ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1986, 17 February 1914, Page 2

ON TOUR AT HOME.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

London, January 8. Mr. 11. P. Kidson, of Nelson," is at present staying at Beauvais in France. Mr. Joseph Myers, of Welh'ugtoii, lias arrived in London, and intends staying at the Savoy Hotel for several mouths. • Mr. A. M. Myers, M.P. For Auckland City Fast, with his wife and family, left last week for Eastbourne, where they will spend a month. Mr. and Mrs. 0, J. MHerbeek. of' Auckland, who, during a twelve uroliths' visit have done much* touring by motor cycle, left for home last week.'

Tho Rev. 11, Allan, formerly curate of Crookham, Hants, and latterly workin'' in Liverpool, is leaving England in February to take up duties' in Now Zealand.

__ Miss Alice Hopkinson, of Edveinstone, Newark (Notts), has been appointed to take charge of a kindergarten in Auckland, ars] leaves by the Suffolk on February 0. '

Mr. .Arthur E. Hart, of Ashburtok who was attached to the inquiry staff at various Now Zealand exhibits at London exhibitions, leaves Loudon on January 15 for New Zealand, Ho is at present in France.

Miss Waring Taylor and Miss Mary Ewaiuson, of Wellington, who intended touring Europe, have been ircalkd by cable, owing to important business which requires their presence. TJiev therefore leave this week for New Zealand.

Callers at the High Commissioner's Offices last week included the following: Mr. H. P. Kidson, Nelson;-Mr. T. E, Cunie, C'hristchureh; Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Spragg, and Miss Sprag«, Auckland ; Mr. T. Ryan, Ota go; Mrs" Hume Lindsay and Miss Nathan, Wellington. Mr. G. W. 0. Toomey, of Lyttelton, who arrived at tho end of November, has come to England to gain farther experience in electrical engineering. Mrs. Mona Harrison, of Canterbury, and her daughter. Miss Olg'a Harrison, sailed from Sydney in April, and visited first Egypt and the Holy Lund, and afterwards Italy and Paris, London, Ireland, and the Isle of Man. They have also seen Vienna, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, and Scotland.

In the January "Englishwoman," Miss Mary Lowndes, in an appreciative article, compares Mrs. Pember Reeves's "Round about p. Pound a Week," with Dickens's "Christmas Carol." and applies to it what Thackeray said of the "Carol": "It seems to me a national benefit, and to every man or woman who reads it a ocrsonal kindness " Mr. W. M.'Kirkcaldy, of Messrs. Kirkcaldy and Co., underwriters of Dnnedin, who has been in England for the last eighteen months, returns to New Zealand by the Osterley on January 18. Mrs. Kirkcaldy-is remaining in England for another twelve mouths to be near her son, Grange, who has finished at Hradford College,' and is now at Carnbridgo. From Fresno, California, last month, arrived Mr. and .Mrs. Frank Galloway,' formerly of New Zealand, who will siiil again for the Dominion on January 8. For the last seven years they have been in the United States, iirsf'nt Seattle, and afterwards at Fresno, since when lliey have extensively toured tln= United States. They have not yet decided whether to remain in New Zealand.