LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 129, 2 June 1937, Page 16

LONDON PERSONALS

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, May 5.

Mr. and Mrs. J. O'Shea, Wellington, have arrived in London, and were among those who had seats in the Abbey for the Coronation.

Mr. W. Stone, Miss R. Easton, and Miss S. E. Baker (Wellington) are staying with friends in Essex, and enjoying trips to London and nearby places of interest. In July they will be making a Continental tour. Later they intend to motor through England and Scotland. Some time in October they will begin their homeward, journey.

Mr. J. H. Lindon (Wellington) is on a purely holiday trip. He will start for Devonshire and Cornwall shortly, and will return through Oxford and Cambridge on his way via the East Coast to Scotland. A fortnight is to be devoted to Germany and Austria.

Mrs. Mowbray Tripp (Geraldine) while a guest of Lord and Lady Fisher at Kilverstone Hall, attended the Newmarket Meeting and saw the One Thousand and Two Thousand Guineas. She is greatly interested in these important classics, and, of course, she saw some of the best thoroughbreds in England. She is looking forward to taking her sons to see the Derby. Mrs. Tripp is, like most New Zealanders, receiving invitations to a great many interesting functions. With the Royal Empire Society's- party, ,she and her sons will be going for the five-days' cruise to the Naval Review, seeing this specjtacle from the Duchess of Montrose. Later they will tour England in their Lanchester car to pay a round of country visits. Last weekend they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robin Barclay, at Gaston House. Mr. and Mrs. Barclay are well known in New Zealand, having recently been out with the Chamber of Commerce' delegation. During July Mrs. Tripp and her sons hope to visit Germany and Austria. Return passages have been booked by the Orqnsay, leaving on August 26. For several years past, Mrs. Moss Davis and Miss Blanche Davis have been living at the Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, having a suite on . the second floor overlooking Hyde Park. In preparatipn for the Coronation, the hotel management erecte'a^a— stand along the park side of the building, in front of the windows up to the third floor. .Oii account of this obstruction, arrangements were made for Mrs. and Miss Davis to have another suite. Whiie the move was in progress, a burglar gained access to Miss Davis's bedroom, using the stand-scaffolding as a ladder. In this room there still were most things belonging to Miss Davis. It is believed that the thief, waiting until it was dark, and Park Lane deserted, jumped on to a wall and then on to a,balcony of the hotel. From there he made his way to the back of the scaffolding. Unseen in an angle of the wall, he climbed up the face of the hotel and into the bedroom. As soon as the loss was discovered the management and the house detective were told. Some much-valued jewellery was stolen, also a valuable fur cape, silver dressing-table equipment, and much clothing. These personal possessions were awaiting removal at the time. Whether the thief had secret information or just extraordinary luck is not known.