OUR LONDON LETTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8340, 24 January 1907, Page 3

OUR LONDON LETTER.

-PERSONAL NOTES. s(From Our Own Correspondent).. LONDON, December 14, 1906. Mrs and Mrs M. Laing, of Wellington, and their two daughters came Home in -the P. and 0. Ghina. :.Mr Laing has been appointed manager of Messrs Sargood Bros., of this city. The first ; thing that struck them about London was its dirt. They think the shops in Oxford Street, Regent Street and Bond Street grand, and the theatres, of •which there are such numbers. They have taken a house at Kingston-on-Thames. Mr Albert G. Gabites, vf Christchurch, who arrived six months back, is still here, and will probably remain another twelve months. He came on business, but has been doing some sight-seeing, and expects to pay some visits to_ the Continent before returning. Dr. Gilbert H. Mirams, of Dunedin, will return about February next. On his way back, via Capetown and Australia, he takes up the duties of surgeon on board the Fede-ral-Houlder-Shire Company's Somer- ■ set. Messrs G. Fisher and H. R. F. • Matson, of Christchurch, returned by the White Star S.uevib, which left ; Liverpool on the 24th ult. Their route is via Australia. Mr and Mrs W. Steuart, who arrived some time back with their . family, have taken a house at Upper Norwood, It is not their visitmore than a year ago they were over h jre, when they made arrangements to settle here. Mr Steuart is studying at St, Bartholomew's Hospital. Mr Alex. D. Mrie, who came as engineer on the Oswestry Grange, is here to gain experience in engineer ing. He has visited Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester, and, is now leaving for the ? United /States and Mexico. Mfr Harold Pearoe, a member of the "Bowee Park .Football Club, is about to leave for your colony. He ... was entertained by his club mates a week ago, and was presented with a cigarette case. Mr J. C. Dromgool of Stratford, also returns about February. He has ! visited Irejand and Scotland, staying with relatives at Cooley, County Louth, when he took the opportunity ■to pay his respects to Cardinal Logue. Captain Clarke, who hails from the, Isle of Man, will visit your colony shortly. He is a champioi walker. [Taking the boat to New York, he intends walking across the States, then on to New Zealand and • Australia His stroll will be continued through South Africa, India, China and Russia. ..' , Mr .Duncan Stelt'ox left by the Rimutaka. A partner in the firm of Onyon, Lake and Co., of Manchester, his; chief purpose is to visit! the Christchurch International Exhibition. He will also make a point of visiting the leading houses with which his firm is doing business over here. Miss May Whitelaw, of Auckland is also leaving by the Rimutaka. She 'has spent a very pleasant twelve 'months here. ' Mr and Mrs A. E. G. Rhodes, of Christchurch, and their son and , daughter, have also left,by the same boat; They have had a very enjoyable summer. . ■ Mr Mervyn J. Stewart, of Auckland, who has come to study political questions, oyer here, is making his first visit Home a,ft.er an absence of 28 years. Dr. H. W. Martindale Kendall, of Wellington, expects to be back in .that/ town by the end of January. The voyage will be by -the- Shaw \ Saville line. He has been elected a Fellow of the Therapeutical Society -of London. He has spent much time in'studying the latest' developments in his specialities of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and is now visiting the special hospitals of the Conti- * nent. . . Miss Marjorie Tempest, of Auckland, is here for study in voice culture, She came; via Calcutta, and while here has been studying, under Madame Oudin and Signor Tosti, She had five years of, study : in Sydney, afterwards touring jWith Miss Nellie Stewart's "Zaza" Company, and in the Far East with Mr Pollard's Comedy Company, then making a second Eastern tour on her •own account. She has taken the ... stage name of Tempest-Yorke. Comic opera is her speciality, but she. also plays the harp, violin, and piano. Lady Plunket is expected here shortly. She comes for the benefit of her children, and their education. She will be here about a year. Mrs Annie Shone, the wife of Dr. i W. Vernon Shone, of Christchurch, who came Home by the Rimutaka,. via Cape Horn, gives *an interesting account of her She came for a holiday and to 1 visit relatives and friends. Her impressions of life in the Old Country, are not favourable, the climate is such as must necessitate the survival of the. fittest' only, and she thinks the prospect of not being among the survivors may ■if account for the general gloom of the average person one meets. The absence of your bright New Zealand sunshine she finds very depressing. English people strike her ,**s Conservative to an extent that may leave them behind in the race "jyf nations if they do not "wake up," and join in all modern progress. We seem, she thinks, very much behind . the new countries irf all social civi- . lisation, and,the dire poverty still obtaining in the world's ..great "gold corner" simply astounds her, . especially as the Empire has vast tracks of not fully developed country. She admires greatly what is verjjv old in England—-the castles, parks, abbeys, ruins, etc.—they make history a delight. Mr Cyril Towsey, the well-known musician, of Wellington, who came over in the Corinthic, in September last, is, I regret to say, very ill, and has been removed to a nursing home, at 210 Clapham Road, London, . s.w. / ' . , : . Mr Harold Plimmer,of Wellington, who came with him in the Corinthic, has found employment as fourth engineer in the same boat that Mr Dan Reese, of Christchurch, served his apprenticeship! on. . Mr S. Malone, of New Plymouth, came by the P. andO. Company, is Mongolia,* from Sydney, and l anded at Tilbury, on Nivember 25th .ast. He has done -a.good deal of

sight-seeing during the last week. Like. most New Zealanders, he finds the cold weather very trying after New Zealand, although the present is a mild winter for England. He is here to study dentistry, which will take four or five years. Mr and )Mrs J. D. Brechin, of Wanganui, and Miss Dale,.sister of Mrs Brechin, came Home by the Oswestry Grange. They will be here several months visiting friends and touring the country. Mr and Mrs Mackay, of Wellington, leave on the 26th inst. for New Zealand, via New York. They came Home by the Drayton Grange. Mr and Mrs W. Todd, and the Misses Bessie and Jessie Todd, of Wanganui, arrived by the Mongolia, breaking the journey at Marseilles, Lyons and Paris. They purpose tour - ing Scotland and Ireland, returning in March, via America. Mr J. Elliot, of Wanganui, has come to float a company to handle the English rights of a patent which is in the hands of a New Zealand syndicate, and which has been satisfactorily placed in America. He spent sixteen months on the same business in New York and Canada. He came via New York and returns there early next year.