ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1724, 15 April 1913, Page 2

ON TOUR AT HOME.

LONDON PERSONALS. London, March 0. Tho High Commissioner is giving a luncheon on March 11 to the Hon. James Allen and Sir Walter Buchanan at tho Hotel Windsor, at which Mr. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, will be present. On Friday, February 27, Mr. Allen and Sir Walter Buchanan witnessed exhibitions of flying at Faruborough, given by the Army Flying Corps. Archbishop Redwood left by the Orontes on Friday last on his return to New Zealand. Miss Peake, of Dunedin, who has been in England for the past three years, returns to New Zealand by the Bemuera early in May. Mr. and Mrs. Melitus, who resided for some years in. Dunedin, are now in England, and staying at Kensington. .Mr. James K. Throp, of Dunedin, who came over to study tho wool trade, and spent eighteen months with a Bradford firm of wool merchants and top-makers, lias joined a London firm of brokers. Sir William Hall-Jones, ex-High Commissioner for New Zealand, who has been resid'ng at the seaside, has booked passages for himself and family by tho llooltan, leaving on the 20th instant. On March 13, the Empire Parliamentary Association is giving a luncheon to the High Commissioner and tho Hou. James Allen at the House of Commons. Colonel Seely, Secretary of State for War, will preside Miss Gem Witt, lato of Dunedin, lias had rather a bad breakdown, and has. been ordered complete rest for at least six months. She has just returned from a trip to Brighton. Mr. W. Devenisli-Meares, Christchurch,. who is returning to New Zealand in April, has left LondSn and will bo absent for some weeks visiting friends. Ono of his daughters was married lately to Mr. M. Tosswill,. solicitor, of Torquay. . On Saturday and Monday, February 22 and 21, the High Commissioner visited liamsgate, Broadstnirs, and Margate, a nd on Friday he visited a farm on which tho cultivation; of sugar-beet is being carried out on scientific lines. Mrs. E. and Miss Mollio Willoughby are passengers from England by tho lonic, which sailed from Tilbury on Thursday. They intend to inako their future homo in Dunedin with Mr. Stanley Willoughby, who has been in tho Dominion for some years. ' _ . Mr. H. Joosten, of Wellington, arrived from New York last week on business, having visited Canada and the United States en route. Mr. Joosten left later in the week for Hamburg and Leipzig, where ho will be for a fortnight, after which he will remain in England for two or three months. On Monday, February 21, the High Commissioner delivered a lecture on New Zealand to a large audience, consisting principally of boys and girls, at tho National Children's Homo Orphanage, Bonner Road, London, N.E. On Thursday, February 27, he gave a lecture at Norwich. \ Mr. Mason, vicar of Otahuhu, and Mrs. Mason travelled to this country via Hawaii (whero they stayed for a month), and Vancouver. They spent threo weeks in Canada, and aro at present with Mrs. Mason's brother, who is president of tho North Staffordshire Colliery Owners' Association. They afterwards visit Sir Hugh Owen, 1v.C.8. (Mrs, Mason's imcle), before leaving for New Zealand on April 25. Mr. Mason is giving? a few lectures on New Zealand in various agricultural districts. Mrs. Macdonald, of Dunedih, and her two daughters, left New Zealand in November for Colombo, and from there went to .Penang, whero Miss Macdonald was married. Tho . other two then returned to Colombo, whero they spent a fortnight, before coming on to London. They intend 6taying in Kensington for a few months, and visiting the country and Scotland, during 1 , tho summer. The Imperial: Chess Club, founded hotvery lon'pr ago By ills. Arthur Rawson,' late of Wellington, lias proved so conspicuous a success that its first premises in Curzon Street have been found inade3uate, and it therefore moved on Saturay into splendid new rooms within the Rifle Club, Piccadilly. Members from the Oversea Dominions will bo elected to tho club by presenting introductions from recognised chess or social clubs. Visitors aro elccted as hon. members for a fortnight on application to tho secretary. Mrs. Rawson, who is the president, is supported by a number of well-known vice-presidents, amongst them tho Very Rev. Monsignor Benson, tho Bishon of Trinidad, Lord Claud Hamilton, Lord Griinston, aud Lord Hawarden.