ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1659, 28 January 1913, Page 11

ON TOUR AT HOME.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON,

London, December 19. ■ Dr. Henry Darling has finished his term as house-surgeon at. tho Norwich Hospital. : Mr. P. H.l, M'Douall, of Oamaru, goes to Devonshire for Christmas.

Miss Myra Harty, of Dunedin, who has been in England tor a visit, has left on her return to Now Zealand. , ' The High Commissioner is advertising for twenty-five trained nursis' for mental hospitals in New Zealand. ' Dr. Redwood, Roman Catholic Archbishop of. New Zealand, who ha 9 been visiting friends in: the United States, is shortly expected in' Ireland, where lie will stay with the Marist 'Fathers in Dublin!

Mr. and Mrs. J. Rose, of Lower- Hutt, Wellington,' are expected in England early next year,'as are also Mr. and Mrs. Martin Kennedy, of ; Wellington, and their daughters, who. come, by the Orama. Miss Coughtroy-, daughter of tho , late Dr. Coughtrey, of St. Clair, Dunedin, who •has been in Ireland far about a month, is now the guest of the t Rev. H. and Mrs. Snow, late of St. John'k, Dunedin, arid now of Bromley, . The High Commissioner was one of. the guests at a luncheon, given on Thursday by Sir George Reid, at the British Empire Club, to/meet Professor Wyndham Dunstan,'F.R.S., Director :of tho Imperial Institute. ' Mrs: Cross, of Christchurch, last week delivered a'lecture on "New Zealand," under the auspices of the Victoria League, ait Leatherhead.

' The High Commissioner was one of the guests at the Worshipful. Company of Gardeners' dinner last week, and, a few days earlier, was entertained by the Company of Merchants of the' City of Edinburgh, when' ho replied to..the toast of "The Dominions Beyond the Seas," proposed by Sir. George M'Crae.. -- .K it .i, ; Mr. and-Mrs. Garrick, of - Christchurch, who arrived in Europe in June, spent some, time in France,' at Cannes, Nice, Monte' Carlo, and Paris,- They ;have been travelling in Scotland, Devon,. Cornwall, and' the Lake district, and have beenmotoring in Kent. They leave this week for the winter.sports'in Switzerland. Amotig the members of Royal Col< lege of Surgeons admitted as Fellows last: week was • Mr. Ivan ; Stuaft Wilson, M.R.C.S'.j :of New Zealand, who is completing his studies at-the London Hos-' pital. At the Samo meeting of the com.mittee, Mr. Kenneth' Mackenzie, of Otago University, who took his M.D. degree at Edinburgh, but; was not a member, , was also admitted to Fellowship", i A whist drive, which , was-very well attended, was given by the New Zealand Association at the : Westminster Palace. Hotel last-week, when thb?;pnzes .were presented by Mrs. Mackenzie. Mr. B. Ivvino and the Misses Irvine, of Auckland, who arrived in England in May, leave for New Zealand by tho. Otivay..on January 3.' The Misses Irvine have! been; touring in Great Britain ■ and the Continent.

, Mr. and Mrs. Chns. H. -£oole, who left Auckland last ■ February, - travelled via Tonga, Samia, Fiji, • and .the United, State?.-Then; after staying .with relatives in Minnesota, - .they went to Chicago, where .Mr. Poole Started-platform work, under the direction' .of ; .the National Chautauqua Association. . Ho' spoke in 108 towns, and,-during sixteen, weeks, delivered 250 speeches. .After three months here Mr. and Mrs/ Poole will return by way of America, where, after speaking for the Y.M.C, Association, torn while, Mr. Poolo will do another season's, platform work for'tho , Chautauqua Association,' and reach New Zealand from. Sah Francisco about-October next, ' ,