OUR LONDON LETTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8449, 27 May 1907, Page 5

OUR LONDON LETTER.

(From Our Own Correspondent).

LONDON/April 12,

Mr J. Cotter, of Wellington, with Mrs and Miss Cotter, left that city on July 28th, and spent eight months in travelling to London. They visited on their way Manilla and Japan, and Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore, Peenang and Calcutta, through India, stopping at all places made famous by the Mutiny, and on to Bombay, thence to Egypt, going up the Nile as far as Assouan. From there they went on to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, and arrived in London a few days back. They have had perfect health all through and enjoyed the trip thoroughly. They remain here for a month, and then do some visiting in the Counties, and on to| Scotland. In the warm weather they will go to Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and hope to be in New Zealand at Christmas.

Mr J. A. Peacock, of Auckland, came by the Orient via Naples, then overland. He is here on a holiday trip. Mr Robert Home, of Auckland, who represents a large firm of chemical manufacturers, has just arrived from a long journey in the East. His itinerary was from New Zealand to the Philippines, thence to the Far Eastern ports, coming to London via Colombo. From -London he goes to Siberia, Manchuria and Japan. Mr F. C. Richardson, of Auckland, brother-in-law to Mr Arthur Guinness, the Speaker of the N.Z. House, came over to establish nimself here as a colonial broker.

Mr Mark Cohen, the editor of the Dunedin Star, is visiting England wholely and solely in quest of health, and he does not intend, he says, to trouble himselt with matters of business. He had a very enjoyable run Home in the Rimutaka, except in meeting with a fall on deck after leaving St. Vincent, and from the effects of which he has not yet recovered, causing him to be a prisoner, more or Tess. at his "diggings." Mr Cohen will be in London a month and will visit the provinces and take a trip across the Channel before returning to New Zealand via Amercia at the end of the year. Mr H. J. Rawson, of Wellington, who arrived by the Waiwera, came to study medicine in England. He is at present working in London for the medical preliminary examination. Mr J. Duthie, of Wellington, .is staying at the Langham Hotel. The Rev. H. van Stavern, of Wellington, arrived here after a very fine and smooth passage by the Rimutaka. They travelled at a rather slow rate, and are three days late, but the lateness of the hour, he says, was amply compensated for by the great pleasure afforded in the different ports of stay. The ascent of the Corcovada alone sufficed to recompense them for any little worrying delays on the route. Mr Stavern intends staying in the Old Country about three months and a-half, and will embrace the opportunity of visiting France and Germany—he will r.ot have time for Italy—and hopes to return by the Paparoa, leaving Plymouth on July 13th.

Fred Turvey, who, I understand, is an ex-lightweight champion of New Zealand, was one of the performers at an assault-at-arms held at the Bury St. Edmund 3 Theatre, last Wednesday. His opponent was Willmore, a Londoner, in a 10-rcund contest for a "fiver," and the New Zealander qualified for the winner's share in the fifth round. He floored the Londoner, twice in the first bout, and nearly had him out in the second. In the next two rounds Willmore made a better show, but Turvey was always scoring faster. Early in the fifth round the colonial fought his man to the ropes, and quickly administered the coup de grace, a smashing right on the point sending him down to be counted out. ,

A pianist, of whom rtpart speaks highly, made his appearance at the Royai Albert Hall, on Sunday last, in the person of Mr Eduard ParlovitzAlthough of Polish parentage, this young artist was born in London and received his musical training here. At the age of 14 he was an Associate of the Guildhall School of Music, and shortly afterwards he became a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music, qualifying as a professor when only 16. Recently he toured with great success in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, where he will doubtless be still remembered. Sir John Hall, who was Mayor of Christchurch in the year of the Exhibition, has presented a very handsome silver and greenstone inkstand to the Corporation of Hull, his native town, as a souvenir of the occasion. The inkstand, which is the work of Mr Frank Hyams, the well-known New Bond Street jeweller, has a base of mottled kauri, and in the centre, between the ink bottles, is a finely carved lion of greenstone, recumbent on a silver pedestal with greenstone panels. On the silver top of one of the ink bottles are the arms of the City of Christchurch, and on the other the arms of Hull.