NEWS FROM ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1398, 26 March 1912, Page 9

NEWS FROM ABROAD.

London, February !5. Mr. James Allen, of Auckland, has been holiday-making iu Cairo. Mrs. H. J. Matthews, widow of the late Chief Forester of New Zealand, left London for tho Dominion last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Beauchamp, of Wellington, and their family probably leave on their return to New Zealand in March. Miss Thompson, of Wellington, is shortly expected in London, as her marriage to Mr. Arthur Allen is to take place in this country. ill , . James S. WeLlward, of Hawke's Bay, has arranged to return to New Zealand by the Mongolia, which leaves London on April 23. Sister Mary, tho deaconess who for so many years worked in Dimediu, is now in London, staying at 57 Lexhnm Gardens. She hopes to get parish work to do in England. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Chaytor, of Marlborough, and Miss Constauco Chaytov, who have been in England for several years, return to New Zealand by the iiemuera, which sails to-day. There passed away a few days ago, at Torquay, of pneumonia, Mr. William Slioult Kobison, late manager of the Bank of New South Wales, in Christchurch. Mr. Kobison was 80 years of age. Thirty-five single women are leaving liomlon for New Zealand by the Remuera this week, as domestic servants, in charge of Miss Marsh, matron.

Mr. It. Chase-Morris, of Wellington, has been in London for the past three or four weeks, and has now returned to New York on business. He will probably be in America for some months to come.

It was announced last week that the "Rev. Sidney James Handover, 8.A., St. Edmund Hall, who was for some time a curate in New Zealand, and now has an Oxford chargo (St. Paul's), has been elected a chaplain of Magdalen College. Baron L. Veenstra was last week sent over to London as the representative of thu Dutch Government, to consult with Sir 'William Hall-Jones, to see whether tho New Zealand Government will permit Dutch farmers and servant girls to go out to tho Dominion as emigrants on the usual concessions.

Lord St. Oswald, of Wakefield, has presented to the New Zealand Government a very fine collection of Southsea curios, which, it is stated, were brought to England in one of Captain Cook's ships o'n tho occasion when he was murdered at Hawaii. They comprise weapons of war, feathered robes, ornaments, and many other interesting ethnological specimens." Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Watson, the latter before her marriage Miss Alice Macpherson, of Wuncdiu, have both been in illhealth in their homo in Scotland, for souiq weeks, and at present are holklnvmaking at the Hotel licina Christina, at Algeeiras. After three weeks there, they go to Paris before coming on to London for a month's visit.

The Hon. W. P. Beeves, the first High Commissioner for New Zealand, who now occupies the position of Principal of the London School of Economics, is delivering to the students of that institution a series of lectures on State insurance that should, when available in bonk form, provide a most useful handbook for students of social and economic problems. Mr. John Baillie, of tile Baillie Galleries, who is going out to New Zealand for some months, has had his plans somewhat upset by an attack of influenza, and, instead of sailing -bv the Kenniera to-day, leaves by the Ost'erley from Toulon next Thursday. His collection of pictures has goiip ahead in three consignments by the Athenic, the Ilia Ora, and the Eemuera. Since.her arrival in England, after spending some weeks in America and Canada, Mrs. 11. Scotland, widow of the Into Hon. H. Scotland, M.L.C., has been staying with friends in London, Surrev and in her native county, Cornwall. In the latter place she hopes to spend the spring, going later to Scotland for a month or two before returning to \ew Zealand, via Canada.

In the lebruary issue of the Educational Supplement to tho London "Times," Professor G. S. Sale, late of Otago University, returns to the question of the present system of examinations in the University of New Zealand, in which he supplements his first interesting sketch of the beginnings of that much-criticised institution with "Facts of Paramount Importance," which, he states, have not been referred to in the course of the controversy.

Mrs. AV. Bence, of Island Bay, Wellington, wife of the chief officer" of the Wakanui, who arrived in England last October, joined her husbnnd's boat at Belfast, and came by it to Wales. Since -Mr. Bence left forftNew. Zealand, Mrs. Bence has been in TLondpn, and in another month leaves to visit relatives in tho North of England and in Scotland, returning to London to meet her husband next June.

Mr. W. S. Lochhead, of Dunedin, arrived in London last mouth. Ho is over hero holiday-making, ou the completion of his term of management of ono of the principal Brazilian gold mines. Siuco his arrival, Mr. Lochhead has been offered similar positions in other gold mines, but before getting into harness lie is paying visits in England, and, later, intends to undertake a lengthy . tour through Scotland.