MRS. WILFORD'S RETURN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 869, 16 July 1910, Page 10

MRS. WILFORD'S RETURN.

AN INTERVIEW. ; "I am simply delighted to be home, again," said Mrs. Wilford yesterday to a DoiiiNioJf representative. "Of course I' very much enjoyed my visit to the Old Country, but after all there's ! thing like being with one's own friends v . and people. No, I could not enjoy the three days we had in Sydney through, the Warrimob's delay, because being so'near home it was tantalising not tq bo here," - :: ( ... ."' : -Mrs. Wilford wont Home,last year . with her. son, Mr, Max Wilford, who is* / , to bo an electrical engineer, arid who. was fortunate enough to secure a posi-. tioh in Denny's shipyard." Ho-is getting on remarkably well, she reports, and thoroughly enjoys his work, dividing, his time between theoretical and practical work. He has been working m the yards lately, and.it was his duty to fix tho lights in tho state rooms.of tho Rotorua, the new steamer being budt for. the New Zealand Shipping; Company. .' ■. ... Mrs. Wilford spent six months lit Glasgow, within half an. hour of Dum-' barton, where her son lives, and for the rest of the time sho has been visiting different parts of England and Scotland, going far north. She_was in Edirw burgh immediately after the King's: death, and was .present at the pro- ■-. clamation of George V from the Market Cross in Edinburgh, a ceremony;' ~ most picturesque in setting aid cir* •' cumstance. Tho Lion King at Arms, and Heralds were -in attendance, and: '. tho crowd -was impressive :in its sizeg and the almost inky blackness of it* mourning. ' Mrs."Wilford did not go to London; for the King's funeral, much as she : " would havo liked to do so, as she was so far away at tho time, but coming through Loudon a week after sho found tho whole town' still plunged in , the deepest mourning, shops, .windows,' crowds all in black. It was the exe'ep- •' tion to see anyone in colour. The pictures of the funeral shown • hero so shortly after it to ok. place wero shown/ in London two or throe days after the- ■'.. funoral, when, of course, for the first , time, the'cijizens, had a complete vidw ■■ of the great pageant. '■ ■. . Mrs Wilford roturned by the now Orient liner. Orsova, and had an unpleasant passage, with, a-furious storm in theMediterranean and intense heat through, and after, tho Red Sea. Shu lost no time in entering on her official duties, as on the day she lauded she.had two receptions to attend. .