ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1344, 23 January 1912, Page 8

ON TOUR AT HOME.

♦ LONDON PERSONALS. London, Ucccmlier 11. Mi'. -aih( Mrs. Orl.ell. of Canterbury, return lo New Zi'iilaiid by tlio Orsova on December 22. Mi'. Alfred Cooper, son of Mr. Charles Cooper, nf Mourn Eden, Auckland, who arrived in London by the Jiotonm is at pre-ent •■laying in Dorking. Mr. .1. S. Tcuuant, Wellington, leaves on his return to New Zealand next week. During his visit hi; has been to .Scotland ami the Continent. Mrs. liendle, wife of Dr. liendle, who reeently purchased Dr. Handcock's praetiee in Ashburton, expects to leave London with lif-r two sons, by ,thc liennieia 111 February next. Mr. Charles Williams, ail English sportsman, who lia.il same good deerstalking in New Zealand last year, and recently returned to England, loaves again lor the .Dominion iu time for the opening °f 'lie deerstalking season there in April. the New Zealand exhibit at the Festival of Empire has now been dismantled, and the photographs, painting's, and sjiortlnS trophies that erstwhile decorated it are displayed at the olhces of the High Commissioner in Victoria. Street. Jlr. and Mrs. C'. 11. Elliott, late of Hastings, have taken a house in South Devon for the winter, and will there have ?, Ji.i's them Mrs. Elliott's sisters, the Misses Boecroft, late of Hawke's Bay, and now of Norfolk. Later on Mr. Elliott i returns to Buenos Ajtos. Mrs. Whitcombe, of Christchurch, and her son left London a few days ago for ■New Zealand, via America. "Mr. Whit-' combo, who is at present managing the ' I ~1 , 1 '"/inch °f his linn's (Whitcombe an Ltd.) business, expects to remain inl.ondon till October next. Two of Mr. \\ hitcoinbe's daugliters are staving with him here. Mr. George loogood, of Wellington, ar- ; Ur .here a. icw days ago after, visiting Winnipeg, Chicago, Niagara Falls, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, and Now York. Mr. ioogcod is inEngland on legal business, remain for two or three months, visiting Scotland, Ireland, France, Gerand Switzerland before sailing for /'Palaud again in four months' time. Jtiss E. Grady, nf Wellington, who . to England with Mrs. Ilolgate, I ttiftO of \\ elJington, Juts now boon in this country for some months. During this ; autumn they have visited Ireland and : various parts of England. T'boy start today for Home, whore they intend to spend Chiistmns, visiting Florence and Switzerspi'iii" 10 rct ' urning to Knffla-nd in the Mj. Charles Lucas, son of tho owner ot \\ arnimni Court, in Sussex, who is well known to i\eiv Zealand sportsmen, leaves very shortly tor a live months' visit to . t!K Zealand, whero he and a friend go m starch ot fishing, shooting, and sighti seeing. -Hi'. Lucius, senior, who was'lhe . breeder of the famous Warnham Court . herd (of deer) and has presented quite a , number oi deer to different acclimatisation , societies in New Zealand, was last vear - !,'! e i SO i"i 9 Dominion Government , and tho Wellington Acclimatisation So- . "TO", '"th throe- red dc-er hinds, lv ith , Allien he is experimenting in Sussex i -or. I* red Armstrong, of the firm of T. . Armstrong and Co., Ltd., of Christchurch, has been over in England for almost a year on a trip of business, combined with • pleasure. After spending a month sWit- ' ,"i lo . u ' , llc joined a party of . Ne« Zealand friends, and spent another - five weeks rambling on the Continent, I'ranee, Switzerland, Gerinanv, and Belgium. Before returning to W Zealand, Mr. Armstrong intends to have another trip abroad, this time visiting Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and Brussels, in addition to paying visits to Scotland and Ireland, lie returns to New Zealand in .March w May, via the t'nited States and .\u«-