ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1386, 12 March 1912, Page 2

ON TOUR AT HOME.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, February 1. Mr. A. Chase Morris, of Wellington, is at present visiting London on business from New York. He returns to the States next week. Major and Mrs. T. W. M'Donald, of Wellington, came over as far as Toulon in the Otranto, spending a week in Paris before arriving in London Inst week. They are staying in 'J'orrington Square. Mr. 'I'. Boyd-Scott, of Rotorua, who has come to England to gain further expericncM in engineering, has been staying in Scotland with relatives,- and is staying for a 'tintii* i'i'i"l'6hd!m'j ■"" " Judge Cooper, of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, returns to Wellington by the N.D.L. Lino next week. Mrs. Cooper and tho Misses Cooper remain in London for some months. Miss, Maria Bauchop, of Wellington, hss come up'to Lombn, in order to be near the Mnthay School, where she is studying music, and has taken rooms at Holbein House, in Slonne Street. Mr. C. N. Lucas and Mr. Horlick, both from Sussex, have sailed by the Orient Company's R.M.S, Otwny for New Zealand, whore they intend spending a few months shooting big stags and catching big trout. Dr. P. Clonncl! Feinviek, of Christchurch, has come to England to_ study .surgical methods, and is visiting all Die X-rav nnd Radium Hospitals. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Kidd, of Auckland, have returned from visits to Yorkshire iiiid Lancashire, and leave this week lor Paris the South of France, Switzerland, and Berlin. They sail for New Zealand in April. Mr. '1 , . Chamberlin Clinmberlin, his tirct her, and his adopted son, Pani Paora Chamberlin, have now Id't Cornwall, H-htre they hnve lived for .'sine time, Mid aie now at Shrubs Hill Cottage, Sunningdale, Ascot. Lieut.-Colonel F. W. Abbott, of Auckland, who for some time has been at the ■military he-adquarters at A.ldcrshot, is now at the War Ollico, nml has taken n house at Claphani. If< , , Mrs. Abbott, and their two-muiitli-old baby, leave for New Zealand probably next May. Miss Annie J.iston, who left New Zealand about two years ago, is at present in London, training for the nursing profession at the Nighlingfllo Training School, St. Thomas's Hospiial. She has passed h?r medical examination, and is now doiu# a series of cliPinistr.v lectures. Mr. George Toogood, li well-known Wellington barrister nnd solicitor, is at present .staying at Engelberß, • Switzerland, and is enjoying the novel recreation of ski-ing. The Row A. F. Smith, late.vicar of Nortlico>, Auckland, who, since his arrival in England, has been preaching and lecturing extensively on behalf of the S.P.G. in various parts of the country, has accepted the senior curacy of I.ytliam, near Blackpool. Whilst on his lecturing tours, Mr. Smith has had some interesting times, nnd has come across a good many, New Zealnnders. At, for instance, a suioll village called Ropsloy, in Lincolnshire, he found a brass altar desk with an inscription showng that it had been presented to Sir. E. H. Outram (for some years vicar of St. Matthew's, Auckland), by tho boys of St. Matthew's, as a token of affection. At another village, Bnrtqn-on-Sfocltcr, the rector, Canon Jarvis, is a relative of Captain Cracroft, commander of H.M.S. Niger, which took n prominent part in the Maori war, in Taranaki; and here Mr. Smith was shown on address presented to the commander by tho citizens of Auckland, and a walk-ing-stick that was once the property of King Potfitnu. At yet another place in his travels, Mr. Smith spent an evening with the R«v. T. ,T. Parry, vicar of Mount Albert, Auckland.