NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 150, 31 July 1914, Page 4

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

The following items of interest to New Zealanders appeared in the "British-Australasian" of .lune 25: —

Mr C. Ferrier, of Timaru, has come to England to gain further experience in a firm of London architects, and will remain in London for some years.

Mr F. W. B. Greville, editor of the New Zealand "Dairyman," who is in London, at the Kingsway Hotel, leaves on July 6 for a month on the Continent.

The Misses Lena and Rosa van Staveren, of Wellington, who have been in London for the past three months, leave on a lengthy tour of the Continent in a few weeks' time.

Captain T. A. G. Attwood, Assistant Superintendent of Marine at Auckland, has arrived in England on leave by the Remuera. Captain and Mrs Attwood will stav with relatives in the country.

Mr and Mrs R. Miller, of Wellington, and their daughter, who have recently arrived in London, spent nearly a year touring the United States and Canada, where Mr Miller did some lecturing and preaching. They are at present visiting Scotland.

Mr and Mrs F. V. Raymond, of Auckland, are spending two months in England and Scotland before going on the Continent. They return via the United States and Canada, and hope to arrive in New Zealand in .November.

Miss Aitken, who was a member of the nursing staff of the Christehurch Hospital for some years, arrived in England last week by the Remuera, and is at present staying in Edinburgh. She will be in Europe for two years. Mr and Mrs Edgar Jones, of Canterbury, leave London at the end of .July for a three months' stay in the south of England with their family. Later they will motor through England and Scotland, returning to London in November.

Mrs F. H. Coate, of Wellington, who is at present staying with her sister at Winton, Bournemouth. She will visit the Isle of Wight and Maidstone before she returns to New Zealand in September.

Mr and Mrs Harry Roberts, of Christchurch, who came to England Avith their two sons two years ago, are returning by the Ruahine in August. They have spent the major part of their stay at Eastbourne, near their sons, who have been at St. George's College. At the dinner of the members of the Royal Navy Club, Us7;">-85, last Thurs-

day evening, to celebrate the birthday of the King and the Prince of' Wales, and the anniversary of Lord Howe's action of June 3, 1794, Admiral Sir Wii-

liam R. Kennedy presided, and the guest was the High Commissioner, Mr Mackenzie.

' Mr Frederick W. Frankland, for : . merlv Government Insurance Commissioner and Government Actuary and Statist of New Zealand, accompanied ; by his wife, has arrived in England via America. They spent several weeks at 1 Lake Charles, Louisiana, where their I eldest son has just been appointed Bridge Designer and Assistant Chief 1 Engineer to the Highways Department !of the U.S.A. Government. While over here they are sending their youngest j son to London University College, and hope to remain long enough to bring lout the sixth edition of Mr Fraukiand'a | philosophical work, "Thoughts on Ultij mate Problems" (David Nutt, London). | Under the direction of Mrs Alington, about fifty or sixty New Zealand ladies sold roses in front of the United Service Institution in Whitehall.- They wore white dresses, and white ribbons, on | which "New Zealand' ' Mas printed in ! large gold letters. Sir Edward Carson ; was amongst the distinguished visitors ! who bought roses from this group.

i Mr H. D. B'roadhead, B.A. (of Christchurch), a graduate of the New Zealand University, and now Senior Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, has, after one year's study, obtained first-class ! honours in the recent. Modern and j Mediaeval Languages * Tripos examina- • tion. Ile has thus, in his three years at Cambridge, obtained Double First- | Class Honours in Classics and Modern

Languages. Mr and Mrs Charles Tuck, of Auckland, with their son, Mr Charles Tuck, have conic to England via France and Italy, alter an absence of fifty years. Mrs Charles Tuck, jun., has left for Ireland, intending to go on to Scotland and Wales.