NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 433, 16 February 1909, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL JTOTES :rROM LONDON., : ; , ■■'■" .:;,'■'::': :v : January ■ Among, the- callers" at: the New: Zealand High-Commissipner's bificc. during th'e past few days have. been -the "following:—Mr. Lionel Loasby (Dunedin), ilr. Russell Jaggard (Feilding), Jtr. Wm;. Reece'. (Christchurch); and Mr.'SydheyJlhind,(Wellington). :.•■; Mr. W. H. .Smith;./of Messrs. Smith:and Coughey, of Auckland, is returning, with"his wife, to" New Zealand by the Dra'yton Grange,' Svhich, leaves Liverpool this week, and'' expects to reach His hbme "about middle of March. '.'Mri Smith lias spent:"nearly ' yefirs in the- Old Country. '/■ . -:, : : ; ,-,': ''■:■[■. ■,;■, '-~ Tlie New Zealand Association was to give a Cinderella dance on January 20> a.t the.Holborn.Restaurant. : Mrs. ;\V. P. Reeves,.the wife: of. the .acting-High Commissioner .-for Now Zealand,: has'kindly consented,.to-act-as. hostess for the evening.. The annual' nieetiiig •of the .Now Zealand Association was to. take placea week later. . . :,'.-. ..;■; '■:,■;. : Tlie.Rey. Isaac.Shimmin,. whoTisited.Neflr' Zealand: recently, gave a breezy'and. wellillustrated lecture on the Dominion, at Cam-, .borne 'a, few evenings' ago, beforo n large 'attendance.. He remarked, that .he .did'.iiot see . a beggar.. in .the: country during! his : four months' visit, and allthe people dressed 'with: taste, and "never looked shabby. ; ■;'■'.' '■' '-.-;...■ , Mr.; O. Overtbn Smith, of .Messrs. G. bonglity :aud Co.-, of Wellington,; who came home some five ;br six weeks ago," with' liis family, ■by tho lonic, in order, to undertake the' European buying i for. his firm,; has now taken up his: residence, at 21 Elmficld Road, •Bromley, .Kent.' , ' Mr.'.'Smith is'; sending'bis son to: Wellington College, Shropshire, to >• continue his education .during.his present, stay ■in the Old.Country. ; - ;; ... ■; -, ";. ! .

'Colonel G'. Hamilton Browne,; better known by the:nickname of-"Maori" Brown, who was married on New Year's Day to Miss Sarah Willis Wilkinson, of the Beeches, : Melbourn, Cambridge,'served in'thb.Maori wars betweea18G6 a,nd 1877.;' The_ marriage was tlie result' ■of a romantic meeting .Tvhich.took place in London four months ago. The colonel, who is 63, has had an adventurous .career in South African ,wars, as well .as Now Zealand, and was almost penniless in' London. He was Assisted by the Salvation .Army, and Miss Wilkinson read in the. papers of !his case She offered assistance, arid when they met dis-. covered that Colonel Browne had saved the life of a relative of hots in the Zulu War.';.