ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1635, 31 December 1912, Page 3

ON TOUR AT HOME.

LONDON PERSONALS,

*• r,-<, , m .,f onc ' on > November 21. bir Ltilberfc Wills, who was to havo accompanied Lord Liverpool as extra aide-do-camp, had to change his plans at the eleventli hour on account of the vacancy at Taunton, for which sent ho was electcd in the Unionist interest last week. Sir William and Lady Hall-Jones and their daughters left their flat in Berners Court this week to winter in Bournemouth. They expect to return to New Zealand early next year. Mr. Arthur E.. Hart, of Christchurcli, arrived a fortnight ago, and will probably .remain for some considerable time on business connected with New Zealand.

Mrs. Robertson, of Marton, who has been for the past thirty, years in New Zealand, is just completing a six months' trip to England and the Continent, and returns to New Zealand to-morrow.

The High Commissioner has become a vice-president o£ the Victoria League. Mr. H. O. Cameron, the Produce Commissioner, is to deliver a lecture on New Zealand under the auspices of the league in the near future.■ "

Mr. and Mrs. B. L. An-owsmith, of Christchurcli, arrived by the Taranaki, and, after a short stay here, Mr. .Arrowsmith goes to Glasgow on business, Mrs. Arrowsmith remaining in l London with her sister, Miss Constance Bain, of Christchurch. ■

Miss M. A. Wayue, of Otago, has been, since last April, at the Ragged School Union headquarters as an honorary helper, a position, she undertook when'tlio director, Sir John Kirk, New Zealand some time ago. • Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Taylor (Rotorua) have left-Sheffield, and are now in London, at the Welbeck Hotel, Ga-rtwright Gardens, where they will remain until their departure for New Zealand by the Corinthic on December 5.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Burn, of Wellington, are revisiting England after an absence of- 26 years, and have been staying for' some time in Newcastle, North Shields,' and Whitby. They sail for home by the BaHarat at the end of January, and before that are visiting Glasgow and Edinburgh. • Miss A. and Miss'B. C. Dobbie, of Auckland, arrived in. London by the Athenic this -month, and expect to stay two years. Miss A. Dobbie is to study , tlie violin under Monsieur Bonnomain (a pupil of Ri-r vard), at the Royal College of Music, and Miss B. Dobbie,'art, under Mr; Frank Calderon,- the animal painter., Mr. and Mrs. Bray,- of Whangarei, who arrived last June,- bought a motor-car on their arrival, and liave.-very- thoroughly, seen England -and Scotland, covering three thousand miles in the former country, alone. They also visited-Brussels, Ant-' werp, Amsterdam, and France, and will now be here until December,. when they return to the Dominion.

Mr. Luscombe, a Devonian, who has recently returned to England from NeWj •Zealand, was the purchaser of Combe Royal, Kniglitsbridge, South Devon, a few days ago. Bidding for the' Elizabethan house and grounds commenced at ,£6OOO, and it was knocked down-to Mr. Luscombe for ,£10,750. '

.Mr. and Mrs. Martin! Hearn, of Wanganui, arrived by the Orsova, and leave London at. the end of November to winter in the South of France. Mr. Heara, who has come,over for reasons of health, is at present under Dr. Dundas Grant, the ear specialist. They hope to return to, England about February or March, anil to tour the British Isles.

■Mr. J. A. Court, of. Auckland, and Mr. T. Linklater, of Wellington, who arrived a;few days ago, leaves this week for Manchester, to join the soft goods firm of J. an'd-N. Philips and Co., and will probnbly spend the next six months attending lec-. tures a,t the Manchester Technical College for Textiles.' They will also visit' the leading textile mills. 'P. J. Ryan, of Napier, has arrived in London . after attending the congress of the' International Chambers of Com:merce,lield in Boston in September, when lie : was a delegate'' from the Nanier Qhamber. He is returning, to New York Tiy Cuiiard steamer on Saturday, and from there Twill, go on to Vancouver, and catch t'ho boat, sailing for New Zealand on Christmas Day/ ; ■ .Mrs. T. H. Barnett, of. Christchurch, aqd her, two daughters, have been staying with a, niece in East Sheen for five weeks, and, after some further'travelling, in Es-. ,sex."and Devonshire, have started.on \a round of visits which;will take tlieni lip to Christmas.' ; They leave England for Genoa, Switzerland, and Milan, sailing .on December 31 :fo'r Sydney. ; An article by Miss Evelyn Isitt.'of Wellington,. appeared in' "The Lady" recently, under the title ,of "Openings for ■Women- in New Zealand." .-• Miss Isitt is of opinion that the advertisers, of the Dominion's virtues..shirk a duty in not emphasising the fact "that women in the colonies ago mor6 quickly between thirty and forty than they do in England, and -that an unmarried woman of thirty or.so out. there is even more, likely to remain' unmarried than she is .in the Old .World."

Mr. and Mrs. H. F. von Haast, of Wellington, returned'to London recently after a lengthy tour on the Continent. lneom r pany with Lady von Haast they, made a .leisurely round of the Italian lake/district'and Genoa. Lady von Haast ,is • wintering in Palermo. Mr. and ilrs. von. Haaist have also thoroughly visited Northern Italy, Lucerne, and Paris, and are now in London. They leave for the Dominion by the Corinthic on December 5.

Mr. H. R. Spence, lately Collector of Customs at Invercargill, who has been appointed by the New Zealand Government Resident Customs Agent.in London, arrived early in November -with • Mrsl Spence and liis-' two daughters: Mr. Spwice, who expects to remain for three years in London, has established his official headquarters in Parliament Square,there- being no suitable accommodation available for the purposes of his business in the High Commissioner's, present ' offices. • ' ' -...

Miss Isabel MaryHoneyman, eldest daughter of the late Dr. J. H. Honeyman, ; a very well-known physician, some twenty years ago in Auckland , (.whose widow'became Mrs. Bruce-Porter), was married fit St. George's Church, Hanover Spare, on. November 12, the bridegroom being Lieu-tenant-Colonel C. A. Johnston, 1.M.5., son" of the late Mr. William Johnston,' of Madras. Prebendary Anderson, assisted by the Rector of St. George's, and the Rev. Roycroft conducted the service! Miss' Alice E. Layr, L.R.A.M., who has been in England and Germany for some, time studying music, returns to Auckland at the beginning of February. Miss Law has teen at the Stern Conservatorium, iu Berlin, for fourteen months under the wellkno.wn pianist and teacher, Herr Georg Bertram, and has gained a .diploma in that time for which students usually have to work three years (a leaving certificate). Her master thinks Miss Law has ma'de, brilliant progress.. She has also studied counterpoint and composition in Berlin,; .under Hermann Durra, who is a wellknown opera and lieder composer in Berlin. Her summer holidays she spent in France, Scotland, and Belgium.