ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1326, 2 January 1912, Page 9

ON TOUR AT HOME.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, November 23. Mr. and Mrs. G. Bloomfield are in London at the St.Petersburg]! Hotel in North Audley. Street. ...-.-. _;S>'ir Jaiues and Lady Mills have left ileming's Hotel; Charges Street,, and. have gone to 1 Chesham Place, which they have taken for tho winter. Mr. John Graham, M.P. for .Nelson, and Mrs. and. Miss Graham havo booked passages for. London by the Otwav, leaving Sydney on February 28. -" Sir William Hall-Jones was'at the gathering when the King and Queen left London on their visit to India. ... Mr. and Mrs. De, Beer, of Duncdin, who recently returned to Loudon '■ after a .lengthy tour of tho Continent, are now about to go. to Egypt. They expect (obo from England for a couple of hionths pi" "more. •-..-. ■ ■:•■:•.-

Lady Katherine Somerset,. - who -is an • intimate friend of Lady Islington, left on a trip, to .New. .Zealand last week. She is a daughter of tho 10th Duke of St. Albans, ■and; daughter.-in-iaw .of Lord Henry Somerset, the well-known song-writer. ; Canon-Maud, who was one of the baud of-Anglican, missioners who visited New Zealand last year, aiid. who was offered the Bishopric of Auckland, but was unable to leave England, is to be consecrated Bishop'. ofv Kensington' in St; • Paul's Cathedral a few days after Christinas. ' Among, the speakers who assisted- tho Hon. Aubrey Herbert,' the '-Unionist candidate at the South Somerset Bv-election, frere .three New Zeahnders:—Messrs. F. Templer, W. Raymond, and J. Holmes. All gave their support to Mr. Herbert as members of the .imperial Mission. : Among the competitors at, the Gun •Club's pigeon shooting competitions a few days ago was Mr.- E; ■F. Stead, of New Zealand. ■ He was in fair form, sharing the pools in four handicaps. ■ ■ Miss Duleie Mitchell, of Christchurch, has entered the Koyal.-Acadeiiiy of Music, and proposes to. stay in-England for-the next three years, to, coiiipleto -heiv vocal studies.--During tho, Christinas vacation Miss Mitchell: intends- to : .visit-.various 'parts'of and later to "tour "in tiijotlaud. ■': Lady Stout presided- on Wednesday afternoon at a meeting heldatthe Caxton Hall, when Mrs.Rausome Willis read a paper on "The Girl Mothers of England." After this address Lady Stout dealt with the working of the scheme in New Zealand. • Among the 127 candidates who presented themselves at the Primary Examination for the Fellowship in Anatoinv and Physiology at the lt.C.S.'(Eug.) held recently was- Mr. . Ivam. Stuart Wilson, M.D., Ch.B., '•M.R.C;S.v L.R.CP., of NewZealand, -who graduated at New Zealand University, and is completing his studies at the London Hospital. Dr. Wilson was one of the fortunate'little band of 32 who were, approved by tho examiners.

Visitors to the Coliseum this week will be able to. spend half an hour with Captain Scott and his followers in the Antarctic, without sharing the explorers' discomforts, since the Coliseum authorities have secured from the Gaunost Co. the . right of the first presentation in England of a fascinating set of twenty kiiiematograph pictures—the first of a series, under the ' title ."With .Captain Scott to the South Pole," which will constitute a kinematcgraphic.-record; of the work of the British Antarctic Expedition from tbe time of its departure from New : Zealand last February. The pictures, which are remarkably good and interesting, have been taken by Mr. H. G. Porting, F.R.G.S., aboard the Terra Nova.