ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1625, 17 December 1912, Page 2

ON TOUR AT HOME.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

. London, November 7. , Mrs. Gould, "of Christchurch, is staying at 13 Cadogan Placs. Mr. J. R. Smith, of Port Moeraki, is at present staying in London. Mr. and Mrs. Ellerbeck, of. Auckland, are staying in London for- a ; few days. Miss Dorothy Siin, daughter of Judge Sim, left for New Zealand u few days ago. Mrs; W. H. Coninau, of Wellington, is at present staying with relatives in Plymouth.' Mr. and Mrs. Macdermott M'Laughlin, of Auckland, left last week for Johannes-' burg. Mr. Frank Waldegrave, of Welli n j>' on > and Mrs. Atkinson, his daughter, leave 1 for the Riviera shortly, : . ' Mrs. Cross, of Christchurch, who has been in London for some time, contem--1 plates a visit to Russia in' December. Mr. H. H. Oxley, who came hero'last June, left last week for Paris, and sails for New Zealand by the Malwa from Marseilles.' ■'..>■■.■ Mrs. W. Irvine and her daughter, Miss Sybil Irvine, of Dunedin, arrived in London a fortnight ago, and are at present staying with Mrs. Irvine's sister in Suffolk. Mr. Farquhar Young, of Christchurch, spent three weeks on the Continent _ before coming on to London. After visiting Scotland and Ireland, Mr. Young will stay in London for some months.' Mr. Frank Harvey, of Wellington, arrived a few weeks ago oii a three months' visit. He is at present in Edinburgh, and returns to London about the middle of this month. Mr. Arthur H. Reid, F.S.M.C, of Balclutha, who recently took up the freedom of tho City of London through the Spectnclemakers' Company, left London a fortnight ago for the North, of England, and will be absent until Christinas'. '■■- Mr. : Harry Oienham arid his brother, of Christchurch, returned to London a week, I ago from a three months' cycling tour through England, Scotland and Ireland. New Zealand was represented by a stall of New' Zealand fruits, woods, etc., at the Annual' Home Industries Exhibition at Winchester last week, and the same show is apsparing at a travel exhibit this week at Portsmouth. The Misses Lily and Ethel Wilson,' of Christchurch, who have visited the English Lakes District, and Cheltenham, pose wintering in Cornwall, at St. Ives. They hopo to go to Holland in the' spring, and Norway in the summer. , Miss Sarah Stuart, of Invercarsill, arrived in October, and will probably remain in England until January, afterwards going to' France and Germany for a month. Site is accompanied by a friend- Miss Margaret Hodgson, of Wellinßtou. Mrs. P. Dufaur, of Auckland, |has como to England principally to place her daughter at St. Margaret's School, at Busbey, in ■ Herts. They spent tho summer, in Sootland, and Mrs. Dufaur is now settled in London till the Christmas holidays, when she hopes to take her daughter with her to Paris or Brussels for a few weeks. There opened on Tuesday, at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, a Sports and Pastimes Exhibition, to which the-High Commissioner's Department has contributed a collection of'stags' heads, red deer, fallow deer, boars' heads,'wild'goats, and' trout. ' ■■'■'■'"■ •' ■ ! The Misses Munro; of. Hawke's 'Bay,' have arrived in En&land;;and are at pre- , seat staying with their niece, 'Mrs. Milken, in Grosvenor Square, sight-seeing. They intend to spend . the winter 'iu Southport, with their brother,.Mr. G. S. Munro. Mr. H. A. Reid, Bacteriologist to the Department of Agriculture, arrived in London in September, haying made a short tour through the. southern and central districts of France en route. The principal objects of Mr. Reid's visit to Europe are to study bacteriological science, serum, therapy, and parasitology. To these ends he proposes to undertake a course of study at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, where formerly ho was a.student; and also probably at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London. He will also study the general progress of veterinary science, and, in particular, the organisation and equipment of the Army Veterinary Corps, of which Mr. Reid is an officer. Through the courtesy -of General Pringle; Director of tho British Army Veterinary Service, every facility as been given to enable him to carry out the necessary inquiries. ,