OUR LONDON LETTER.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12388, 8 December 1909, Page 3

OUR LONDON LETTER.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

LONDON, October 28. Miss Dull, of Wellington, who came over with her mother, has decided to remain in London to continue her | studies in singing. j Dr T. A. Milroy, of Duiiedin, who studied medicine at Glasgow University, has boon .selected as house surgeon at the Glasgow Royal lnfirmar. He will spend a year_in that institution before returning1 to the Dominion. While in London this month Dr Milroy took the diplomas of M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. (England.) Mr Arthur Myers and Mrs Meyers, of Auckland, have just returned to this city from a visit to the Continent, and have taken up their quarters at the 1 Hyde Park Hotel. Mr Myers was on j the Coneinent when lie received news j of the destruction by fire of the Strand Arcade in Auckland, and his first intention was to cut short bis trip and return forthwith to the Dominion. Since then, how-aver, he has been able to make arrangements for the immediate rebuilding of the Arcade, and is having j plans and specifications prepared for a I new building in ferro-concrete and | I brick. He will, therefore, remain here | until February 2oth, when he sails for ! Australia by the Morea, en route for Auckland. Mr and Mrs Mcl Orchard, of the same city, have been on a visit to Ire j ' land. They will leave by the Morea on No\ ember sth. Two more New Zealaders, Mr and Mrs Henry Gilfillan, are returning by the same boat. They have recently returned, to London from a five weeks' trip on the Continent, in the course of which they visited Switzerland, Italy, the Rivirea, and Paris. They propose to stay a few days in Melbourne on the way out. and will reach Auckland about tho New Year. Miss Liaa Hanson, of Auckland, left for the Dominion by the Medic. She has had an extended visit to the Old Country, in the course of which she trained for the nursing profession, and took diploma last December. She has been doing private nursing since, and hopes to continue it in Auckland. Mr and Mrs Win. Thompson, of the same city, were to have returned by the I Athenic, but Mrs Thompson was taken ill with the influenza three weeks ago, and has been in bed ever since. She is now recovering, however, and she and Mr Thompson hope to bo able to sail by the Corinthic on November 11th. ; The Hon Sir Robert Stout continues to progress favourably, and is making a. good recovery alter his severe operation. He is still confined to his bed, and unable, to see any visitors save Lady Stout, who calls daily at theLondon private nursin-o 1 home. The following announcement appear- J ed under the deaths column of tho "Daily Telegraph" of October 23rd. j Rayner.—On October, at Flmington, I Oimd'le, Mary Sophia, widow of the late Dr Rayner, of Great Malvern, and daughter of the late George Anthomy Franks. Esq., of Chester. The funeral took place at Great Malvern on Tues- ' day, October 19th. Australian, NewZealand and American papers, please copy. The following appeared under the births column of the same paper of October 27th :— Nye—On October 4th 1909. at "The Chalet," Holmsgrove Road, Westbury, Bristol, to Mr and Mrs N. Shore Nyo (nee Chatfield) —a son. New Zealand pnners please copy. Preparations for next year's JapanBritish Fxhibition at Shepherd's Bush, at which the Dominion is again to have a court, are proceeding apace. Several of the great railway companies have I already decided to place exceptionally fine exhibits in the machinery hall, where examples of electrical, mechanical, and civil engineering are to be shown on an even more imposing scale than at the Franco-British Exhibition. 1 Jn view of the increased traffic which resulted from the "Sunny South" exhibit at the last exhibition—an addition of 41,000 passengers to the various -. places shown—most of the railway oom--1 panics schemes next year for the places on their respective lines It has also been decided to arrange special gala > days for the diffrent great centres of commerce and industry in the United Kingdom, and also in celebration of the principal Japanese festivals, and on these occasions people from all over the country will be able to come to the exhibition on advantageous' terms. N doubt it will interest many New Zenlnnders to read the following extract from a letter which has been sent out to the Press by Lady Knightly, of Fawsley, president of the British Women's Emigration Association :—"The attention of the Council of the British I Women's Emigration Association has been drawn to a paragraph in your columns in which an Australian lady suggests to the Australian Government that they should open an inquiry office in London for the use of English working women, where they my obtain free information on all things to be considered by those about to emigrate. May I point out -that such an office already exists at the Imperial Institute for Canada, Australi, and New Zealand, under the management of this association, for South Africa, at 110 Victoria Street, the office of the South African Colonisation Society?" Mi" nnd Mrs A. E. H. Rhodes, of Christchureh, have returned to St. James's Court, S.W., froim Scotland, I prior to leaving for New Zealand in ! November. Mr Rhcdes leased a shooting and fishing property in Perthshire, and shot 32 'reel deer stags. Curiously enough it was the) same shooting proppertv that Mr Cecil Rhodes, cf South ' Africa, used to lease for his annual summer holiday. At a special congregation of Birmingham University, held for the purpose of conferring honorary degrees, the well known Now Zealander, Professor Rutherford, was one of the recipients. Professor Rutherford is now occupying ! chair of Physics at Victoria University, ' Manchester. He was educated in the ■■ Dominion, and graduated from Canterbury College in arts and in science. In 1894 he gained the "1851 Exhibition" science scholarship, and came to England. Ho did research work in the Cavend'sh I.abouratory. Cambridge, and took the B.A. research degree, and I gained the Coutts-Trotter Studentship I at Trinity Collesre. In 1898 he accepted tho Macdonald Chnir of Physios at McGill University, Montreal, and remained in Canada .intil 1907, when he was appointed to Manchester. The Professor is a D.Sc. of New Zealand, a Fellow of the Royal Society. a nd winner of the Nobel Chemistry Prize. He hns -'iblished a work on "Radio-Activity," as well as contributing to the transictions of the Royal Society, and to other ; t scientific magazines .several vapors relating to Rontgen and Becquerel rays, a subject to which he has devoted much work. : An interesting cHs'-o^Ty c<n M"ovi , relics has just l:e°n (Ms^overe;! by Major-

General Robley, the well-known collector of Maori relics, in an English country house. Ho has com© across a mere and tiki which had been brought to England from New Zealand by Captain Cook in the Discovery, and which had remained ever since in the hands of his descendants.

A A Tew Zealand veteran has just celebrated his 89th birthday in the person of Commissary General J. O. Hamlev C.8., retired list. This gallant officer served with the Ordnance Depart niont at Sydney over 60 years ago, an<l from 18i7 to 1870 was in charge of the military stores in the Dominion, and took part in the Maori campaigns of 1847 and 1848 in the Southern District and of IB6o' and 1861 in the Northern District. Ho retired from: the active list in the seventies and was given the C.B.