ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1613, 3 December 1912, Page 6

ON TOUR AT HOME.

PEESONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, Ootober 24. Mr. and Mrs. Bolton, of Hokianga, have returned to London. Miss Ann -Robertson, of Eotorua, left for New Zealand on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Goodeve, of Dnnedin, (ire nt present staying in Potersfield. Mr. Tattersall, of Napier, is in England, and will be here till April of next year. . ■ Bishop and Mrs. Julius, of Christchurch, leave on their return by tho Orama this week. Lady Finulay and Mr. Wilfred l'in<llay, havo been staying with the inrl of Orford at Wolterton Turk, Nonvich. Mr. Frank Waldegrave, and his (laughter, Mrs. Atkinson, both of Wellington-, are on a visit to London, und staying at Earl's Court. The late High Commissioner, Sir William Hall-Jones, and Mr. Wray C. Palliser were on Friday gnests at the oyster feast at Colchester. Mrs. Eutherford Waddell and Miss Muriel Waddell, of Dunedin, are again in London, after having stayed for some months in Yorkshire. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Vickery, of Dunedin, who arrived via Australia.and South Africa three wcoks ago, will, in all probability, spend twelve months in this ooun-

try. There-were no fewer than fifty wTentlis from New Zealand among tho many floral tributes on the Nelson column in Trafalgar Square, in honour of Trafalgar Day. Miss Frances James and Miss E. N. Hardy, of Dunedin. are staying for a week with an aunt in Devonshire. Thoy return to New ilealand, via Australia, in December. Mr. Herbert William Burridge, of Dunedin, was awarded the desreo of. Bachelor of Divinity in the , recent colonial "examinations in connection with the University of London. Mr. O. E. Bowling. Sheriff of WestUmt North, left London last week for a trip to the Continent. He sails by the Orontos on November 16, from Naples for NewZealand. Mrs. Eiissell, and Miss Sydney Kiissell, have arrived at 13 Qupensbury Ploce, which will hi their address until the Earl and Counties of Hardwicke return in March. Mr. Furbr, formerly, telegraph inspector in AVellington. and Mrs. Fnrby, left London last week for the Continent', where they intend to st>end a few months prior to leaving for New Zealand. Mr. Robert A. Johnstone, of Inycroargill, is in Scotland until the end of November, visitin? Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, and Aberden. His address is c.o. Thomas Cook and Son, Glasgow.

Mr. Arthur Pemrnell, of Wellington, with his son, last week returned to Mr. Pemmell's brother's place in Suffolk. They have been spending a few months in Scotland. In November they go to Italy for six weeks. i Mr. Arthur H. Reid, F.S.M'C, of Balclutha, who has bren in England for the last eighteen months studying optician work, last week took up the freedom of the City of London, through the Spectaclemakers' Company. Mr. Harry .Walters, of Wellington, who is over on a three months' business trip, is at present in Leeds. From Leeds he goes on to Manchester and Liverpool, and returns to London early in December. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. and Miss Russell, of Dannevirke (the former the brother of the Hon. Geo. Russell, who was in the Mackenzie Cabinet), leave this week for France, Switzerland, and Italy, They sail from Naples by the Orsova on November 80.

Mr. John Kendrick Bangs, the author of "The Houseboat on the Styx," and many l other stories, has signed a contract for a series of a hundred lectures in Australia and New Zealand, The famous "Salubrities I Have Met" will be one of his themes. ' • .

Messrs. W. E. Molineux Guy and Fred A. Hooker, of New Plymouth, who arrived in July, -will bo some time in London before returning to New Zealand. They have done a large amount of travelling in various parts of the country, and are at present at Sidcup, Kent. Mr. H. H. Meredith Day, and Mr. Thos. Day, of Christohurch, visited Canada' and the United States before coming to England, where they intend staying for about two months. They then go to Paris, Rome, and Naples, and sail from Naples in December. . Mr. Thomas Allen, of Auckland, left London for Paris on Saturday, and intends travelling slowly across the Continent, visiting Switzerland, the French. Eiviera, and Italy, joining the Otway in some Mediterranean port. The steamer is due in Sydney on February 13. Mrs. E. L. Ironmonger, of Rangitikei, is leaving in December, for home. Her visit was taken to recuperate after a serious illness, and she has been stayiDg chiefly with relatives in Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire. Sho is now at Gorleston-on-Sea with her parents.

Mr,, Mrs., and Miss Agnes P. Watson, of. Dunedin, have just returned from Paris, and leave for home in a few days. They have been for some time in Scotland and Ireland, and then visited Paris. They intend to spend a little time in Australia before returning.to New Zealand'. Mr. and Mrs. Jfornot, of Wellington, who have been staying in Ireland for two months, went down to Badminton (Gloucester) for bunting lost week, and then on to Devon, before returning to London for a month. In November they go to the Riviera, then on to Naples, from which place they sail in January for New Zea« land.

Mr. W. r H. Hodson, late of Richmond, Nelson, has been sinco last May in England, winding up family matters, visiting old friends and relatives in the West of England, Yorkshire, and London,-and motoring in various districts in England and Wales. He leaves in January, stopping en route in Italy and Egypt, and expects to arrive in New Zealand about April or May. Dr. D. Egan, who, for twenty-one years, was in Auckland, and afterwards was engaged in mission work in Ramegate, was Eome time ago selected to superintend and revise all the research work in connec-. tion with an ecclesiastical publication called the "Dictionary, of the Saints." This appointment has necessitated his living in London in proximity to the British Museum, where ne now spends most, of his time. Dr. Egan hopes to bring out the work in tho early part of 1914. Mr. Hugh Stewart, 8.A., who has been appointed Professor of Classics at Canterbury College, 'has had a distinguished scholastic career. He entered the famous Fettes College with a foundation scholarship, and proceeded thence to Edinburgh University as a Fettee Exhibitioner and holder of the Johu Welsh Classical Bursary. Later he entered Trinity College with a Sizarship, obtained a Foundation Scholarship, won many college prizes, and took the B.A. degrees in 1907 with Tirstclass (2nd Division) Honours in Classicsj