ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1929, 11 December 1913, Page 8

ON TOUR AT HOME.

PERSONAL' NOTES FROM LONDON. toftdon, October 30. Mr. and Mrs. W. M'Lcaii, of Napier, nit' in England. Mr. Thomas 'M. Jay, of Auckland, returned to Now Zealand last week, Mrs. E. M. Bunlop, of Qiichuuga, is at lire-sent in Loudon. Mr. A. 11. Wyatt, of Now Brighton, who has been visiting England, Scotlaud, and the Continent) returns about Christmnstidc.

Miss Fanny Shand, of Duncdin and Timaru, is in- England, aisd will probably stay for a year studying di awing and painting. Mr. and Mrs. F. Davy, . of Christ, church, who have been staying at Uoio Ferrers, in South Devon, left f-vr Now Zealand on .Thursday.

Miss Helen Mackenzie,- daughter of the High Commissioner, has now sufficiently recovwed from her long illness to ho away in Nottingham fur ,i l*uii« day.

Mr. and Mrs. George Winstone, jnnr. t of Auckland, arrived in London .i fortnight ago, on a visit of business and pleasure. They spent some time ii) America on the way over. Mr. A. S. Thompson, of' Auckland, sailed by tho Macedonia, after havm.;! made- ail extended tour of Knjdandi Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, da ring which lie visited the chief, man iii'r-ol string towns. Mr. Thomas Allen, of Auckland, left London last week for Naples, and liopes to spend the next two months in Smith* ern Italy. He left Auckland l'ist M.-.y travelling to England via Canada and tho United States.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buchanan, of Auckland, awl their daughters, are leaving by tile Orentes on November 7, for hoini'.' Tlu>y cams hero after \ rsitin.g America, and have spent some time staving with relatives in .Scotland. . Lieutenant-Colonel Allan Fishw, w!;o has boon appointed chief secretary of tho Salvation Army City t'ohiiY iu the United Kingdom, arrived last *ooK in London from New Zealand. _ M<; was engaged in banking business in 1 fivercaraill, but cavo up that positin'i to enter the Salvation Army. ' The Itev. A. C, La wry, el Acekh'e], who came to F.i!glaud as tho for Now Zealand to the Centenary Cdobliltions of the Wesleyan Mtthodist Missionary Society, has been qionkilid and preaching m various putts of Eugisjid since his arrival. He created a favourable impression by uis fpeech in the Central Hall of th* Methodist House, Westminster, on October 6, and again at a wee'tinp; to farewell tho delegates last week. Sir. and })r&» La wry sail by the Otway fro.'fl l'ort Said in January.