London Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 97, 13 February 1892, Page 4

London Items

(Dunedin Star's Correspondent.) All the London papers refer pleasantly to Mr Perceval's arrival and instalment in office, and express satisfaction with the sentiments he enunciated at the Christchurch valedictory banquet. " This new AgentGeneral," says the Pall Mall Gazette, 11 evidently to be a ' real live' colonial ambassador. " Mr Harold Gorst, son of Sir John Gorst, made his first appearance at the Crystal Palace last week as a violoncellist, and achieved considerable success. ' That ice and iced beverages should be partaken of with discretion in the tropics is very evident from the case of Mr William Holdship, son of Mr Holdship, of Auckland, who came home from Bathurst College, Melbourne, in the Victoria. He appears to have brought on a somewhat Berious attack of peritonitis by injudicious indulgence in the luxuries afore- mentioned. Mr Holdship was so ill when he arrived at Tilbury that he had to be carried ashore ; but he is now rapidly recovering. Mrs Holdship continues in poor health. , : Mr L. D. Nathan, has forsaken the aristocratic solitude of De Vere Gardens, Kensington, for the pinescented woods of Bournemouth — beloved seaside resort of England's 1 upper succledom,' as 'Punch' hath it— where he intends to winter. ! Mr E. Beckett, a brother of the proprietor of the Marlborough Da^ly Times, proposes to sail for New Zealand shortly, and intends to settle in the colony. • | I hear on good authority that Beveral '* absentees " possessing considerable property in New Zealand have already made arrangements jto get rid of their responsibilities in the colony as early as possible. I must not mention names, but this is absolutely true. i