NEW ZEALANDERS'ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1010, 28 December 1910, Page 9

NEW ZEALANDERS'ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES.PEOM LONDON. I •'. | , $w?';f.,tiji London, Novemberfi7. Dn C. F. Morkane, . from the West Coast, is at present .at the London <Hos-, pital. " . Messrs; Algernon M'Lean and Francis 13. Nelson, of New Zealand, havo joined tho Royal Colonial Institute. . The High Commissioner for New Zealand has joined the committee of tho .proposed 1915 Imperial Exhibition, and has promised to give every assistance in his power to the project. .• Miss Isitt, of Wellington, is in London, staying nt Woburn Place, and hopes shortly to settle down to serious writing. Miss Isitt is to be Lady Stout's guest, at the annual dinner, of the United Colonial Circle, at the Lyceum Club, on November "21. ' ~ "'■'" '~ ;.-The.-Jfisses"Ej'and A. Kins, daughters of Mr; H. S u W.. King, of the Arahiwi Sawmilling Company, are now on a visit to the Old Country, and intend staying for abont two years. . They travelled by the Vancouver route, stopping at several places in Canada, and crossing from Quebec to Liverpool by tho Empress • of 'Ireland. ..... 'Colonel and Mrs. Snow;and Miss Lilian Snow, of Curistchurch, have, been visiting Colonel Snow's brother-in-law, Mr. A. St. G. Hatnerstey (M.P. for, Wood-stock),-at his house sit Wooderiton. Mrs. and Miss Snow .are now at Rainsgate. Colonel Snow and his three remaining daughters join them at Dover, and all proceed to the Italian Riviera for tho frinter. Lady Stout spoke on women's suffrage in St.; James's Theatre, London, last week, at a demonstration organised by the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association. Sho enumerated the Acts, passed l in 'New Zealand during the seventeen years women , have been privileged to Vole,'and said the results of the suffrage had not. only benefited women and children, but' had also ■ been good for men. Passengers by, the lonic, which left for New Zealand last Friday, included Mr. ami Mrs. D'Abaza, Mr. G. W. B.' Kinnear, .Mr. and Mrs. A. D. and the Misses Omerod (2), Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Ronaldson, Mr. F. and Master Van 'Baden, the Rev. It. J. Hall, M.A., Mrs. Hall and children, Messrs.' G. W. and ■S. A. Estaugh, the Rev. L. J. •' Maokay,' and the Rev. C. L. Perry. Mr., J. W. Joynt, into Registrar of the University of New Zealand, who arrived recently by tho Orient steamer Orvieto, to take over the agency of. the University of New Zealand in London, has already entered on the duties of h'is office. Ho lias, also, bean much occupied since his arrival in selecting and seeing to the dispatch of bbok3 from the library of his predecessor, for Victoria College,. Wellington, to which institution a considerable portion of his library was bequeathed by Mr. Eve. The following New Zealanders called on the High Commissioner during the week: —Mr. H. A. Armstrong (Wellington), Mr. Walter S. Bull (Christehurch), Miss Effio Young (Wellington), Mr. J. A. Burnett (Wangnnui), Mr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Beeson (Auckland), Miss H. Robson (New Plymouth), Dr. Rupert Sutton (Masterton), Dr. Murray K. Litchfield (Wellington), Mr. D.L. S. Campbell, Miss F. B. AVilliams, and Miss Dulcio Williams (Napier), Mr. Rankin Brown (Wellington), Miss May Davidson, Dr. J. Collins (Invcrcargili), and Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Munro (Wellington). .