NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 190, 12 August 1922, Page 13

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL HOTES FBOM LONDON. DEATH OF THE HON. VICTOR ONSLOW. LONDON, June 28. (From Our Special Correspondent.) The Hon. Victor Alexander Herbert ! Huia Onslow, younger son of the fourth . Earl of Onslow, and brother of the pre--1 sent Peer, died yesterday at Cambridge i after a long illness. j It was while on a holiday in Tyrol in July, 1911, a few months before hi: 'father's death, that he seriously injured I his head in diving. Although everything 1 possible was done the effect of the accident was that lie became paralysed from the waist downwards. With fine courage Ihe set himself at the age of twenty to ) reconstitute his life. He had already 1 shown a strong bent for science, and he settled at Cambridge for the sake of the facilities for research to be obtained ! there. He devoted himself more particularly to Mendelian investigations, in which he attained no small success, and ,he contributed papers on the subject to I scientific journals. His friends will long J remember him for the charm of his perI sonality and the strength of character which enabled him to turn what seemed Ito be a maimed life into one of usefulI ness to mankind, as will his friends in 1 New Zealand who met him in the Donionion when he revisited it with Lady Onslow, after the time of his father. , term of office as Governor General. It ' was, of course, a mark of the fact that :he was born in New Zealand that hi j received the name of Huia, and the Victor ! commemorates his having had Queen ! Victoria as a godmother. Sir James and Lady Allen were present at the luncheon given by the English Speaking Union in honour of Mr. Taft, Chief Justice of U.S.A. Sir James Allen gave a farewell luncheon to Sir Edgar Bowring, first High ! Commissioner for Newfoundland, at the ! British Empire Club, St. James' Square at which other High Commissioners were also guests. (From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, June 29. Mrs. J. C. Allen, of Remuera, is in London staying at the Palace Hotel, Bloomsbury. Mrs. Allen, her daughter. Miss Margery Allen, and her son, Arthur, on their arrival by the Athenic stayed some time in London. Then they visited Staffordshire and were in time to reach Cambridge for May Week celebrations, where her son, Mr. John M. Allen, now at Pembroke College, was coxing the first May boat for Pembroke. After a fortnight's enjoyable stay at Cambridge they returned to London and are leaving to-day for Prance and Belgium, where Mrs. Allen will visit the grave of her husband. Mr. James Boddie, of Te Kuiti, Auckland, who has come over to inquire into questions affecting the disposal of New Zealand produce, was in London for a short time, staying at the Ivanhoe. He has now left for Scotland. The prizes given by the British school at Rome have always been the aim of the ambitious artist, and in this year of 1922 a New Zealander, Mr. George Checkley, of Akaroa, has been awarded by that j school the Jarvis Scholarship tenable at | Rome, the monetary value of which isj £250 per annum for two years. I