OUR LONDON LETTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8860, 21 October 1907, Page 3

OUR LONDON LETTER.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, September 6. Mr Geo. R. Bellers, of Auckland, who arrived by the Afric via Capetown, last July, has been on a visit to his relatives in Wales. In the middle of this month he goes on a cycling tour through England and Wales, returning to London in time to join the Runic about the end of next month, bound for home. Mr and Mrs G. G. Stead, and Miss Stead, oC Christchurch, are just reaving by the Shaw-Savill steamer Arawa for the Dominion. They have spent the summer here. Mr William Burton, who has just retired from the Bank of New Zealand, in whose service he spent a number of years at Fiji, has just arrived in London. fie left Fiji in, December, travelling via Auckland, Australia, and Suez. He will remain in Europe until May of next year. Mr Wm. Thomson, of the Dunedin Licensed Victuallers' Association, who is just now in London, leaves shortly for America, en route for New Zealand. He arrived here in June, spending three weeks in this city, • afterwards travelling about the United Kingdom. Except for a shore holiday in the Highlands, he has been spending his time in a study of the temperance question in the different tovuis he has visited. Mr and Mrs - Louis Blundell, of Wellington, left Liverpool last Friday f,r New York, and will travel through the United States, China and Japan, before returning to the Dominion. Miss Blundell is to be married in Japan. Miss Agnes M. Dor.n, late of Timaru, and still later of Johannesburg, is just now in London on a holiday. She is one of the twenty New Zealand teachers who more than five years ago went off to South Africa to work in the concentration camps. After the war she was placed in charg'3 of a school on the Crown Reef mine in Johannesburg and, is now on a seven months' furlough. The parents of her pupils gave her a farewell social and presentation on ♦.her departure for England. She to South Africa via the ConV tinent, Egypt, an 3 Delagoa Bay. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Minister of Public Works, who- came by the Kaipara, has been staying at the West Central Hotel. He had a very fine trip with good weather, and the sua voyage has considerably improved his health. There were only five .passengers on board, and they had practically the "run of the ship." Mr Hall-Jones spent his time on board very quietly, being careful of ~ the doctor's orders not to over-tax his strength. He will take medical advice in London, and his doings now will depend entirely upon it. He is -on six months' leave of absence, and his wife and daughter and' private secretary accompany him on the tour. Just now he is in excellent spirits. He has already made some progress towards recovery, and believes that it will be maintained. Mr and Mrs T. Hodgson, of Auck land, and their daughter, who left by the Moolton, last Friday, will, by the time they reach that city, have completed an eight months' trip. They have spent the whole of the summer in this country, visiting various parts of it, and say that, in spite of the bad weather, they have had an enjoyable trip. Mr Murray K. Litchfield, of Chistchurch, who is now in London, came by the Orontes, which docked at Tilbury last week. He will be here for a few weeks only, having decide] to leave for America shortly, to study dentistry at Philadelphia for , the next three years. Mr T. H. Hanker, of Christchurch, came by the Devantia, via Suez, on a holiday, and will be away from New Zealand about a year. He has visited Liverpool and the Isle Man, and is just off to Ireland. On* October 12th he leaves for Paris for a few weeks on the Continent. His return journey will be via NewYork and Vancouver. Miss Ada G. Paterson. M.8., Ch. 8., I am just informed, left by the Orotava, on the 23rd ult., on her return -to Dunedin. She spent eighteen months in this country, gaining experience in British hospitals, especially ad regards the diseases of women and children. She also spent three months studying obstetrics at the Coombe Hospital in Dabiln, where she gained the t./T. degree. Messrs W. J. Jones and F. Jones, of che Oaruarn Mail literary staff, j who have been paying a brief holi- j !:,-y visit to Holy Island (Northum- I hv viand), will leave London about j f-'ij.tambei- 17th, to join the Bremen j ;u, Naples. They will take in cn ■ ...;te some of the more interesting | •" • linen tal cities, going first to P u-is and thence proceeding to Brus- { Antwerp, Berlin, Dresden,LeipVienna, Constantinople, Venice, j'.-.i-'l the larger Italian towns. Miss Lucy Barron, of Dunedin, v/ho has been visiting friends in Scotland during the past fortnight, | !•: making a short stay at Holy Island. ! intends to sail for New Zealand ! che first week of- November, the journey to Naples being along the [ '.!:ine route.' _ I A new departure is to be undertaken by the merchants of Bristol. | ' An "ambassador of trade," in the ] '/.-son of Mr W. J. Kent, a BrisLoiian, with an extensive knowledge >Jcw Zealand, is about to visit your uu'itry, on behalf of that city. In t:e course of sixteen or twenty ••■.v:eks' tour through New Zealand will visit Auckland, New Ply,...uth, Wanganui, the Waiiavapa, i'.ilrnerston North, Napier, Gisborne, Picton, Blenheim, Nelson, Christ.■liurch, Rangi'ora, Timaru, Waimatp, Dunedin, Invercargill and Bluff. In each of these places Mr Kent will bring the claims of Bristol before the local manufacturers and exporters, particularly emphasising the advantages of Bristol as a medium for reaching the Midlands. He will forward frequent reports to the Bristol Docks 1 'o-mrriittee arid it is expected that . jnsiderable benefit to the trade of iat part will be the result of his -'; sit. On Sunday afternoon last Mr and " Irs W. Leedham Crowe entertained • large company at tea .and to view ihe full length portrait of Mr W. Vjawson, a New Zealand gentleman, who is at present in London. Mr Dawson is a director of Messrs . t'peight and Co. Ltd. brewers, _ of Uunedin, and known in the political y/crld, being at one time a member

of the Dominion Parliament. A large company assembled at 92 Sinclair Road, Kensington, to see the admirable portrait which Mrs Leedham . Crowe had executed of Mr Dawson, j who leaves for New Zealand by the Orient liner Orontes this week. The i picture may hang in future in the f rooms of the Dunedin Town Council. ! Mr Dawson was at one time Mayor j of Dunedin. i The marriage of Mr Arthur Moray, ' third son of the Rev. J. A. Williams, M.A., of Chesham, Bucks., formerly vicar of Alderminster, Strat-forc'-on-Avon, to Miss Mabel Lizzie, elder daughter of Mr Edward Unwin, of the Mount, Shortlands, formerly of New Zealand, took place on August 31st, at Shortlands, Kent. Mr Raymond E. Priestley, a student of University College, Bristol, has been appointed geologist of the expedition to the Antarctic under the command of Lieutenant Shackleton. The party will sail from Liverpool in October, for New Zealand, to join the Niinrod.