NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 920, 13 September 1910, Page 9

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, August 1. Mr. and Mrs. Bain Hogg and their family, well-known . farmers in the Thames district, havo decided to settle in Mexico. Mr.' ami Mrs. John Mitchell, of Auckland, were passengers oil the Corinthio for this country,; where'- thny intend to stay for some. montha. .Dr. A., G. i'ftxtou, formerly surgeon on the Shuw Savill's Tainui, has left the service of the company, and intends to practise in Auckland. Lady Stout has been spending a few days ut Brighton, unit leaves now for a journey of some weeks to Scotland, and probably to Ireland: ', Mrs. A.-C.-Dormer and her sons, of Ponsonby, are shortly coming over to France and England before joining Mr. Dormer, who has bought a rubber plantation in the Dutch Colony, in Java. Mr. Thomas Sedgwick, who recently visited' New Zealand to lay hia scheme for tin emigration of London boys beforo the Dominion authorities, has returned full of enthusiasm for New Zealand and its possibilities. Among the new members admitted this week to the Royal College of Surgeons are the following New Zealanders:—S. E. V. -Brown (London Hospital), A.'N. Houghton (London Hospital), A. B. Lindsay (London Hospital). Mr. A. E. Baddiley, of Ponsonby, Auckland, who Ims spent tile past seven or eight .years'in South Africa, has arrived in London,, and., expects to return to Auckland some time in October, probably travelling via Canada.'

Miss Lilian Pugh, of Christchurct,' has been- paying visits to the provinces, and is now lii Loudon for a brief stay prior to going to Paris. From there she will proceed to i New York, returning to New Zealand via Vancouver. - - ' ■ .

Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Druiri, of Auckland, arrived by the Osterley, and.are now visitiiig Sheffield. They propose remaining till. November next, and visiting friends and relatives in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, -Scotland,' and .elsewhere. ,

Colonel R. Snow, of Christchurc'h, who: is making -; holiday m Englami witn his wife and daughter, recently retu/ned to. London, after a visit to Dorsetshire,' where he was the guest of his cousin, Colonel Salkeld (brother of the "Salkeld of Delhi"), at Blandford.

: Miss E. Kelsey, of Waihi, Auckland, is revisiting the Old Country, after an absence of 21) years, and proposes to spend about four months in England. She is a native of Hull, and: will'spend most, of her time in Lincolnshire , and iorkshire, leaving for Auckland' by the Mongolia. early ,in October.. Mr. L. Willae and Miss Beatrice "Wilkie, of. Wanganni, who left London on Thursday- for Scotland, havo. suffered, a sad bereavement sinco their arrival in the death of Mrs. AVilkie, who died a fortnight ago, and .was buried; a few days, later at -Kensal; Green .Cemetery. Captain and Mrs. John Falconer, late Inspector- of- Submarine Mining in New Zealand, who arrived in-April last,.spent some time :in Franco and Switzerland, and then returned to England. They are. how'"touring' in Scotland and Ireland. They will return to London early in August, where they. will stay at 15 Montague Street;. Russell .Square, for about six weeks, leaving for New Zealand'in the Orsova oil September , IG. . V Messrs. Win. Gorrie, jiuv., and Harry Gorrie, of Auckland, arrived in London last week by tho Mahva. Mr. Harry Gorrie is on his way back to Bombay, where ho lias been stationed, for.;the past few years. His toother, who is having a, holiday, trip, expects to spend about three months in the Old Country.:

, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Wrigley, of "the Bnj of' Plenty, have come to .England"on'.acV count of Mr. . Wrigley V.health,. which, happily, is now quite restored. 'They propose to winter in the South of. England,- and afterwards go to I'rance and Switzerland, and they hope to remain in England until after the Coronation next year..' ■ \ ''',-.- . .--.':.-'. . : '--.■■'. •.'' Mr. P. A. Vaile, of Auckland, for whose interesting disquisitions in. sport there now appears to bo'.a wide 'market-in London, has an article on "Tho.Soul of Ciolf" in the August numbor of,, the •'.'forffiiglitiy:Vßeyio'\v;" iri;.whicK■ -golfers may ; he discomfited-to .read : that .thegame -"does not require-, much intelligence." ■

