ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2209, 23 July 1914, Page 3

ON TOUR AT HOME.

London, June 11. Miss E. M. Ernest, of Auckland, is at present visiting Wales, and returns to London about the middlo of tins month. Mr. T. W. Leys, of Auckland, and his party, expect to spend a month in London before doing any .further travelling. <•,■•■■ Mr. and Mrs. C. C 'Macmillan,. ■■ of Auckland, and Miss Macmillan, : \jdio. have been spending the winter on the Continent, arrived in London last week. . Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Nolan and Miss Nolan, of Hawcra, are at present in London. They have bought a' motor, and shortly intend touring the United Kingdom. It-was intended that Miss Bloomfield, of Auckland, who • perished with her parents in the wreck' of the Empress of Ireland, should have been presented at one of the Courts thin season. ■"- Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Cox, of Christchurch, and their son, Mr. Sydney Cox, have left London to' visit friends in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Nottingham, and Yoricshjre. Later on they go to the Oont/inent. and join iha Osterley at Naples. Captain E. Bower, who is in cliarge of the Kilbirnie Corps (Wellington) of the .Salvation. Army, hopes to, go on,a provincial, tour .which includes Scotland and Wales. Mr. J. and Miss H. Wilson, of Christ'church, leave shortly for an extended tour of. Ireland. ,-They will also visit Scotland, France and Italy, and, sailing from Marseilles, expect to reach' home in November. . • Professor F. D. Brown, of Auckland, who has been in England since Febru-' ary, has spent most of that time in the South of England, and has now taken a flat on the riverside near Hur-. iingham Park, and intends.to make it his headquarters until the autumn. Mr. J. Swan, of Wanganui, who is a nephew, of the late Sir Joseph Swan, arrived in England just in time to attend his uncle's funeral. With ,his wife, Mr. .Swan intends,touring ;the United .Kingdom and Ireland and the Continent before returning to New Zealand in three months' time. ; During Whitsuntide, the High Commissioner went to Caterham, ; in Surrey, to visit an old friend, Mr. Crichton, who is now.in'his 103 rd year. Mr. Mackenzie had a talk with him about early Australian days,/ - and Mr. Crichton furnished some interesting particulars regarding Zealand in the early days of its • invasion by Europeans. Miss Dorothea L. Jourdain,.of Auckland, has arrived in England on a holiday trip. She had an exciting experience a fortnight ago -.while' in Westminster Abbej', when some Suffragettes sitting in tho same pew-beean to sing thoir customary chant. Thinking her one of them, the verger, seized Miss Jourdain's arm. At her request, however, he let her out, and, after removing the women, escorted her back) very much agitated.. The death occurred* recently of Mr. H. V. Anson, record clerk in the High Commissioner's Department, who had been in the service of the New Zealand Government for over 20 years. Mr.Anson died from heart failure following an operation for appendicitis, and was buried at Shooter's Hill Cemetery, when wreaths were sent from the High Commissioner's Department and several members of tho staff were present. Mr. Anson leaves a widow and grownup family. Mrs. Kilgour, of, Auckland, came to London via Canada and New York; having travelled part of the .way with Mr., j\frs., and Miss Bloomfield, who were amongst the victims of the Empress of Ireland disaster. It was, indeed, ' discussed whether 'she and other. New Zealanders of the party should come via the St. Lawrence, but _ eventually the liability of fogs and ice decided them not to. Mrs. Kilgour intends visiting relatives in England and Scotland, and is 'now going on to Leicester for a short-time. Later sho hopes to tour the Continent. Mi'., Mrs., and the Misses (2) Williams, of Hawke's Bay, were- ; also in tho party both by the Niagara and in Canada, and have now reached England. Eventually they intend to-visit the Continent.