AUCKLAND AND OTHER COLONIAL VISITORS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 384, 13 July 1889, Page 6

AUCKLAND AND OTHER COLONIAL VISITORS.

Mr Henry Brefcfc and family arrived in London last evening, and are stopping for a few days with Captain and Mrs A&hby, 43, Regent's Park Road. TKey crossed (together with the new American Minister and other smart people) in the Jnman liner City of Paris, which distinguished itself by cutting the. Etiuria's record and making the shortest run on record — 6 days 30 minutes— from Sandy Hook to Roches Point. Her runs were : Thursday, 300 knots; Friday, 450 ; Saturday, 463 ; ; Sunday, 471 ; Monday, 470 ; Tuesday, 476 ; and Wednesday, when she atrived, 264 ; or a total of 2,894 knots. She brought the largest number of passengers ever carried on a homeward trip, viz., 1,132. Mr O'Neill was also a passenger in the City of Paris. Mr Peacock, M.H.R., and Mrs Peacock, arrive in London to-morrow. Mr Sinclair Gillies is on his way Home through America. All the passengers per Alameda have arrived in London. To my intenso surprise — for I fully imagined he was in New Zealand — I met Dr. Haines, of Auckland, in Villiers-street, Strand, on .Saturday evening. He had, he told me, on,ly been a few days in London, and was staying ior the present at the Arundel Hotel, on the Eribanknaent, a greac resort of Australians nowadays." I thought the Doctor looking extremely well, and scarcely a day, in fact, not a day older than when he was over three or four years ago. He has come, as on that opcasion, mainly with a view to walking the London hospitals for a bit and picking up the latest wrinkles 'of medical and surgical science, and seems to be very busy. Old friends are of course clamouring for his company (capital company it used to be, I remember), and he has to see endless relations and acquaintances of his Auckland patients, and report on their condition, etc. Altogether a difficult man to get hold of just at present is Dr. Haines. Sir William and Lady Jervois arrived in town on Saturday, and have taken up their residence at 23, Prince's Gai'dens, for the season. Lady Jervois is already in better health than when she left New Zealand. Miss Loftus, the Queen's new Maid of Honour, is only a distant relation of unlucky Lord Augustus of that ilk. Dr. August Altmann and Dr. George Bell, both well-known Australian medicos, have, I see, been admitted Fellows of <the Royal College of Surgeons. The lepresentative of Williamsons firm and other Anglo-Colonial histrions actended Mrs Dallas Glyns funeral on Wednesday. When lasp heard of Dr. Graces'a daughter was recovering slowly from typhoid fever.' Mr F. H. Cowen has, Australians will be pleased to learn, consented to write a cantata for the Leeds Musical Festival in the autumn. The subject will be Scandinavian, the libretto being fche work of Mr Joseph Bennett. Sir Hercules Robinson arrived in London on Sunday, and spent three hours on Monday closeted with Lord Knutsford at the Colonial Office. He wi.ll be banquetted by Australian and South African friends at the Freemasons' Tavern some night next month, when it is hoped Lord Knutsford will occupy the chair and Sir Geo. Bowen and other ex-Viceroys support him. The marriage is announced of the widow of the late Mr JBdwin Brownsoombe, of OfHey Towers, near Melbourne, with Mr David Thorn, of Oak House, Pendleton The house G-eneral Boulanger has taken in Portland Place was last year tenanted by Mr D'Arcey, the Australian millionaire of Morgan mine celebrity. Mr George Beetham was at the Federation League's meeting yesterday.