ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2192, 3 July 1914, Page 3

ON TOUR AT HOME.

_ LONDON PERSONAL NOTES. _ London, May 28. Miss May Maginnity, of Wellington, who is a Now Zealand Govenittient official, is in London far t?Vo oi - threa months. « Mr. Herbert Smith, son of Mr. CSmith, of Wellington, expects. to ha fa London for about a. year, aiVu ja staying at the Ritz Hotel. Mr. John 11. Self, tif Aiipklnnil, who is at present in London,. leaves for Scotland in a few (lays' time, and wii{ bo absent till next month. Mr. Arthur *E. Hart, AsMwrton, leaves shortly for the Cw.tmfr.t. Mr. Eric Croft, Dunoliii, who arrived in April, will remain here for fmif or five years studying Ho is Stow resident in London, and at'tentflttg the London Hospital. _ Mr. George F. Inglfs;. of Imnodin, arrived in England on Saturday, via America, where he spent three 'weeks. Ho mill visit relatives; |ii Lofiflon. and Scotland before returning to New Zealand.

Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Aston, the former of whom is the New Zealand Government • Agricultural Chemist, havo j'jst returned from a visit to Mr. A. W. Aston, J.P., of Wnodcoto CfrflVe, Epsom. Mr. Frank Dawn, for many fists on the reporting staff of the "L.yttel ten Timos," has come over to England in. search of further experience in journalistic work. _ Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Lcvett, of Wellington, and their ti«o 4at!£pites intend visiting relatives a»d friends before motoring through Kr.fdnnd shd Scotland. They prohaMy return to New Zealand at'the end et the ycstr, via the .Cape. The Rev. James Wilson, of Auckland, who is accompanied by his wife, has come to England on .9 preaching and lecturing tour. During tins siiTOlfier they will go to Norway and Sweden, and return to New Zealand' rial America, and Canada. Mr.; and Mrs. D. A. Gray. 01 Auckland, who came to England with their son 011 account of his health, are St prosenfc visiting their relatix os ift Dumfries, and from there go <jfe Ireland. Next month they leave for Belgium andGermany.

Mrs. Alfred C. Napier, of Oliristclntrch, who is staying* with friends in Essex,_ lcaros shortly <>■)!. visits, to Oxfordshire, tlie Midlands, Lancashire, and Durham, and returns to JT&w Zea~ land at tho end ;of Se-piemhur. . Mi 1 ;. R. A. Allan, of WcJti.ng.tGii, who has been in England ter fclve past years, has just returned te I/oridan from West Africa. After about a month he returns, to Africa, Mrs. Allan remaining in London. Mr. Maurice Newbovild, rf Hawkp's Bay,, who is engineer to ; .tliij..Australasian General Engineering Company, has como over hero to gain rUrtter cxperienco in engineering in FklKd, Germany, and the States, Mr. Arthur John Barnard. Mrs. Baftnard, and Miss M. Barnard,' Asblwrton, Canterbury, are remaining j.ft Kiiro.pts until tho end of Jtmc.. They are ».t present staying at Brighten. Miss Dorothy Allen (daughter of tho Minister of Defence), who earco over to England recently to have airt operation performed on her eyes, _ was frbk to leavo the nursing horn® in. Devonshire Street on Tuesday. Mr. George Elhvood, of Chrjstdjurnh, will spend a month ijl London. He then loaves for Paris and Berlin, where ho will continuo his studirs of tho violoncello, remaining oji tiro Continent for two years. Mr. awl .Mrs.,. Herbert Ilnwson, of Auckland, liavo' como to' to goo tlieir son, Dr. Herbert 'Riawson. who ia liouso pliysician at Colchester Hospital. After spending some time -ttii the Continent thoy return to London for tho .British Dental Conferenfie early in. August! Mr. W. wlio Tiag. been touring tho Riviera an<t EgJ.pt for S.ifc months,- has returned to his London residenco, 74 Park Mansions. His 66n and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Acton-Adams, also of Now Zealand, aro staying with, liirn fer the season. •Miss Knight and Miss Mii-lin, of thtivedin, arrived in England. the beginning of the month. Laving visited Italy, Switzerland, and I'ranee en TOey later go to the English Lakes, S'eotliiiul, and Ireland before leaving for Now Zealand in August via Hollands

Mr. William E. 'Wilkes. <of 'Hcl'sim, is at present making Birmifigtajn lis headquarters, and tkonc& ristting various largo motor works. Ho will later - .tour Scotland, France, Switzerland, Holland, and Belgium 'before turning to -London. Later on he iiiteiidß to take- a motor tour through Wales. Mr. 0. Moll or, of Canterbury', has spent some weeks with relatives in Suffolk and Essex;- and leaves for Paris noxt week. From Francs lie goes en to Germany, Denmark, tho -Swiss Lakes, ami Italy, where he will join his t-oat some time in August. Ik-fore leaving ho intends to motor through Devonshire. Mr. and Mrs. E.. A. Drummond, of Wanganui, who are accompanied by tho Misses Billington, after spending a month in Loudon, leave, en a ten* of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Continent, which will extend ®ver four months. They do not expect to retura to Now Zealand till the end of nest year. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Barrotl, of Christchurch, after spending a month .in Devonshire, and placing their tlvo boys \afc Blundcll's School, Tiverton,., camo on to London, where, with their tiro daUj,liters, they will stay until the end of the month, then going to ttus Continent for three months. They will spend tire winter in the South of England. Mrs. T. (i. Tanton, of Auckland, with her daughter. Miss Queenio Tanfon, a.i> rived in Loudon after staying at Genoa and motoring through the Italian ltiviera en route. After two months in London they will go on to Devonshire, and tho South of England, where jjiss Tanton ; hopes to play golf. Later tbey go to the Continent for $. considerable period. Miss Helen A. Thomson, -of Invereargill, who carho te this country in company with tho Rov. and Mrs. Gibson Smith, of St. Andrew's, Wellington, has been in Glasgow for a month, and hopes to spend tho next year touring England, Scotland, and the Continent. Sho roturned to London last- week to meet her sister, who' bv tfcs Orsova. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Smeeton, af Mount Eden, with their family, are in London. Mrs. Smecton goes to Stockholm next month as Auckland delegate to the Triennial Conference of tte Y.W.C.A. Mr. Smecton will join his wife over there, and, they will tiicn spend some weeks touring Jfens'iio?, Gelmany, and Holland before returning to England, when they will motor through tho south and west country. Miss Edna Smeeton has takon up study of tiro pianoforte and 'cello at the R, A.M., and is living at West Ilaiwistcad. Later on Mr. Smecton and his son War wick hope to visit the chief nnumfaeturing centres. v Mr. William Bell Bridger, lato managing director of Cudbv, Briflgw and Co.. hardware merchants, Wellington, who came to England on account of his health, is now very ninc.li better, and has made business visits tfi Bif. mingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton. He left London vestftrdav to Visit relatives at. Bury St. Edmund's. Mr. Bridger sails for New Ynrfc by the Aqnitania on May 30, returning to London at the end of June, am? Itraviti" for New Zealand in ("Holier. His London address is 53, Cricketfielii Roiui, Clapton.