ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1332, 9 January 1912, Page 9

ON TOUR AT HOME.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, November 30. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Bunny (Masterton) havo recently returned to London from a visit to the Continent. They leave for New Zealand on December (i. The Earl and Countess of Hardwickc (formerly Miss Nellie Russell, of Auckland) have taken 13, Queonsbury Place, for a term of years, and are now in residence there. A speech on "Our Colonies" was delivered by Lady Stout, of New Zealand, at the annual dinner 01 the British Women's Patriotic League, which was held last Thursday at tho Hotel Cecil. At the ordinary meeting of the Council of the Royal College of Surveyors, held last week, Mr. li. C. liege, Mr. P. S. Foster, and Mr. K N. Liversey, all of Zealand University, wero admitted members. Miss Audrey Richardson, tho talented young Dunodin violinist, assisted, on Friday evening, at a concert held in the Assembly Rooms at Surbiton, in connec,tion with the Ham and Petersham Rifle Club, at which Madame Albaui both sang and presented tho prizes. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Martin and children, and Miss Allison, of Auckland, return to New Zealand by the Mantua tomorrow, alter a very extensive motor lour of Scotland, the English Lake District, and Wales. They undertook a further motor tour through the English Riviera, and here also spent some time with friends in Derbyshire. "The Times," last week, published the gist of letters received from Mr." Louis i\ Christie and Mrs. E. V. Howell, of Christchurch, protesting against, and traversing the statements made by its New Zealand correspondent of a meeting held in Christchurch to denounce the adoption of compulsory military training. They slate that the meeting was not summoned by the Socialist party, but by the Natiu'nal Peace Council of New Zealand. Mrs. H. Feldwiek, of Invercargill, accompanied by the Misses Edith, Mabelle, and Cora I'eldwick, sailed on .Friday by the Malwa for Egypt, where, after spending some time in Cairo, they travel up the Nile to Assuan (the first cataract), breaking the journey en route to stay for somo days at Luxor. Returning to Port Said on December 13, they joiu the s.s. Mantua, travelling by her to Auckland, where they arrive on January 17, 1912. The Maori troupo who have lately been appearing at the White City Coronation Exhibition, left Liverpool on" Wednesday. Messrs. T. W. Arthur and T. Baxeudale, and a representative from the High Commissioner's office, saw the Maoris off. Moggie Papakura and the chief Mita Taupopoki, each presented Mr. Arthur with a signed photograph in recognition of his kindness to them whilst in England. Twenty of the troupe have stayed behind, Having secured engagements at the Coliseum. Mr. Claude L. Boak, son of Mr. .T. J. Bonk, of Auckland, has been awarded the diploma in electrical engineering, and ndinitfod an Associate of the Glasgow Technical Institute. Since Mr. Boak left New' Zealand, some six years ago, to study electrical engineering in this country, he has done a course of marine engineering on , the Clyde, later going lo Stafford lo gain experience 'in-the,mariiuncturng side. Ho then held, for a couple of years, : a position in the. Electrical Department, of the L.C'.C. Tramways, and is now assistant to tho chief of the Technical Department in a London firm of electrical engineers. Mrs. Arthur..Rawsan, late or ■Wellington, who recently organised,.and is president of, tho Imperial Chess Club, of. 117 Curzon .Street, reports that tho membership of tho club is increasing steadily every weok. A few days ago Mrs. Rawson invited :Senor-Capablanca, the young Cuban genius, to givo a display or,|''simultaneous chess (twenty-six boards), at the Curzon Hotel—an occasion greeted with the greatest enthusinsm by players. The president was supported by Mr. Henhiker Heaton, Miss Cotton (secretary of tho Ladies' London Chess Club), and several other well-known enthusiasts, and the evening was a success. There has been not a little trouble in the ranks of the Maori troupo over here, which,.it was originally intended, should stay for-some eight months only". Twentyone sailed, instead of tho whole party, lost Wednesday, but seven-girls and thirteen men remained behind. •. ' .'