ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1579, 24 October 1912, Page 2

ON TOUR AT HOME.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, September 12. Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Watson have taken a flat in Kensington, and expect to arrive hero in October,.and stay for six months. Miss 'Frances it. Lysuar, of Devonport (Auckland), has returned from the seaside, and is at present staying at New Unmet. Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilson, of Auckland, arrived here after an extensive visit to America and Canada. They are 'now touring, the United Kingdom". Mr. John Simpson, of Auckland, lias returned lo London from France, and is staying at Hempstead until (he end of September, when lie goes to Scotland for a month. Miss G. Lodge, of Coromandel, arrived in .England throe months ago, and intends to enter a hospital in search of further experience in nursing. Miss Muriel Chitty and her sister, of Hamilton, who arrived in England some months ago, and have since visited the Continent, leave for home to-day. Mr. C. Wray Palliser and M'rs. Palliser have returned from n holiday in Cornwall. ■

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Scott (tho former a veteran of tho New Zealand, war in tha sixties), of Whakamara, came hero via San Francisco through America. They will bo in London for some time, and then jjo on to Scotland. Mr. Scott, who is very interested in butter producing, is making several inquiries hero durini; his stav, as to the.methods of selling at this.end. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Fauvel, of Wellington, are on tour, specially taken to visit tho'-r eldest son in Vancouver, where thev stayed some months, then travelling to Montreal and Quebec, and thence to London. They have sines stayed in Oxford'and Jersey (Mr. FauvoTs native place) for two months, have visited Paris, and now will ho in London till October 27, when they sail for New Zealand by the "Zieten."

Captain T. ft. Bax, New Zealand Mounted Killes, during his stay in lingland means to try to put up a worlds record for club swinging, ana began the attempt at. the Masonic Hall, Southend, on September 10. Captain flax's present address is Cliftonville, Finchley Itoad, ■\Yeslcliff-on-Sea. He intends to leave for New Zealand on October 10.

Mr. H. W. Beale, of Auckland, has been in Canada for nearly a year, making several trips thence to the United States. lie intends stopping in England from two to three months, and visiting Ireland and Scotland before, going to Paris, and will bo back in New Zealand before Christ""!?.

Mr. and Mi }i. Moucricffe M'Cnllum, of, are Spending a nitintU with' lelntives m Jcrsjy. Mr. and Mrs. George Wcllings,' of Wellington, arrived a few days ago, and are now visiting friends in the Midlands. They go on to Dublin, and return to London at tho end of Octohor. leaving .for New Zealand about tho end of November. Mr. Holand Garrett, of Waiiganui, who for the past two and a half years has been in partnership with another New Zealandcr, in tho Federated Malay States; is now ou a tour, in the course of winch ho has visited French Cochin-China. China, Japan, Manchuria, Siberia, and various places in Hussia and Germany. After a short slay in London with his aunt. (Mis. ITenry Fnwcett, Suffragist), lie goes to Derbyshire and Scotland, and again to the Continent, Egypt, and Ceylon, where ho sails for Sydney and New Zealand.