OUR LONDON LETTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8862, 23 October 1907, Page 3

OUR LONDON LETTER.

From Our Own Correspondent. LONDON, September 13. Mr C. H. Williamson, of Auckland, who has here during the summer months on a holiday, left London last Friday by the 'Orient liner Orontes, for the Dominion. Mr H. Luff, the well known bowler, who haa taken part in a number of competitions at the Crystal Palace in connection with the London County Bowling Club, is about to visit Australia and New Zealand. He is almost as well known in the cricketing world as he is among bowlers. Miss Marie Hall, who is on the way here from your Dominion, after h successful and most enjoyable tour, was to have appeared at the Gloucester Musical Festival. The dislocation /of the steamship traffic is responsible for her non-appearance. Mr George Butler, of Timaru, who •came by the Ortona, will spend four or five months in this country, visiting old friends and places of.interest. He is booked to return by the Omrah leaving London on November Ist.

Mr W. H. Tisdall, of Wellington, who came by the Athenic with his wife and family, has taken the trip partly to further his business and partly to give his sons a thorough insight into the practical side of the business. Their principal amusement, while here, has been motoring, and they have had many interesting •and enjoyable excursions through the Midland Counties, and Wales and Durham. The date of their return is uncertain.

Mr and Miss Allan Bradley, of Christchurch, who have just returned to this city, have been to Yorkshire on a visit to relatives. They have also visited the Lake district, and Scotland, returning via Bradford to London, where Mr Bradley will conbine business with pleasure. Afterwards thty go on the Contiisent, where they will join an outward bound steamer, and expect to be hack in New Zealand about the end of October.

Mr and Mrs Henry Atkinson, and Miss Atkinson, of Auckland, are returning to the Dominion by the Oftona, and will join the boat at Naples. They came by the direct route, and have toured extensively England, Scotland, Ireland and Holland.

Among those presently visiting New Zealand is Mr Ormiston Chant, a civil engineer, who is being sent out by his firm to superintend the erection of a new destructor in Wellington. His wife is a niece of Madame Aloani, but he is cbieily known here as the son uf Mrs Ormiston Chant, who made herself so prominent some time back for her cru* sade against the London music halls. Mr and Mrs J. A. Pike, of Wellington, ar.von their way to England for a holiday trip, coming by way of Australia. During her absence Mrs Pike has left her child in Dunedin in the care of her parents. They do not •expect to be back in the Dominion •until after the New Year.

The Hon. W, Hall-Jones, Minister ■of Public Works, left on Friday for a few days at Folkestone. His private secretary assures me that he is a new man after his sea trip, but he is still compelled to take things very quietly. Mr Humphrey G. A. Hanmer, of Christchurch, who is just now. in London, came by the Rimutaka, and is here chiefly for his health. He intends to see as much of England and -Scotland as possible, and hopes to bj back in New Zealand by Christmas, This, however, depends altogether upon his health, and what his doctor may dictate.

I see that Mrs L. Gotland and her sister, Miss Edith L,aver, of Onehunga, have booked return passages ;by the lonic, leaving London on October 18th. They came by the same vessel last May, and since then have London, Essex, the Midlands, .Scotland and Wales; they are now in London again for a few weeks' sight- . seeing before their departure. Mr Alex. McNab, of Otama, is, I .•learn, on his wa> here. He is coming more especially for the purpose of searching up historical records for information which will be used by -the Hon. R. McNab in connection with another work on early New Zealand, which is to be published. It is -expected that he may have to extend his visit to Sc. Petersburg for the same purpose.

Among other New Zealanders in London are Mr and, Mrs A. W.' Steele, of Methven, Canterbury. After a week here they went on to Liverpool. They will visit Germany, Paris, and the United States, returning via the Vancouver route-being absent from the Dominion about a year.

The marriage of Captain S. R. Davidson, 47th Sikh?, youngest son of the late Major-General A. G. Davidson, Indian Army, and of Mrs Davidson, of Dunedin, with Dorothy, youngest daughter of Lady Westland, of 164 Ashley Gardens, took place on Tuesday, at St. Stephen's Church, Rochester Row, Westminster. The bride was given away by her brother, Lieutenant F. C. Westland, 14. E., and was attended by four bridesmaids —Miss Mildred Westland, her sister; Miss Alice Westland, her cousin; Miss H. R. Middleton, and Miss Cecil Wette. Lieutenant L. R. Hogge, 47th Sikhs, supported the bridegroom as best man. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. E. J. L. Crawhall, vicar of Herriard, Basingstoke. Lady Westland afterwards held a reception at Pepys House, Rochester Row, and later in the day Captain and Mrs S. R. Davidson left for the Channel Islands, where they will spend the early days of the honeymoon. The* Rev. C. W. Scott-Moncriefl', M.A., vice-principal of Donchester, (Oxon) Missionary College, has been appointed warden of St. John's College, Auckland. Mr John James Weston, eldest son of the late Mr John James Weston, of Dunedin, died at Broadstone, Dorset, on the Bth inst, aged 51. He had, until lately, been residing at Sydney. Mr J. L. Webb, of Melbourne, and one of the directors of the firm of Messrs Huddart Parker and Co., is coming over here to take over the company's new steamer Ulimaroa, which was successfully launched recently. The steamer is fitted up in a most lavish style, and immediately on arrival it will be placed in the New Zealand trade. Myrtle Grove Cigarettes are obtainable from all Masterton Tobacconists.*