The celebration will include special services, exhibitions, sales oir work, etc., and being spread Si?' *J° r- shire and Cornwall—wiU involve a tremendous amount of personal labour in the New Zealand owes.so much to the S.PO. Society, that great interest is sure to be felt in its approacliini festival hundredth year of useful existence Ihe ilisses ReyncJds, of Dunedin left London on Wednesday, for Southsea, where ° S^? d Some weeks " Miss Veda Reynolds » believed to have made a eatie- f? ° m the severe operation M ? sho I , un^ erw ent recently, and is M w cv? of -f. the ? enatus Academi thL' £ Kdinh ™-& rrniversity, conferred Batehelor wue-of Dr. Batchelor/ of d£ cheW JOl* J , "- 6 learned tbat Mrs ' B«t - -at Cairo th her son and daughter wm on uer-way to England. mp up the Nile, leaving her resting at Ce-iro. Unfortunately immediately after their departure, and.waen they wWheyond til* caaen ef conimimication, Jlrs BatcheJar was eeizad with severe illness which proved «> spaediJv fatti, ma on the retwn of her son and daughter to Cairo they had the pain and shock of lewrmng that tbeir mother had already j^ ? gy , th with them in. ih«Jr aorrovr m felt b>- tLeir numerous frien*i \vt Uiie country, and, in fact, by all qwmbWß of trhftt I may term the .New Zealand eolwy in London. Sir G. G»thont*.£ardy, who was mar ried last y*w Vo l*ay Dorothy Bejie, tliird daughter" «l JUj*d and I*dy Qlwgow, is among til* shmmmwm gaUwt officers who I»Tegoiw|«tiM«mi Xt know serving vrith his r»9WMB« in South Africa. I am g?*3| to lietur tl»*t Kelburne, eldest son and heir of iwd Glasgow, hae niow almoifc eatinely reccrwtd irom the effects <rf the illness whici; so Itms nraa-

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irony. I may add. took place at the Church of .St. Bartholomew. Sydenham, London, the Raw W. A. Muberiy," Vicar of the Parish, officiating. 