London from Bangkok, where he has been engaged in journalistic work, as general manager of tho Siam Observer, the Weekly Mail, and the Siam Maitu. Early though the season is, visitors ■from the Dominion are beginning to arrive in London. During the current week those to call at the High Commissioner's office have been : — Miss Barbara M. Waft (Timaru), Mr. C. Watt (Hampden), Mr. A. Watt (Dunedin), Mr. F. E. Barber (Wellington), Mr. E. Van Asch (Christchurch), Mr. C. E. Kirk, Mr. G. J. Bruce (Wellington), Miss A. A. Clothier (Wellington), Miss M. E. Clothier (Christchareh), Mr. C. L. Burnham (Christchurch), Mr. E. C. Scales (Ashburton), Mr. and Mrs. V. Barker (Gisborne), Mr. W. E. Dick (Otahuhu), Mr. E. T. Sawers (Auckland), Mr. Walter Sinton (Aucldand), Mr. J. A. Graham (Canterbury), Mr. W. A. P. Clarkson (Christchurch), Professor Coleridge Farr (Christchurch) and Mrs. Farr, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. de Costa (Wellington and Dunedin), Mr. Frank Simon (Invercargill). A New Zealand student at Wells (Somerset) Theological College is Mr. Gascoyen Beard, BrA., son of Dr. Spencer Beard, late of Pahiatua. Dr. Beard has lately been on a visit to Cornwall.