NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1113, 28 April 1911, Page 8

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, March 23. Mr. and Mrs. Gcofirey Beaumont, of Auckland, arrived bv the Osterley on March 3. Mr. and Mrs. Waymouth, of Fendalton Christchurch, arrived by the lonic on Sunday week. The High Commissioner for New Zenland was among the guests of the King at dinner last Friday at Buckingham Palace. The Rev. H. C. Bell, one of the Anglican missioners who recently visited New Zealand, has returned to this country via America. Mr. and Mrs. Clut?am,of New Zealand, who have taken rooms with Mrs. Uavcnport, at 22 Prager Strassc, Berlin, are expected to 1)0 in London shortly. Captain Knox, A.S.C., who goes to New Zealand for throe y<ars to organise its Army Service Corps, will sail with his wife and two childroD by the Turakina on April 13. Mrs. Christie, daughter of Sir AVillimn and Lady Hall-Jones, left on Friday last with her two children, by tho Rotorua, on licr return to New Zealand. Mrs. Christie has been spending the past year on a visit to her parents in London. . Mr. E. B. Topp, of Auckland, arrived in London on a short pleasure trip on March 1, and left on Thursday for Canada, where he will probably stay for six months acquiring farming experience before sailing for New Zealand via Australia. The following were among the passengers for New Zealand by the New Zealand Steamship Company's Hotorua, which left London last Thursday:—Mr. and Mrs. H. Stratton Coles, Mr. R. Hazlt-' ton, M.P., Mrs. E. A. Christie and two children, Mr. W. A. Redmond, M.P., Dr. E. Boxet, Mr. V. Johnston*, Dr. J. H. Scott, Mr. S. Gillingham, and Mr. M. P. Parry. Lady Eileen Knox, daughter of Lord Kanfurly, ex-Governor of New Zealand, is to be one of the four train-bearers of the. Queen at the Coronation. Hitherto the train-bearers have always been pages, but Queen Mary has introduced an innovation by selecting four, daughters of peers. Lady Mary Dawson, Lady Dorothy Browne, and Lady- Eileen Butler are the other three train-bearers. Mr. Michael Myers, the Crown Prosecutor, of Wellington,' and Mrs. Myers, and Mr. Alto Myers, arrived by tho lonic. Mr. M. Myers is on a holiday trip, and Mr. Alec Myers, who comes oil business, intends touring on the Continent before returning to New Zealand at tho end of flu.- ytar. Two New Zealanders, both medical students at the London Hospital, were successful in boxing contests in connection with the United Hospitals' boxing, fencing, and gymnastic competitions on Saturday week. P. L. Foote defeated W. ft. Reynell, of Guy's, in the heavy-weight boxing, and A. C. Palmer defeated J. F. Taylor, of St. Thomas's, in tho middleweights. London Hospital easily won the challenge cup for the best aggregate. On Saturday Mr. W. Archer Redmond, M.P., the son of the "Nationalist Leader," Mr. E. Hazleton, M.P., member for North Galway, and Mr. O'Donovan, a Belfast solicitor, sailed from Plymouth by the liotorua for their lecturing tour through Australia, New Zealand, and North America, which is to occupy the best , part of a year. Mr. Henry Broadhead, of Christchurch, late secretary of the Canterbury Employ-

<u's' Association, arrived here by (lie lonic on Sunday, accompanied by Mrs. Brondhoad nnd lamiJy. One of their t>vo older sons is point; to Trinity College, Cambridge, while the other will enter a school of art in London. Mr. and Mrs. Broadhead propose to remain here for some years at least, making London their headquarters. At present they are in lodgings near Rn«ell Squaro, but they mean to t:iko a house as soon as siblc. Turning aside for Hie while from "Vote tor Women," and the temperance cause. Lady.Stout; lectured at (lie Lyceum Clut on Tuesday week on the history of Now Zealand. The lecture was illustrated with limelight views. "Land of Faith, Hope, and Charily" is Lady Stout's description of New Zealand. Guy's Hospital Rugby football team, ip which L. B. Stringer, of Christchurch, figured as irsual on the three-quartor lino, won the Hospital Cup last Thursday by defeating London Hospital by eight points to nil. The London team, in which A. C. Palmer and A. B. Lindsay, of New Zealand, played three-quarter and half-back respectively, do not show such good combination as their opponents. Lindsay was not so quick and accurate as usual in getting (he ball away, and mistakes in tho centre of the three-quarter line led to the starving of Palmer on the wing. Nor did the latter turn "his few chances to' best account.