OUR LONDON LETTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8875, 8 November 1907, Page 3

OUR LONDON LETTER.

; From Our Own Correspondent. LONDON, September 2.7. Mrs J. Macpherson, of Dunedin, is leaving London for home by the Orient liner Oroya on October 4th. She came over in May to take back her daughter, who has been completing her education in Paris and except for a flying visit to the French capital her time has been all spent in the Old Country. Mr C. W. Sundstrum, of Dunedin, caafl by the Omrah. He comes to takfe a post-graduate course in dentistry at the National Dental Hospital, ■which will be followed by a special course in America. He expects to be absent from New Zealand about fifteen or sixteen months. Mrs and the Misses West, of Wellington, left last Friday for a short visit to the Continent. Since their arrival they have been sightseeing in the Old Country, beginning with visits to relatives in Kent and Sussex, and going thence to Oxford for "Eights" week, Warwick, the Lake District, Scotland, Ireland, and North Wales. In February or March next they leave for New Zealand spending some time in Egypt en route and then joining an outward bound P. and 0. liner for Australia. Mr Hodges, headmaster of the Grammar School, Sydney, is over here on a holiday with Mrs Hodges. Some time has been spent with Mr A. Neame, at St. Peter's, lhanet. Mr Neame is an ex-manager sugarplanter from the Herbert River. Mr R. J. Stark, late of the City Engineer's staff at Wellington, has arrived here with Mrs Stark. They came via Suez and Genoa by the German liner Bulow, and will probablyjeturn via the Cape, They will spend some weeks in London, afterwards going to Devonshire, where they will remain for the winter. Mr J. L. Kelly, who has buen here on behalf of the New Zealand Government, to study the prospects of the West of- England trade, left by the Cornwall from Liverpool on the 21st inst. He spent four and a half months travelling all over the British which he found so attractive that he abandoned the idea of visiting the Continent and the United States. He is highly gratified with the way in which he has been everywhere received, and is deeply impressed with the great possibilities •of future trade between New Zealand and the West Coast ports. He specially mentions Bristol, Manchester and Glasgow as worthy of special cultivation by New Zealand exporters. Mr C. R. Chapman, of Dunedin, who is now- staying at the Hotel Cecil, leaves this week for the Continent on his way to New Zealand. He has just come from Scotland, where he has been spending a few days. His journey home will be wa Paris, Rome, and Naples to Brindisi, there catching the mail steamer for Australia. Mr 0. Gore Adams, late of the Thames School of Mines, leaves London on October 2nd for Columbia, South America, where he has been appointed metallurgist to the Santa Isobel United Gold Mine. Mr Adams is a brother of Mr Arthur H. Adams, who is 11 present editing the Red Page of the Bulletin. Mr W. Dawson, who came by the Gothic, is here to place the Dawson patent egg carrier on the London market. The patent has been worked by a company in the dominion with great financial success, and so far as the inventor can judf;'c hi& prospects here are excellent. He is accompanied by his wife and two daughters, and the family will be in the Old Country about a year, making London their headquarters.. Visits will be paid, among other places, to Scotland and Denmark. Mr J. 0. Batclielor, of Palmerston North, who is just r.ow in London ■ ar-ived at the beginning of June, and has since then visited most of the leading British agricultural ar.d cattle shows, including the Royal, Newport, Tunoridge Wells, Folkstone and Dublin shows. He is accompanied by his wife, and together they have done a great deal of sightseeing in Scotland and Ireland. They leave London for home on October 12th by the Shire-Houlder 'ine, via -Australia. *Mr J. W. Shackelford, of Auckland, is returning to the dominion by the P. and 0. Himalaya, via Australia, joining that vessel at Marseilles. While here he made Hastings his headquarters. He has visited the chief manufacturing centres, i i the Midlands especially, and by invitation he delivered a lecture on New Zealand at Leeds, and another at Hastings, the High Commissioner's Department supplying the lantern slides for the purpose. Both lectures were very well received. Mr W. Wakeman, on behalf of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, is shipping a consignment of deer and pheasants to that city by the Tongariro, leaving London on October 3rd. The pheasants are Mongolian, consisting of three cocks and three hens, and the deer, two stags and four hinds, are specially selected animals from the .celebrated herd of Mr C, J. Lucas, of Warnbam Court, Horsham, to whom, by the bye,-Mr Wakeman was introduced through Mr J. C. Millain, F.Z.S., the well-known naturalist. Mr Lucas showed great interest in the matter, and not only sold several deer to the Wellington Society,_ at a considerable reduction in price, but also presented several himself. lam informed that Kubelik is to visit Australia and New Zealand shortly. As a matter of fact a tour had been arranged, but at the last moment had to be abandoned. He is to give his only London recital this season on October 10th at the Queen's Hall, and by that date we, expect to hear something definite about his visit to New Zealand. Mr Arnold Trowell, the New Zealand 'cellist, to whom I referred at length in previous letters, and who made a succesful debut in London last season, gave a recital at Great Yarmouth on Saturday, before a crowded and enthusiastic audience. Another New Zealander in the front just now is Mr Harry Farjeon, the composer, who has just had published by Messrs Augener "Barcarolle," a pretty melody for solo pianoforte, and an attractive "Berceuse," for violin and piano.