OUR LONDON LETTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8473, 27 June 1907, Page 3

OUR LONDON LETTER.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

LONDON, May 10

Mr J. L. Kelly, late editor of the New Zealand Times, came by the Oswestry Grange, and is now visiting Liverpool and Glasgow. Mr Kelly has been appointed by the New Zealand Government to report on the possibilities of trade between the colony and the British West Coast ports. He will be there until about the end of August. Mr and Mrs Colegrove, of Auckland, and their three children have arrived by the Gothic. Mr Charles Mackie, of Wellington who, accompanied by Mrs Mackie, came by the Tongariro, on the 27th ult., to open an office in London on behalf of the National Dairy Association of New Zealand, has secured offices in Langbourne Chambers, Fenchurch Street, and is engaged making preliminary calls upon those firms who are represented in New Zealand in connection with the dairy produce trade. His impressions of our climate are not very favourable, owing to the remarkable late spring, and he lives in hopes of seeing the sun again some day. He and Mrs Mackie attended the reception given by Mr Reeves to Sir Joseph Ward at the Impsrial Institute, and he was impressed by the fine exhibition of the different colonies in the building. He will go to Bristol, Manchester, Cardiff, Liverpool and Glasgow in about a month. nr Ivan Wilson, of Otago, who was ship's doctor on the Oswestry Grange this trip, is here to gain experience in medical work. Dean Fitchett, of Dunedin, and Mrs Fitchett came by the Oswestry Grange, via Avonmouth. Mr Thomas Hodgson, of Auckland, accompanied by his wife and daughter, arrived in London by the Moolton last week. Mr Hodgson was the first of the "All White Team" of New Zealand bowlers to arrive in England to represent the colony in the tour arranged by Messrs Ballinger and, Prince.

Mr C. E. Donne, son of the Chief of the New Zealand Tourist Department, came by the Oswestry Grange to gain experience in medical work.

Mr and Mrs F. Calvert, of Dunedin, were among the passengers by the Tongariro last week. I'he Rev. Lytteltcn Fitzgerald has just returned from Auckland, from a sixteen months' tour in the colonies, where he has had an enjoyable time, spending five months in New Zealand and six months in Australia visiting the principal sights. He spent a fortnight each in Colombo, Cairo, Naples, Rome and , Gibraltar. At Cairo he was robbed of his purse containing £l4 14s. He has accepted charge of Perran-ar-Worthal, near Truro, and he is Fettling there at the end of June. Miss May Pearson and Miss H. Sanderson, of Wellington, who came by the Moldavia to Marseilles, and toured from there through the South of France, Northern Italy, and Switzerland, have arrived here from Paris. Mr T. N. Baxter, of Auckland, and Mrs Baxter have been seeing the sights of London, which all the colonials delight in, such as the Tower, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's, Windsor Castle, etc., and things which remind them of our history. London, from the top of an omnibus, he says, with a communicative driver, is the most .wonderful and astonishing city one can imagine. Its size is amazing,' far beyond anything conceivable by anyone who has confined his knowledge to Australasia. He had always been under the impression that he could find his way about in most situations, but in London it is not so easy a task as the average New Zealander might suppose, and he has on two or three occasions found himself absolutely at sea as to his locality. They will leave for Scotland in a few days, and will stay there a month or so. After that they return to England to see a little country life. Then a week or two in London, and they journey leisurely on to Naples to pick up their return steamer. Mr D. A. Wallace, of Auckland, who came by the Oswestry Grange to Avonmouth, arrived in London last week. He is now in Dublin, and will visit other parts of Ireland. New Zealand is being well represented at the Irish International Exhibition in Dublin in a special section of the Palace of Industries. Mr H. C. Cameron, Produce Commissioner, and Mr R. H. Hooper, of the New Zealand Government Office, are the official representatives in charge of the exhibit. The Right Hon. Sir James Ferguson, sixth Bart, K.C.M.G., G.C.S.L, CLE., P.C., M.P., of Ladyburn House, Kilkerran, Ayrshire, and of 80 Cornwall Gardens, S.W., Chairman of the Australian Cities Investment Corporation, Limited, and the Metropolitan Coal Company, of Sydney, deputy chairman of the Eagle Insurance Company and the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, and Director of the National Telephone Company, and the New Zealand Mines Trust, a Conservative M.P. fot Ayrshire 18541857 and 1859-1868, afterwards Governor of South Australia and New Zealand, and Bombay, Conservative. M.P. for North-East Manchester 1885-1906, Postmaster-General in; 1891, and afterwards tary for Foreign Affairs, who was killed in the earthquake at Jamaica on January 14th last,' aged 74 years, left personal estate in the United Kingdom valued at £10,073. Lord Stanley, speaking at a meeting of the National Union of Conservative Associations, held at Preston, observed in regard to the New Hebrides Convention that Chinese labour, used as a rod for the backs of the Unionists, was now a rod in the hands of the latter for the backs of their opponents. He urged them to endorse Mr Balfour's words on the previous night. They, at all events, would not say "No" to the colonial offer, but would endeavour to forward in every way the preferential treatment of our brethren across the sea. Details must«be settled by those best qualified sitting at a round table. Miss Evelyn R. Earl, of Oamaru, is one of the successful candidates in the Royal College of Music for a certificate of proficiency in pianoforte teaching. Miss Marie Hall, I hear, has just concluded a most successful tour in America. She has met with unprecedented receptions at all the

towns she has visited. Her departure from Vancouver was made the occasion of great demonstrations in her honour. Miss Hall, who has been mentioned in several previous letters, is on the way to New Zealand. The Misses Sybil and Dorothy Tancredi, vocalists, from New Zealand, and pupils of Madame Marchesi, have been distinguishing themselves in Paris. They sang before the Landgrave of Hesse and Princess Marie of Saxe-Meiningen and a fashionable Parisian audience. They gave an artistic rendering of a number of songs composed by the Landgrave, who was delighted with their preformance. He complimented them warmly and presented to each a handsome piece of jewellery. There was a gala performance at the Alhambra, on Tuesday, in honour of our French friends the Comite Republicain du Commerce, and of the City of London Commercial Association. There was nothing absolutely new on the bill, but there was a clever biograph by the Charles Urban Company recording the visit of the Colonial Premiers to Portsmouth, and the naval review held in their honour. This comprised the whole of the naval demonstration including the "rushing" of Whale Island by a naval brigade, and manoeuvres of the submarines, the torpedo attack on the Dreadnought, and the inspection of that mighty battleship by our visitors. This was the more appropriate because all, or nearly all, the Premiers in question were in t, the Alhambra, and many of them must have had the amusing experience of recognising themselves on the Dreadnought—every action and gesture immortalised by the film.