NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2350, 5 January 1915, Page 2

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Londorii November 19. . : Mr. C. H'. Mitchell, A.N.Z.1.A., of Wellington; has cbmo to Eiigland for two years'to study architecture, The High Commissioner and Miss Mackenzie had seats in House of Lords for the. opening of Parliament. . The latest news from Miss Ethelwyn ■Williams, who is in Leipsig, is that sue, has obtained a post there, aiid is very well. , . . . _ Mr. John Howell, of Christchurch, who is at present staying at Cambridge, leaves oil his returii to New Zealand in a week's time.

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Faulkner, late of Auckland, are leaving for South Devonshire at the end of this , week, to: spend the winter. Mrs. Faulkner's health has mucli improved of late., Mrs. Bauchof), wife of Colonel Bauchop, who is coming over with the Expeditionary Force lrom New Zealand, has arrived ill Lohdon, and is staying at Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park. Mr. H. F. Gray, brother of Mr. Roiiald Gray, one of tho members qf King Edward's Horse, aiid stiii of the late Mr. William Gray, for many years secotar.y of/the Postal Department in New Zealand, is one of the wireless operators on Cocos Island, to which statioii lie went ill September. Mi'. Alexander M'Nab, w'liose brother. Dr. Angus'. M'Nab, was bavonetted last week by the Germans, While engaged in Red Cross work, was greeted by_ the tefrible news when ho landed at Liverpool, having come over from New Zealand specially to 'visit Dr. M'Nab,. at whose houfee lid is now staying. Mrs. Angus M'Nab is at present at eba on her way to Australia. The wreath to the momory of Nelson, sent by the combined branches of.the Navy League in New Zealand, which was to have been placed oil the Nolson Monument on Trafalgar Day,, was unfortunately delayed in transit owing to the war, and has '.nly lately, arriv'edi However, by the courtesy of tho Board of Works, it is being exhibited at the Nelson Column for a few days thifl week. Mr. Hector Steele, son of Mr. Samuel Steele, of Hamilton, Auckland, visited Ireland,- Shropshire (liif) fathor.'s birthplace), and Arran (his mother's birthplace),' where he spfeht two liioliths before the war broke out. He left New Zealand with tho intention _of visiting South Africa and the Argentine, but now has enlisted as a gunner in the Royal Field Artillery, _ and left Shrewsbury, where ho was in barracks, on Monday, for Newcastle, to go into training.