ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1248, 3 October 1911, Page 9

ON TOUR AT HOME.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, August 24. Dr. Leonard H. Jl'Bride, of Otago, arrived here by the lonic, ami proposes to spend two or three years working at London hospitals. He has just joined the Middlesex Hospital staff, and will play football with tlio team this season. Mr. Jesse l'ipor, J.P., who for several years was Mayor of Nelson, has, with his wife, been staying at Hastings, his native town. Mr. and Mrs. Piper will spend some time in Yorkshire, Scotland, and Irela.nd, before returning to New Zealand in October. Owing to the strikes, numbers of intending emigrants are unable to get away to Australia and New Zealand, and an emigration agency in Glasgow was notified last week of the cance/.latio'.i of no less than four steamers duo to sail within tho last few days. Mr. Paul Enstham, of Auckland, is at present visiting friends and relatives in various parts of England, and, on September 1, leaves for Paris and Marseilles en route for Australia, by the Orsova. Ho intends to stay with relatives in Sydney .".nd Melbourne before returning to New Zealand in NoveinW. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Dears'.ey, _ of Auckland, arrived in London via Vancouver and the. United States.- They wcro New Zealand delegates at the World's Baptist Congress in America. They intend visiting the Continent and the principal cifies of Great Britain, and expect to be back in New Zealand before Christmas. Among the members recently elected to tho ExecutiTe Committee of the Imperial Mission (the organisation of tho Imperial Pioneers) was Mr. 11. D. Bell, of New Zealand. During the coining autumn and winter a series of discussions will be held. Mr. L. S. Amery, M.P., will open tho first on the question of an Imperial Council, and Mr. George Lloyd. M.P., will give nn address on, "Imperial Interests in tho Near East." It has been decided to invite the help of those willing to act ns corresponding secretaries in the United Kingdom and overseas. Mrs. Herbert Alington (Canterbury) leaves this week for Konbaix, France, where she will join her husband, \yho is in charge of the New Zealand pavilion at the Exhibition there. Mrs. Alingtou lias had an exceedingly busy time oil through tho recent season in connection with tho Pageant of Empire at the Crystal Palace. She was appointed hon. mistress of tho robes for New Zealand, and was instrumental in getting together the large number of New ZealandeTS of representative pastoral and political families who took part in it, and also, in conjunction with Lady Ku«ril and Miss Russell, arranged tho scene of tho Treaty of Waitangi. Mrs. Alington showed much artistic capacity in arranging the grouping of tho New Zealand performers on tlie stops of tho temple.! on the opening day. A feature of this scene, was the Maori contingent on cither sirie, nnd the photograph taken then and reproduced in tho "Illustrated London Noire" of May '20, was copied far and wide.

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