ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1581, 26 October 1912, Page 11

ON TOUR AT HOME.

LONDON PERSONALS,

- • London, September 19. fair James Mills, of Dunedin, who has been staying in Scotland, has now returned to London. Mr. and Mra. Barker, of Gisborne, left for New Zealand last week by the Otway. Mrs. Lindsay, of Wellington, and her three sons arrived in England a. few days ago. . . .

Mr. J. Marks, manager of the Auckland Meat Company, and Mrs. Marks, are now oh a visit to England and the Continent. Mr. James Mackay, of Wellington, is London for New Zealand by the Mongolia on October 4.

Miss Ira Ormond, of Napier, intends to complete her education in England, and is shortly expected. Mrs. Grace Matthews, of Dunedin, who has been revisiting the Dominion, has recently returned to England, and is now living with her mother at-Sandford, in Hampshire. Mr. Horace Moore-Jones, of Auckland, has arrived in London. Mr. Moore-Jones, who is nn artist, expects to spend the winter studying in Paris. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Brown,' of Nelson, arrived here via, South America. They have visited Scotland, the North of England and the Midlands, and now are on. the Continent.

Mr. Norman Perston, of the Bank of New Zealand, Sydney, and Miss Perston, who have been over here for four months, have gone to the Continent, and will leave for Home from there, arriving at the end of October.

Mrs. Cross, of New Zealand, will contribute one of the impressions to be given at the annual "Impressions" dinner of the Atlantic Union, at which Sir John Cockburn will preside, on September 20.

Mr. Ronald Gray, of Wellington, son of the late Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, arrived in London recently, and will stay for about a year, studying electrical and mechanical engineering.

Miss P. Illinsworth, of Christchurch, is with her brother in Yorkshire for a few weeks. After a short stay in England she went to America to visit a sister, and then Tcturned here: She expects to Tetnrn before the end of the year.

Mr. and Mrs.. Kirkcaldie and Miss Gface Kirkcaldie have returned to 9, Lancaster Gate, after a tour in the Lake District. They have made their home in Zealand of recent years, and aTO shortly returning there. Mr. Ridley \V. Moody, of Devonport, who is in tho employ of the TJ.S.S. Company, has come over to Glasgow to join the Niagara, - and hopes while there to qualify for his first engineer's certificate. Captain T. H. Bax, of tho New Zealand Mounted Rifles, who intended to try to put up a world's record for club swinging, gave up the attempt after thirty hours. Miss Chaddie M. -Beauchamp, daughter of the chairman of directors of the Bank of New Zealand, who was in England recently, has now gone to stay for some time with her sister, Mrs, Mackintosh Bell, in Ontario. .

Miss Ava Symons, of Hawke's Bay, arrived in London in July, and has been visiting relatives in Buckinghamshire and Westmorland. It is Miss Symons's intention to remain.in England about a year in order to further her violin studies at the Royal Academy. Mr. Frederick Holmes, of Christchurch, arrived here in June.on a motor cycling tour. He has covered three thousand miles from London to the Lakes District and back, and then to- the South of. Devon. He goes to Norwich and Yorkshire before sailing for New Zealand in October.

A marriage.of New Zealand interest took place last week at St. Mar/s, Handsworth, when the Rev. Arthur Selwyn Bean, only son'of Mr. Chas. Bean, of Christchurch, was married to Miss. Nellie Lingard Hackwood, eldest daughter of Mr. A. N. Hackwood, of Fern Lodge, Handsworth.

Miss Kershaw, M.A., of the Ashburton High School, is going down to Ashurton (in Devonshire) to'make a presentation from the New Zealand to the Fnprlish School. Since here arrival in May, Miss Kershaw has. toured England and Scotland,' and sho hopes to -visit Paris' before leaving again in October. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Taylor, of Roforna, nrrived in London in July on a trip that, if'was hoped,'would benefit Mrs. Taylor's health. She was, however, very ill during the journey, but hopes she will be able to. leave with her husband for New Zealand at the end of October. Mr. Taylor is looking for a London agent for lis Land Agency in Rotorua.