ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1653, 21 January 1913, Page 8

ON TOUR AT HOME.

LONDON PERSONALS. London, December 12. Mr. and Mrs. von Ilnnst, of Wellington, left for home by the Corinthic last week. Mr. and Mrs. Kernot, of Welliugtoii, left on : Sunday for I'rance and Italy, en route for-Jv'ew* Zc-aland. Mi 1 . C. Wrny l'alliser represented tho High Commissioner at a Conference of Chambers of Commerce in l'nris lust week.. The High/Commissioner for New Zealand is shortly to be entertained by the Empire League at a banquet.' , Mrs. M'Carthy, relict of the late-Mr. T. G. M'Carthy, one. of Wellington's old pioneers, is expected iu England early next year. '

Mr. H. Fisher, of Christchurch, who has been in this country'and on the Continent for tho past four months," has left onliis return to Xew Zealand. ,

The father of Mr. Richard StaplesBrown, whose wife was Miss Maggie l'apakura, the; well-known 'guide ot Rotorua, died. last week at Bampton, his home- ill Oxfordshire. . ...

Mr. E. C. Wright, of Auckland, has been visiting his relatives in the Old Country, after an absence of 29 years. He sailed for New Zealand by the Omrah last week. Sir Cecil Moon, who succeeded his grand-, father in the baronetcy in lS9B;.;and LadyMoon, intend to settle permanently :in Christchurch. '/

Mr. Ri Gould,- a Christ College "old boy," who is-now at Jesus College, Camibfidge, rowed No. 2 • in the winning boat iu tile Trial Eights race, decided-on-the Ouse at Ely. on fcaturday week. Mr. Howard Butters, of Chine -Tower, Bournemouth, sailed from Liverpool, l for ' New Zealand, by tho ■ Morayshire last week.- It is understood that his visit, has to do with the development l of the May Moon Timber C 0.,. of Wellington. .Mr; Jostph Land, of Waltliamstow,who is shortly to be married to Dr. Dulcie .-Williams,'of Napier, has gone out to New Zealand, where ho will-live in future. He lis ac.companicd .by a younger brother. Miss. Sheila Potter (daughter of Mr. H. W. Potter, of Ashley Gardens, and one,of the directors of-the'Federal Shiro'Line), a well-known' Fabian, who visited New Zealand recently and; niade some , study of . tho industrial conditions ruling in the Dominion, • was married a-few days ago. : ' Mr. and, Mrs. Allan Robinson and their tno daughters, of'Wanganui, are in' London on: their way back, to' New Zealand after having lisen through .the United States and Canada.. They expect to return about the beginning of March jiest, taking' -Prance, Switzerland,, and Italy ..on - the ;vny. . ~ I .- ; .:/., ~

Jlrs.. Cross,, of, Christchuroh, -who goes shortly to.relatives in Prance and Russia,was ill, and more, or less in .the doctofs 1 hands for over ' two months, 'but is now much better. Miss Freeman, who came. to. England with' Mrs.: Cross, is studying new' ■educational methods in the colleges here. ' The death has just taken place at Cheltenham of an old Indian Mutiny and New Zealand War veteran, in the person', of Captain Jafnes P./Danbery,' late'of tlie 18th Royal Irish Regiment. The deceased officer, who was in liis- 74th year, saw a great deal of the hard work 'which the Royal Irish did /against the Maoris and file.:storming.'.of .their pas. : • 'Mr. Colin Campbell, of.Devonport, lias 'lust' come { from ' New Zealdnd, 'where he has ; hepn visiting his people in Auckland. Hd; expects to go on to Portuguese terri- ' tory (Zambes'ia) at an early.date; For the past five years Mr. Campbell ■ has ■ bfeh mining engineer for the Rhodesia Consoli-; dated Ltd.,-iii Mashonalaud, and it is for this company he expects to go' to Za:nbesia. He was educated.at the Ota go versity-School of Mines, and left New Zealand some ten.years ago' for. Kalgoorlie, then;went ,on .to tho Transvaal/'Rhodesia, etc..-',' ' . /. -. ■-.:■/