ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1784, 24 June 1913, Page 9

ON TOUR AT HOME.

LONDON PERSONALS. London, May 15. Mr. Qoorgie Larnl, of Hawko's Bay, is at present in Ireland. • /Mrs. Maclrie, of New Zealand, was ono of tho spoakers at the Unitarian Women's Leajjuo at tho Essex Hall, Hampstead, yosterday. ,Miss L. 13. Luxton, of Christchurch, or, rived lost week, and intends paying visits in Hants, Devonshire, Warwickshire,' and Lancashire, and later to go on. to' Franco, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy. Tho Secretary of State for India in Council has appointed Mr. Aubrey Paul Cox, 8.A., Cantab., It.A., Now Zealand, to the India Educational Service as Professor of History at the Muir Central College, Allahabad.

Mr. Harold M. Potersen, of Wellington, left last week for Prance, Switzerland, and Italy, and will bo absent about tkreo weeks or a month. On his return he goes to Norway to visit relatives, and will return in June or July. Mr. .Danied H. Fox, of Napier, is taking aj holiday in England after nearly forty ✓years in tho Post and Telegraph Department of New Zealand, and intends shortly to visit Ireland. He then returns to London and goes on to Scotland. Mr. John W. Symons, of Auckland, disembarked at Port Sail and travelled along tho Nile to Luxor, Knrnak, and Thebes. Ho is now in London, and proposes to' visit the Continent and various parts- of the British Isles before returning to NewZealand. ,

Dr. E. E. Brown, of Wellington, is now in Edinburgh, doing post-graduato study at the hospitals. He expects to bo there for about six months, and will most likely sit for the F.R.C.8., Edinburgh, in October. . . „,, „ Commander T. W. M. Sharp, of H.M.S. Iris, and Mrs. Sharp spent a month in the Riviera before coming on to London .via Algiers. After paying several visits in England, they intend to travel in Northern Europe, and expcct to loavo for Auckland in August. Mr. and Mrs. Helicr Harbutt, lato of Auckland and now of Sydney, spent t a month on the Continent before arriving in England. They intend to toiiT for five months in England and Scotland, and then leave for America about September. Mr. and Mrs. H. Grieg, of Foxron, and their son spent six weeks on the Continent before reaching London. They intend remaining liore about a month; after that they will motor in tho provinces, Scotland. and Ireland, and will visit France and Holland before returning to New Zealand via- Canada. . Sir Francis and Lady Price left for New Zealand by tho Romuera on Saturday. Mr. Martin Kennedy, accompanied by Mrs. Kennedy and daughters, left London for Wellington by the Romuera. The High Commissioner was present at the dinner of the Cold Storage and Ice Association at the Hotel Cecil last Wednesday. Mrs. G. Blandford, L.R.A.M., late music mistress at Wanganui Girls' College, who has been in England for some time, sails for Dunedin on May 31. Sir Joseph Ward, Lady Ward, and Miss Ward spent Whitsun with Sir John and Lady Sherbourn at Brough. This week tliey will be tho guests of Sir Alfred and Lady Seale Haslam at Breadsall Priory, Derby, a-nd labor go on to tho International Exhibition at Ghent. On their return from Belgium they will go to Ireland for a week. Last week Sir Joseph Unrd was ft tfuest at the* banquet of llio Morchant Taylors' Guild. . Mr. C. H. Howorth, C.E., resident engineer to tho Wanganui Harbour Board, who is accompanied by Mrs. Howorth, Mr. C. R. Howorth, and Mr. D'Arcy Raymond, of Invereargill, • lias arrived in London after innking a tour of the Contin«nt. Mr. Howorth is to make an inspection of somo of the most notablo harbours in tho United Kingdom and Continent, and to studv tho latest improvements, moro especially dredges and dredging. The. party will stav some three months in Luropo. and then lour in Scotland, Wales, and Switzerland.

A committal lias boon appointed to take stops to guard tlio welfare of nativo African students .in London, of whom tliero aro usually about seventy. Woods' Great Peppermint Curo, Ifor CflWlu aid Colds, uovcr faiw. Is. W.