, Mr. Roderick Mackenzie, of Dunedin, with Mrs. Mackenzie and their daughter, is at'present in Glasgow. They landed at Naples, and 'came overland through Italy, Switzerland, and France, and have had .an extensive .trip through Scotland and Ireland. .They-;intend. , staying,-'.'in England nritil. tlio New Year, returning to jjfew Zealand via America arid Canada. The. Chappell-Pianoforte Prize, which, as stated Jast'.week,. has been won by. Mr. i'rank Hutehens, of New Zealand, is presented annually by.' Messrs. Chappell and Co. for excellence in . 'pianoforte playing,; as displayed at the annual-ex-amination of ' the Royal Academy of Music. Another Now Zealand student, Mr.' Arthur Alexander, of Dunedin, has won a Royal Academy Club prize of five guineas for proficiency in playing at sight. Mr. Chas. A. Jeffreys, an "old boy" of Nelson- College,.and. a member' of the third and tenth Now Zealand Contingents in, the. Boer War, came-over to-England recently to >take part in. the Bisley rifle meeting. At..the eloso'.'.-of the war.-Mr. Jeffreys ■.remained in, the .Transvaal, and after, a .further stay'of » few weeks in lijrigland intends to,return' there, though he hopes befpro Jong' to go bank to New Zealand.. ■' .-. ■ \ ■:■■.:'■..

.Mrs. V. devla Cour Cornwall, of New Plymouth,'who' arrived in England last March;- has 'been-,staying: at. Aldershot with her daughter and son-in-law, Colonel R-. H. Davies, Inspector-General of the New Zealand Jb'orces; She- intends going to Ireland, Scotland, and Paris befor© returning to New Zealand in -October, by the'Kaipara., ,

: Mr. Henry Weston Eve, late headmaster ;of University College School, and representative in .London, of. the-Now Zealand University, dieu last/week at his ;residunce' in ' Gordon Square. Ho was well known as a .generous, hospitable ,man, and a brilliant ■ scholar, Air. Eve's wife, who survives him, Was a sistiir-in-liiw bt George- Eliot

Mrs. E. H..Palmer, and; her, niece, Miss Irene Maclean, of Wahganu'.; hava lately visited tho Isle of Wight, lirockonhurstj and Bournemouth, and are now in London. : Miss Maclean, who intends to study languages, goes in a few weeks to France and Germuny, and it is probable that Mrs. Palmer will accompany hoi- to the latter country.

Mr. William Henry, founder and chiei secretary of tho Koyal Life Saving Society, leaves for' New Zealand shortly, and proposes to visit Auckland, Masterton, Wanganui, Wellington, Christcliurch, and Du'nedin.' While in the Dominion, Mr. Ilcni-y will bo' prepared to take examinations- and give lectures and practical demonstrations on behali of his society. ..-..',

Mr. W. J. Shearman, of Christchurch, is-spending a month in London, and intends staving in this country about three months. 'He has .lately.-been the guest, at Bath, of his uncle,- Mr; Pattman.. Into of Ashburton (New Zealand)., After leaving London Mr. Shearman will visit Paris, and ho hna booked for tho Dominion by tho Macedonia, leaving on September 9. :,.'■.-■

Mr. George Livingstone, a well-known successful cattle-breeder, of North Otago, with Mrs. Livingstone, is spending a holiday in the Old Country. After visitiiv; Tyrone, Ireland, his birthplace, which hohad not seen for 3-i years, he went on to Scotland, and intends coining t'o London shortlv, where he will stay until his return by the Orsova, in September. Mr. Livingstone has been inspecting -some of tho best stud horses in HeotlunU, unit may possible take out a stallion and some mares, as well ,as some good dairy, cattle. Quito a number of New Zoalanders have in their time carried off that ' bme riband" of the .Edinburgh medical course, the littles Scholarship, and this year tlie honour has fallen once more (o a New Zealander, Mr. Francis Gordon Bell, M.8., Ch.B. The degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and' Bachelor of Surgery were conferred on. the following' New Zealauders -—Francis Gordon Bell (with first-class honours), John Fulconer Brown (firstclass honours), John Drummond (secondclass honours), Edward Burton Gunson, Lionel Arthur Lewis, Malcolm M'Lean Morrison, William Douglas Reid, Claude Bartley Tudehope (second-class honours). One of these New Zealanders, Mr. John Drummond, won the Allan Fellowship in Clinical iledicine and Clinical Surgery.