ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1604, 22 November 1912, Page 6

ON TOUR AT HOME.

London, October 10. Mr. and Mrs. George Bloomfield are at present at.Beihill at the Carlton Hotel. Mr. R. H. Carmichael, of Wellington, is very ill, and has gone into a London hos-pital-for treatment. ' . Mr. and Mrs. Bolton, of Hokianga, who have been in England for some months, leave for New Zealand in December■ next. Mr. Kirkcaldy, of Dunedin, left on Thursday for a trip, to Paris. His son has just gone up to Corpus Cnristi college, Cambridge. Mr. J. W. Pains, of Gisborne (New Zealand), left, last-week.for a month m France, Germany, and Italy. Ho returns to New Zealand by a December boat. Mr. and Mrs. Leo. Myers, of Auckland, with their children, arrived three weeks a»o on a long visit, and are now at Queen's Gate Hotel, Kensington. Mrs. Mandell, of Wellington, her two daughters, and Dr. Mandell, her son, have taken a house in St. John's Wood, and will be there for the nest twelve months. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. .M'Farlane, of Otago, and their daughter, who have been touring in the Old Country and on the Continent, left by the Otranto last week for home. • , - Mr. J. M. Dent, of Wellington (New Zealand) arrived via tho States, in September, and has just returned to London from Manchester. His address is care Cook and Son, Ludgatn Circus,. Ti.C. Mr. Herbert J Silcocks, of the Thames, has been touring the South and' West of England, and has been lecturing on New Zealand," in th* West Country. He leaves for New Zealand next month. Mr. Kenneth Eady, of Mjunt Eden, has toured tho North of England and Scotland, and is now in London for. 6ix months. Later he will go to America for 'another six "months I ,' then : on to Germany. Mr. Bonsor, one of the senior clerks of the Emigration.Office, was married rei icentlj'/- a ' very handsome canteen of'cutlery by'the staff of the High Commissioner's Department. Dr. J. C. Simpson, of the District Asylum at Inverness, lias been appointed an assistant medical officer under the Mental Hospital Department of New Zealand. Miss Rosina Buckmann, the New Zealand singer,, who arrived in London, a month ago, is on a concert, tour with Mr. John M'Cormack, to Ireland and the English provinces. The first concert was to bo given in Dublin on Tuesday. . Mr. S. White Hardie, a native of Auckland, who has been practising as a dentist in Chester,- for the last six years, leaves to-morrow for America on a. world's tour, visiting Auckland en route, find returning to the Old Country via Japan and China. Sir. T. E. Donne, representative of Trade and Immigration for the New Zealand Government, has been appointed to the general advisory committee of the emigration section of the International Kinematographic Exhibition, to be held at Olympia in March. . . Mr. Harry Boulton, of Auckland (New Zealand) is speeding a few weeks cycling in Cumberland, and returns to London about the middle of November. He will spend December with friends in Paris, and returns to New Zealand by a January boat, via the States. Mr. B.vConnaught O'Connor, Mrs. C. O'Connor, and Miss Adelene O'Connor, of Dunediu, havo returned to London after a five months' tour' in the British Isles and on the Continent.. They go to Africa , this month, and hops to' arrivo in NewZealand in December. Mr. and Mrs. J: C. Wilson, of Kaikorai, Arrived in Scotland in July, via Canada and America. They.have' spent sometime in Glasgow, at Hartlepool, and Middlesborough, and leave-from London for New Zealand by the Orient route late this month, visiting. Paris in tho meantime. Miss A. A. Ramsay, of Christchurch, • who arrived in- England last year, has spent fourteen months on the Continent, and returned to London'last week. Miss Ramsay leaves for Canada next month, and hopes to make, her way eventually to New Zealand, via the Rocky Mountains. Miss Mary Robertson, sister of Mr..Geo. Robertson, "district manager for Wellington of the Government Life. Insurance Department, left London on Thursday for Florence, where she has a house. For the past few months Miss Robertson has been visiting friends in England and Scotland. At an "at home" held by the Australian and New Zealand Women Voters' Association, at the AVomen's Institute, 92 Victoria Street, Mr. T. B. Sedgwick gave an address on "Scientific Immigration within the British Empire." The chair was taken by Lady Stout. ,„.„.', Mr. and Mrs. Lawrie (Wellington) and their child arrived via Honolulu, ban Franciro, the. States,.and Ireland, and left again on Thursday for a trip through Brussels, Cologne, Lucerne, Venice, Florence, and Rome. They left for New Zealand by the Malwa, from Marseilles, on November (!.' • _ „ Mr. H. Harrison Fisher, and Mr. H. U HavriMU, of Christchurch, have iust returned to Tendon after a. tour of the Continent with their cousin, Dr. Harrison. They visited France, tho Riviera. Italy, and Switzerland. Mr. Harrison left foi ~ New Zealand on October li, and -Mr. Fisher leaves by the Connthic on DeccmMr." Ridley Win. Moody, of Auckland, has inst come out of r. private hospital after" successfully undergoing a . slight operation. Ho'arrived in London in September, and sits for an engineer s examination in Glasgow-next month. Ho joins one of the Union Steam Ship Company s turbine steamers as an engineer and leaves for New Zealand about lebruary UC Mr G. A. Buddie, of Auckland, is stayin* at the Hotel Cecil, after having com?, from California by way of Panama, New Orleans, and Nov York. Having completed his •qwineoring ft'idie. at th« University of California, Mr. Buddie has come to continue his .work at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, and will probably be here for a year or so. The New Zealand croqnet 'crack," Mr. K. H. Izard, was among the performers »t the Croquet Association Gold Medal meeting hold at Bournemouth. Hs survived three rounds »f the Gentlemen's 6UM '. Medal an< * Challenge G»ld Cajkct mk- i »ctiti«n, but i» ft* ««i-ft»al r«u*d fell a, t victim t» th« heldar, Mr. C. L. O'CaJ- i Indian, win beat Mr. Irard. plus J7, phis j 16.' and winning also the final heat, re- ] tamed possession of the trophy. Love letters between young men and.' ' women students under the proper super- I vision of the teacher arc advocated by • Dr. Arthur Holms, of the University of I Pennsylvania, as an excellent method of i teaching literature. ■ > ■ . •