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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1620, 11 December 1912, Page 5

ON TOUR AT HOME.

'<■ ~ — ~v— LONDON PERSONALS. London, October 31. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas .Anderson, of Wellington',, with 'their' - 'two :little sons, arrived in;.!Englahd 'iri September, via ■ Japan and Canada, and are now slaying with friends in Wimbledon. They leave for Scotland early in November. ':■ Tho Earl of Liverpool-was received in ; audience by the King on Monday mornings and delivered up his wand of office as i Comptroller of the Household, on his appointment as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of New Zealand. .' The marriage of Miss Bertha Clifford, .daughter of Mr. Walter Clifford, of Flaxbourne, Marlborough, to Lieutenant Inn G. ■ S. Hilton, R.M., is to take placo at Brompton Oratory, on November 14. ■ it is understood that the inarriago re.cently. arranged between Captain-A. H. A. Empson and Miss Gore Browne, daughter, of the Rev. T. Gore Browne, rector of Fawlcy, Southampton, will take place about August next, at Fawley, on Captain Empson's return from India. 'The Misses LA. arid. O. Burton, of Dnnedin, have been travelling for some months, visiting Norway, Scotland, the English Lakes, Wales, and Ireland, and are now in London for the -winter.. An interesting ceremony, in'which New, Zealand was concerned, took place a few days ago, when Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, unfurled a flag at Roseneath School, Dumbarton, that had ten presented by the school of the same name in Wellington, New Zealand. vDri S. H. Hay, of Dunedin, arrived here at the beginning of September, and intends to remain for about two years, taking, a postgraduate course at the Middlesex Hospital. He is at present Acting-Resident-Medical Officer at the' Hospital 'for. Nervous Diseases, in Maida-vale.' ■The "Nobodies"' Club, of which.Pro-' "fessbf'. Biekerton/ of K« 'Zealand, is the founder, gave a'reception at the Clavier Hall .last Thursday evening. It was well attended,, and much enthusiasm was ishown over 'an excellent-musical programme. Among the artists was _Miss Audrey Richardson, .'for whom critics predict a future.. ■' :-,••. - • Two New Zealanders took part in the Freshmen's Rugby Football Trial,"' held .at Cambridge recently. For the "White," W. G. Salmond;'of New - Zealand University, who is'how at St. John's College, was at three-quarter, andiH.'M. Chrystall, of New Zealand'. ftJriiversity, and now at Emmanuel, College,' was in the '-'Colours" third' line. Among New Zealanders who have booked their passages for New' Zealand are - Mr. Fred W. Boyes, of Han-era, who returns in January next; Mr; and Mrs. Oscar Monrad, cf Palmerston North, and their three, children- by thsOrsova, :on November 22; Messrs. George, and- Herbert Scott, of Dunedin, in December; Dr. and' Mrs. M'Kay Grant, of Auckland, and Mrs. Joseph, of Wellington, in February. The High Commissioner last Week paid an'unofficial visit to Manchester, Liverpool, and Glasgow, accompanied by Mr. Crabb, the New Zealand Government Veterinary Inspector, and Mr. H. C. Cameron, the Produce Commissioner. Mr. Mackenzie's object was to investigate for himself the conditions under which New Zealand meat is handled at those three'port?. He will, later on, pay'an' official visit, to each. Mr. E. A. Belcher, who was recently appointed to an educational position in Christchurch, was an exhibitioner at-his school—Queen's College, Taunton—and graduated with- honours at Lincoln College, Oxford, in modern-history. At Queen's College he was- captain of the school fifteen, and:in the.cricket eleven, and at Oxford he was captain of Lincoln College .Association eleven; in the college cricket team, and played in the college Rugby team. Subsequently Mr. Belcher played Association for Middlesex County. His is a major in the Royal Engineers (Territorial - force), aud has, tip to now, commanded the Clifton College Contingent. He has stayed in' England a week longer than-he intended,-in. order "to take part in 'field "day operations' on October 29, at • Cheltenham, in., which. contingents from Rugby, Clifton, Cheltenham, Malvern, and other 'welLknown public schools will be taking.'part.; He; sails: by the Orama 'for. ; New Zealand.'. ■-.' v•;' Miss Kempthorne, iof Dunedin, is at present paying a '-isit to London. Mr. Arthur J. French! of Dunedin, is paying a short business trip to Glasgow. He returns to London on November 5. Mr." James Proctor, of Invercajgill, has returned from a three months' visit to the United States, and is at present in Edinburgh.. . Mr. Harry Browne, of Dunedin, has gone to Germany for six weeks. - Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Pearce, of Dunedin, are staying with friends in Glasgow until November. 14,,.when th'ey;go on to Aberdeen for a. week. '■■ '\ , Mr. George Clutsam, late of Auckland, has had a new opera accepted for production in Berlin; under the title of "Das Spitzenhemd" ("The Lace Vest"). The marriage between -Mr. Esmond M. Sinau^r,'Royal. Engineers, and Miss Gwendoline Nathan,, of- Auckland, will take place in London on.'.November 14. Dr. Winifred-Bathgate, who has been in this country • for a;-.few months, expects to leave for home in November. Mr.' and Mrs. J. H. Taylor, who are at present staying in .Sheffield, leave on .December 5 for New Zealand by the Corinthi'c. Mrs. Taylor, who has been in bad health, is now much better. The High Commissioner gave an account of the military training of boys in New. Zealand at tho third national conference on.- sea-training in the London County Council Chamber last week. Mr. and Mrs. William Owen, of Wellington, who returned last week to London from a fortnight's stay in Paris, went on to Manchester, where they will remain until the end of November. Mrs. T. W. M'Donald. wife of Major T. W. M'Donald (Wellington), who is attached to the Army here, is at-present living at Gordon Square, London. Their oldest son is at school at Aldershot.' /: ,i . y •