NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 134, 8 June 1926, Page 8

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL MOTES FROM LONDON. LADY MACKENZIE'S DEATH. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, May 4. While Lady Mackenzie has been long a sufferer her death came almost with a shock to her friends. She died last week at Tonbridge,- where she and Sir Thomas have been staying with their daughter, Mrs. Mac Donald, .whose husband, Captain Mac Donald, is stationed there with his regiment. The funeral service took place at Tonbridge, and loth Sir James Allen and Sir Francis Bell attended it. There were many handsome wreaths, one from the Government, the High Commissioner and people of New Zealand, and the other from the leader and members of the Legislative Council. The service at Golders Green later in the day was attended by Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Reid, Mr. Riseley, now over 80 years, from Bristol, Mrs. Cecil Wray and others.

Sir Francis Bell has arrived and is staying in London, as he usually does, in Whitehall Court. Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Richard Henn Collins, formerly adjutant-general to the New Zealand Forces, has arrived in London. Mrs. Collins is with him. Sir Arthur Myers has been ill with pneumonia, but is now recovering, and Lady Myers was able to attend the private view of the Royal Academy. Mr. James W. Tattersfield, of Auckland, is in London on a business visit. Mrs. Tattersfield and their two sons, who are also here, will accompany him on a tour of the United Kingdom.

Mr. Nigel Wallnutt, of Auckland, who travelled by the Suez route, will be in England till September, when he will go on the Continent to visit Italy. Afterwards he is going to America to make a stay of some duration. Mr. Wallnutt will of course make use of the opportunity provided by his travels of seeing what he can of architecture ancient and modern.

jtfr. and Mrs. H. Cardweli, of Auckland, who- came by the Otranto, are staying just now with relations in Abing" don, Berkshire. They go shortly to see other 3in Oxford and then to visit friends in Yorks. They will do some sightseeing in London and various other parts of the country, doing the Continent en route for New Zealand again, for which they leave England in September. .Mr. A. E. Mulgan, assistant editor of the "Auckland Star," accompanied by Mrs. Mulgan and Miss Dorothea Mulgan, arrived in England on April 23 by the Tainui after a delightful voyage, the pleasure of which was contributed largely by the trouble taken by Captain Hartman and his officers to make the passengers' time pass agreeably. Mr. and Mrs. Mulgan were met at Southampton by Mr. G. W.D. Mulgan, with whom they are staying in Chelsea, and motored to London by way of Winchester and Windsor. Mr J. A. C. Allum, director of the Allum Electrical Company, of Auckland, is now in London. He has come to England to visit his mother and to attend to various business matters in which his company is interested. He and Mrs. Allum, who has accompanied him, travelled via Vancouver, and in crossing to the Atlantic seaboard visited various places of interest, including Niagara, before embarking in New York by the Berengaria for Southampton. They will do the sights of the Old Country and visit the Continent before turning homewards in September.

The following were among the new members admitted to the Royal Colonial Institute: Messrs. J. Maughan Barnett (Auckland), J. C. Clarkson and Fredprick M. Warren (Christchureh), and John T>. L. Howell (Wangamii.)