NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 730, 1 February 1910, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

~■■-,■ ' —r— —«- —— - ■ ;." : -. PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. v London, December 23. Engineer-Captain Henry Wallis,- R.N., is aoting as vVardon.of . Navy House, Chatham, during the absenco in New Zealand of tho Hon. R. J. Yarde-Buller. Captain Wallis himself has very pleasant recollections of his visit to New Zealand years ago in tho old warship Diamond, on which he served when that vessel was. on the Australasian Station. . ■;

The whist party givon. at the Con, naught Restaurant, Marble Arch, W., m connection with' the Colonial Club, was a great success, about US guests being pre- : sent. Mr.. Charles Kessoll was director of the proceedings, and carried out : his (luties ably,' and the committee are to bo complimented on tho success of the evening. Most of the. prizes were carried off by colonials, . ■ . ■.'■.'■

Mr.'Henry K/ , Allison, DD.S.,.late of Christchurch, is 'spending Christmas in Dresden with' his sister, Hiss Kathleen K. .Allison. : Mr. Allison left. Now Zealand four years ago for America, and later, entering the. Dental Department of the Pennsylvania University,. graduated last June. ' He i 3 now ; doing hospital practice at the Royal, Dental Hospital, Leicester Square, and' iiitonds . to '■ take the L.D.S.- diploma of the Royal College of; Surgeons. ■ Mr. Robert M'Nab, ex-Minister for Lands in the . New Zealand Parliament, lectured in Aberdeen'• a few nights ago,, before a largo audience, on.New Zealand. The lecturer spoke of the-'high- , est-praiso'of the ability of the Maoris as an educated and dominant force in civilioed lifej pointing out that Mr. James. Carroll; son o£ a , Maori chief,. was senior Minister of, tho Crown' 1 . In the second, part of .his lecture, Mr.. M'Nab dealt with the features of.New Zealand as a sheeprearing . and agricultural country, and tho facilities offered to .settlers, and at tho close he was 1 awarded a.hearty voto of thanks. A fine series of limelight'lantorn views,-supplied by tho High Com-, missioner, were used tq -illustrate the lecture/. ■ .-■.'.■.■ ■'■■'■' : ■ ■■'■

■'Mr! Henry Brett, of Auckland, who arrived, in England last May' asi a delegato to the . Imperial Press Conference, )eft ; last Monday for Europe' with his ..wife, his daughter and her husband (Mr, and Mrs. Peter Wood),' and . their children. l They embarked by the Osterley at Mar-'■ seilles on the 31st, en route ..for'Sydne'y, where tliey . will' spend a week before procaeding.to New. Zealand. They will spend a few days in Pari9 and Nice after they leave Dover. ' . ; ' : ■General Sir Neville'Lyttelton, who presided at a luncheon given to §ir Ernest Shackleton a lew days ago, said ho, was particularly and personally pleased becausoSir Ernest had; first called/on his return from the Antarctic at Lyttelton, Now' Zealand, which was called after the speaker's.-''father, i Since Sir Ernest Shackleton had called there, added the Goneral, amid laughter, the family 'name had been 1 more frequently epelled cot-. rectly than over before!, •"'.,..