NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1130, 18 May 1911, Page 9

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, April fi. Mrs. and Miss Hoklsworth, of Wellington, have taken a flat in Maida Vale. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Sawers, of the Waikato, are at present in London. They will stay nntil August next, nnd hope to motor over the greater part of the' British Isles. The.Rev. R. S. Grey, nnd Mrs. Grey; of Wellington, have arrived in London, and are staying , with friends hero. They visited Palestine en route, and propose to visit America shortly. The Hon. Sir C. C. Bowen has arrived in England by the Tnrnkina. Ho is accompanied by Lady Bowen and Miss Bowen. Dr. Edward Clarke Cohen, M.D., late of Wellington, and now living at Tarpeena, Beaconsfield, in Buckinghamshire, was niai-riod on Wednesday week to Miss Helen Maud Simon, youngest daughter of tho late Julius Simon. Mr. W. ,T. Gcddis, of the Napier "Teleerc.ph," and his partner on the Auckland "Observer," Mr. W. Blomfield, left Rome last week for Florence. They had a most inteitsting lime iu IJome. Mis. J?. L. M'Larcn, of Masterton, accompanied by her eldest son nnd her two daughters, who arrived by the lonic, proposes, after three weeks here, to visit the Continent, returning to London for the Coronation. Later they will visit Scotland and Ireland. Mi. E. W. Christmas has a picture in the exhibition of (ho Royal Society of British Artists, now open in London. It is a N T ew Zealand landscape, "The Valley of thu Dart." Mr. H. D. Broadhead, of Christchurch, a son of Mr. Henry Broadband, latu secrctarj of the .'Canterbury Employers' Association, has been recommended lor an exhibition at Trinity College, Cambridge, awarded for classics. Mr.'jN. M. Bell, of. Canterbury College, Christchurch, has bean recommended for a prolongation of his exhibition at Trinity-College, Cambridge.alEo awarded for classics. litidj Pititiket has joined the Council of the Victoria Xeague. This society, established to bring the peoples of the United Kingdom and tho Dominions overseas inlo closer touch with eiich other, has now more than 1000 centres, from ivhich well over 80,000 British newspapers tiro dispatched in a year to individuals overseas. Miss A. Anderson Hushes, of J?ew Zealand, wns one of the speakers at a meeting held in Aberdeen a few nights ago, under -the joint auspices of the Scottish Permissive Bill and Temperance Association, and the local-branch of tho British Women's Temperance Association. Sho spoke of the organisation oi temvier.ince work in New Zealand, and tin; efforts made, particularly among the women, to awaken public opinion. Mrs. Arthur Uawson entertained Sir William and Lady Eussell at the Lndics' Imperial Club, 17 Dover Street, last Tuesday afternoon. Her guests included Lord unci L:idy Clauds Hamilton, the Counter of Denbigh, the Hon. Mrs. Maxwell Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pharazyn, Mr. de Colyar, K.C., and Mrs. George Eady Sir William and Lady Russell aro remaining in London for the season, having taken a furnished house in South Kensington. Miss Constance A. Barnicoat was quietly married in London last week to Mr Julian Grande, the "Timco"' Swiss correspondent. The ceremony was performed at the Presbyterian Church, Crown Court, Drury Lane. Miss Barnicoat is the only British woman ivho has undertaken a mountaineering expedition to the Caucasus, and she and her husband have togeLher climbed the gr.-at Shrcckhorn in the Bernese Obcrland—:i very difficult and dangerous ascent. Miss Barnicoat was the first woman to climb the Shreckhorn She is the youngest daughter of the late Hon. J. W. Barnicoat, M.L.C. The Dean of the London School of Clinical Medicine (Post-graduate) at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, is an \uck lander, Mr. C. C. Choyce, F.U.C.S. (Ens.), and a high compliment was paid to his work at the annual dinner of the school at Prince's Restaurant, on Friday week Sir William Bennett, (he eminent surgeon, replying to the toast of the school, said an enormous amount of good was being done by the London School of Clinical Medicine, largely in consequence of the indefatigable.labours of its dean, Mr. Choyce. Lord Charles Buresford, who proposed the toast, said that forty-seven of. his old comrades, tho uaval medical officers, had taken the post-graduate medical course at the school. Mr. T. W. Arthur, who bid out the Newtown Zoological Gardens in Wellington, is in London just now. Sinco leaving the Dominion ten months ago he has collected and conveyed a largo shipment of Australian and Neu- Zealand fauna to. N'ew York, and taken Alaskan bears from Kew York to Johannesburg nnd Durban, via London. He is now in London en' route for New Zealand and Australia,

where he will inako another collodion, of animals and birds for New York. Among thorn he has been oammi-MoiU'd to fret for the Xp«- York ZO3 fix kf.is fix kiwi?, six tu.itirn lizards, 501110 Ireo kangiroes, .Australitin mid monkey-faced wnlluhie;. and he Inpcs, thrnufth the co-operation of the New Zealand Government, io pet n citiplo of bis fea-lions from the islands to the foutli ol New Zealand. Captain Albleslan Moore. D.H.I I. Koyn! Dublin Fusiliers, who has I>prii for emplcyment with the New Zealand forces, entered tJin gallant "Dub.-." from the Militia in October, 189!), and immediately joined tlioin in Fouth Africa. He took part in tlw fijfltting for tlif relief of Ladysmith, was pre-eut at the various actions in the Transvaal and Oraiiße River Colony (mentioned in dispatcher for good service, D.5.0., Queen's modal with two clasps, and King's medal with two clasps). He alfo served with Iho West Africa Frontier Force from lfl(K to 1007. and shared in the h'ano-Pokoto Expedition (medal with clasp); fho Southern Nigerian operation?, 1003 (clasp); the Southern Xigerian operatioiis, l!)03-130t (mentioned in dispatches), (clasp), and a.?ain in 1904 (clasp); and iu the expedition to the hinterland of Beiule-Onischila (clasp). The friends of the late Mr. Donald MacDnnald, for many years manager of the Union Bank of "Australia. Ltd., at Aelson, Xcir Zealand, and widely kuDwn throughout the Dominion, will hear with regret of his sudden decease, on March 2.5, at his temporary residence in Pombridge Square, Bayswater. He had recently returned to London with his daughter, Miss Mac Donald, after spending a few months with his son, Dr. P. X. M. Mac Donald, at Sampford Poverill, Devon, and appeared to bo in good health, considering his age—7fi years. The interment took plnca on March 29 at Kensal Green Cemetery. Mr. Mac Donald is survived by two sons and three daughters. Mr. G. H. Buckeridge, of Christchurch, who has been studying the distributien of r<ew Zealand butter and cheese in this country, and giving public lectures on the dairying industry of the Dominion, brought his English tour to a close last week. He left on Saturday by tac Mauretania from Liverpool for * New }° v \ ay d proceeds them* to Canada. Mr. Buckcridge's final lecture was on Tuesday week at Barkim; Road, Ca'nniiig I own, where he addressed an audience of. nearly two thousand people In the course of his lecturing tour'he has given away ten thousand samples of Xew Zealand butter and cheese. Out of tlio many hundreds of letters and poslcirds sent to him by people who havo li-icl the samples, only two were non-approo'i nve. the rest joining in a chorus 'of praise.