NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 631, 7 October 1909, Page 11

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

' PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. .. London,. August. 20. - The condition of Mr. Hall-Jones, High Com-, niissioner for Now Zealand, has: slightly iiii jtroved, and ho hopes to leave London, shortly for a complete rest. ■Miss Bertha. Joyce,.:- 0f... luvorcargill, who arrived in June, has since' been iii Loiidon. ,Sho.proposes soon to visit Scotlaiid, and afterwards. the .Continent. Mr. 1t,.11. ■ Ileaddey, of KemuOra, Auckland, and his family havo returned to London from a .tour: in Scotland. They havo booked to return by the Osterlejv leaving London Von November. 20. _ }tr. Malcolm M. Ifviiig arrived in London from Christchurch via Sydney at the end of last ; month. .He -intends leaving for, Scotland on .September Vaml on. his return will remain' in this country for some time. ... Adjutant; Home, of the New Zealand branch or. the Salvation Army, is visiting friends in tho Midlands; after which he goes to Scotland for six weeks. He will loavo London on his return, to' New Zealand about' tho cud of,the year. : .i'v.-'v-... v;. ' ; .Mr.. E.' W.' Cox,'.'of Wellington,' arrived by the■ Oroya.oA.'Jttly..2(l,'and after a few davs in'Loiidon Wnt to Leicester, the centre of the bftotmaking JuduStry.: Mr. Cox hopes to or-, range .' for ; several ..ageneies -in ,Now - Zealand, whither he returns about/January next; r Mr. Gcorgp Plummer, of Auckland, and his .four. daughters, ;Rincothoir arrival here in May lait," have .visited . the: Continent dud the Norwegian, fjords.'They are now enjoying a trip to • Scotland. . It, is their intention to. leavo Londofi' on.:their 'returri, to Auckland, at .toe ond of tho year.' '■. , | iMr.i.aud Mrs.V.G.' Gytonj-'-ol Wellington, are making Yarmouth' their headquarters whilft .visiting England after 25 years' absence. ,They havo. made :tnps to Norwich, Cambridge, Ely, and have just .roturned from a, twelvo' days' toiir: oh 'tho Continent before going to Yofkshire. . . :y Jlr. aiid Mrs.-; John'N.. Garrett, of Auckland, and Miss 'Ivy > Garrttt' 'are on a pleasure. trip : fo.'Englohd.:.: They spent six weeks in California ell. ronte,' arid .reached Jjondon oii August i) and, Dublin four days, later. They intend to ■ Fee'. ; as'.much'/of -Ireland .as they . can . during, the riext month, : 'niid then to return to . sen Wales, .Scotland^' England, and' Francb : before leaving for Auckland, via;Suez, : about the be-ginning-of January, '.- t . /The.'.liev.' H.: E. Hawkins, of ;Christchurch, .after; ID years' absonco: in the colonies,: is re-' 1 visiting' his friends ' and', relations' here. ... Ho arrived. by Jliiv I'apanui :.last Easter, aiid after a-.'week: in London"!paid .visits to friends 'in Yorkshire, .Lincolnshire,' and . Norfolk, afterwards taking another spell of sightseeing in Tiondoii. Sfr. Hawkins: will probably- return to New Zealand by,tho Turaklna, : leaving hero on Sentember '20i . . i- -. .

; 'The. Ile>y. <.Gr.';C)enient,' iof ronsonby,: Auckland, : since: attending: tho .British Primitive :Methodist. Cohferonco,at .Southport as- delegate from the New, Zedland Primitive ' Methodist churches,-has/travelled about a good pecially; in, the'North-of England.- lie has preached -and - lectured in a number of towns. Afr.. Clemettt has booked his passage for...Now Zealahd'by. the Otwny, which sails, on October ,29. jHe jOilis the boat at Naples.' -. . ~ - Arriving Int America on. July 2 froth /Now ,Zealand.>by .the Canadian i-oute, 'Mr.. E. ,Nordon,' secretary, of the Canterbury-licensed VictnMlpra' Association, yis.ited the Seattle .Exposition, and ,thCn proceeded by way- of Banff, Winnipeg,iin'd ' Chicago f:to!.New, York. ' Mr. Nordon '. reached 'England'. a. few days, ago ■' by the Lusitania,'arid-will loavttagaiii oil October ■l.O.ifor''the' Continent,, joining.: the Orsola'.at | Naples on October.24, homeward bound.- "' .- Mrs.' and.ifiSs Parkinson, of'.Mount' Eden, Auckland,: since. ; their . arrival in - April last, have yisitfed tnahy; parts'of ; England, and spent a month in London. Tho object of their'visit to, the ~Old' Laiid' ivas .'for. tho sake . of Miss ;Parkinson's health, 'and it ; is satisfactory,' to record that tho chango and rest havo proved very.-benoficml. Itrs. Parkinson, and her dangh-> will . return -to: the s Doininipii; ..by, the way they caiho-rthe White Star route, via the Capo', • on' October, 21., "' Mr. EJ' Nordoni on. his departure, from. New. Zealand to visit 'the Old .Country, was commissioned,; as president,of tho 'New Zealand Hookey Association;.*.: to'. see. what • arrangements, could be.mado ip, London; foir tho visit .of an English hockey,,team to'the,il!ominion.>; S<s.'far.'tho liolidaj season has interfered with the'negotiations, bur ho''will go; fully ;into - tho matter -as soon as tho holiday? aro over. , Mr. Nordon will attend, the an'nualjMffitijgjfJhß English .Hockey Association oh.scpTember araiM the council afterwards at the .Hotel Russell. 1