NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 795, 19 April 1910, Page 9

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, March 10. Mrs. Govier, of Wnitomo, has arrived in this country, and is at present staying at Ascot. Mrs. Cecil Jones, of Wellington, has arrived from the Dominion, and gone to Scotland on a visit to relatives. Mr. and Mrs; Paget, . of Wellington, wbo arrived in July last, on a year's trip abroad, 1 on account of Mrs. Paget's health, are at present staying at Rothley. .Mrs. ..Paget is progressing slowly after a long illness in Glasgow. Mr. S. P. Hope, of Gleniti, Timaru, and ClaTe. College. , ' Cambridge, was in London last iv«k... Mr. Hopo has now been at' Cambridge for nine months, and will be there a year or more before returning to the Dominion. . • Dr. and Mrs. Tudor Jones, of Wellington, will attend the. International Congress of the liberal thinkers and workers of the world, to be shortly held in-Ber-lin, when Dr. Tudor Jones will road a paper on Liberal Religion South of the .Equator. " . ' .'■'■. The death has taken place of the Rev. Raymond ißlathwftyt, vicar of Christ Church, Totland/ Bay, Isle of Wight, who had relatives of the same name living in New Zealand. He was the father of Mr. Raymond BJathwayt, the author and journalist, and was 92 years of age when he died. Mr. W. Lancelot Moore, of Christchurch, is expecting to be sent out to New Zealand shortly to represent his firm, Messrs. Boving and Co., water power engineers, and will probably leave London about July.- Mr. Moore has been away from New Zealand about three') and a'half years, the greater part of ! which, he. has spent in. Scotland, Norway, and Sweden, making a. special study of water powei developments and .turbine machinery,, Mr.. R.. M'Nab, who camo to England last year'.to continue his. researches into • the. early ".history''of New Zealand, left a'few. days ago for Paris and tho French seaports to investigate".the French conneotioniwith New. Zealand. The Foreign Office instructed tho British Embassy in Paris to supply the credentials required by tho French. Government before State papers-.are ' put at the disposal. of foreigners. Mr, M'Nab hopes to get valuable information regarding the whaling trade,-the French movements in connection ' with the Chatham Islands,' and last, but not least, the true story of the French- settlement at Akaroa. Ho.has secured from Lord Durham the papers connected with the New Zealand Colonising Company, of 1825 and 1837. to 1840, of which the then Lord Durham,was chairman and Chief promoter. The'papers are of great interest, and will give the imi'&r working, of tho . company, which, after several: unsuccessful attempts, finally foun-ded Wellington ajid other centre's of population in the south of New land;A Solemn Dirge and Requiem was sung at St.' Augustine's Abbey Church, Ramsgate, in memory of the late ,Dr.. Lenihan, Bishop of Auckland, who was a former pupil of St. Augustine's College, and a fellow-student of' the present Abbot and president of the college, the Eight Rev. .Abbot Egan, who presided at the function, arid gave the Final Ateo-lutions in full pontificals. It was tho community at Eamsgate that supplied the' Auckland diooese r with many missionaries, and. -a bishop' in the person of the Right Rev. Dr. Luck. The celebrant of the mass \vas the. Very Rey. Dr. Egan, 0.5.8., ■elder brother 'of tho. Abbot; assisted.by the Revs.- ; Ajiselm Fox. and, , Adalbert Amandolinr; 0.5.8., all of whom had worked for several years in the Auckland diocese. . *'■■';- ■ • ' -.- ■■■" : " ' "■'■