ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1396, 23 March 1912, Page 6

ON TOUR AT HOME.

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD. London, February 8. Miss Marckant, for very many year* principal of tho Girls' UigU School in jfJuiieclin, is shortly expected in England. Tho llnu. Oliver Samuel, of Now Plymouth (N.Z.t, has been appointed an honorary corresponding secretary of the Koyal Colonial institute. _ Mr. M'Calloiigh, of Auckland, who is in London, Ims recently been in dolicato health, and is contemplating returning to New Zealand shortly. Mr. and Mrs. Laidlaw, of Auckland, and their two daughters, arrived at Port Said at tho end of January, and will spend some littlo lime in Egypt before coming to London. Mr. T. Buckley, Inspector of Telcgraphi in New Zealand, who has recently visited America and Europe, as well as (he I'niled Kingdom, sailed last week, on hit return (o Now Zealand, by the Moldavia. Mr. Uobert Law, who held a distinguished position in connection with tho Boy Scout and other movements at Hebclcn Bridge, Mr. James Horsfall, and Mr. Matthew Spencer sailed for New Zealand by the Tmakina.

Mr. ami Mrs. G. E. Moreton, of Duneilin, (he former of whom has been lecturing on New Zealand in America and England, leave for New Zealand at the end of this month, probably by tho Coriulliio or tho Kemuera.

The next evening fund ion of tho Now Zealanders' Association is to tako th« ' form of a whist drivo at the Westminster Pa la co Hotel on February 28, when it ia expected that about ono hundred guesti will bo present. Mr. I'. Paora Chambcrlin has recently been lecturing on "The Maori and (ha Scenery of New Zealand." Amongst other places at Vhich Mr. Clmmberiia has appeared nro tiunningdale, Bauburv, South Ascot, and Winklield.

Amongst passenger* lor New Zealand by tho II.Ai.S. Alhcnkv which sailed from Plymouth on Sunday,\wcro Mr. and Mrs. O. Wnrdrop, Mrs. A. .'Andrews, Mr. aud ite and their sou, Dr. N. M'Donald, Miss I. Marsfcead, Mr, and Mrs. C. Ualmont, and Miss' Sturgeon. Sir William Hall-Jones, Uigli Commissioner for New Zealand, was\ono of thoss who met their Majesties at Victoria' Station on their return from India'.'.Tho No\r Zealand offices were most tastefully'de&or. atcd along tho line of route. "*"' ■i'lic friends of Mr. and Mrs. J. p Whitelaw, tho former an Aucklander, lat« London, correspondent for tho Now Zealand Press Agency, and at present a subeditor of tho "Laily Mail," will be interested to hear of the birth of a daughter to them a fortnight ago. The marriage arranged between the Hev, Leonard G. T. Sedgwick, rector of Ditteridge, Wilts, and Miss Phyllis Eleanor luudlford, second daughter of (ho lata Mr. E. J. Kiddiford, of Hutt, Wellington. Now Zealand, and Mrs. Riddiford, will lake place during the last week in April at tho Hutt, New Zealand. Amongst tho wealth of Horal tributes that accompanied tho body of the lute Lord Stanmoro to its last resting-place in the churchyard of All Souls', South Ascot, on Friday, was one from tho High Commissioner, hearing the inscription: "From the Government and pcoplo of New Zealand, in memory of their late Governor."

Mr. J. B. Burgoyne, of Epsom. Auckland, his daughter, and Mr, and Mrs. L. Burgoyne, of Cleveland (Auckland province), who left New Zealand in October last, and have sinco visited Australia and Ceylon, have just completed a month's visit to Egypt and tho Nile, as far south as Assuau. They arc now touring Rome, l'lorcnce, Milan, Venice, Switzerland, and France, before arriving in England in April.

Mr. J. W. ("Long Drive") Walker, of Wailn Mines fame, who is still in London, in spite of his eighty odd years, ii looking very fit, and within the last few months has been married. London markets, as far as tho disposal of new proper, ties aro concerned, are verv flat juak'now, but Mr. Walker is still hopeful of carryinj; tho business ho has in hand to a successful issue before ho returns to Now Zealand-

Mr. and Mrs. Emil Schwartze and Mis« Clara Schwartze, late ot Auckland, airived in this country after a six months' tour through Canada, America, Italy, tho Riviera, Austria, Saxony,- Switzerland, Bavaria, Germany, Holland, and France. They have since travelled extensively in (he United Kingdom, and have now'lclt for Alameda, California, where tbey intend to make their homo.

The High Commissioner for Now Zealand has arranged for Hie early shipment to (he Dominion of the fine picture of H.M.S. Now Zealand, painted and presented by Mr. AV. L. Wyllie, R.A., to the New Zealand Government, as a token of liis personal appreciation of the generous loyalty of (he pebplo of New Zealand in presenting a super-Dreadnought to ■tho British Navy. Tho picture was exhibited , at tho Academy, and was on view for a timo in tho New Zealand Court at tho Festival of Empire. It is hoped that tho New Zealand Government will arrange, before placing it in its permanent resting-place, to send it on a tour of tho principal cities of New Zealand. Lord Plunket, late Governor of New Zealand, gavo a lecture on "New Zealand" at Cirencester last week, as did also Dr. Tudor Jones, of Wellington, at Ealing, and Mr. Joseph Eeil, at the Polytechnic, in Regent Street. Numbers of'other Now Zoalanders and English speakers interested in the Dominion are also advertising it in excellent lectures, among them being tho Rev. J, T. Phillips, Mr. Chennoil, Mr. Hector Maclean, who is speaking in Glasgow and other parts of Scotland; Mr. G. E. Moroion, of Duuedin, who ba» oetured in the United Stales and England, and probably returns to tho former (o give further lectures; tho Rev. R. Raine, and others. Mr. Irwin W. Raymond, of Invercargill (N.Z.), lectures fo the Tariff Reform League on the sam« subject this week. Several English people, speak very highly of an illustrated lecture given at Willesden last week, on "Tho Britain of the South," by Mr. H. C. Cameron, Produce Commissioner for New Zealand, who not only, of course, has first-hand knowledge of his subject, but. who handles a lecturo with much wit, vividness, and informality.