ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1647, 14 January 1913, Page 9

ON TOUR AT HOME.

■ ♦ LONDON PERSONALS. , London; December 6. Mrs., Miss, and Miss V. Montgomery, of Epsom, leave on their return to J»cw Zealand in March. Mr. C. R. Chapman, of Dnnedin, who has been staying for some timo in Berlin, Dresden, etc., and bevcral places in Silesia, is now wintering in Switzerland. A short story of Canadian life, by G. B. Lancaster, the New Zealand novelist, appears in the Christmas number of tho "London Mngarinb" Mr. Ji B. Hillhouse, of Invercargill, loft last week for a month in Italy. Ho mil probably catch a boat from Naples, and will break his passage at Perth Mr. Harry Wostbrook, of Wellington, who has been in Natal for the last three years, is on. a short holiday visit to England. He returns to South Africa in January. Mr. G. S Maben, of Wellington, who arrived in London on business at the end of October, is making a stay of about thrcvo months Mr. J. C. Spedding, of Auckland, left this week for Germany, Belgium,' and Austria, on a business, tour. On his return Mr. and Mrs. Spedding expect to go over to Switzerland for tho winter snorts. "Mim Helen M Bathnm, of Wellington, who has been in England since last May, is now staying at tho Vicarage, Bolton-I"-Snnd« Sho intends to remain in England till she sails for home in .Tamiarj. Mr. J. C. Morrison, formerly on the staff of thoatTtcrh Commissioner, has been in ill-health for a considerable time, and unable to leave the house, but is now somewhat' .better. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Robertson, of' Auckland, and their family, havo taken a house atßockenliam, in Kent. They recently spent a month in Scotland with various relatives This week Mr Robertson goes on a business trip to Germanv Mr.. Simpson 'and'.Miss Elsie Simpson, of Wellington, who came over to England for Miss Rita Simpson's marriage to Mr. Hobson, return in Februnry to Now Zealand, when another- Miss Simpson is to marry Mr. Peacock, of Wellington.' ■, A short play, "Mr. Wilkinson's Widqw';'' written by Constance.' Clyde, of Dnnedin, the author of "A Pagan's Lovo," ■ was • one, of tho attractions of the matinee given at the-Lyceum Theatre by the Actresses' Franchise League, on Friday. '-.' • .', ". .'.''..-.. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Shaw, of Gisborne, and their three daughters, returned from the West of England last week, and left for New York by the Majestic on Wednesday. After travelling in the United States they go to Honolulu and Fiji, and from there to Auckland. ' .Mr. G. W. Clarkson, known in Duncdm business circles, who arrived in London in . November, will be here for about three months longer. : Mr. Clarkson ! will spend Christmas and the New Year with friends in Germany, and will visit Holland and France prior to returning to London, at the end of Jannnry.' '■Miss Rubv Mitforil. of Wellington, and late of- Auckland, who has been living in England far tho' past four years, returns to the Dominion in January.- She will be accompanied bv her cousin, Mrs. Frederick Cox, of. London, who is making her home in Auckland. Miss Mitford has just returned to London after a visit to- cousins in. Ireland, and intends now to remain in .her flat nt Kensington till she. leaves. Major and Mrs. T. W. MT)onald, of Wellington, leave. Tendon this Week : for Chatham, which will ho their hondnunrters for four months while Major M'.Donald .is studying coast defences. ' Mrs. M'Doimld has in the past few months been staying in Scotland, liydo, and Aldershot, accompanied by her three children. • The Rev. Harry Johnson, of the Wilsden C'ongrocaKonnl Church -(Bradford), who has accepted n call from, the Trinity 1 Congregational Church at Christchurch, sails for the TJominion by the Arawa on January 2. Fo will bo accompanied b.v his wife, two daughters, and a son. Mr. Johnson, who is a native of Leicesteri shire was trained at the Congregational Theological College, then nt Che-shunt, [ and was lnler sent from the London Mis- \ sionnrv Society out to the Lake Tanganyika Mission in Central Africa, heir* one , of tho first missionaries on that field.