ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1433, 7 May 1912, Page 9

ON TOUR AT HOME.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, MaTcli 28. Mrs. and Miss Hayes, of Canterbury, are tit pre-c-iit in Florence. •Mrs. if. Cooper is spending a few days in Brussels. .Mr. and .Mis. Alex. Watson, who have spent the last month in London, leit lor a short holiday in Brussels last week, and returned on Tue:-dav. Dr. \V. K. M'Kee, of Chrislchurcli, has just arrived, and intends doing a postgrad unto course in London, and Ifl vi»it Scotland and Ireland later on. Dr. \V. .M. (iratluii (inimiess, of Aiickland, who arrived in this country recently. left last week for Dublin, bat expected li> return to London in a few days. Miss L. Clnrkson, of Chrislchurcli, who has been in and around London since her arrival last September. next month expects lo visit Yorkshire and Scotland, and to spend the summer there, returning to London for the following winterMr. and Mrs. Alfred Kidd, of Aucklowl, leavo Liverpool to-morrow by the Mauretania for New York, aim will journey thence by way of Chicago ami Winnipeg to Vancouver, where they will join the Zeaiandia, which is duo to reach Neiv Zealand on or about May 7. Mr. and Mrs. Jlugli Corbett, of Tnnaru, who left Scv Zealand nine months ago, have since thou visited Australia* Jap&n, and Egypt, are nt present staying 111 l'iorcnco. from there they visit V oir.ee, and tour Northern Italy, _ Switzerland, and France, before nrrivijig in England. Mr.*. M. E. Forte and lier son, Mr. C. S. Forte, of Auckland, have sincp their arrival, via Italv, been staying; with Mrs. Forte's daughter, Mr?. Hare, in London, but. have ucnv gone to Hove, where tlie> purpose spending the next few Later, Mr. Forte will visit all the Principal art galleries on the Continent, an* Mrs. Forte intends lo pay visit* 111 various parts of England. Tney will make a lone stay in the Old Country. _ Mr. and Mr?. P. >I'Skimming,l'Skimming, junr., of Stirling, Otago, came as far as Naples l.v the Orama, visiting Pompon, Ktme. Florence. Venice, .Milan, Geneva, and Paris before coming to London. • Mr. E. J. Early, of Auckland, and his brother arrived in London, via Nap!... and have spent the last four weeks m Naples, the Riviera, Marseille*, and 1 nns. The principal object of 311'. Ear s is to consult London and Berlin spemli>U concerning a throat trouble. Mi- W. - ■ Earlv is making the trip chief!, o" busi jiess." Tliev expect to leave London 111 about a fortnight for a s'x weeks trip to the Continent, then return to bw Zealand, via America, Japan, Cluna. and Il Tho'«-ill of the late Lord Stanmore, who as Mr. Arthur Gordon, was boverao'r of Now Zealand in 1880-2. w proved this week. His lordslnp, who dial on Mminry 3A last at the rape age of piehtv-twn. left estate to tnc gross value of XU2.279, of which the net personalty has been sworn at .£130,029. Subject to various specific and pecuniary bequests, Lord Stanmore left the residue ol his property to his sou. the Ifon. George Arthur Maurice Hamilton Gordon (now Loru Stanmore), absolutely.