NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1134, 23 May 1911, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PEESONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, April 13. The Earl of Onslow, who has been ill, continues to make progress towards recovery. Mr. Lan MacDougall, Grenadier Guards, left last week for New Zealand to take up his appointment as aide-de-camp to tho Governor, Lord Islington. Mr. C. C. lies, of Dunedin, has just obtained the diploma of tropical -medicine at Liverpool University. Mr. lies graduated M.IJ., Ch.B. of Edinburgh University in llccember, 1910.

Among those medical students who have passed their third professional examination at Edinburgh University, according to the results announced last week, were the following New Zenlanders:—Sydney A. Smith (ivitli distinction), Sidney H. Arthur, Robert G. Begg, M.A., B.Sc., Gilbert V. Bogle, 8.A., Thomas H. Horrax, Peter M'Gowan, G. C. Eamsay, and W. E. Stewart. Andrew F. Sinclair lias passed the second professional examination.

The Eev. F. W. Walker, F.E.A.S., of Auckland, and Mrs. Walker, who arrived by the Bunic in March, are now settled for six months at Stony Stratford, in Buckinghamshire, the vicar of Stony Stratford and Mr. AValker having_ temporarily exchanged parishes. Mr. Walker visited, en route to England, the astronomical observatories at Sydney, Melbourne, and Durban, and, while here, hopes to visit many of the cathedrals and astronomical observatories of England. Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and parts of tho Continent. Ho will (irobabl.v give somo lectures on the. Dominion before returning to New Zealand.

New Zealanders shortly expected in England for the Coronation includo Dr. F. C. Batchelor (Dunedin), Mr. J. L. Salmond (Dunedin), Mr. William Dawson and Miss Kuby Dawson (Dunedin). Miss Cliatfield (Wellington), Misses Measures (Wcllinzton), Lieut, and Mrs. Ivon Standish (Wellington), Dr. and Mrs. Walker and family (Wellington), Dr. and Mrs. Eonaldson, Mr. Arthur Palmer (Auckland), Miss Williams (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. A. Donald and Messrs. A. W. and N. Donald (Auckland), Mrs. Wigmore (Auckland), Mr. W. L, Eothbury (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. A. Kidd (Epsom).

Mr. W. L. Wyllie, E.A., marine painter, has completed the picture of 11.M.5. New Zealand, the Dreadnought which the Dominion is presenting to the Home Government, and which is now building on the Clyde. In the background of tho canvas, which measures nine feet by six feet, the artist has painted Nelson's old flagship, Victory, and several modern types of warships, and the contrast between the old three-decker of Nelson's day and , the ironclad of 1911 is striking.

Very favourable indeed lias been the reception accorded by the London critics to Mr. Frank Hutchens, the young New Zealand pianist, who gave his first recital last Friday week at the Bechstein Hall. Mr. Hutchens has studied for some years with marked success at the Koyal Academy of Music, and Friday's concert served to demonstrate his equipment for a professional career. "The Times" savs his playing of Beethoven's Sonata in 'C Minor, Op. 111, and Cesar France's "Prelude, Choral et Fugue," showed careful and earnest musicianship, and the "Standard" finishes an encouraging criticism by saying that "there is both heart and head in .Mr. Hutchens' playing." The "Daily Telegraph" also give' generous space to a review in which its critic reinarks that Mr. Hutchens's performance was undisSgured by any of the misplaced sentimentalism which appears in the work of so many young pianists" showing, moreover, "a high senso 'of beauty."