OUR LONDON LETTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8392, 9 April 1907, Page 3

OUR LONDON LETTER.

(From Our London Correspondent). LONDON, February 16. Dr. Holland Rainy, who seconded the Address-in-Reply in the House of Commons, has spent a great deal of his time in New Zealand. He is a surgeon oculist. Sir G. v Parker, who spoke at tome length in the debate on Wednesday, indulged in many re- ' proaehes at the Government's alleged indifference to the views of Australia and New Zealand. This brought up Major Seeley, who called attention to Sir Gilbert's audacity in taking such a line, for when Chinese labour was introduced into South Africa, he said, the great selfgoverning colonies, which had helped us to win the South African colonies, protested by the unanimous votes of their Parliaments against that form of labour!, And the party which would now pose as the respectful and sympathetic friend of the colon- , ies treated those protests with contempt. Mr Templer Powell, of Christ: church, returned to play the leading ' part in the "Freedom of Suzanne" with Miss Mabel Love, with whose com pan v he played a good deal last year. Ha played in the same part at Kenningfcon to a distinguished audience, having the patronage of the Rothschilds, tho Colonial Secretary and other notabilities. Mr Powell's company are touring the suburbs, afterwards doing the provinces. Dr. J. Murray Moore, who formerly practised homeopathy in Auckland, has recently settled in Leamington, '•■ Warwickshire. Always enthusiastic about Now Zealand, Dr. and Mrs Moore invited nearly I JO guests to an afternoon reception at their new residence, Priory House, where after refreshments and music the host gave an extempore address on the ' colony, illustrated by about 65 lantern slides. Prefacing the address by ', a handsome acknowledgement of his happy and busy nine years sojourn ' in Auckland, and giving the latest returns of, population, imports and .'exports, mileage of railways, beneficial arrangements for poverty, want . of employment, old age pensions, etc. . Dr. Moore demonstrated by the map slide the four climatic zones first ■ described in his valuable work (now out of print), published by Sampson, Low and Co. in 1890, entitled "New Zealand for the Emigrant, Invalid and Tourist.'" In the course of his •interesting lecture he made very flattering remarks about your late Premier. Mr Seddon, he said, weiided more power than many a European Sovereign—he was, as f it were, a King of the Democracy • for 13 years, and left behind him a noble example of altruism and j honesty. He has made New Zealand —God's Own Country he called it—the best of the British colonies for the poor, but industrious man or woman. Four of Dr. Moore's guests , , had travelled and lived in the colony, and it was, he says, pleasant to have n vote of thanks moved by the I Rev. Geo. J. Aklen, M.A., who had I been the Congregational Minister of I Wellington for three year 3, seconded by the Rev. Thos. Russell, of the Church of England, who.had proached in Auckland at the request of Bishop Cowje, one of Dr. Moore's best friends' there, *■*• ■ The following New Zealanders are mentipned as having been admitted members of the Royal College of Surgeons:— E. C. Barnett, Middlesex Hospital; St. J. A. M. Tolhurst, 8.5., Guy's Hospital; G. P. A. Ulrich, M.B. (New Zealand University) and T., N. Watt, Middlesex Hospital. By kind permission of LieutenantGeneral' Sir John French, G.G.V.0., K.C.8., K.C.M.G., the Aldershot Military Tournament will be held in the" grounds of'" Government House, on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 9th and 10th. The pageant for this year will be entitled "Sons of the Empire," and will include detachments representative of the Imperial Forces in all parts of the British Empire. It will follow pretty closely the general lines of last year's fete, the principal altera' tion will be that the pageant, which last year was purely historical, will this' year be representative of the various regiments throughout the British Empire, for which purpose uniforms are being borrowed from Hhe different colonies. Last year about 5,000 persons were present on 1 the first day, and 15,000 on the second, the profits available for distribution amongst the military charities exceeding £BOO. The tournament far exceeds in interest and importance the Naval and Military Tournament in London, and is pro-

bably the most important military display of the kind given anywhere 1 in the world, the number of troops engaged exceeding 3,000. Mr E. C. Barnett, of Leoeton, Canterbury, who will have reached your shores before this letter, has been attending our hospitals, chiefly the Queen's Square, for nervous diseases, and the Brompton, for diseases of; the chest. He has been admitted-to membership of the' Royal College of 'Surgeons, and made licentiate of the Roynl College of Physicians. I have received information of the departure of quite a number of New Zealanders for the Old Country—Dr. and Mrs Porritt, of Wanganui; Mr and Mrs Mark Green, of Wellington; Mr H. Wells and Miss Gow, daughter of the superintending engineer of the Northern Steamship Company, are advised as leaving on January 3rd by the Corinthic. Mr Justice Edwards, with Mrs and Miss Edwards, will come via Egypt, by the P. and 0. Mongolia. They will visit Cairo, Tunis and Algiers, reaching England several months later. The Continent and various parts of the Old Country will receive their attention while there, and they will probably return . via China and Japan.

Miss Marie Hall, who is about to visit your part of the world, gave a farewell concert at the Queen's Hall on January 29th. Miss Hall expects to open in Melbourne at the conclusion of her Canadian tour, about June or July of this year. The programme opened with Sir Hubert Parry's "Partita"'for violin and pianoforte in D minor. The first four movements show a skilful hand, but the Bouree with muted violin strings is quite dainty, and the final Passeoied exceedingly lively. Miss Hall was at her best in the expressive slow movement, and Mr Hamilton Harty accompanied admirably, but the orchestral colouring would have helped one over more than one dull passage in the work. Miss Hall,

together with her first teacher, Mr Max Mossel, played Bach's concerto for two violins in D minor.