NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 89, 8 January 1908, Page 8

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

: » - ' r- .! PERSONAL .NOTES [ PROM LONDON,., . London,. November 28.Mr. John Allan, of 'I'hurlby,/ Arrow} is revisiting his birthplace, at Forgue, in Scotlandy after an absencq of forty years spent in New Zealand. Ho intends-making a visit to Palestine on his way back to the Dominion. • • The names of six of the most likely candidates for tho Chair of Classics at Auckland University Collego havo beeit forwarded through tho High Commissioner to .tho-.Col-lege Council, by whom tho final solcction will be made. Among recent arrivals in London is Mr. Lionel Clare, of Gisborno, who is On a holiday, trip._ Mr. Claro spent somo weeks in tile Straits Settlements after leaving; New Zealand, and travelled t-henco to England via Suez, .Genoa, and Algiers.: ■ Professor I'\ I). Brown,, of Auckland University; College, who has been, spending the past year on holiday, chiefly in this,country, intends loaving on his return- to New Zealand at tho end of this month. Hd will journey back to Auckland by. easy- stages. New-Zealand newspapers aro-asked.to record the fact that on, November 13, at St. Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, England, Miss Carohno Daiivers, daughter of the late Mr. E _F. Danvors, sometime »police : magistrate or Bombay, died.at the ago of sixty-sQven. Mrs. ■R. Struthers, of Christchurch, and her son, Mr. Sydney Vaughan, who havo been on a visit to this country since July, left London last week for the Continent. Recent callers at tlio High Commissioner's office Mr. and Mrs. -Thomas' Capstick (ulenroy), Mr. and Mrs. Hugh' Macncil and Miss Macneil (Sydney), Mr. T. C. Donnison (Oamaru), Mr. Thomas H. Harkcr' (Christchurch), and Mr.'John W/ Swift: (Christchurch). The Rov. Colin W. Scott-Monerieff,' late vice-principal of Dorchester . Missionary College, and formerly chaplain to Queen's College, Birmingham, loft England on Saturday for New Zealand, to take up'his appointment as warden 'of. St. John's' College. Auckland. • • . 7 Among the successful '• candidates at the s f-iTt esslona ' -Examination in -Anatomy' and Physiology for the Diploma of Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, of England it° S i ' ■^ n "*' ew John Crawford, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., M.8., of New Zealand-University and Middlesex Hospital.' One hundred, and nine candidates . presented themselves, of whom 36 per cent, were approved and "64 per cent, were rejected. Dr. E. E. Porritt, F.R.C.S., of'Wanganui, and his wife and two boys, arc returning to iNow Zealand via Australia by. the P. and .O. liner They are all well, and much better for their year's. holiday in tho Old Country. After returning from Switzerland last summer Dr. Porritt put in all his available time at his old University (Edinburgh), whore ho took tho post-graduate course. Ho looks forward to making another trip to England within the next five years. Captain Porcy Atkins, tho British' Commissioner at tho Christchurcli International Exhibition, has come back with a great opinion of New Zealand. In his report, to tho Government on tho Exhibition no forecasts a brilliant future for the Dominion. He speaks of its wonderful resources,., its salubrious climate, and tho oriergy and industry of its people, and quotes' with approval Dr. von Hochstetter's-description of Now Zealand as "a country which appears destined before all othors to becomo . tho mothor of civilised nations." . - Mr. C. H. Renant, representing tho Gear Moat Preserving and Freezing ■ Company, Limited, of New Zealand, has recently removed to 88 Fenchurch Street, E.C. Mr. Arnold Trowcll made a very successful re-appearance on Saturday night- at the Bechstein Hall. His attractive style and admirable technique were well displayed in Bocclicrini's Sonata in A, and several of his own compositions. It is tho opinion of some of the leading musical critics that- Mr. Trowcll will bo one of tho finest .'cellists of the day. Mr. Trowcll will assist Hiss Ethel Hooli, a sister of Madame Clara Butt, when she makes her debut as a solo vocalist, on December 14, at the Beehstein Hall.