NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1017, 5 January 1911, Page 9

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL- NOTES FROM .LONDON. London, November 24. Mr. David E." Hutton, of Dtiiicdin, Into assistant of the Dunedin School of Arts, has been elected a member of the North British Academy, -mid is believed to be the first New Zealand so -honoured: Captain Lascelles, of the 3hl Dragoon Guards, iwhofo term of engagement with tli» New Zealand Defence Department has expired, was a passenger by the Athenic, which arrived in England last week. Mr. J. A. Burnett, of Wanganui, who arrived last month by the Omrtih, and-is spending the winter in London, jiropofts to viSit the Continent in the spring, re-, turning 10. London for the Coronation. Lord Ranfurly, ex-Governor of New Zealand, has purchased the lease, of Mr. Richard and Lady Constance Combe's' house in Lennox. Gardens, and. with Lady Rnnfurlv, and Lady Eileen Kiicx, takes up residence there almost immediately. . Miss Effio Young, 1 of . Wellington, wljo arrived in England late last month, expects to remain until after, the Coronation, chiefly to enlarge her journalistic experience. Two New.) Zo'alandets wero among .the successful coiididatcs at tho first professional examination iu anatomy and. physiology, held this month, for the diploma of Fellow, of . tho Royal College of Surgefms of England. These were -A. C. Pilmer, L.R.C.P., M.H.C.S., of London Hospital, the well-known . Rugby threequarter, and C. G. Aickiii, M.8., C1i.8., of Otago University and Middlesex Hospitat. ■■ Mrs., Henry Feldwick, and the Misses Edith, Mabel, and Cora Feldwick, oflnvercargill, were in London from April, until August, when they, visited Holland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Russia, and on their return made an extensive tour in Ireland arid Scotland. On December 27 they visit France,' Italy, Switzerland, Austro-Hinigary, Germany, slid Belgium, returning to this country about May, then starting on. a criiise to Spain,, Portugal,, Morocco, the Canary. Islands,' Madeira, and tho Azores. Mr. A. Halligan, of New Zealand, shortly returns, after spending tho last three years in Scotland, where ho has been associated with the West Harriers. In ■Scotland Mr. Halligan has won most of tho principal events over the hurdles, being successful at Ayr, West of Scotland Harriers', and Edinburgh Harriers' sports ill his first year, winning three firsts, including tlie Scottish championship, in his second, and'-last year Tunning- second in' the International against Ireland, and winning first prize at tho Rangers' meeting. Ho was beaten last year in tho championship.. Mr. J. AV. Copithorne, of Wellington, who, with liis niece, Miss Wolf (late headmistress of Domestic Economy, at.the Wellington Technical School), had to. leave New Zealand last June 011 account of health, is now so well on the way to recovery that he leaves Marseilles, en .routs for Auckland, by tho P. and 0. Mantua on December 9. Miss Wolf is remaining behind, as her mother lives in this country. Before coming to England Mr. Copithorns and Miss Wolf visited tho States and Canada, spending sornn time in Boston with 'a sister of Mi'. Copithorne's. They spent two months in the South of Ireland 'with another sister. Before embarking at Marseilles, Mr. Copithorne and his niece visit France, Germany, Austria, and Italy. 1