ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1421, 23 April 1912, Page 9

ON TOUR AT HOME.

TERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, April 14. Colonel Cautley and Mrs. Cautley arc staying at St. Jean de Luz, France. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Adams, of Dunedin, and the Misses Moss, of Eunedin, have recently visited Home. Mr. Harold Eeauehanip and family left for Marseilles yesterday l>y the Mahva on their way to New Zealand. .Mr. and Jlrs. John Buchnnau, of Auckland, have, since their arrival from New Zealand, been travelling in Engjand, Ireland, Scotland, and on the Coucinent, on both pleasure and business. Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Norden, oi Christchurch, who havo arrived in England, via Such, some days ago, intend visiting Germany, America, and France, and spending a short holiday in Ceylon beforo returning to the Dominion al>out June.

Mr. Fred. C. Cuff, of Auckland, arrived in the country by the Kuuhine last week on business, and expects to .ucml '.wo ci three months in London. Mr. Cuff hopes to return to New Zealand by the Rotorua in May next.

Mr. and Mrs. von Haast, of Wellington, arrived on Friday by the Arawa, and are for the present staying with Mrs. von llaast's aunt, Miss Lcislunan, at South Kensington. They intend to stay in this country for about a year. Mr. and Mrs. Altred Jj;idd,.,.qf,„Au_kland, leave England by the llanreta'nia in a week's timo for New York,' later travelling about Canada, and spending a few days in the Rockies before sailing from Vancouver on April 15. They expect to arrive in New Zealand on May 7. Numbers of New Zealanders are at present visiting Florence. Among these aro Miss Lindsay, Miss Hill, the Misse& Douglas, Mr .and Mrs. Burgoyne, sen., and daughter, Mrs. and Miss Henderson, Mrs. J. M'Phail Gcddcs, the Misses and Messrs. Geddcs, all of Auckland, and Mr. Robert Bell, of Ashburton. At St. Giles's Church, GralYham, Sussex, a fortnight ago, Miss Agnes Barbara Sunderland, second daughter of the late Lieut. 11. W. Sunderland, of Poverty Bay, was married to Mr. Noel Gray Frere, assistant district commissioner for Sierra Leone. The Rev. Rowley Liuelles, mtqr of Graffham, where the bride's n other is living, officiated. New Zealanders to be presented at the third Court of the season, (ii .March 15, are Lady and Miss Geraldino Mills, ol Dunedin; and Mrs. and Miss Frances Cracroft Wilson, of Christchinvh. The latter will bo presented by Mrs. l.i-.wis Harcourt, wife of the Colonial Secretary. It is probable that Lady Stout and Miss Janet Stout will bo presented at a Cci.rt after Easter.

Miss Eileen Pnlliser, who has l.een havelling iu Italy for a holiday, developed a rather serious attack of diphtheria in Florence last week.

Mr. E. A. Mayne, of Wanganui, has returned to England, after a recent tiip to New Zealand. He is superintendent ol the Manchester Institute of Wireless Tdegrapliy Callers at tho High Commissioner s offices last week were Mr. T. D. Thompson (Auckland), Mr. A. C. Galbraith (Napier), Rev. W. W. Brown (Stirling), Mr. and Mrs. S. Johnson (Wellington), Mr. C. S. Holme, Mr. and Mrs. E. Norden (Christchurch), Mr. R. A. Simpson (Christchurch), Mr. M. Maney (Dunedin), Mr. O. A. Piukerton (Waipawa), Mr. Alfred Vowels (Gisborne), Mr. R. Feldwick (Christchurch), Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Drlamore and Miss Dolanioro (Gore), Mr. and Mrs. Peter M'Skimming, jun. (Stirling), and Dr. W. M. Gratton Guinness (Auckland).

The Earl and Countess of a -;aneld are not going into residence at Castle Giant, their Scottish seat, until mid-snmuii-r, by which time the castle will be fi'.'ed willi electric light and a new system of heating. Their first stay will 1m a short one, as Lord Seafield has asked the trustees of (he late Caroline Lady Seafield to kt the place for the shooting season, whieh he himself intends to spend at Cullen House.

Mr. A. C. Galbraith, of Napier, was called from New Zealand, where he has been resident for the past nine years, to Scotland, by cable, on account of sickness in his family, but on arrival in London in December learned of the death of his brother-in-law five days previously. Ho has spent most of his time in Scotland. Before the Royal Geographical Society, on Monday evening, Mr. J. Mackintosh Bell read a paper on "Some New Zealand Volcanoes." i