ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1498, 22 July 1912, Page 6

ON TOUR AT HOME.

LONDON PERSONALS. London, June 13. Dr, L'mily Siedoberg and Mi?s Isabel Siedoberg-, of Dunedin, are at present iu. London. Mr. and, ill's. G. If. Allen, of Nelson, are at ipresent in England on a. holiday trip, and expect to remain here until tho end of September. Mr. and Mrs. Guar. France, of .Dunedin, arrived via Suez and, after travelling on the Continent,' return to New Zealand, via America.

Mr. L. J. Ziman, of Auckland, arrived in England last, month as a junior engineer on the' New Zealand Shipping Company's Otaki. Sir William Hall-Jones took the chair nt the masting of tho New Zealand Producers' Association, held at the Westminster Palace Hotel, on Wednesday morning. Mr. F. Ansden, of Dunedin, is visiting Manchester, Sheffield, Edinburgh, and Belfast, and will probably return about the second week iu August. ■Mr. and Mrs. M. Hcrrold, late of Auckland, are at present in London on a six months' trip from Buenos Ayres. They will visit the Continent before their return to the Argentine iu October. Mr., Mrs., and the Misses de Beer, of Dunedin, who have been travelling about Europe for some considerable time, have booked their passage to New Zealand by the Osterlev, ear'.v in October.' Mr. Joseph Butler, of Hokitika, is in London lor a few weeks befovo visiting friend in. the country, and going on to Ireland, Scotland, and the Continent. He returns to London about September, and leaves for New Zealand in November. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Bedford, of Christchurch, are visiting friends in the Midland' Counties, after which they contempilnte motoring through to Scotland, returning some time, ipcssibly in October bv another route to London.

*Mr. and Mrs. -i\V. H. Montgomery, of CKristchurch,-arrived, on May 30„ and will- be .hero for some months. •< Their ptiesent address -is the Hotel Cecil. After a. month-in -London-they: go'for-a motor tour in France. ••„."■ Mr. and Mrs. Alfred .1. Berry,' from Rangitike.i, ■ arrived .in Engla'n'd by tho Otranto, and after a short stay in Plymouth, went on to.visit.friends in Bristol. They are now in London, where they will stay a short time, before going Mr.' S. "Williamson, of Wellington, an engineer on the s.s. Minncwaska, of the Atlantic Transport Line, intends returnin" to the Dominion after his final examination, which will take place at an ca-rlv date. , - _. , Mr. Chas.-Wray Palliser, Acting-High Commissioner for New Zealand, and Mr. T. E. Donne, head of the 'lcurist Department, wore presented to the King on Monday, -at ' a reception given at Buckingham Palace, as delegates ol the ltodio-Telegraphic Conference. Mr Errol T. Tvlee, of Kapisr,.who came to England last week-lay the Indrapjira, on which he was on the engineering stall, intends remaining, several years in order to gain further experience in Jio snipbuilding yards on the Clyde. ' Mr. K. M. Simpson, ot \\ ellingtou, and his two daughters, arrived m London, three weeks ago, on a three months visit. Thoy leave in a fortnight for Lancaster— Mr..Simpson's birthplace—spending a few davs thero before going to Scotland, and also hope to visit tho Continent. Miss Edith Wvbourne; of Christchurch, is in England with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Andrews, ot Wellington. Next month the party intends motoring through England, Scotland, and AValcs, and later will Visit the

Continent. , " Tho marriage of Jfr. ■ Horace Edward Wilkio Young, his Majesty's vice-Consul at Cavalla, and Miss Margaret Anson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Anson, of I'iraki is to take place at St. James's Church, Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, on Thursday, the 27th inst. Mr. and Mrs. M. Montgomery, of Napier, arrived in Toulon by the Otranto, and spent a week in. the South of Franco and ten days in Paris before crossing to England. They are now staying at the Hotel' Cecil for a month, and then start for a motor tour of the Continent. They return to New Zealand in the antrum.

Dr. E. Teichelmann, of Hokitika, arrived in England in May, via Rarotonga and Tahiti to San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. After visiting old friends and relatives, Dr. Tcichelmnnn intends • to work in the largo hospitals of England, Berlin, Taris, and Vienna, and to return to New Zealand at the end of tho year. Mr. Charles C. Reads, late editor of the Now Zealand "Weekly Graphic," has, since his arrival in London heen appointed" assistant secretary of tho Garden Cities and Town' Planning Association. Mr. Keado lately underwent ah operation in a London private nursing home, but is now recovered.

"The theatre is much more a part of Australians' and New Zeakinders' lives than it is part of the lives of the. people in this country. It is splendidly supported by men and women, who take a very real interest in it. . . . The future of this drama in these lands is assured," said Mr. H. B. Irving, in an interview in the "Standard," on his return from the Antipodes.

A wedding of New Zealand'interost took place recently at St. Gabriel's Church, Warwick Square, when Mr. Thomas Hare, eldest son of the late Mr. A. If. Hare, of Blaekmount. New Zealand, was married to Miss Rosamund Walford, fourth daughter of the late Mr. Alfred S. Walford, and of Mrs. AVnlford, of 17 Warwick Square. The marriage ceremony was conducted by the Bishop of Leicester, assisted by Canon Morris.

Miss Eva Balfour, the Now Zealand actress, has recently been staying with Mr. and Mrs. tan Forbes Robertson, at Farnham. Miss Balfour's father, Mv. Chas. Hulston. has just returned to New Zealand, after a visit to his daughter. Mr. and Mrs. F. .1. Shields, of Nelson, and their two daughters, arrived in London after visiting Honolulu, Banff, Toronto, Niagara Falls, and Quebec, and since their arrival here have stayed at Oxford. Stratford, Leamington, Kenilworth, and Warwick. Before leaving on September 30. thev intend visiting the Isle of "Wight, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and the Continent.

Mr. Tlios. Gough, nf Auckland, who des- | eribcs himself as "a kick-Worker of thirty-eight years' standing." is on a visit to his brother. Mr. Gough is" the chairman of directors of the Pnrua Bav Co-operative Butter Factory, and it is his intcnlinn while here to glean as nntcli information as he can regarding the condition of New Zealand butter on its arrival at this end. Mr. Lyswir, ex-Mayor of Gisborno. and ' his wife and djuiihter. are in F-ngland at present for Mr. Lsynnr's henltli. and are malcin? their hendnunrters nt Clifton, in order that he mav be under T)r. "Richardson Cross, n lending eye specialist. Mr. Lysnnr is making progress, and the doctor holds out definite hobe that with rest and treatment he will soon ba as strong as ever. Afterwards Mr. T.ysnar and his farnilv propose toiiTing England and Scotland by motor with, later, a short run on the Continent. They hope to return to New Zealand towards the end of the year. ■