OUR LONDON LETTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8372, 5 March 1907, Page 6

OUR LONDON LETTER.

(From Our Own Correspondent). January 25th, 1907. PERSONAL NOTES. Messrs J. Carruthers and J. D, Elliott, the New Zealand Government consulting engineers in England, who are making a tour round the world, left by the lonic on' the 12th instant. Miss Loie F. Prior, of Wellington, who arrived in London on the 6th instant, has had a very agreeable tour. She left the colony in September, sailing from Melbourne in the Orontes in November. She left the ship at Naples, spending six days there and eight in Rome, where she had the honour of an audience with the Pope. From Rome she went to Pisa, Genoa, and Marseilles, spending some time in each place, and Embarked at Marseilles by the Oruba for London. Miss Prior expects to be here three months, and will visit Scotland and South Wales, returning to New Zealand via New York and San Francisco. She will deliver several lectures here and in the States on Spiritualism and kindred subjects. Dr. R. S. Stephenson, of Dunedin, is leaving this month for Davos Platz and other health resorts in Switzerland. Later on he will visit Vienna and the principal sanatoria for the treatment of consumptives in Germany. He arrived here on December 19th, having had a very agreeable voyage by the Banffshire. Mr Aubrey P. Cox, of Christchurch, is now in London.) His journey was via Australia, Suez, and Marseilles. There he left the steamer, and proceeded overland to Paris. He spent six weeks in the latter city, and then crossed the Channel to Dover. A week was passed with cousins in London, and Christmas at Frensham. Mr Cox will leave London for Worcester about the end of the month, where he takes up an appointment at the Royal Grammar School, under Mr Hillard.