NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 766, 15 March 1910, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

-y,. PEBSONAL NOTES rFBOM LONDON." . ■ London, February 8. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones has now resumed. his duties as High Commissioner for New Zealand' after a- long spell of • ill-health, during which his position was temporarily filled' by" Mr. C. Wray Palfiser. ' ■ - Mr. and Mrs. .A. M, Myers,-of Auckland, and Mr. and' Mrs. Hunter Brown,' of Napier, have booked return passages '■ to New. Zealand by,the Morea, of the P. and 0. line,: .which: sails from..London ■■. on February 20.. Permission has been-given to Lieutonants S. A. Grant and J. H. Whyte, of th« '. Now Zealand Defence Force, ,at 'present ' attached, td the 2nd. Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, at.Tidworth; to visit some of the, ships at Portsmouth.. .... ~ Mrs. J. ■ M., Struthers, of Christchurch, / who- has been spending the .winter in London, has decided to remain a few , months longer in this country. She ia-.; tends going, before her return ■ to New Zealand, to Paris and the Eiriera., ■ The. Prince .'.'of Wales,, in bidding."good* bye to a couple of: Smith . and Walden, immigrants for New Zealand from Dersingham, in Norfolk, presented , each' with an autographed photo of - him- ; self, and wished them . success. - :: ' i' •, Miss Katrina Simpson, of Christchurch, who -has spent the last few weeks' in London, shortly leaves for New. York, : where one of her brothers has lived for'the last: twenty years.' M? ss Simpson,;it is interesting to note, : was the first lady . optician in Australasia.' . . . ■ Mr. andiMrs.jH. Holland, of . Auckland, , and their two daughters, intend .leaving Plymouth by the lonic on February 5 . on . their ■ return to New Zealand. Since:. arriving here last April they have spent' , most of their time in and around Devonshire visiting relatives. ..- Of the four young New Zealand officers sent "to England by the Defence Department, Lieutenants Barton and Eobinsori, , after .finishing! at Hythe, have been .. ordered to the Curragh, Ireland, while ' Lieutenants Grant and,Whyte axe at Tid, .. worth with the Lancashire FusUiers.. Mrs. Sidney Plummer, 1 of Auckland, itt* tends sailing by the Ruahine on April 15 for a trip to New Zealand, accompanied by" her little son (Peter). Mr. Plutamer, who is chief officer of the Waimate, will. join his wife in New Zealand, his ship', leaving London at ;the end of; March; ' Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas, who lately ' returned from a special mission, to. Aus- : tralia and New Zealand, gave an ac- ~ count of his visit in a lecture at the Examination Schools, Oxford, last Thursday night.' Sir Charles is the head, of the Dominion's department in -the Colonial Office. Dr. and Mrs. Morice, of Greymouth, sail for New Zealand by the Morea on February'2s. Their journey is delayed so ; that they may be able to be present at ;. the' unveiling," in St. Paul's Cathedral, * of the memorial to the late Mr. Seddon. Prime Minister of .New. Zealand, Mrs. . ' 'Morice's father. ' Mr. J. Liddell Kelly, who has settled down, 1 in Torquay' for the winter, intends ; to visit the Continent and Scotland in May. It is not improbable that Mr. and Mrs. Kelly, may :go out to New , Zealand or Australia in October, but this, however, is not yet determined. ■ "You' have settled the_suffrage question for us, and we owe New Zealand our thanks,"'was Mrs. Pankhurst's greeting to the women . members of the . Maori troupe of dancers whom she met on her .. recent visit to New. York. Three of the. Maori women occupied seats on the stage at one of Mrs. Pankhursf s meetings. ~ . Mr: T. Sedgwick, who has been a pnb- . lie:lecturer, in this country for ten years. past, intends leaving for New. Zealand by the lonic, which sails from London tomorrow. He will;lecture in the Dominion on London and the English Cathe-; . and while in . New Zealand ha hopes to further a scheme, of boy-emigra--tion which he has very much at heart," and to which-he has given much time and 'study.- ' • • The fourth annual dinner of the Colo- - nial Club,, which is composed largely of .; young Now Zealanders in London, was ' held at the Connaught'Restaurant, Mar- ■: ble Arch, and proved a great success. Charles -D. LighUjand, of Wellington,, presided,