ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1960, 17 January 1914, Page 7

ON TOUR AT HOME.

LONDON PERSONALS. Loriifon, December 11. Lady Islington, in the presence of Admiralty and War.Office officials and representatives of the German, Russian, Japanese,' Turkish- Spanish, and Italian navies, performed the naming i ceremony when the new. battleship Empress or' India was launched from Messrs. Vipkers' yard, at Barrow, on November 27. Something like a thousand invitations were sent out for tho reception on behalf of tho New Zealand Government by the High Commissioner to the captain and officers of H.M.S. Now Zealand at the Connaught Roome on December IG. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Brumfitt, tho latter of whom was well-known in Wellington musical circles before she- was nlarried, held a reception on Saturday nfterUdon in tho studio of Mr. Frederick Milner, in Kensington, when somo of Mr. Milner's paintiiige wero on view. Dr. C. M. Stiibbs, M.A., on whom the University of Liverpool recently conferred tho degree of Doctor of Science., and who was formerly on the staff of Canterbury College, has been appointed Professor of Choniistry in the West . China Union University in. Chengtu. Mr. F. P. Wilson, who is lecturer in Economics at Victoria College, Wellington, intends to be in England for about threo , months. His principal object is to visit tho universitiee, especially the provincial ones, in order to obtain a knowledge of tho. organisation and method of their, economic and commercial sides. Professor Ernest Rutherford, the brilliant New Zealand scientist, is alluded to with somo reverence by Mr. H. G. Wells in the first instalment of his now story, "The World Set Free—a Story of Mankind," that starts in this month's' issue of "Tho English Review," and deals with the marvels made possible by radio-activity somewhere in the middle of the twentieth century. The R«v. Nicholas Turner, of Auckland, private secretary to Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, and organising secretory tor the Scottish Missions, is spending 6omo weeks in Glasgow. Ho leaves on December 21 to visit relatives in London and Paris, returning to Scotland in January, where ho will remain until April, leaving then for Australia and New Zealand; via the Continent, Palestine, and Egypt. Mr. Turner will be in Glasgow for the second mission from March Hto April 6- . ~, , , > i Lady Plunket, who, while her husband was Governor of New Zealand, did notable work for the Society for tho Proteo. tion of Women and Children, by helping in organising branches by delivering lectures horselr on food value, infant care, etc., and after whom the society s freo nurses, of which thero are- some forty in Now Zealand, aro named, was amongst those'present at Dr. lruoy King's lecture at London University on Tuesday. Others present were Dr. bale, for very many years a professor at Otago University, and Mrs. and Miss Dr. and Mrs. M'Gavin, of Wellington, have been in England since September, and aro now going on tho Continent for several months'. . Miss Adelaide van Staveron sang at an afternoon reception given by Mrs. Isidore Salmon at Holland Villas, Kensington. ,'■■., , Mr. Bowdcn-Smith and his wifo, who was Miss Daisy Logan, of Wellington, a.ro shortly expected in this country, where- they intend to live. Mr and Mrs. W. Levin, of Greattord, and thoir family, 'aro on" their way to England, but will spend some considerable time in SwjteojfliUtfl OU J?-,,. Mdme. Bernstein, wifo or tho Kabbi.., of Ohristchurch,'who has been-in England for about three months, will remain here -indefinitely.' „,,,., ■ •■- Mr" Geotfrey S. Smith, Wellington, was elected a fellow of tho Royal Col-, onial Institute at a meeting held on November 25. . lwa, the, Maori singer, who is at present singing at the Palace, at Southampton, has been engaged for one of tho principal parts in the Christmas pantomime at the Broadway Thcatro. Tho Misses de Renzi, daughters of Dr. do Renzi, of Christchurch, arc in Eng-. land, one studying music, and the other art, and have taken a flat in London. Miss Hardy, daughter of tho Hon. C. A. C. Hardy, M.L.C., arrived by the Ruapehu last week, on a pleasure trip to England and the Continent. Mr. Jackson, who has been out in New Zealand for 18 years, and owns land in Gisborne, was to have- sailed for thero this week, but has postponed going. ~. . , . Mr. J. Sandtmann, of Napier, who is accompanied by his sister, Miss Sandtmann, is over here on business for his firm, Mossrs. Robert Dodson and Co. Both leave very shortly for a year in Hamburg. ' . • The High Commissioner, who represents New ■ Zociland at tho Interna--tional Conference on Safety of Life at Sea has been mado a member of the committee formed to consider life-saving appliances. : , Mr. Arthur M. Myers, M.P. for Auckland, has joined his wife and family, who arrived in this country a short timo ago, and are staying at the Ritz Hotel. They expect to reach New Zealand again next June. Mr. F. W. Glover, of Wellington, who has been practising in London for some years as a dentist in the- West End, underwent an operation for appendicitis somo little time ago, and has .just returned from two months' convalescence in Eastbourne. Two - shipwrecked crows were on board tho New Zealand Company's steamer Ruapehu, which arrived in London nn November 29 from Now Zealand, via Plymouth. Tha returning men include Captain A. H. Caunce and the chief officer of the Devon, as Well as tho chief officer of tho Tyrone. Dr. Trilby King, tho New .Zealand mental specialist, who came to England as the official representative of the Now Zealand , Government, to attend the English-speaking Conference on Infantile Mortality, held in Londonlast August, and the British Association meeting.'will shortly return to New Z_ealnnd. Since bo left London Dr. King has-'been to Vienna, Berlin, and Paris; j and has boon investigating conditions affecting infant.health in this country.