ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1742, 6 May 1913, Page 9

ON TOUR AT HOME.

LONDON PERSONALS. London, March 27. Tho lion. .Tames Allen, Sir?. Allen, and Miss Allen leave by the Empress of Ireland for Canada diroct on April 18. Mr. Allen is spending Easter with the headmaster of Clifton College, histoid school. Mr. Bnrrnud. artist, of Wellington, who arrived recently with Mrs. and Miss liarrand, intends shortly to go over to liomo Hiid Florence, where ho will remain for souie time. Miss Gem Witt is much better in health and is at present staying with- friends in the country. Mr. Waldegrave, of Wellington, and his daughter, Mrs. Atkinson, probably leave 011 their return to New Zealand in May. . Among the guests present at Mrs. Harcourt's reception at 14 Berkeley Square, last week, were tho Hon. .Tames Allen and Mrs. Allen and Miss Allen, and tho High Commissioner and Mrs. and Miss Mackenzie. Tho Earl and Countess of Hardwicke (formerly Miss Nellie Russell, of Auckland), who have been out to Australia for a trip, have now returned to where for a trip, have now returned to England. Lady Hardwicko is at NormansUurst, where she will stay till the end of April. Mr. W. R. Doughty, of Wellington, who is accompanied by his daughter, is hero on business connected with his firm, and expects to remain four or five months, visiting the manufacturing centres of the British Isles and the Continent. Mr. H. D. Broadhead (formerly of Canterbury College, Christclmrch, who, two years ago, won ,an open, exhibition at Trinity College, Cambridge, has recently gained a Senior Scholarship in Classics. Mr. Broadhead purposes continuing his studies at. Trinity for a third year. Mr. and Mrs. W. Dawbin, of Wellington, and their two daughters, who have been staying with relatives and friends in Somerset, arc now in London, and go shortly to Scotland. They hope to _ get back to New Zealand by the end of August. • Callers at the High Commissioner's offices last week were:—Mr. J. Cardigan, of Wellington; Miss C. Arnold, of Wellington; Mr. Harold Paul; Wanganui; Miss A. Butler, of New Plymouth;' Miss M. Thorn; Miss A. Dobbie, of Auckland; and Miss A. W. Synions, of Hawke's Bay. "A labourer is worthy of his hire,-so is the M.l\, and let us hope that in tho Home Land the day is not far distant when man will be of more account than pheasants and privileges," writes a Wellington man in one of the English papers last week, concerning the protests he has seen written against the payment of English M.l'.'s.

Miss Maria Bauchop, L.R.A.M., of Wellington and Duncdin, who left for Canada a couple of months ago, lias already begun taking private pupil.-;. She has also joined the staff of the Canadian Academy of Music, as a specialist—an exponent of the Multhay Method. She gave a lecture on tho method at the opening of the new recital hall of the Academy recently. Mr. and Mrs. M'Millan, of Auckland, are expected here next month with their daughter, soii-in-law, and grandchild, who will como on to England, while Mr. and Mrs. M'Millan probably spend a few weeks in the Chateaux. Country in Franco en route. After visit in:,' the Rev. ]). 11. A. Major and Mrs.'-Major (nee M'Millan), at Copgrove Rectory, in Yorkshire, Mr: and Mrs. M'Millan intend to take a flat in London. Mr. Juuie.s 15. Riddell, of Hawke's Bay, who is accompanied by his wife and son, is now in Ireland. Mr. Riddsll made the journey principally to sec his father, after an absence of 2G years. Unfortunately, Mr. ltiddell, senior, died some weeks before his son's arrival. Mr. and Mrs. Riddell intend (ravelling in England and France, and will return to New Zealand at the cud of tho year. ■ Tho complimentary .banquet which was to have been given bv the British Empire Club on April 2, to the Hon. ,T. A. Mackenzie, High Commissioner of New Zealand, and at which the Right Hon. Winston Churchill; M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty, had promised to preside, has been unavoidably postponed for a week or so. ' '•"■ Miss Ada Butler, of New Plymouth, arrived in London early this month, and intends to stay until the end of .Tune, spending Easter at Ilernc Bay. then going across to Ostend for a few days before visiting Scotland arid Ireland. Sha will spend May on the Continent, going to Nor. way early in June, and returning to London for a few days fcsfore leaving for New York and Canada en route for New Zealand. ■ The retirement of Sir Charles Hotham, tho senior Admiral of the Fleet, on reaching the age limit of 70 years, took place last week. The Admiral's rest is well earned, for he lias served the State for no fewer than 57 years. He entered the navy in 18,iG, and first saw active service in (lie New Zealand war, being one of the officers of ths parly which attacked the rebel redoubt at Rangnriri, in 180-1. Mr. Maurice Burlins-on, of Wellington, 'who left New Zealand Inst year, spent Die months from .Tune to November cycling through France, Switzerland. Italy, Tyrol, Carinthia, Styria, Croatia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Denmark. Swsden, nnd the British Isles. For three months Mr. Holroyd, of Hawke's Bay, accompanied him, and they camped out every night except :« the capitals. One excitement Was their arrest in Italy through passing the frontier unawares. Mr. Burlinson spent January and February in Germany, studying, and is now on bis v.-ay to Chicago via Irelandi in order to study American methods of accounting.