NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2274, 7 October 1914, Page 3

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, August 20. Mr. and Mrs. A. K. AVatson have .postponed their visit to Scotland, and are still at Walton-on-Thames. Colonel V. S. Smyth, of the New Zealand Staff Corps, has been attached to the headquarters of the Southern Command. The Misses D., 6., M., and L. Francis, of Christchurch, who have recently been to Switzerland, have since been visiting relatives at Tring. The Rev. E. Mules, , son of Bishop Mules, of Nelson, who has'.' had a curacy for some time in Oxshott, hopes to return home next month. ■ Tβ Rata Mahuta (King of tbe Maoris)-, Tupu Tainga-kawa, Mita Karaka, and Mr. Georgo G. Paul, who have been in England for some months on a mission, left Liverpool on Tuesday by tho Blue Funnel liner Nestor, on their return. Mrs. C. Middleton, of Waimate, who is ■ accompanied by ner two daughters, the Misses C. C. and T. Middlpton, arrived in England on July 9 by the Themistoclee on a pleasure trip. They hope to see something of the provinces, and to visit relatives in Scotland while over here. Dr. Hamilton, a Nelson College "Old Boy," who recently graduated from Edinburgh University, and who revisited New Zealand a couple of years ago, is at present Resident Medical Officer at the East London Hospital for Women nnd Children, relieving a surgeon who has been called—with nlreost the entire Btaffl—to Red Cross Work. Mr. Carr, of Now_ Zealand, who went across to the Continent four days before the outbreak of war, has been defcaiued by , tho German authorities near the Belgian frontier, at Bentheim. Efforts are being made to secure bis release. He was accompanied by an Aus. l-.ralian and an Englishman, who were also both arrested. Mi , . W. Brown, of Wellington, tin* left London in July with his son, Mr. Percy Brown, on a tour of the Continent, returned to London a few days ago. Tbny -spent a week in Holland, and a week in Berlin, and were staying at Assmaunshauspn, a small village on the Rhine, when they were given twentyfonr hours to get out of the country. They were very roughly treated by tho Bermnn soldiers, but considered themselves fortunate to arrive back" in England in safety.. Their first intention was to stay on the Continent till the end of August. Mr. H. M. Smeeton, of Auckland, aftfer a four weeks' trip to the Continent, had started on a motor tour te the North of Scotland with four of hit family, and were at Carlisle when news of the war reached them. They hnstrinrd back to London, and Mr. Smeoton nnd his son sent in their names to the Hich Commissioner for any service they .wild undertake, and Inst week his son joined King Edward's Horse, tvt AloV antlra . Palace. In the troop to .which lie was attached ho found the two sons of Dr. Robertson, of Auckland. , ■