ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1589, 5 November 1912, Page 2

ON TOUR AT HOME.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON! London, September 2G. Miss Evclyu Isitt has returned from a trip to Finland. Mr. A. S. Griffiths, of Chiistcliurch, is sailing for home to-morrow. Mrs. F. J. Dawes, of the Waikalo, who arrived several weeks ago, returns to Now Zealand next month. Lady Stout has delayed her return to New Zealand, and instoad of sailing this month, intends to leave in November. Mr. J. H. L. Turner, Second Lieutenant R.N.Z.Av has come to England,' and will bo attached lo .Uhi Koyal Artillery here for a term. The first annual dinner of the officials and staff of the High Commissioner's Department is trt be held this weelc, probably at the Troeadero. Mr. and Mrs. Mirams, Wellington, return in November. Mr. Mirams has been ihUving niedical treatment during his stay, and is greatly improved ill health. Miss Frances B. Lysnar,. of Devonport, Auckland, has rfiturned to London, and is at present staying at Craven House, 42 Craven Hill Gardens, Lancaster Gate, W. The New Zealand Association is giving a'reception at the Westminster Palace Hotel oh October 18, as a welcamo to this new High Commissioner and Mrs. Mac* kenzie,

Mr, W. J. Brown, now. of Natal, and formerly of Canterbury, is in London, and has been doing free lance work for some Of the London newspapers and magazines. ] ; Sir, Stuart Seddon, son of_ tho late Primo Minister, who has been in London for the last two months, after studying ] : architecture in Paris, returns to New Zealand in November. ■ ' Sir Win. Hull-Jones and Lady Hall-' Jones ore staying in London for a few weeks. Later on they return to their house at Bournemouth, whore : thev intend remaining until they leave for New Zealand in February next. Mr. Fred Duncan, of Christohurch, arrived'at Plymouth, his old home, in July, and sinco t'hen has been visiting relatives in Devon, and staying in London. He now goes to the North-Eastern Counties'before sailing to New Zealand by tho Osterley oil October 12. ' • . • Mr.- John Henderson, of Auckland; or the Wait'einata Chamber of Commerce* ■ Who arrived iii June, lias been in Scotland, where lie has beeft visiting extenSiVev ly, Hq camo back to London to attend the Grocers' Exhibition, and leaves for New Zealand by the Rotorua to-day. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Spedding and Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Robinson, of Auckland, who have taken a house at Beckehham,' have just returned front a tour in tlifeir own car through tho Isle of Wight and the South Coast. They leave in November for an extended toiir on the .Continent. Miss Susie B. Corrigan, of Tarattaki, visited. Cairo and the Pyramids on the way over. She has spent some time in Switzerland and I'ranee, and has thoroughly toured the British Isles. Sho leaves next mouth again for tho Continent' to see as much &s possible before sailing for Australia or, November 22, In the liiverpool "Daily Post' of Sep-' tember 19 is ah interesting letter from a Territorial officer, Mr. li. S. Toivnroe, in praise of the Now Zealand defence system. Many quotations, very much in point, are given iroin Kew Zealand papers, showing tho excellent effects of compulsory training upon the boys who undergo it.. The Government has decided, owing to tho great congestion of intending jmmi% grants to New Zealand, to extend the season, which usually ends in December, to the middlja. of February. There aro many hundreds of farmers and. their . wives desirous of going to New Zealand, who cannot get away owing to the shortago of accommodation. Mr. C. H, Chapman, Who contested Wellington South,in the Labour interest at the .1.908 elections, arid afterwards was a Candidate for the Wellington City Council, is returning to New Zealand by the : Otranto, via Sydney, and leaves England to-morrow.: : it'!*■'"'■ ■■■ V'*'-' : I l ''.!' 1 Mr.' F. $. H. Beamish, 8.E., of. HastMngs,. arrived ten days ago. He-is- -the; holder' of the:. cngineeriiiK ■■travelling scholarship'.of.the New.Zealand XJniver-. ■sity for the current,year, and, in accordance with the conditions attaching, to that, has come to this country to seek employment with one of the large engineering and' manufacturing firms, besides visiting various places of engineering intcrGst Mr. and Mrs, D. H&wke, of Canterbury, who have been visiting friends in Cornwall, have toured the North' of England, the whole of Ireland, and Scotland. Mr. Hawke has, during his five weeks in London, taken a close interest in.tho landing of Now Zealand'frozen produce from the time it loaves the ship till it reaches the market, and ho is under tho impress sion that present arrangements are quitd satisfactory. Mr, and Mrs. Hawke leave next week for a few more weeks in Cornwall, prior to leaving for New Zealand by the Remuera on December 19. . . ■ The career of a promising, young New . ZSalander—Mr. George Bailey Craven— was cut short witll drama tic suddenness . in the recent tornado at Kegina, Canada, ■ Deceased was the third son of Mr. B. B. Craven, of Panlchu'rst, Ilelonsville. Ho . was very well known ia the' Auckland province. He left Auckland four years a-go to attend the Agricultural College at : Winnipeg, • Manitoba, where he passed several examinations. Ho camo rapidly to the front in his calling of engineer, and at tho time of his death was snpenn- [ tending tho erection of soiiio machinery . for a huge butter factory, ,