NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 908, 30 August 1910, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, August 21. Lady Stout is organising a New Zealand contingent for the' suffrage demonstration iu Hyde Park on Saturday. Captain'lt. Todd.-of Napici , , the Tyser Company's marine superintendent in New Zealand, arrived in London by the Athonic, and expects to be here about six weeks on business for the company. Mr. and. Mrs. Thos. Empson, of Auckland, arrived in London by the Athenic, and expect to bo away' from the Dominion about seven months. They will return via tho. Cape, probably breaking their journey there. ,' Mrs. .T. J. Walker, of Christchurch, is .visiting this country, and has spout the last month in Scotland. She is now staying at Sedburgh, Yorks, and intends to see something of London before returning to the Dominion. ' Mr. and , Mrs. Duncan Mliae, of Middlemarch, Otago, arrived in England by the Turakina, and are now visiting friends in Scotland. They intend to return to the Dominion in about four months' time, via Capo Horn and Tasmania. ■ • Mrs. W. H. Shaw, of Napier and Christchurch, is in England for six months with her son and daughters. They are at present staying in West Kensington, but. after paying several visits they intend to settle probably, in the south of Devonport. - Miss Jessie M.Pipken, of Christchurch,' who left the Dominion early in Aprilr and> travelled thence to England by way of Canada, in which country she spent May and June, arrived in London this month, and is now making a tour of the Midlands. "Miss Picken i intends to visit Scotland and the . Continent before returning to New Zealand in November. Mr. and Mrs. S. Hctherington, of the Thames, are on a visifto London, having travelled ;via Suva, and Canada. They spent the last weekend in Dublin, whence they proceed .to Belfast and Scotland, afterwards going to Switzerland for ten days'. They propose to winter in London, or on the South Coast. . Two New Zcalanders'. the first stage of the King's Prize at Bisley on Wednesday. The highest 'score was 104 out of a possible. 105,' a Scotchman, Captain D. Campbell, winning the bronze medal. Of tho two New Zealanders, Mr. AV. N. Moresfield scored ()8, along with , 83 other competitors, and Private G. A. Eyles scored 97; as did 70 other competitors. ■'•.'. 'Surgeon-General and Mrs. A.. Sherman,' of Martcni, travelled, by the Canadian and Australian route on the Makiira, spent a month in the United States and Canada, and arrived in London. early in June, since when they Lave visited friends in various parts of England.. They left yesterday for' the. Continent, and on their return visit Scotland before returning home at tho end of August. . Mr. and Mrs. Jansen, of Wellington, have been visiting 'Mr. Jansen's birthplace in Denmark, which he had not seen for 30 'years. They left by the Otway at Naples, and tourned in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, besides visiting Denmark . before coming thence, to London via Brussels and Paris thre.; weeks ago. Their next visit.will be to Scotland, Ireland, and then New York. They sail by the Marama from '■ Vancouver early in October.; ■, ■-• : . > ... ..--. ■ Miss Eri Thomson, Madanfe Molba's New' Zealand protege from Stewart Island, has come over, to England to rejoin her famous instructress.' . ■ , . Mr. Silas Williams, engineer to -the Lyttelton (N.Z.) Harbour Board, has been in, Eiigland calling for tenders for a suction dredger for Port Lyttelton. The tenders are now out, and Mr." Williams will return to. New Zealand in-August.