ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1734, 26 April 1913, Page 11

ON TOUR AT HOME.

PERSONAL NOTES PROM LONDON, \' ; ,

C- ™,1 „ . London, April 20. Sir Walter Buohanan, of Masterton, left for Scotland last week. Mr, and Mrs. Staples-Browne left Rome last week, and expeot to bo for some months.

Mr. and Mts. A. K. Watson and their cousin, Miss Weston, left yesterday for Swanage,. whero they expect to stay for a fortnight. .. . , ■ . , Mr. Robert Horton, of Auckland, has recently returned from Switzerland, and is staying at Bailey's Hotel. • Mrs. H. M. MacDowell, of Wellington, who has been for tho past year in England, left for Paris yesterday; accompanied by her niece, Mrs. Hazell, of LonLater they intend visiting Ireland, touring the Lakes of Killarney and the West Coast.

•The High Commissioner, Mr. Wray Palliser, and Mr. T. E. Donne on Wednesday last inspected a number of films of the thermal districts in New Zealand, taken kinemacolour process. These, which, are considered very successful, are to be shown in London shortly. Professor Bickerton,' of Christchurch, has been asked to lecture before the Physical Society on' May : 30. It will interest his New Zealand friends to know that Professor Bickerton's portrait and biography appear in.No, 37 of Harmsworths' Popular Science, devoted to "Men of Forever." . So successful was' the dance given by the New Zealand Association in London in January that .the committee .has decided, to hold another ono on May 28. Mr. Harold Beck, of Wellington, has come to England to further'his experience", in engineering. (Before, going back, however, he will visit relatives in Belfast.

Mr. James Robertson, of Auckland, his 'daughter, Miss Elsie'Robertson, and his sister. Miss Robertson, have just-returned to England after visiting Milan .and the Engleberg, where they enjoyed the'winter sports, Rome,. Naples,. Florence, Venice, Lucerne,. Lugano,' and Paris. Owing to . Mrs.. Robertson having sustained a slight accident,: she . could ■ not accompany the party. The Hon. H. C;. Butler, of Wellington, called at'the High Commissioner's. Office last week. He intends going to Dinard for-Easter and then on to Paris to meet Miss Butler. She is, to he presented at Court by Lady.Plunket after Easter,-and they-will be in London. until August, when they intend to pay visits in Scotland. . On March 12, the High Commissioner was' a guest of the Institution of Naval Architects, when ho responded i "to tho toast of the "Overseas Dominions," pro-

posed by Lord Hyfche. On Friday evening he took the chair at a lecture on "Citizenship in Ancient and Modern Law,'/' delivered by Mr. J. W. Salmond, M.A., LL.B'., Solicitor-General. of New Zealand, at University College. 'Mr. Mackenzie has been invited by the Shakespeare Club to visit' Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, the anniversary of'Shakeepeare's birthday, to assist in ' the celebrations by'unfurling .the flag of New Zealand. ■ ; Speaking at the.Liberal Colonial Club at Princes Kestaurant, Piccadilly, on Maroh 12, the Hon. James Allen appealed to the' members of the British Parliament to deal with the question of defences'in a non-party spirit. The aim of the Empire was not aggression, but wag to build up a machine on land so that"it might enjoy: in peace its freedom, liberties and great responsibilities;' We could not rely on the navy, alone. In .New Zealand they-had what some*,people called conscription, but what' he called national service. Th£ro were still some objectors, but the scheme had be'on received so favourably that the nine days' training had been raised to fourteen at the request of the men. They v;ould be ready to transmit to any part of tEe /Empire that needed assistance their fair share of land forces. Australia was using sentiment and patriotism for tho purpose of building up an Imperial Navy, and he thought that policy should be adopted by all tho Dominions. The time had come when a scheme should be evolved by which the various units should be po constructed that when united they would form an efficient fighting force in which there would be no surplus and wastage of energy. .

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