OUR LONDON LETTER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2590, 26 August 1909, Page 3

OUR LONDON LETTER.

NEW zeauandsrs at home

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, July 16..Sir Robert Stout has just left for the Continent, where he will spend several weeks. His next visit will'be to Scotland, and while at Edinburgh he will present the flaof given by the Duned.u High School to the children of the famous old Royal High School of Edinburgh, at which so many celebrated men 'have-been educated. It was at the suggestion of Mr Mark Cohen that this school was selected, and he intended making the presentation. The special merits ' of this school are its representative character and its historical associations. The early return of Mr Cohen obliged him to forego the pleasure of the presentation, which has been passed on to Sir Robert. Mrs Davidson, of Parnell, arrived on 26th ult. by the Ophir. She is now in Scotland on a visit to her relatives. She leaves for the Dominion at the end of next month. Mrs Thomas Banks and Miss Banks, of Christchurch, have just been in London, and are on a visit to the Old Country of indefinite duration. They will spend some time in Somerset, and later on they will travel on the Continent. Mr A. E. Orchard, also of Christchurch, came by the Corinthic. He will be about ten weeks here, and part of the time will be spent in a tour round the South Coast on a motor bicycle. He is due to leave by the Tainui on 19th prox. The Hon. Oliver Samuel, M.L.C., of New Plymouth, and Mrs Samuel, are on a pleasure trip to the Old World, and have been touring the Continent since their arrival in London on May 6th. I'hey hav® visited Holland and Belgium, Germany, Austria and the Tyrol. Their tour has been shortened on account of the short session of Parliament necessitating a second session being held this year. Another well-known New Zealander just visiting the Old World is Air E. W. Christmas, one of the best known artists. He i s seeing all that is to- be seen in the numerous picture galleries and exhibitions in London, and this will keep him busily engaged for some time. Ho will visit France and Italy, and hopes to be able to extend bis :ointo Tangiers, where ho will do some sketching. Airs Pearson, of the Lower ITutt, with her two little girls, arrived at Bristol on 14th ult. They came by the Federal Houlder-Shire steamer Drayton Grange. Air and Airs It. Taylor, cf AVestporfc, came via Canada and the United States. They arrived on June 15th and expect to return on October Ist via Suez, leaving London by the ptranto. They will visit Scotland, Ireland, and Paris. Air and Airs Stewart, of Auckland, also came via Canada. They are on a round-the-world pleasure tour, extending over a period of 13 or 14 months. They will virit Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, and will afterwards tour France, Switzerland and Italy. On the way back they 'will spend a month in Egypt and Palestine, and a fortnight in Ceylon. •Mi- and Airs T. Freeman, of Christchurch, came by the Ophir. They will, visit Air Freeman’s relatives in South Wales, and Airs Freeman’s birthplace in Cornwall, and will make trips to Scotland and the North of England. The return will be in October via Paris, Rome and Naples. Air Henry A. Owen, of the same City, arrived at Southampton on June 3rd., and has since been visiting Canterbury, Banbury, and Coventry. Afterwards lio will visit, Peterborough, Birmingham, and Plymouth, will spend a couple of weeks in London, and will leave for the Dominion on August 6th. Aliss. Evelyn Richards, of Wellington, came by the Corinthic, partly for health, and partly to see her brother, who is studying medicine at Guy’s Hospital. During his vacation lie will accompany Aliss Richards on a trip to Scotland and AVales, and-possibly to the Continent. Miss Richard will return via Suez, arriving in - the Dominion about Christmas. Among New Zealanders about to return are several of the delegates to the Imperial Press Conference. .Mr Alark Cohen, of Dunedin, leaves toMay via America, accompanied by Airs Cohen. Mr Fenwick, also of Dunedin, leaves probably; next w.eek, via America. Mr Gresley Lukin, of Wellington, will return on August 6th by the Ruapehu, via Capetown; Air F. W. Robertson, a New Zealand Rhodes scholar, and the son of Mr D. Robertson, Secretary of the New Zealand #bst and Telegraph Department, has_ taken the degree of Doctor ofScience, with honors at Leipsic University. Air Robertson has received a good appointment as lecturer on chemistry at Rangoon University College, and he will leave Europe shortly to take up his duties. v ■ In the report read at the annual meeting of the Royal College of Music, it was announced that exhibitions offered by the Board in Australasia in connection with the examinations in 1908 'had been awarded among others (in Australia) to Miss Rita Rabone, of .Wellington, for singing. The Prince of AVales, in moving the adoption of the report, said That tho results in v Australasia continued to be satisfactory, and that twenty new-centres had been opened up in the Commonwealth. It was also annoiinced that Mrs Harris, of Palmerston North, had generously offered a gold medal to the candidate at that centre whose work is considered by the examiner to be best, provided a, certain standard is reached. In connection with the policy of granting- colonial exhibitions, which was begun three years ago, the system was said to have oroved successful, and it

was stated that ten out of the twelve exhibitions had been able to come to London to study. _ Mr H. Brett, an Auckland delegate to the Imperial Press Conference, and ■is Brett, intend to remain here until the end of the summer. On Wednesday week; a special service was held at the Hampstead Parish Church in commemoration of the centenary of the baptism of Bishop Selwyn which took place in that church on July 7th, 1809. The Mayor of Hampstead and some of the aldermen were present,-as also were several Nonconformist ministers. The preacher was Canon' Scott-Holland, and among the clergy who took part in the service were the Rev. W. Selwyn, Prebendary of Hereford, the Rev. Stephen Selwyn, Dr. Murray, Master of Selwyn College, the headmaster of-Eton, .where Bishop. Selwyn was educated, the Vicar of Hatnpstead, and others.

The Prince and Princess of Wales paid a visit an Saturday to Mr AVorsley’s Exhibition of New I Zealand pictures at the Alodorn Gallery at 61 New Bond Street. When the Exhibition was opened in Juno their Royal Highnesses promised to call as soon as they had time to do so., They left a message for him with Air Freeman, the Lessee of the Gallery, that they .-were very much interested in the Exhibition, and that they admired the pictures very much indeed. The Princess already has some of Air AVorsleyV pictures, which were presented to her when the Princess was in the Dominion. Air Worsley also did two illuminated addresses for tho Prince of Wales, and one for the King, v when bo (Air Worsley) was living in New Zealand. Mr AVorsley finds Tonclou very much changed since he left .it eleven years ago,—it has greatly int proved in many ways, particularly iri hotel and restaurant accommodation and means of locomotion. He says lie can safely say that his Exhibition has been one of the most successful “on© man shows” held this season, considering the terribly hard times artists are having just now. It is not every one, who is fori,unate enough to sell seve-' ral hundred pounds’ worth of pictures in a month. The late Governor of New Zealand, Lord Ranfurly, Lord Onslow, and Lord Glasgow have all visited this Exhibition, also Sir Robert Stout, Sir Frederick Young,, and very many other notabilities, and he has received congratulations on all hands. It is the only show of New Zealand pictures, either hero or elsewhere.

Mr R. Tingey, vice-President of the Wellington branch of His Alajesty’s Royal Veterans, accompanied by his brother, Air A. Tingey, waited on Earl Roberts, V.C., and presented him, yesterday, with the association’s decoration. His Lordship accepted the decoration, bronze medal and Alalteso Cross, thanking the vice-President on behalf of the Association.