ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1936, 19 December 1913, Page 3

ON TOUR AT HOME.

LQNDON PERSONALS. London, November :G. The Earl of Seafield has been ■ appointed Deputy-Licuteiianl for the county of Elgin, Scotland, The Hon. Thomas Mackenzie Ims piomisod to bo present at tho I'ilgnnis dinner to wclcome home Mr. James Bryee. The American Ambassador will preside. . Lord Kelburn, the eldest son m the Earl and Countess of Glasgow, leaves London by the Otwny iji December, to talco command of Ii.JS.S. Pyi-amus, in New Zealand waters. Sirs. Pember lleeves, of New Zealand, is tho opposer in a debate on "A nile s Claim to Her Husband's Wages,' bo held under tho auspices oi the women's Labour Leaguo on November 1-. Sir. Harold G. Cook, late of Messrs. A. J. Entrican and Co.'s staff, Auc«land, and soil of Mr. H. G. Cook, ot Whangarei, is shortly expected L-mi-don, where ho intends to contuiuo Ins commercial training.

Dr. Brendon O'Sullivan, younger son of Dr. M. W. O'Sullivan, Melbourne, last week obtained tho 31.R-.C.&. gree, London. , Two young Ne\r Zealttnders arc Ppy" ing football for St. Paul's School, Kensington, this ycar---C. H. Skeat and Lester Donne, who aro botii playing left-throe-quartcr-wing isi their respective' teams. Sir. Skeat is also captain of the St. Paul's senior cricket team. . 'Father Bernard Vitughan has been asked, by tho executive of the New Zealand "Catholic Federation _and tho Victorian Federation, and with' ;tho consent- of tho Hierarchy of the Commonwealth and tho Dominion, to pay a visit to Australia and New Zealand, and it is expected that ho will : con-sent. Two New Zealand boys and two NewZealand cirls won prises in tho British and Foreign Sailors' Society's Empire Essay Competition for 1913, when tliesubject was: "Tho benefits accruing to tho United Kingdom and its Dommwns on the one hand, and to the Dmi/su States on tho other, from tho Treaty of Peace, 1814." The late Mr. John Feldwiek, who bequeathed £20,000 to the towji of Invercargill' for the setting out and maintenance of a public park, has also bequeathed £15,000. free of all duty, to bo divided equally amongst his three nieces, tho Misses Edith, Mabel and Cora Feldwick, also of Invercarcill, who are at present in London. Mr. and Mrs. C. Halt, of Hawke's Bay, who aro on a visit to the Old Country, are at staying with, friends at Malton in Yorkshire, Mr. Hall's native place, which he has not seen for 40 years.

Callers at the High Commissioner's Office last week included the following :—Miss Annie C. Listen, Dur.edin ; Mr. J. Marshall, Christcliurch; Sir. W. M'lntosh, Napier; Sir. Herbert C. Simson, Auckland; Mr, Herbert Hobsofi, Christcliurch; Miss B. E. # Ssbbald, Cliristchnrch; Mrs. and Miss Margoliouth, Napier; Mr. and Mrs. Senjrer, Christcliurch; and Mr. E. W. R-oy, Duncdin.

Sir Frederick Young writes to "'The Times" of November 1, in sppreeiation of their articlo on "New Zealand and the Navy," of October 29. Ho hails with delight, tho proposal that New Zealand should train her own personnel. Miss Hopkinson, a former student of tho Froebo College,. Bedford, is shortly going to New Zealand to take up au appointment in connection with tho Free Kindergartens in Auckland,

At tho request of the Hish Commissioner for New Zealand tho L.C.C. Education Committee decided recently to take into their service,. on. tho, "unattached" staff, for ono year, a lady teacher who wished to come to England for that period and secure a position in an infants' school.- Tho committee agreed to pay £90 for the year, in view of tho special circumstances— tho usual scale being £60.

Mr. R. H. Abbott, of Auckland, who • is accompaniod by his daughter, Miss Abbott, has arrived in .England, via South America, spending several ivceks in Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil. They havo just returned from a thous-and-mile motor tour of the West .of England and tho central provinces, and arc staying nt St. Ermin's Hotel, West--minster, for a fow -weeks. They then go on to Paris to visit, friends there, through Austria and Germany to Trieste, where ihey sail for Bosnbny. They spend a month in India before returning 'to New Zealand about February next.