OUR LONDON LETTER.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 10 December 1908, Page 3

OUR LONDON LETTER.

(From Our Own, Correspondent.)

October 30, IS OS

Tho Roman Catholic Bshop of Auckland, who came ovor to attend the Eur.haristic Congress, journeyed to Rome last week with a party of 225 pilgrims. A number' of Roman Catholic bishcps from this country have also gone there as members of the. National Pilgrimage. Tho number of pilgrims is also fairly strong. Following tho 225 who went with the Bishop of Auckland, 150 went on the same ciay, and the next day over 300 left via Charing Cross. The Rot A. F. Smith, vicar of Northcotc", Auckland, mentioned in former !et' Lers, has booked his passage, and that of his v.ife and children, by the lonic, leaving London on December KHh, and due to arrive on January 26th. After completing three months' --work in. charge of tbe parish of St. Philip's, Lambeth, Mr Smith joined his family at Eastloigh, near Southampton, and did a few days' cycling around the neighbourhood. . Now he has begun a preaching and lecturing tour through tho dioceses of Lichfield, Southwell, Oakham, and Norwich, which is to continue until December Ist. His work here has been very much appreciated, and the rev gentleman has received several offers of psrmanent work if lie | would remain in the Old Country. Mr and Mrs P.., Trice, of Whitford, Auckland, came by Ihe lonic on July 4th and will leave by the same boat on December 10th. It is sixteen years since Mr Trice has seen the Mother 'Country," and it is Mrs Trice's first visit. '- •■'■-■• In reading over my notes of last week. I notice I gave next Monday (that is. last Monday) as the day oil which the Bishop pf Auckland would loavp in the Tongariro.. It should have roar] "nrxt month." the actual date is November 26th. I am now able to givo you the names of the "clergymen who will accompany him. They are the Roys G. C. Cruikshank, F. G. Harvie. Cecil Howard, C. Mortimer Jones, and E. R. Strong. The Rev G. C. Cruik- . shank was priested tlv's year only. The Rev Francis Graham Harvie graduated BA., with second-class theological honours, at Mertoh College,' Oxford, in 190-1. The Rev Cecil Howard is just now at tho Christclmrch Mission in Poplar. The Rev Clive Mortimer Jono's graduated B.A. at Wadham College. Oxford, in 1903. Ho studied theology at Leeds Clergy School in 1904, and a year later was curato of St. James's, Fulhain. Th© Rev E. H. Strong is a New Zealander, and graduated M.A. of the University of New Zealand in t I9OO. He then, came +0 Oxford, where hs was senior Colonial .studentj;-and""won the Casperd Exhibition, and took the degrees of B.A. and B.Litt. After taking Holy Orders Jie was nppgintedjri^J.9o7 to^the parish of St. Barnabas, Walsall Heath, Birmingham.

Mr John Thornton, Principal of. Te Auie College. Hawke's.Bay. is rust now in London.; He came by the Macedonia arriving iri September 28th,. and has, since made a bicycle tour of the fEasfcorn Counties. Mr Thornton is here chiefly to arrange for the publication of a short popular history of India.

Mi and l\frs Henry Wood, of Christchurch, have had a very enjoyable tnur through Scotland and the L^ke district, ainl'fire now in London. Next month they will' leave for a tour on the Continent, after which they will return to England, and sail for the Dominion on January 15th by the P. and O- liner Moldavia. Mr "Wood has spent much time in visiting flour mills, with a view to making extensive alterations to his firm's mill at Christghurch.

Mr J. F. Glorr, 8.A., has^ passed tho Colonial examination for the degree of Bachelor of Divinity of the University of London.

Mr John Porcy Gabbatt, M,A.,M.Sc. the new Professor of Mathematics at Canterbury College, Christchurch, is due to leave for the Doriiinioh by the •lonic in the first week in December. Mr Gabbatt is 28 years of age, aiid married, and has been mathematical lecturer at University College, Nottingham. He won many scholarships in his school and college career, and was bracketed eighth Wrangler in part I. of the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge in 1903j and a year later took a first-, class in part IJ. of. the Tripos—a high distinction He holds also the tea<:her's diploma of London.University.';

Mr E. W. Beagletojj, of Wellington, who is studying at Jena University,_for tho degree of Doctor of Philosophy, returned to Germany ; last week from London, where he has spent the, greater part of his vocation in research work in connection with a thesis which he : is preparing. He will be visiting London again in about a year. Eventually he will return to the Dominion.

Mr H. C Cimeron. the New Zealand Produce Commissioner, gave evidence on Monday before the "Departmental Committee appointed by the Board of Trade to inquire into com» binations in "the meat trade in thift United Kingdom, but the evidence so far is only of a formal character.

Tho new steamer built for the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company. New Zealand line, the Tainui had her trial trip last week. She has been tried over tho measured mi'e satisfactorily. The steamer is n. 10,000 ton,''.fitt<ed;TO.carr#. frozen, produce, of 60QO horse "power, and has five decks. ,