NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 564, 20 July 1909, Page 9

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. ■ London, June 10. ,' Mr. and Mrs. Arthur 3Cls Rhodes, of Christ- ) church, who recently arrived, nro staying in '. St. James Court, Buckingham Gato. Mr, James Hortburgh, a president for t*o years of tho Now Zealand Bowling Association, / haa presented a pair of bowls for tho uso of , the, Chelsea Pensioners. ' Mr. and Mr*. It. H. Wood and Miss A. C. Freeman, of Cliristohvurchy arrived by the lion- ; goha'on May 22, on a twelve months' trip. I 'i'hoy will spend the- sumnior in torn ing the , TJnited Kingdom, and they will probably go , to the South of franco in the winter. ,• A cablegram from Tal-Tal, South Amenta, ' announced this week the death of Captain Arthur Henry Vine, late captain in tho New ; Zealnnd Shipping Company Captain vino was , the son Df Mr. Henry Vine, ot Southampton, and,his widow lives at ICingsfon-on-Thames. Dr. and Mrs W. A. Chappie, of Wellington, who came to England with their family some ' fow months ago, have taken up residence in Brighton, so as to bo near their four dangnters, who are at Koeddnn Sohool. ,'i'hey intend to remain 'm"thi3 country for at least a year. ' Mr. J. T. W. Wilkin, M.8., Ch.B., of Dune- , din, who came to England as of the i Kumara, arriving May 18, is staying at present with friends in Surrey. He intends to work at the hospitals here for several weeks, and afterwards to, see some hospital work in Edinburgh. , Mr. John T. Mair, of Wellington, intends remaining a month of six weeks in London, studying architecture. Ho will then visit the chic , / centres in the provinces, and tour France and Italy, joining an Orient steamer at Naples about> the end'of August, en routo for Wellington. Dr. Clayton, of Christchurch, has bten visiting Baden Baden, Berlin, and Cologne, to see tho German hospitals, and proceeds to Paris for further experience,, and then back to London, / winding up with a round of visits to his friends i in England. He at present intends to leave 'f for- Christchuroh abont the" end of July. i Dr. Morioo, of Greymonth, who came to ' England with his.wifo and his niece, Miss Rubi Seddon, by the Athonie, has taken a flat at St.- James's 1 Court-fo; the London season. In July Dr. MoriM will go to, Belfast to attend tho'British. Medical Congress as a delegate from New Zealand, and in August he goesto Budapest, in order to be present at the Interna- ., tional JledicaJ Congress. , Mr.' Hall-Jones (High Commissioner for New Zealand), Mr. A. Myers, Mayor of Auckland, president of the Auckland Bowling Asiocia- ' tion, and several other representatives or tho 1 Dominion, were present at the Streatbam Con- • stitutional Gr«n oA.May 20, and also Mrs. Hall-Jones and- the Misses Hall-Jones. The High Commi'rfiner said he hoped that Great Britain would send a team out to the colonics ' in time for next season's play. Mr; and Mrs. K. C. Brown, of Wellington, are on a-' visit to England,' Mr. Brown being hire on business. They aro at BrOmley just now, in. the centre of the woollen frado, and go- thence to Glasgow and Edinburgh. Manchester, and (Liverpool. They leave London on September 20 for Antwerp, Brussels, Paris, ana Switzerland, whence they work round via Rome, Florence, and Venice to Marseilles, there to join the P, ani 0. liner Marmora on October 29,' homeward bound. •Mr/D. Robwtsen, the secretary of the New Zealand Postal Department, *nd Mrs. t Rob"ertsin, left London fast Saturday mornin* on their return to New Eeklsnd, via New Tork and San Francisco, sailing from the latter port to' Tahiti, where they pick up a Union Cempany's, boat for New Zealand. "While in this part of the world they went to Germanr to Boe their son. Mr. P. W. Robertson, a New Zealand Rhodes scholar, who .is studying at I/eifczis University for the degree of Doctor of Science. When the session was over, Mr. Robertson) inn., accompanied his Barents to England for a holiday, afterwards Tttuming to Leipzig to complete-his conrso. Hβ will ?o up for his final examination for the D.Sc. degree this month, and he then proceeds to Rangoon, an appointment as lecturer in chemistry in connection with the University of Calcutta. , .' ,