ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1427, 30 April 1912, Page 9

ON TOUR AT HOME.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

London, March 21. Mrs. Holgate and Miss Grady, of Wellington, are at present in Florence. llr. W. Donaldson, of Dunedin, is nt present touring Scotland. ' Tho marriage of the Lady Sydney Ogil-vie-Grnnt, of New Zealand, sister of the Earl of Seafield, is to take place at St. George's. Hanover Square, on April 9. Mr. Harold Beaucliamp and family left last week for Marseilles, whence they embarked on tho Malwa on their return to Wellington.

Mr. W. A. Neale, of HawkeVßay, who has been staying with his brother-in-law, the Rector of Dravton, St. Leonards, leaves for New Zealand this week. Dr. Benham, Professor of Biology at Otago University, and his daughter, who have been in London for some months, left last week on their return to Dunedin. Miss Knapp, of Wunganui, is at present staving in Italy, having so far toured Naples, Rome, Florence, and Venice. She will visit Milan and Lake Corno boiore coming to London in April. Mr. D. !•. Dennehy, who has for many years been attached to the New Zealand Government Life Assurance Department VJ Cnnstchurch, arr j ve( i j n Lo n( i on on Monday ast, and is staying at the Ivanhoe Hotel. Ho intends remaining in-Eng-land for several months. ii Ml > . P ?, ni Paore Chamberlin, a fullblooded Maori, was presented to the King at the last levee. Tho last lecture of the series, which Mr. U. c. Cameron, Produce Commissioner for the New Zealand Government, has been delivering to the students at the School of Economics, on "The Economics of the Refrigerated Food Supply of Great Britain, with special reference to distribution, was delivered last week. At the conclusion Mr. Cameron summarised tho salient economic facts which appeared to him to emerge from tho summary of his subject.

Callers at the High Commissioner's ofheos last week were:—Mrs. A. P,. Donnld (Auckland), Mrs. F. W. King (Aucldancl), Mr. and Mrs. Forte (Auckland), Mr. L. Clarkson (Christchurch), Ven. Archdeacon E. A. Scott (Christchurch), Mr. A. F. Von Haast (Wellington), Mr. A. E. Young (Opawa), Mrs. B. Phinmer (Wellington), Mr. W. A. Neale (Hawke's Hay), Mr. H. 11. Johnson (Auckland), Miss Dale (Christchurch), Mr. P. P. Chamberlin (Auckland), Colonel 11. Finn. Mr. Thomas Wilford, M.P., is at present spending some weeks at Pau, in the south of France. Dr. Arbuthnot Lane has decided that an operation will not now be necessary. Lady Stout, who was one of tho speakers at the'recent Opera House meeting oi Suffragettes, appears to have had a somewhat unpleasant experience on leaving the gathering. "My friend and I," she says, in describing tho adventure, "were hissed, hooted, groaned at, and called all the names in tho 'anti' vocabulary which are appropriate to use to grey-haired and motherly-looking women. 'Hob her,' 'You are a disgrace to your country,' were hurled at us for tho length of a. block, and no doubt but for the intervention ol ti kindly and burly policeman, and oui unknown knight-errant, we should have fared badly."

Mr. D. F. Dennehy, of Christchurch, arrived in this country on Saturday week by the Mantua. He intends to stay in and about London for some time on business, and to go to the Continent for the same purpose. After eight ov nine months ho will probably go to New Zealand via America.