PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 153, 29 June 1914, Page 11

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

KTJW ZEALANTDERS ABROAD. (From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON". May 22. A-mnr.? a number of military officers who had tin- honour of dining with the Kin-.' and Queen at I>uekingbam Dnlacc last Sunday \v:is Brigadier-Genera] 11. IT. a-ivics of (lie X.Z. St-aIV Corps, who i- at present General Officer Commanding lh<- (i.i Infantry lirig.ldo, Mrs. Davits accompanied h.-r husband. Mr. W. Acton-Adams has returned to hi- London residence, 74. Park Mansions, ! after touring since December on the Riviera and ill Egypt. His son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert. Acton Adams, have come from New Zealaud lo .-tny tlie reason with him. Mr. H. Proctor, the Christehtireh artist, who is al present in Southern Italy, has been staving in Sorrento, a garden city on the liay of Naples. for the past live weeks, where he has been busy transferring = ome of its beauty spots to i.-mv is. Mr. A. r\ Varburough. of Auckland, has recently returned from a ,-i\ week-' I holiday on Lhc Riviera, and now intend* | staying with friends in Yorkshire. While I over here he hopew to promote better la- j cilities for the development of tlie marketing of dairy produce from New Zealand, and to secure a few farm lads to take out there with him. lie returns j ->ia Suez in September. j Th.- fSrv. .Tames Wilson, formerly of East street Hall. Auckland, who" is I accompanied by his wife, has come over [ to England on a preaehins and lecturing : lour. During the summer they will go I to Norway and Sweden, and return to I New Zealand via America and Canada. I Prior 10 his arrival in this country Mr. | Wilson spent, two years touring Australia, miles by motor ear. Air. and Mrs. D. A. Gray, of Auckland, who earne over to England In order that the trip may benefit the hiullh of their -on. are at present visitin:; relatives in Dumfries, and from there go on lo Ireland. Next month they ieavr for Belgium anil < lermany. and on their return to England Mr. Gray hopes to visit, the chief manufacturing centres. They leave for home in September. Mr. and Mrs. P.. C. Astou. the former of whom is New Zealand Government Agricultural Chemist, arrived in Loudon , via the All Red route. They are at j present the guests of Mr. A. \V. Astou. J.!'.. of Woodt-oto Grove. Ep-om. "Mr. and Mrs. If. M. Smeeton. nf Mt. Kden. with their family, arrived in England a Fortnight ago by the Orama. Mrs. Smeeton goes tn Stockholm next month as Auckland delegate to the Triennial Confereuc.se of the Y.W.C.A. Mr. Smeeton will join his wife over there, and they will then spend some weeks touring Norway. Germany, and Hoik ad liefore returning to England, when they will motor through the south and east country. Miss Edna Smeeton 1...a taken up study ol the pianoforte and 'cello at the R.A.M.. and U living at West Hamp-tead. Later 011 Mr. Smeclon anil his son. Warwick, hope 10 visit th-e chief manufacturing centres, and will prolßihly be away from home for about ;i year. Mr. and Mr?. Herbert Tkuvson, of Auckland, have come over to see their son. Dr. Herbert Uawson, who is house physician at Colchester Hospital. After spending a sborl time on the Continent they return to London for the. British Denial Cenfercniv early in August. lea\iu? for New Zealand again about the middle, of the same month. ■The Time-" announces the death on May llith. at l.indene. Grove Koad. Sutton, of Mr<=. Mary Kirkland Kogaii. widow of Mr. .lame-. KowUU Rogan. hue j of Auckland. Mr. John 11. Self, of Auckland, who in at present ill London, leaves for Scotland in a few day-' time, and will be absent till next month. Mrs. Mackenzie, wife of the High Commissioner. Has given a number ot "At Home" this week to New Zealandcrs in London at her residence, 14, Lindfield Gardens. Hamp-tead.