NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 528, 8 June 1909, Page 3

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, April 2D. Mrs. Sydney Nathan, of Auckland, N.Z., and her daughter Dorothy have loft London for Paris; and intend to travel for four months on the Continent. Captain Harold Williams, of tho Dorset Regiment, who is in New Zealand on furlough, has been appointed assistant-adjutant general to the headquarters staff in South Africa. | Australian and Now Zealand visitors to London will bo able to enjoy a most dainty afternoon tea at the Matinee Tearooms, &i Regent Street, \f;, which liavo recently been opened by a young New Zealand lady. Mrs. (Jhrystall, of Christchurch, and her son and daughters, arrived a wed: or two ago, and aru staying in London at present. Tho object of their visit is partly pleasure and partly educational, and they expect to be absent from.Mew Zealand about two years. Mr. arid Mrs. Arthur Myers, late Mayor and Mayoress of Auckland, N.Z., aro expected to arrive in London'this week for a prolonged stay. Mr. and Mrs. Myers will stay at .the-Hyde Park Hotel, Albert Gate, and their children with their grandmother, Mrs. Benn. Levy, 8 Pembridge Square, W. Tho marriage of Mr: Frederick John Worledge,. younger son of Z. J. Worledgo, of Leytoristone, and Miss Matilda Lillian May, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles K May, of Leytonstone, and lato of Duuedin, New- Zeajand, , took place at St. Andrew's Church, Leytonstone, Essex, on April 14. The Rev. E. S. Buchanan, a former student of Canterbury College, is in New Zealand on a visit after many years' absence. Mr. Buchanan recently deciphered in i'aris and Verona two, Latin manuscripts of the Gospels of the fourth and fifth centuries, and Oxford University has decided to publish these at its own. expense. . ' ' . • .Mr. and Mrs. jfas. Sexton, of Taranaki, ar,rived here by the lonic on April 9. Mr. Sexton is travelling party on business, bu; chiefly ■ for pleasure. Ho goes to Scotland this week to seethe Ayr Cattle 1 Show, and will follow up the various leading shows of England and Ireland. After that his wife and ho will visit Denmark to have a look at the dairying industry, returning to England towards the end or August. The Hon. W. P. Reeves, lectured at Bournemouth 'a few nights ago, under tho auspices of the Workers' Educational Association, on "Social and Political Life in New'. Zealand." In tho course of his address, Mr. Reeves said ho did not think ho was ovor-cstimr.ting matters when he said that the total producing value of New.Zea. land was 330 millions, 1 and if the colony did owo 60 millions to people outside,' they would seo that there was an amplo margin and fine security. -... ■ .'~ : ~-' . ... Mr. A. C. Macartney, of Wellington, ; who arrived by tho lonic a .week or two ago, has come to Europe with a view to disposing of tho patent rights, for various countries, of the Dominion milking machine, which appears to "have caused a stir in the dairying world in New Zealand some months back. Mr. Macartney, claims that.this invention isthe first successful pressure machine. He intends : visiting a few of the leading dairj'ing machino, mauufacturers on tlio Continent before, returning to New Zealand. Sir llober.t. Stout, Chief. Justice 'of New Zealand, lias arrived in London, accompanied by Lady Stout and Miss Stout; and is staying in Lancaster Gate. .They travelled by'tho Moldavia as far as Marseilles, and tlienco by the overland route, via Calais,- to ; London. The Chief Justice is on ahoh'day trip, :and tho dato of his return to New' Zealand is'not l yet settled. Probably it will be; tho end of the year._ Ho will spend the next week, or ten days in Londfli, and then'pay a visit' to Franco, afterwards returning to London, which, will be' his-headquarters during his stay'in the Old Country. ,".•'''■■"'• 1 Mr. Vincent-Rise, secretary, of' the Auckland Education Board, has arrived in Eng-

laud mi a holiday trip, to visit the land of .his birth, after an absence of some 40 years. Mr. ilico is now in Stratford-oiv-Avon, his pativo town, and on St. George's Day, in the absence of tho High Commissioner, ho was invited to. unfurl, the .New. Zealand flag presented to the Shakespeare Club at Stratford by tho New Zealand Government. That being tho anniversary, of Shakespeare's birthday,, tho club which boars his name marked the occasion by unfurling 40 national flags in the poet's native town, with appropriate ceremony and speeches. ■ Recent callers, at tho High Commissioner's Office:—Dr. and Miss Izard (Wellington), Mrs. Stuart; Hawthorn (Wellington), Mr -E 'ijy- P inj )V. .(Wellington),-. j\tr. and Mrs. Ben laylor (Gisborne), Mrs.' H. Hawbe (Gisborne), Mrs. 'Fulton and the Misses Fulton (Ohnstchurch), Mr. G. M. Kebbell (Wellington), Miss M. E. King (Nelson), Miss Catherine 'M. Ausebrook (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. Gifford Marshall and the Misses Marshall (Wanganm). Mr. and Mrs.'R* J. Alexander, Mr.-nad Mrs. Jaires Sexton. (Tara"».M. Mr ; _J- (Masterton), tho Misses M'Kay (Dunedin), Mr. Geo D Bowers (Lower Hutt), Mr. Harry J Re\. nolds .(Wellington), Mrs. and Miss"- Faulko (Wolhneton). Mr. W. S. lockliead (Dunedin),Mr. Wm. Mackay (Dunedin), Mr. A : R. Fraser (Wellington). ■