NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 803, 28 April 1910, Page 4

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES -FROM .'LONDON.

•London, March, 17. Lady Mills, New Zealand, is now at 11 Loxham Gardens.

; Mr. Justice Donniston, .of Christchurch, has arrived from New Zealand, accompanied by his'wife and Miss Denniston. He is on a holiday trip to tho Old Country. ,

: Mr. and Mrs. Moss Davis, of Auckland,' and tho Misses Blanche and Muriel Davis arrived last week' from New Zealand. Tliey will probably take up residence in this country.

■ Brigadier-General Edgard Aickin TVin. Stewart, C.8., officer commanding' the ■Eighth Brigado of the 111th 1 Division, Dovonport, has gone out to the Dominion to get-some trout fishing. •

' Mr. AY Stewart has just returned: to London, after a visit to Scotland. While in the north he visited the-. railway works at-Helensbnrgli, and some of..the shipbuilding yards on the Clyde.

■ Mr. T. Weir, of Christchurch, and of the Waihi Gold Mining- Company, left .Liverpool for . the . Gold .Coast Colony a few days ago in the. interests of the Aslianti Goldfields Corporation, Limited.

Miss May .M'Kay,. of Dunedin, has entered ..the ltoyal Academy of, Music as a piano student under Mr,. Howard Jones. ; Miss Lizzie and Miss Eileen'M'Kay are in Vienna, and tho fourth, sister, Edith, is at school in Switzerland.-'

Mr. Leslie'Gardner, of Auckland, has arrived in England on d ,; business visit. He has como' to this country' •to buy stocks for the wholesale'business, which ho proposes to stajt in Auckland, and lie will spend three or four inonths in London.

Professor, W. E. Thomas, conductor of the. Auckland Liedertafel and the Choral ■ Society, has beeii awarded by the Surrey i Madrigal Society, of which Sir Frcdk. Briilgo is conductor, .first prize for a madrigal submitted in. a ' recent competition;

Mr. P. E. Baume, K.C., M.P., the wellknown New.' Zealand barrister and solicitor, lias been very seriously ill, and has gone to' Nauheim, in Germany, for a twclvo month?' stay, in order to recruit. It is possible that before : he returns to New Zealand 'lie may come to Euglaud to study British politics. Dr. Tempest Anderson, president of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society; lectured beforo his society on "Ne\v Zealand" recently, and, after commenting, on the Maoris at Rotorua, who have, ho thinks, been nearly ail' , spoiled by becoming Europeaniscd, Dr. Anderson acknowledged the great kindness and hospitality extended to him in New Zealand, and commented 'in conclusion on the marked patriotism, of the New Zealanders. Six New Zealanders played for London Hospital and one for Guy's in the final match for tho Rugby Cup between tlioso two hospitals. Tho game, was played in pouring rain, and Guy's won in themud scramble by 8 points to 5 points. A.'S. llcalo (Otago University) captained the London Hospital side, and played halfhack, and tho other Now Zealanders in tho team were: D. G. Jlacpherson, A. "C. Palmer. and Alan Adams (three-quarters), A. S. Lindsay (half-back), and M. Chapman (forward)—all Otago University men. L. B. Stringer, of G'hristchurch, was in the three-quarter lino of the Guy's team.