ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1628, 20 December 1912, Page 9

ON TOUR AT HOME.

LONDON PERSONALS,

London, November 14. Mr. Arthur Grabhara, of Wellington, is i& England on a business trip. Dr. W. Gratton Guinness, of Auckland, has returned to London after a few weeto in Ireland.

The High Commissioner is paying an offioial visit to Cardiff and Bristol this week to inquire into the proper handling of New Zealand produce. Mrs. Robert Hannah, of Wellington, and her tiro sons and two daughters are returning to New Zealand, on November 22.

The first whist drive of the season was held by the New Zealand Association at the Westminster Palace Hotel last night. Mr. C. B. Hoadley, who has resided in Napier for nearly 10 years, is, with his daughter, now paying a visit to England. ' They leave for New Zealand on the 22nd of November. Miss Winnie Christison, of Auckland, accompanied by her friend, Miss Dolly Carruthers, of Dunedin, arrived in London a few weeks ago on a short visit to friends in Liverpool. Mr. Austin Heritage, of Wellington, leaves for America during the month, but, will return to London in January, before leaving for Now Zealand. The Messrs. 0. F. and L. W. Baker, of Christchurch, who have been over here since June, and have lately been travelling on the Continent,, left last' week for New Zealand.

Miss Maria Bauchop, of Port Chalmers and Wellington, sets out for Toronto, where she intends to make her home in future, in December. ■ Mr. W. C. Hartgill, a Wanganui College Old Boy, captains tho London Hospital Rugby team this year, and plays forward, Mr. S. E. V. Brawn, of South Canterbury, plays back. Miss Daisy Cummins, of Wellington, arrived in London a fortnight ago, ■ and leaves for a month with relatives in Holland, when her brother, Mr. Arthur Cummins, joins her. The latter is spending a few weeks longer in the United States. Mr. Edgar 0. Randle, of Invercargill, ■who arrived in London some time ago, will probably stay twelve months. Mr. Randle is interested in the'soft goods business.

Mr.- Ghaa. W. Purnell, of Ashburton, leaves for New Zealand by tho Athenio. He has travelled England and in Scotland,, and also spent some time with his son, Dr. C. -A. Pnrnell, who has a large practice at Rending. lady Hermione Blackwood, a sister of Lady Plunket, was on the platform at tha mass meeting at the Albert Hall Inst wenk, organised by the National Union of Women's Suf?rn?e Societies, to demand inclusion in the Franchise Bill, i

Mr. and Mrs. EHerbeck, of Auckland, who have been travelling extensively by motor bicycle and other means about England for several months intnnd to winter on the Continent, and probably will not return to New Zealand until the end of 1913.

The R-ev. F. Stiibbs, of Rotorna, who returned from India a few months ago, has been epMiding the Bummer in England,, preaching and/lecturing for the churches. He is also busily engaged in .literary work, and started for the Riviera last ircek.. .

■■ Mr. Charles Yovmsr, of Christchurch, who arrived in London, via Queensland, Ceylon, and India, in staying in England and Scotland for about three months, and returns via. America.

License to practise physic was grantod at tho ordinary quarterly comitia of the P«oyal College of Physicians to Mr. H. J. Hoby,. of who is competing his medical studies at Guy's Hospital. Mr. Holiy was for several years one of the mainstays of th« Guy's Rugby friim in the forwirij ranks.

For lite recently-published book of poems. "Songs from the Forests of Tsnc," Mr. Chamborlin Chamberlin is rncoivini? appreciative press notices. The "Times" snTj that "these little phantasies nnd reverie? oertuinlr spring from a poetic mind," nnd "thpir formlessness has a grn.ee of its own."

Dr. and. Mrs. Bornrird Myers, late of Auckland, hp]d a mention' at their house in Prioi-jr TTond, TTampstead, lart vreek, Tvlieri .Mr. Bor/e-Rmith, on behalf of the Maritime. Lraiuo, delivered a lecture on Imperial Defence. . Amoni? Now Zeniandore lvnrfl.Mr. ond Mm;-T.eo. ifvers (Anckto.n(J) and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Htiymnn (Dnnflf'in). Mr. ,T. B. Clarkson, of Christchnro.h nnd Wellington, is in London for a couple of months on n Tjnsiness trip, and intends to visit IVanoe nnd fl<?rmnnv nnd siynd a fcvr woeks in Canada bpfors rer turnins: to tho Dominion.'"Mr. Clarkwin nrrivod fn Txirdon *jrnctly thirty-one days nftpr Kivin? Auckland, harinpr'enent the J»st part, nf two days in one rdac* in Cnnnda nn rmite. ■ ' -

Mt. C, N. Belcher, who was recently nppointed to th-n hcwlmnsfe'r'hip of Christ's Collepo, Cliristchurch, picked up the Orama at Toulon. ■ , ■