ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 1760, 27 May 1913, Page 9

ON TOUR AT HOME.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON,

London, April 17. Lady Islington underwent a slight operation on Wednesday of last week, but la progressing favourably, and intends shortly to go to Hartham Park, lord Islington's country house in Corsham. Mr. T. Buxton, M.P., of Temuka, and Mrs. Buxton, have left London for a trip through the provinces. Mr. Fred J. Livingstone, of Christchurch, is at present at tho College of All Hallows, Barking,- in Fitzroy Square. Mrs. T. C. 'Faville, of Wellington, and her daughters Miss Hazel and Miss Rona Faville, are at present in England. Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Tennent and their daughter, of Marton, arrived in London reoently, after over forty years' residence in New Zealand.

Dr. \V. E. Redman, of Picton, and Mrs. Redman, arrived reoently apd intend remaining in England some six or seven months. Dr. Redman will be principally engaged in post-gnadua-te work at the London hospitals. The Bev. H.' L. Snow, for some years vicar of St. John's, Dunedin, who came over here for a holiday some time ago, and took the senior curacy of St. Mary's, Plaistow, has been appointed to a living in Adelaide, and sails, with Mrs. Snow, almost immediately. Among the guests entertained by the Treasurer and the Master of the Bench of Lincolns Inn, at dinner last Monday week—being Grand Day in Easter termwas Mr. J. W. Salmond, LL.B., aolicitor, of New Zealand.

Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Dunckley and their daughter, of Morrinsville (Waikato), and Miss M. Dunckley, of Manawatu, visited Cairo before coming to England. The ( y will probably remain in London until May, and then will travel the United Kingdom. Sir Joseph and Lady Ward gave a dinner party on Saturday evening at the Trooadero, and then took a party of people on as tho guests of Mr. Urban, proprietor of the Kinemacolour process, to the Scala Theatre, to witness a special production of New Zealand pictures in colour.

The High Commissioner, on instructions from New Zealand, has just appointed twenty-five nurses (pfobationary) for mental asylums in tho Dominion, and the following are sniling shortly Miss Lilian Marshall, bv the s.s. Paparoa; tho Mi93es Mabel F. Miller, Charlotte Ivebbell, Marjory Newton, Emily Paice, Louisa Stannard, and Violet E. B. White, by the s.s. Remucra, on 'May 8j .the Misses Gertrude and Winifred Airlie, Mary C. Clark, Gertrude A .Quinton, and C. M. Elsmere, by the s.s. Ruahine, on Juno 5; and the Misses Caroline M. Sellars, Nina O'Flynn, Caroline Meadows, and May H. Anderson, by the s.s. Tainui, on June 19. All havo had previous experience in mental nursing.