NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 956, 25 October 1910, Page 9

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. .London, September 15. Mr. Colin Gilra'y, one of tho New Zealand Rhodes scholars, shortly comes down from Oxford to read for law in tho Middlo Temple for a' couple of years. Dr. Andrew, a brilliant Otago student, who was in England for some time, and then returned to Now. Zealand for a year, is now doing geological work in Central America. ~"'.'-.-,. Mr. C. F. Sanders, of Auckland, who undertook the long sea. trip from Now Zealand on account of a general breakdown in health, is now in London, already . quite well again. Ho leaves for Scotland. this week, and later will visit tho Continent, probably returning to Auckland about tho end of the year. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Young, of South Canterbury, and their daughter, Miss Vida Young, who have been here several months, and have visited Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, besides touring' extensively in England, intend leaving for the Continent to-morrow. They will spend some timo there, and return to London to join an outward Suez steamer, en route for New Zealand. Mr. Percy J. Hewitt, of the Waikato, arrived in England a few days ago after an extensive trip of some months' duration in Canada and America. He now goes to Scotland and Ireland, intending to stay in Belfast, with his' sister, who. will, later, return to London with him. Before'embarking for Now Zealand at Marseilles, in about six weeks' time, Mr. Hewitt intends to see something of Paris. Miss Nora D'Argel, the gifted New.Zealand singer, who will be the principal prima donna of the autumn season at Lyons, is now staying in , Buckinghamshire, whero tho wonderful gowns she will wear as Lakme, and as Flora in "La Tosca" are being made by the beadworkers of that country. Mrs. K. Long, Miss D'Argel's mother, has lately bocomb a professional guide to the historical spots in London. Two members of the New Zealand .Mill-, tary Forces, Major J. G. Hughes, D.5.0., jmd Captain E. S. Matthews, have been, invited, as the guests of the Army Council, to attend the autumn army manoeuvres, at which Lieut.-Col. Rochford Snow, also of the New Zealand Forces, ; will bo. attached to the umpire staff. Lieuts. S.' A. Grant and J. H. White, who are undergoing training in a British regiment, will bo ah the English autumn.manoeuvres, and Lieuts. J. E. Barton and W. L. Eobinson, of New Zealand, at the Irish manoeuvres with.their regiments. ..,'■■-.'.- • Mr. F. H. Brown, of-Auckland,. who has been on a visit.'to .this country, leaves London this week for a brief visit to Canada. He will return to' England before going home. .-." ' ;/ '•■ ■ ■ , ,- ■'•>'•; .Professor A. W. Bickerton, of : Christchurch, of "Cosmic Impact" fame, has arrived in London, and has made his headquarters in Leinster Gardens. The professor has come over to this country to' develop his Impact theory of Cosmic Evolution on the advice of Lord Dudley, the Governor-General of. Australia, who made a very liberal contribution'. towards the cost of" . the journey.': Professor j Bickerton intends to stay somewhat over j a year, and, may take a. run across j America, through Canada, and back through tho States. Dr. Moncrieff Finlayson, well known as an Otago mining student, has been .studying for tho last, two years.at the' Royal School of Mines, South Kensington, after, having, won the.lßsl, scholarship in Now I Zealand. He recently gained tho distinction of Doctor, of Science arid;Gcology J at tho University .of . London, aiid left. some days ago to .take up an appointment in Burma, doing, geological..work' bit! the. Burmese oil fields.' Whilo' in' Eurdpo, Dr.' Finlayson ..has, put ,in: .three, months...in' Spain "in .'geological' tfbrk .at-.'tho': c6ppiei' mines of- Eio . Tirito,. and three months also at the mines in Durham,'.the Lake District, Lead' Hills (Scotland),, Isle of Man, and North Wales.. .Mrs. Edith Searlo Grossmaun gave an enjoyable:tea at her residence, 33 Regents Park Road,.on Friday afternoon, at which rSeyeraljrNew., Zealande'rs were present, ~aniong < whom were, Dr. t Jessie Scott • (of Christchurch), Miss Dougherty, matron of! Palmerstdn North : Hospital, Madame Hamelius, (nee 'Miss ■■ Dora. .Wilcox,' of Banks Peninsula),' Dr. Paul Hamelius, of the Univorsity: of Liege) Mrs. Wilcox Banks. (Peninsula), Mrs. '.May (Christ-' church and Auckland), Mrs... Henry Cooper (Waikato), Miss Davy and Miss Harriott Davy' (Wellington); The hostess received her guests in a gown of • tussore silk. } '' "■' '". ' ■: Miss May White/, of Auckland, after having spent' two years in the'.'' Malay' States; has arrived''in this country, and' at Hampstead.'" After r shopping, . sightseeing,; and visiting■liefe, s Mi&'White--goes 'to, 'Paris;-'.later'-, intending','-'.? if -'the"'-political'situation'in-the East : - r :is' r sufn-; travel'as far as Athens,' Constantinople ' and <' Tiflis,•".-' in the Caucasus,' returning to "New Zealand-to-wards the end of next year. '. It is stated that Captain Brice Wilson, late of the sth Lancers, has .applied.'for a'.position:in the. New: Zealand DefenceForce,, but finds his chances prejudiced' by the present, position of '.his ~'case, which was discussed' in. the House of Commons recently. : Ho isj. returning to. London, it is understood, to press for further inquiries into the matter. ';.,•■ ...._■-• ■ Mt. Herbert Alington,-late of Christchurch, is desirous of initiating tho growing of New Zealand flax in Ireland for commercial purposes, and: is firmly convinced of "the suitability ■<■ of the- boglands, of Ireland for that purpose. There are many places, especially in tho West, where the plant already, thrives luxuriantly, and : Mr. Alington is appealing, in the Irish; papers, to the owners of .plants to save and sow all the seed they can this autumn, and make experiments. A. four-year-old plantations he contends, ought to yield green leaf woi-th at least .£4O per. acre, and could be cut, ■ afterwards, every second year, with as good, and -probably, better, results, while the cost of maintenance would be practically nil: ■•■..'-.' '■'-. "■: . Lord Plunket (late Governor of the Dominion) paid a visit to the New Zealand Pavilion, at the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition, on Friday last, and ■expressed himself as "very pleased, with New Zealand's excellent exhibit." : i Two beautiful" paintings of the "Wanganui, River" and tho "Sutherland Falls" (by Mr.- C. H. :Howarth) have been kindly lent by Mr. Louis Cohen, of Palmerston North, to the New Zealand Pavilion at the .Anglo-Japanese Exhibition. ■:', ~ '■■.■■ Mr. Leslie Hughes, secretary to the Garden Club at the-White City (AngloJapantse Exhibition), who has resigned his position to take up the position of manager of the Lyceum Theatre, Lon-' don, was presentee! with a purse of'sovereigns by the'staff and. exhibitors of the >Vhite City on Saturday last. Mr. Hughes I was a most popular official, and his many New Zealand friends gladly subscribed te tho testimonial. ' .