NEWZEALANDERS ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 398, 6 January 1909, Page 5

NEWZEALANDERS ABROAD

tPERSONAL-NOTES;;FR6m LONDON. ' (':(///(;/,!(( •;i; / !V : ; London,, ; "The new -High;(Commissioner .'for,■NewVZe'ajland;. tHe'rHoh. AV. Hall; : Jones, is' expected 'to reach;Londbn( early( in' January././; > ' ;:Mr.' : A;:A : . : N6rth'j a ..teacherof, singing: whohas .'returhed-tb.Christchurcb/.aftef.spending-iabout' ;twely,e : vye.ar ; s: ireriiained here had-nbfr-.ibe :climate.<disagreed ;with .him;' as(it : is,'(he has decided to settle, ' in/ Cnristchurchv.: '"■ .thinks (the/New, Zeajand:.ilimate.-,is,W.oriderful "compared; to",: that(. of ... and /he' . .be'lieyos/that:'New -Zealand' h^est;suigers;inithe!world;. -."'"' '( ''//" v /';Mr.'.Alex;:;S.'.Miller,.ofi.Oamaru, since his arrival' here'(.last '/March, has; .'spent; most of his■: time '..'in- (Scotland,; and '.ftfter.:: a.-spell; in London he, is'.npw staying with his brother in -Canterbury. ;He will probably leayer'Englandvfor/New.fZealand shortly/ibeforeVChristk mas.( •i. :^\ : :^-^^:i:^: Ky~)fi^K\-- .; :The.sEevlvA. yF,/:Smith, pf./Northcote','-and' his ■ wife; afflvfamilyi .•,;wi11.,-retur'rt.'Vt6.:New-'Zealand by'rthe/lomo,/leaving London :on December-10,-'and. due at - Wellington on ;January.-.; 26.//Mr(;-;.Smith- has' ;been; ; . pn ; .; a ipreaching.'and lecturing^tour' in/theVNorth ; ;of England .on ; behalf ■■of -the' Society; for (Propagating' the ( .Bishop; .-L'enihan/.. the. ; ;; Roman; -Catholic Bishop': of Auckland, -who', is on' a; visit;, to Rome ) . ; ,took" -part i last- week ;in the..ceremonies., held i'in(.:.H6nour;.'of .the ;'Ppp.p's :sacerdbtal; juri bileel:i Tb'busandsVbf 'pilgrims.from all .parts: of ''Italy iii'd'; the; world ; assembled (in. St. Peter's "for the- special services. :.:,', ; /(•/.'. '.Another veteran; of the.New. Zealand W ar :has passed (away/in/the..person' of ■, Major.-. .General,,C:,;Blewitt;.'lat.e.;'of the 65th: (York arid Lancaster) Regiment,- who died last week at/thVripe: old (age of; 84.; He iwasipresent at the'storraing of Rangiaobia ,arid ; the.cap- ; ture of Orakau, at\ which : .ho. commanded, a 1 detached/force. '■■.. ..He: was 'mentioned': inr.diß- - patches-, : in' June, 1884, and in 1901— ; seyenVyears later I—he was. awarded the Distinguished Service Order.;':; .;.', ■'(> ■-' . :,-' !■'. Boatswain .Tipper,, late ''of .the Rbyar'Nayy, who'.'died.-last week (at Bicton Heath,-.hear. Shrewsbury,; .at':,the '.'■ age of ~90,(.was \ one of, the-'few;,'suryivbrs'iof. those. who;'fought'(in";the; ; New' Zealand War of. 1845.- .-■ He., saw 'service, in .many parts, of -the .world,: having 'tafc'en-part: .iri/.the-; Crimean '^Campaign,. :- : tho China War,--and'r many; expeditions/• against (the','pirate's who in '-..the.' years. gone',by./in-;fested;-the coast,(of-Africa;and. the(waters east 'of.'.Suez.'.'■.. -./ ./. .' /.,■_■;;,;,, (.Recent.callers at.the.High Com'iriissione'r!s 'Office Walter Fuller .(Christ-'; church)/'Mr/,',J.\Al]eri Thomson (Dunediri),. :Mr. .'Arthur;.P.-Mathews:(Christchurch),; Mr.'. ■p/'L'; I ' , .H/Bburke'/'f Wellington):. .':.'.' V. -'-~ ■'./ .'.■'. '(■ - Miss.Obnah,Fitzgerald,'.the grand-daughter, of the;late James; Edward Fitzgerald, New: Zealaridls first ..Premier, was -married .a ; 'few idays'.ago, in.:the>;parish, church-.0f.-.Worples-. don-,. near( Guildford, to Mr. Albert'.deCastro Glubb.::-;.'The; ceremony was; of a, private character.' ..The', bride's /father,(Mr/ : Gerald :Fitzgeral'd,'.lives in ;Wellington. /, Mr.;, Glubb( belongs;to a well-known famUy'.at'Liskeard, : Cpiima\[. , :'i'':y'y,y : -:.,.:■ //;. V,. (/(;.?./''/;.