NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 983, 25 November 1910, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, October 13. Sir William Hall-Jones, the High Commissioner for New Zealand, returns to London from Vienna at the end of tlio week. ■ Sir R. D. Sinclair Lockliart, of Auckland, left. Liverpool on Friday for Quebec by the limpress of Britain. Ho is travelling via 'Canada to New Zealand. • Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Triggs, of Christchurch, left for Canada last week, en route for New Zealand. They join the Makura at Vancouver on - November -1. Mr. Mark Isaacs, o£ Auckland, intends returning' to New Zealand by (ho Orvieto, which leaves London on October 28. Air. J. Ferner, of Auckland, has been in .England since June, and is returning to New Zealand by the Otway to-morrow. Most of his time has bqen spent in )?ussex and Surrey, in, September in London. Mr. 6. F. J. Townsend, of Dunedin, has : passed tho matriculation, examination for tho Northampton Optical institute in' London, and now intends studying for the higher branches of tho ophthalmic profession. Mr. E. P. Armstrong, late of Opunake, is. back in. London,- after a two months' ramble through Scotland and Ireland, lie proposes to\ spend seven or eight weeks in seeing-London, besides paying a visit -to Birmingham, and will probably return to New Zealand via New York and Canada. Miss Alice Hoskruge. of Auckland, who intends to stay in. England for somp time, is at nresent staying at Brighton. From there she goes with friends for a motor .tour, ofthe. Lakes district,* and later, Cornwall, proceeding after that to tho Continent. Mr. John Withell, of Timaru, has arrived in. England- on private business, ami 'proposes remaining .about a month. He travelled via San ."Francisco, Chicago, and New York, spending a few days in each place, and landed at Southampton recently. Mr. ' Witliell is at present visiting- Plymouth; ' - Mr. Edwin A. Tanner, of Wellington, is -in- London, mainly oh a business trip. He has so. far visited numbers of manufacturing cities in England, . and hopes to find time, before lie returns to the Dominion, to see something of Paris and Berlin. He sails on November 11 by tho lonic. .Mrs. Blandford, L.R.A.M., lately attached to the Girls' College- at Wanganui, has been very unwell, and is shortly expected •in England for a visit. She comes via Suva and Vancouver, and after visiting England will probably stay with her sister in Las l'almas. , Dr.'and Mrs. C. H. Gregory, of Apiti, have arrived in England, after an absenco of sevon' years, : and have been in Devon, ■ Warwick, Sussex, and London. I)r. Gregory has now come to town for post-graduate, work, and to work for his Cambridge M.D. thesis. The probability is that they will settle in England in the early spring of 1911, and not return to New Zealand.. Mrs. Gregory will make Exmouth and Brighton her headquarters till. they have a home of their own. During the absence of Lord and Lady Islington in New Zealand, Hartham Park, their country home at Corsham, has been let to Lord and Lady Greville, who will take up. residence there in November on their return from New York. Lord and Lady Islington's town house, 3 Chesterfield Gardens, is let to Lord and Lady Willoughby .de Eresby. Miss' Florence N. L.. Jones, v.-ho lias been in England and Wales, for the past two years, sails for New Zealand by- the Otway-on October- 14. During part of the time. Miss Jones has been studying music under Dr. Rowland M. Winn, of Birmingham, and was successful in obtaining the L.R.A'.M. degree at the recent metropolitan examination.; - Mr.' and Mrs. George Sw ; ann, of Auckland, and late of Christchurch, who have recently spent* iolne 1 tiino in "Ehgland, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, crossed over the. Channel- last week, and intend now to spend a .month' visiting' France, . Germah}% !l g\y3tzprlaricl,.,aiidlßeli;ium, hoping t» spend Cliristmas in England. They may return to New Zealand in January. Mr. L. Clyde Chatfield, of .Auckland, arrived. in London recently, and intends to follow up his profession..in .this. city. Since Mr. Chatfield has been in .America, spending some time' in the testing department of the. 1 Western Electric Company at Hawthorne, and later in tho testing department. of the General. Electric Company at Schenectady, New York, then' taking charge of'the installation of electrical. machinery apparatus for the Brooklya.Edison Company, of New .York, Later on Mr. Chatfield.. intends to visit the Continent and then return to Now.. Zealand.. Miss M. Blanche Richmond, of Wanganui, has come to London to study the "Matthay" system of pianoforte technique at the Matthay Pianoforte School in Wimpole Street. Since her arrival on July C Miss Richmond has been visiting in various parts of England-and Wales, notably Bournemouth and Aberystwyth,where she was the guest of Mrs. Gore Martin, of Wanganui, an old New Zealand friend.. She proposes being in- England a year or more, and during her stay she hopes to visit Paris, and revisit Berlin, where-she spent some years beforo taking up residence in Wanganui. Captain and Mrs. Noel Adams are sailing on October 21 by the Otway for New Zealand, via Sydney. Miss Gordon will go out to New Zealand as matron in gharge of the femalo emigrants' by the Tainui to-morrow. Mr. Wm. O'Callaghan and -Mr. G. O'Callaghan . are staying with RearAdmiral O'Callaghan at Deerlcap, Rowlands Castle, Hants. Lord Plunlcet has been nominated to ■ the office of Grand Secretary of tho Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Ireland in'the placo of Lord Castletown/ resigned. On October 22 a large party of prominent New Zealandcrs will bo entertained by the New Zealand Shipping Company on board the. new steamer Rotorua. The Rotorua is due to sail for New Zealand. with a full passenger list on October 27. Mr. and Mrs. T. -P. Hoare, of Auckland, since their arrival in England, visited Cornwall and Devonshire, spending a month in. each county, and have toured on the Continent, visiting Paris and tho Brussels Exhibition. They have now returned. to London, and after visiting Mrs. Hoare's aunt. Lady Creasy, at Sunningdale, they leave London by the Otway tomorrow. Dh Gordon Macdonald, of Dunedin, and Mr. A. Elder, of Oaraarn, are back in London, after an extensive tour through the "United Kingdom. They.intend sailing for New Zealand to-morrow by the.Otway. Much of Dr. Maedonald's -time has been spent,in Glasgow and Edinburgh; .reneiving acquaintance with tho medical schools there, and ho revisited his native Caithness, and tho ■ Western Hebrides. Ho delivered two or three lectures on New Zealand while in Caithness. Mr. .Adam :M'Cracl;er, of Christchurch, the inventor of two new explosives of high power, known respectively as morfite and satanite, .is negotiating in London on behalf of syndicates in Melbourne and New Zealand for • the salo of these inventions to the British Government for naval and military purposes. Tho following signed the visitors' book at tho New Zealand Pavilion of tho Anglo-Japanese Exhibition' during tho past w-eekl. H. S.' Bree, Wanganui j Major E. H. M. Elliot,. Miss A. M. Knight, Auckland ;'R. Rose, Irwcill; Mrs. A. Russell'.'Christchurch; A. G. Gabites, Christchurch; E. Galkighan, Dunedin; S. Higman, Christchurch; C. J. M'Lean, Wanganui; D. C.. 11. Florence. Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. L. Maxwell, Auckland; Licut.-Colonel. Mrs. and Miss Snow, Miss E. ■ Isitt, ; J. H. Lloyd-Davies, Dunedin; and D. G. Pipe, Christchurch.