OUR LONDON LETTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8392, 5 April 1907, Page 7

OUR LONDON LETTER.

{From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, February 16. I am informed that Mr C. G. Tegetneier and Mr Emile Garoke are visiting your colony together. The former is Chairman of the Auckland Electric Tramways Company, and the latter managingndirector of the British Electric Traction Company. The Rev. E. C. Gange has left for Auckland. He ia ex-President of the British Baptist Union. Mr J. K. Logan is travelling on the Continent on official business. His journey will extend to Milan and JRgine. '*P r Lieut.-Colonel E. C Chaytov came home by the Athenic. He is hero to undergo training at the Staff Military College. As the number of tLmients at that College is strictly lnn;ud to 36, the acceptance of Chaytor is considered a high ci>»»i>liment to this colony. Dr. and Mrs Clay, of Otaki, have arrived. They have not yet made any definite arrangements as to their movements here. Mr J. J. Cowan, of Auckland, came tojhe Old Country to learn the higher Winches of engineering. I hear that j£ has abandoned that profession in favour of the Church, and has entered Coatea' College at Edinburgh. Mr J. J. Cowan is the younger son of Mr C. Cowun, of Auckland. Mrs F. W. King, of Auckland, who has been staying with her brother, the Rector of Stoke, is about to make a journey to Rome and Norths Italy. She has visittid Plymouth and Bristol, where she spent Christmas and the New Year. Mrs King will return to England via the Riviera. Mr Hector Pierce, late of Auckland, but for some years in England, where he has been studying architecture, has passed the final for the A.R.1.8.A. He will return to New Zealand in April. Two well-known New Zealand

artist 3 have, I am informed, been commissioned by Messrs A. and G. Black, the well-known firm of publishers, to illustrate in colours a work on New Zealand. Messrs Black promise me full particulars of the book shortly—probably by next mail. Dr. Isaac Thomson, of Templeton, has taken the degrees of D.P.H. and Bachelor of Hygiene, with first-class honours. The latter is a distinction very rarely gained—only four or five candidates have been successful during the past few years. ' The following is taken from the Jbeetth column of the Daily Telegraph of January 30th:~"Roberts.— On the 22nd instant, at 18 Kent House Road, Sydenham, Dr. Edwards Roberts, surviving son of the late William Roberts, surgeon to the Ist Royals, aged 87 years. Australian and New Zealand papers please copy.'' No doubt Councillor J. B. Tunbridge will still be remembered by New Zealanders. It was he who arrested Jabez Balfour, and brought him back to England. After retiring from the London detective force, he became Head Commissioner of Police in New Zealand. He was a m Councillor for Hythe, and has had a ■little adventure in that locality, and, ™ according to an exchange telegram, he has been summoned for striking an ex-Councillor at a meeting of the Ratepayers' Association. #. Litigants in the colonies, says a leading evening paper, under date January 29th, do not appear to be t very enterprising. The Judicial Committee, which' resumes its sitt--1 iiiga to-day, has only six colonial appeals in its list. Canada Supplies Iptir of these appeals, Now Zealand and British, Guiana the other two. From neither Australia nor South Africa is there a single case. The appeal from New Zealand—Ward ' Bros. v. the Attorney-General of New ' Zealand^-raises a question as to the 7 jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the colony. The Judicial Committee Will have to decide "whether,the Supreme Court rightly held that it had no jurisdiction to order the ValuerGeneral of the Colony to return into Court an assessment made by him of certain lands." Not long ago, the Chief Justice of New Zealand charged the Judicial Committee with dilatoriness, The accusation is ■ certainly not supported by the history of the one appeal from New Zeaw land on the Committee's list. It was i set down for hearing less than five 'weeks ago, and is certain to be heard before as many weeks have passed. The same paper has the following reference to Mr E. Couch, who, no doubt, will not have been forgotten by lovers of sport over your side: —•"It is not often in these enlightened days that one comes across trainers who have had ample experience in their business and yet "do" their own horses. Quite an exception, however, is E. Couch, who has recently moved his very small string of twenty-four horses from Wroughton to Doncaster. Couch has had practical and successful experience in Australia, New Zealand, America and India, for he is a middle-aged man, and knows everything worth knowing about horses and training. ] Yet he naturally finds it difficult upon arrival here to make a fair start, and is not over ambitious, merely desiring to have the charge of half a dozen more horses." Mr J. E. Herbert, who is now on a visit to your colony, was one of the most successful solvers of chess problems in the Morning Post competitions. He was tho second most successful solver for the year. Their chess editor eulogises him m the following words: "We are glad to hear *' that although he has left this coun(L try, he will continue to interest himself in this column, and to send solutions. His successful solving record is the more remarkable because it covers a long period during which he was quite incapacitated by, a very ' severe and dangerous bicycle accident" The Trustees of tho British Museum have recently bought three examples of the work of the late H. B. Brabazon—two water-colours and a pastel drawing—form tho memorial exhibition of that artist's paintings at the Goupil Galley. Among other works by British artists acquired for permanent collections must be included a picture by Vy J. CouttsMichie, "Eventide," bought by the New Zealand Academy of Pine Arts, and a large water-colou" by Mr W. Mae Hankey, bought 1 >r the Public Gallery in your <• dony. Both these paintings are bei ; exhibited in the Exhibition at Chr.^tchurch.