NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 839, 10 June 1910, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, April 28. - Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Fitzherbert, of Feilding, arrived in London last week. Mr. Jas. Callender, of the Bank of New Zealand, is on a visit to 'London with Mrs. and Miss Callender. Their stay will probably extend over four' or live months. Miss Laura Harrison, of Christchurch, who has spent tho last ten months in England and on the Continent, sailed from Antwerp on April 17 for Lytteltou, via Suez. Mr. H. W. Knight, of Christchurch, who arrived at tho beginning of April by the Osterley, is on a pleasure trip, and will remain here till August or September. While in England lie will look into the conditions of labour in town and country. Miss Tates, of the North Cape, is on a holiday trip to this country, and will remain until next year, when she returns to Auckland via Japan. She intends to spend the summer in England and Scotland, and visit the , Continent in August. Mr. ffm, M'Cullough, of Auckland, has come for a trip to England mainly in pursuit of health, and proposes to make an extended tour of this country and Scotland, returning about September. He will attend the meeting, shortly to bo held, of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, in Edinburgh. Hiss B. Goffo, of Gisborne (New Zealand), has written a one-act curtainraiser play, which has been accepted by a prominent London actor-manager. Miss Goffe has written numerous stories for the Press, but this is the first sho has dramatised. ' Dr. J. Malcolm Mason, late Chief Health .Officer for New Zealand, does not intend giving up medicine because he has qualified as a barrister, but will practise as a doctor, specialising in the treatment of consumption, on his return to NewZealand. Mr. and Mrs, J. J.'. O'Brien, of Auckland, and their two-nieces havo arrived in England for a holiday trip, and will ■ probably stay - for a year..They leave next week for a couple of months' visit to IreJand, and will later see the Passion Play at Oberammergau. JP; ;? d ' Sirs. "Henry Brown and Miss Ethel M. Brown, of Taranaki, who arrived- by tho Arawa, are spending six weeks in London before going to Folkestone to stay for a few weeks with friends. Later they will visit Scotland and the English provinces, returning to -New Zealand about the end of September. .. * At. W. J. M'Cormick. manager of the f, eff Day Dawn and ; Norfolk Mines at the 1 names, is now in London, having been sent for by the directors for purposes of consultation about tho futuro workings of tho mine, and to attend the annual meeting of the directors which is being held in Hamburg next week. Miss Evangelinc Deverell, of Wellington, arrived in London this week, having spent some weeks in France after leaving tho Mantua at Marseilles. Sho will make a short stay in London, then nay a lengthy visit to the United States. Miss Deverell has just written a new book, which will be brought out shortly Her last novel, "Eve Stanley of New Zealand," is selling well in England. "Sid" Turtill, formerly of Christchurch, and now'full-back .of the St Helens Northern Union Rugby team, ha' just achieved the distinction of being the hrst individual player' during one season in tho club's history to kick fifty goals for his side. Turtill has joined the St Helens Cricket Club, and is a very useful bowler.

Mr. Cecil S. Jameson, of Wellington, who came to this country to study art four or five years ago, lias recently come to London, where he hopes to ge't commissions for portrait-painting. He has been invited to send work to the Now English Art Club's Exhibition, w & to havo several things ready for the New 'Zealand exhibitions shortly. It is Mr. Jameson's intention -to settle in London:' tT T # e / Bc V- Harry P- Burton (Trinity Hall, Cambridge), vicar-designato of St. Michaels, Christchurch, will-leave England for New Zealand, via Sydney, on June 30, by the Runic. Mr. Burton served in'the. Boer War as acting-chaplain , to the forces, attached to tk King's Own Scottish Borderers, also undertook tho revisits of tho South. African Mission of Help in tho Grahamstown diocese , in 1007, and has, ever since his ordination in 1881, devoted nearly all his time to home mission work. At the present time he is vicar of St. Saviour's, St. Albans.