PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 133, 7 June 1910, Page 9

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

DOIXGi OF KBW ZuSAIAXBSRS .ABROAD. (From Our Special Correspondent.) 1/J.NBOX, April 29. Mr and Mrs i<. A. ImuUuui, of Auckland, and tneir loar daughters, arrived in .London by the " jiomjoiia, ' aiid are fclaymg lur uus sua&on v.l isaiiey'o iiotei, Gloucester Ko-dd. 'J. Heir trip will proiabiy extend over IS niontn=>. during v year oi which Uiadrs, toe beyond daughter, wiil yo to aa .hngiidfl boarding scnuol,. nuishing up with a Lour oi tfie Con t-in<sax. aiiss Nathan, also, intends to - pursue Her niusica.l stututb. 2Cew members oi tie Royal Colonial Institute include the new liovernor of Kew ZealaoiU, Sir John. Diekson-Poyn-' der. and tne following New Zealunders: —Ml" Won. Oalieuder, -\ir J ohn Carr, C Ji., ■3Jr James B. Heywood, JMr Leslie H. McHardy. 3ir Tnoa. li. Sherwood, and the Premier of Kew Zealand, Sir Joseph EVVard.

■Miss Fannie Preece, of Auckland, wJio arrived in England last month on a holiday trip -and proceeded to Clacton-on-Sea to stay with friends, came to [London this week for a round oi sightseeing. In tlie course oi tie summer she hopes to visit the Continent, returning to the Dominion about October.

Lady Stout is having a busy time in England, speaking in support _of temperance and suffrage societies, and is full of * engagements. Sμ speaks nfixt -week for the British Women's Temperaaee Association at Bournemouth,, for the Temperance Societies and the Suffrage National Union, then on June 20th ior the same societies in Glasgow.

The following saloon passengers left Jby the Shaw. Savill liner Aravva for ZsW Zealand to-day:—Miss E. F. Brown, Miss M. A. Ccegrove. Mr T. C. M. Crook, Miss S. J. Hewdnson, 3lr H. L. Hillier, Sir P. M. Lock, Mr B. McNab, Miss E. Xortheombe, Dr. A. G. Paxton, Mr J. Stewart, Mr S. Taylor, and 252 third class.

New Zealand was represented at the Etratford-on-Avon Shakespeare Festival this -week by Mr EarpeT. Among those present were the Austrian Ambassador and representatives -of France, Russia, the "United States. Servia, Hayti, Chile, [Bolivia, Peru, and the Australian Commonwealth —a wonderful tribute to the world-wide character of Shakespeare's fame. Sir George Eeid represented Australia.

Mr Arthur E. Ware, of Auckland, and Mrs Ware, are making a brief stay in tliis country. Mr Ware, who has been absent from ?ve\v Zealand 91 yea-rs, the last six of ■which have been spent in the j lAigentine, arrived in London with his ■wife from Buenos Aire3 on April 15. They "will leave here, again on 3May 7th ior Singapore, tiuvelling .via New York. Canada, Japan, and China. They are due in Hong Ivong on June 16, and in Singapore about live days later. 'Mr •Ware's trip to England has • Aeen-■ one o£ pleasure, and his intention in travelling to Singapore is to visit the rubber growing districts, with a -view to investment and xesidence there. He was in the Malay States for 2 years in 1901-2. Whilst in London he has spent most ol Ms "tinie in sight-seeing and visiting r*lations, and is now staying with his Bister, Sirs Miles Peathereton.. of North.Tvood, Middlesex, formerly Miss Ware, oi "Stadacona," Eemuera, Auckland.

Recent callers at the High Commissioner's Office: —Mr Henry Trendall (Auckland), Mr and Mrs J. A. Wood■waTd (Auckland), Miss F. E. Preece Mr L. E. James (Wellington), Mr Roy Gray (Port Chalmers), Mr H. D. Cook "(Christehureh), Mr and airs H. W. ant! Misses Paul (Wanganui), Miss Bnrnet (Wanganui), 3lr C. Louisson (Christchurch), Mr A- B. Eose (Wellington), Mr John. Mason (Auckland), Lady Stout, Olaf, Janet, Rotiert, and T. i>. M. Stout (Wellington), Mr and Mrs Alfred and Miss Xathan (Auckland), Mr J. M. Smith (Christchurch), airs A. Todd (Waipawa-and H. 8.), Miss Arrow (Pretoria and HJ.), Miss M. F. Horton (Auckland), Mr Reg. Y. Bacon (Christ-church), Mrs E. J. and Miss Riddiford (Lower Hutt), Miss Ida and Miss Coleridge (Wellington), Mrs E. Lake .(Auckland), Miss E. Hindle (Auckland).

Miss Amy Stevenson, of Auckland, ■who has ■come to London to continue her musical studies, has now begun work at the Royal Academy.

The Hon. JR. McNab, late Minister of Lands in New Zealand, left London today in the Arawa on -his -return to the Dominion. Mr McNab has been investigating in London and Paris the early records of .New Zealand history, and is ■well satisfied -with -bis "finds" in the State archives of toth ■countries.

The tobacconist had a cough so bad, He looked as pale as death; Bis "pipas" were stuffed, he only "puffed," Could scarcely "draw" a breath. He looked a "weed"" "cnt up," indeed, And thought he'd soon he "clay," But a Peppermint Cure, tbat remedy pure, Drove ills and doubts away.