RETURN OF MR GOVETT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 297, 25 January 1910, Page 3

RETURN OF MR GOVETT.

Mr. C. W. Govett returned from England oil Thursday evening. Seen by a .News reporter on Saturday morning, Mr. Govett said he had been away fur two years. "Tiie longest two years of my life," he remarked, •'and two years that I'm not anxious to live over again.' He gave a brief outline of his travels. The trip Home was made via .Syduov, and thence bv the P. and 0. boat y;:, Colombo. Bombay, Suez, and Marseilles, this being the first of the P. and 0. boats to make Bombay a. port, of cull. At Marseilles', owing to the serious illness o: Mi." D. Govett, tlie projected trip to Italy had to be 'abandoned. From Marseilles the parly went. m> ti Grasse, a town on the Riviera about ten miles from Cannes, famous for its pure atmosphere and for the manufacture of scents for three or four hundred years pa-'t. Three months were spent at Grasse. but daring that time _\ir. Govett and two daughters made a hurried visit to Florence and Hi.me of abaa. a fortnight, staying a couple of days hi .Monte Carlo on the return journey. After leavi.ig (-lras~e ttie whole perl," went t>. Paris, and as .-o<m ;u Govett was able to stand the juuriie," they cms'scd to Dover, proceeding a fww days later to Tiinbridge We!is. where they stayed for three months. The next move was. on the doc-tor's recommendation. to the Yorkshire moorlands, where they stayed at llkley. a favorite watering-place, for about two months. During thi-; time Mr. Govett and llis--Govett liiade a -liort visit to Scotland, touring the Burns count.rv and afterwards staying near Oban, where there was plenty of good yachting and salmonfishing in the loch;. After leaving Yorkshire thev v.etu down u> London, ivitli the idea of staying there only a few days, and going or to spend the winter l!a-tuig-. lint i". London AI i s s Covet! was again taken dangerously iil. and f hcv were m>t able to leave London for six months, during which time thev experienced a record ■winter, seeing the traffic almo-t stopped in Oxford-street and snow-ploughs at work. The next five month- were spent in Hertfordshire. Miss Govett being still very ill. Then it was decided to move to Eastbourne, the invplid being taken in an ambulance motor-car. There a house was f a Icon for five months, and there Mr-. Govett and the Misses' Govett still remain. Mi- 0. Govett being in deli cat" heali': ween M". Govett left. One of the incidents of Hie lour ini"l:' ••■-■r. f.-i.V.. 1 •■ :;■■• -""ionf-lv. A 1 iO-i ! .... v..... n f;-. r tf he ;»n:T V-.-P -v.-.-v - Hc -G' i Kastbourne, Mr., Miss, ami Miss Monica G-ovett started off in another motor-

ear for the same place. Al»t*:;t four miles of the journey had been eoverc,:. when the clnuiHcur turned. corner too sharply, and capsized the car, wr.-.-Ui... ail its upper structure and injar::;; l:i----passengers. The young ladies su.v.;i. .v..

serious bruises, but Mr. Gove:: was more unfortunate, having his finger broken and his head badly cut. Luckiiy. a doctor was cycling past at the time, and he took the whole party under his charge, "patching them up" sufficiently '.e. enable tlieni to proceed bv the next train for Eastbourne, where they arrived in /time to prevent anv undue anxiety upon the part of the others. Mr. Govett left England bv the Mantua on 3rd December. Mrs. and the Misses Govett will return as' soon as' Miss D, Govett is lit to travel, but there is very little likelihood of their seeing New Plymouth for at least another year.

Mr. Govett remarked parenthetically that whilst in London he was fortunate enough to meet Messrs. King and Connett, who were iu England on harbor loan business, and was able to be of some service to them. The time of their arrival, he s'aid, was most unfavorable for the flotation of a colonial loan, and he considered that no better terms than they secured were procurable. Mr. Govett wished to make it clear, liowever. that he had nothing to do with the negotiations, though he was able to offer a little advice and assistance.