NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 988, 1 December 1910, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON, _ , London, October 20. Dr. J. K. Jamieson, brother of Dr. J. S. Jamieson, of New Zealand, has been appointed professor of anatomy at tho University of Leeds. Mr. and Airs. Jas. Mur.ro, late of Dunedin, have arrived here from AVest Australia with the intention of making their .homo in England for some time. Captain D. C. Spencer-Smith,' staff officer to the new Commandant of the •Now Zealand Forcesy is to join the Ot«'ay at Marseilles en route for New Zealand. Mr. and Mrs. W. R.-Holmes, of Auckland, who have been spending the summer on a holiday trip to the Old Country, return by the JloTea, leaving Loudon to-morrow. . Mr. and Mrs. Fitzherbert, of FeildJUg, have left their house in tho Garden City at Hanipstoad, and hope to leave this week for a holiday trip to Switzerland, taking their little daugher with them. Mr. Francis Hutchens, the young New Zealand pianist, gained a "commended" in the recent competition at tho Royal Academy of Music for the Liszt Scholarship for pianoforte or composition. . '%• A. Munro, of Mangaweka; arrived in England a few days ago, after spending a month., in the South of France couple of weeks in Paris. He left again last Wednesday for a tour round Scotland. Colonel Heard and Captain J. T. Burnett-Stuart left London on l'riday by tho Otway bound for New Zealand, to take up staff arroointments in the defence .force of the Dominion. Mr. C. AVray Palliser, representing the High Commissioner, saw them off at St. Pancras. , Miss Evelyn Isitt, who lately came to England to take up journalistic work, is in Lincoln attending as a visitor the Conference ■. of tho National Union of Women-Workers. Miss Isitt; describes tho Conference as being of groat interest. Mr. Leslie D. Coombs, of Dunedin and Wellington, has just returned to London from a visit to "Coombe Change," Nailsea, Somerset, which was the home of his grandfather before the latter's migration to New Zealand about sixty years ago. . Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald F. H. Henderson, C.8., Commander of Coastguard and Reserve at Portsmouth, who was sent to Australia to report on Australian defence, is a brother of Mr. E. H. Henderson, of To Araroa, near Gisborne, New Zealand. ■ ' Lady Stout, who is one of the' speakers at the suffrage'meeting at Queen's Hall on Monday; is still busy'making speeches in various parts of the coun--1 ti')'in support of votes for women. On Friday last she addressed two meetings of tho .Lancashire Convention of., tho Womon's Christian Temperance Union. _Mt. S. N.'Ziman, one of' the New Zealand Rhodes Scholars, who passed 71st in the Indian Civil Service examinations this year, has been assigned to tho Bombay division of the Mr. Ziman was educated■• at tho Auckland Grammar-School, the New Zealand University, and Balliol College. . Mr. A. C. Robertson, of Dunedin, has received from the Hon. Sidney Greville a letter of thanks and acceptance oh behalf of Queen Alexandra for his poem on the death of King Edward and tho messago of sympathy sent ..by the poet and his wife.- Mr. Robertson wrote, the'poem as bard of the Gaelic Society of New Zealand.- ■■-.•.■

The relatives of Mr. Peter'M'Callum, of .Christohurch,' have received news that ho has gained a first-class certificate in practical and theoretical botany, and drawings in botany, histology, and PJMtical anatomy, also medals in practical and theoretical botany, first prize in drawings in botany,.and third medal in histology at. Edinburgh University. and Miss M. Bridge, of. Christchurch, who arrived in this country four months ago, have since been travelling j n Surrey, Monmouthshire, tt anvickshire, Worcester, and Lincolnshire, and now are in London. This week they go to Brighton to stay with Dr. Gnfien, brother of Mrs. Bridge, an old Christ's College boy, who has been ophthalmic surgeon to tho comity hospital,thcro for many years, and.to tho hospital at Worthing.. Mrs, Bridge and her daughter expect to be-on-, this side of the world for another year yet. The following, signed the visitors' book at tho New Zealand Pavilion "of the. Anglo-Japaneso Exhibition during the week:-H. C. Rutland, Timaru; A. M. Rutland, Timaru; Mr. and Mrs Elder, Masterton; Mr. and Mrs. J.' Hunter. Dunedin; Alex. Elder, Wakamii'; G. Macdonald, Dunedin; Mr. Mrs. H., and Miss Sprott,' Chertsev ;■ Airs, and Miss Dennison, Oamaril: M' B ** $■ aj'i M. Whitton, Oamnrn £. IV Malcolmson. Oamaru; H. H lirnvkman, Christohurch; E. W Meek' Wellington; L. Faithful. Dunedin ;. A.' I E Pitt Chnstohurcli: Miss P. Scales, Wellington; Miss D.. R. Snow,' Christ-' 1 church; Jas. : Foy, . Auckland; .H. I lieann, Onehunga.