ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2118, 8 April 1914, Page 9

ON TOUR AT HOME.

LONDON PERSONALS. • London, Febuary 26. Tko High Commissioner was amongsfc the guests present at .the dinner party given by the King at Buckingham Palace on Friday evening. Sir William Lever, who has recently been out in New Zealand, arrived in London on Sunday, and left on Monday for Chester. Mr. John Myers, partner in the firm of J. Myers and Co., importers, "Wellington/arrived in London from Marseilles on Fobruary 14. Mr. Myers is accompanied by his wife and daughter, and for the next three months they will be in London. • Last week Mr. Myers visited the Stoke-on-Trent Pottery .Exhibition, and while in England will visit manufacturers of china, glass, and earthenware. • . Lady Vogel gave an enjoyable card party late Friday afternoon, at her homo in East Molesey. . Many New Zealanders and Australians- were present, among them were Miss Mackenzie and Mrs. Pym, Lady Vogel's sister. Sir John and Lady Cockburn, and tho Hon. W. P. Beeves and Mrs. Beeves wore amongst those present at the sixteenth annual dinner of the Students' Union of the London School of Economics on Saturday. ■ ■ . _ Dr. W. Will is resident medical o&cer at Leavesden Asylum, King's Langslands. The appointment is for six months. ■ .; • Miss Rosemary Bees, of Gisborne, has a story in the current issue of the "Red Magazine." . Tho High Commissioner was attacked by influenza early last week, but has now recovered.' Mrs. Jennings, of Christchurch, who is over here with the Misses 31. and F. Jennings, is going shortly to stay with a daughter at Torbay. Dr. Johnston has gone to Australia as ship's surgeon,. and will return, to England in six months. Miss Helen Mackenzie, elder daughter of the High Commissioner, leaves for Hampshire this week, and returns to London early ill March. The Rev. H. P. Cowx, of Waipawa, of tho Church Missionary Society, is at present in Belfast. Ho is to give a lecture on New Zealand at Sligo. . Mrs.. Hume Lindsay, who has been commissioned by Timaru people to take out fifty domestic servants to, New Zealand, intends leaving with the girls by the Tainui on Mny 1. Tho Rev. W. Jellie. M.A., who was for several years in Auckland, has decided to reside permanently in England at Southport. - Captain W. 6.. Watt, late- of the Strathpey, and Mrs. Watt, who was Miss Beatrice Noall, matron of one of the Christchureh hospitals, have returned from a visit to Scotland, and aro at present in London. Miss A. Vesty, of Ashburton, is visiting England after an absence of thirty years, and will he here possibly for two years or longer, touring the country and staying with relatives in the North or England and Wales. ' Dr. V. Smith, of Auckland, who is on a six months' trip, has been visiting various hospitals. He returns to New Zealand on March 7, as surgeon on the s.s. Essox. Miss Jessie Cherrett, of Wanganui Collegiate School for Girls, who has a year's leave of absence, is staying with a cousin in London, and this week goes to' Hampshire. ' Next month she will visit the North of England and Scotland, and afterwards the Continent. Mr. Percival Martin of Auckland, who left thero in 1904 to go prospecting in Western- Australia, and , 'who there was the finder of "tnV Monarchintgget; the largest mined up to that timo in that State, is at present in London, -after having spent-some years in Canada rand' Florida. Mr.' Martin's present business is in connection with some Western .Australian stocks, and he leaves for New Zealand at the beginning of next month. Tho London Astronomical Society han communicated a protest to the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Society in support of Professor Bickerinn's Generalisation, the "Impact Theory of Cosmic Evolution," as a working hypothesis.