ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1484, 5 July 1912, Page 9

ON TOUR AT HOME.

e LONDON PERSONALS. London, May 30. Mr. It. C. Ess* , , of Waverley, has arrived in London oil a pleasure 'trip, and is staying at tho inns of Court Hotel, Holboriv. Professor A. W. Bickcrlon, of Christchurch, gave a lantern lecturo on "The New Astronomy," at the twenty-sixth annual meeting of tho Selborne Society, on Tuesday last. Mr. and 'Mrs. Ijeo. W. Wade, of Cliristchurch, are in England, after an absence of fcrty-six years, for n six months' tour on pleasure and business combined. .Air. and Jlrs. Fred. Trice, of Auckland, have just arrived in London from the French lliviern, where tln-y spent a ir.t'iilh. They intend to go to tho Olympic Humes' at Stockholm.

llr. and Mrs. A. P.. Kornot, of Wellington, arrived in London a few days ago, having disembarked at Genoa, mid spent about three, weeks on the Continent. Their headquarters are at St. Krinin's, Westminster, for the present, and Mrs.Kernot is now paying a visit to friends iu Ireland.

Mr. Win. Jr. BciTill, of Chrislchurch, yho has been in England for the past four years, and has succeeded in securing tho certificate offered by the Chamber of Commerce, and Uoyal Society of Arts in bookkeeping, returns to New Zealand by Hie. Maloja on tho 31st inst. Miss E. A. Gault, of Christchurcli, who has been visiting Devonshire, .Somersetshire, mid Canterbury, last week entered a London hospital in search of further experience as a nurse, and, later, purposes paying further visits in England and Ireland.

era,, Wjukato, spent a short time in Devonshire before coming on to London. Thev intend to tour the United Kingdom and the Continent before spending a month at Vancouver and return to New Zealnnd at tuo end of tho year. Mrs. W. Trott, of Tiinarn, is visiting England, to attend the yearly meeting of the Society of Friends in Manchester, and to visit adult schools in tho Midlands and Yorkshire, nnd friends at Hull, her native place. Sho returns next September or October. Miss Craiehcad (Gisbornc) and Miss M. anaighcad (Wellington) arrived in London by the Moldavia on a six months' visit J liey are joining a cruise to Norway early in JulVi then spend a month on Hie Continent, mostly in Switzerland., going to Scotland after that, and returning to Auckland by the Mahva on November 1. Mr. aud Mrs. Firth, of Wellington, stayed ior some time in Cairo, Marseilles, the Jiiviora, Italy, Austria. Switzerland, and France, en routo for England. They arrived in London, and met Jlrs. N. Jt'B/io li s ;rV, rHls mother) on her arrival in tho Moldavia. They will visit various parts of England and Scotland, and nil cave for New Zealand towards the end of the year. Mr. Howard Smith and his two nieces, Miss Fanny Pyne and Miss Daisy Turton, of Christchurch, left their ship at Marseilles, and spent a month at Nice, Monte Carlo, etc. They shortly leavo London for the Continent, returning for a few weeks, before sailing, on September 27, for Bombay and Calcutta. They expect to reach New Zealand about next Christmas.

Representatives of the Now Zealand press, present at the recent coinplimentarv luncheon, tendered to Mr. H. Macfic, of Sydney, at the Savoy Hotel last week were. Mr. G. H. Scholeficld, of tho New Zealand Associated Press s Mr. Robert Bell (Ashburton "Mail"). Mr. J. H. Dolamoro ("Malaura Ensign"), and Mr. R. B. Brett, of tho New Zealand Press Agency. Mr. T.'E. Sedgwjck, who took fifty town lads out to New Zealand farms some littlo time ago, has received the following communication:—Buckingham Palace, May 18. 1912. Dear Sir,—l have laid before the King tho report on the first year's work of tho fifty town lads whom you took (o New Zealand last year, and his. Majesty has read it with much interest.—lours very faithfully (Signed), Stainfordham. At the International Horticultural Show at Chelsea, a 25-giiinea- cup offered by tho Horticultural Club, was awarded for a half-hardy shrub with brilliant red flowers, from New Zealand, ■ named Leptespermum scaparium Nichollii, shown by the Rev. Mr. Boscawcn, of Cornwall, where the species grows well enough out of doors. The Loptospornium is the best novelty of the International Exhibition of 1912. Miss F. E. Kcrshaw, M.A., headmistress of the Ashburton High School, expects to remain here six months, and is to visit some high schools and colleges, particularly tho Ashburton nigh School, in Devonshire, in order to present n book of news of tho Now Zealand Ashburton High School. Sho leaves on the 25th for Nottinghamshire, Lancashire, the Lakes, Scotland, and Ireland, and after her return to London will visit Paris. > Mr. O. Gore Adams, A.0.5.M., of Wellington, has just returned from Bolivia, after two years' mining engineering there and in Chili. Mr. Adnius has recently been three months in famous l'otosi (Bolivia), and on leaving, travelled in a handcar over tho world's highest railway (15,821 feet above sea level), between Potosi and Antofagasta. Mrs. Adams accompanied him on all his travels. She is the. first and only lady to make the trip on the railway, which is new. Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Bolton, of Auckland, who havo arrived in England, via Fiji and Honolulu, Canada, and the United States, left New York by the Adriatic— tho ship that carried tho rescued passengers of tho Titanic. Hero they will remain for a couple, of months, afterwards going for motor trips through the United Kingdom and Ireland, then crossing lo the Continent for three months in the winter, before sailing for Ceylon and India, and reaching New Zealand about the end of March. Among recent New Zealand visitors are Mr. and Mrs. John Graham, of Nelson, and their two daughter.?. Mr. Graham was M.l\ for Nelson from 1893 to 1911. Tho party go shortly to Ireland, afterwards for Scotland, and they spend some tame in Dovun. Mr. Graham, like other visitors, is much impressed by the wonderful police regulation oMlic London street traffic. He has visited the House of Commons and other places of interest in Loudon, and done some motoring in Southern counties.