NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 95, 15 January 1908, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

o PERSONAL NOTES FROM' LONDON. London, December 5. , Mr. T. H. Harker, of ■ Ghri?tchurch, leaves hare next -January 'on hi? , roturn to New Zealand, travelling ,vfa Hp will spend a month in Australiaenro.uteforNew ' Zealand. . :T)ijs week Mr. Harder leaves for a tour through Italy and the South of Franco. ' Mr. : J.,"W. Swift, <of.Chrjstclujrch, and • Jlis? Swift intend- tp spepd. the winter on the* : Continent, and loavo London this week. Miss : S\vjft -Will remain in Pariß for q. months ! to study the hinguago, while her father pur- ; < poses taking a tour through Italy 1 and-the' 1 S,onth pf Franco. 1 hds recently 1 ) nifido ap . tour' through';,Qenn«ny ; i j»n,d Switzerland. • ! O'lQ of. the v.ery rare New Zealand crosses' ? Qonforred fo,r heroic servico on 'Constable Sol.omnn Black' for brayery at the Siege of ■ Ngatapa, 1869, w<as sold for XJ7O oij' Friday j i a t Sotheby's. Tho cross is :m silvcr t m. the. shape of a Majtoso .cross, /surmounted with A ?}.o)vn. ; On. the obverse is a wfcath in f?°!,d| on the reverse a circular band with tho. constable's ■ namo inscribed. . . .■ , Recent callers at tho High Gqmmissioner'g pffic.o.—Mr. Jphu Allen, Mr. Robert Warnori i (Wellington), Mis? Helen K. SJioleficld .OSMI.MJE.toia), Mfss Annie Glueas, Mr.'James Clucas (Ashburton), Miss Jane Lambio (Ashbujton), Mr, and Mrs. J. Stuart-White and Master Stuarjfc-"\V Into (Dunotlui), Mr. E- A- C.: (Clinjstchurch), Mr. ana Urs. E. R. Llmdloigh (Chatham Islands). : Tho lion A\. Hall-Jones has- decided to return to Niey Zfalaad J>y ;tljg.,.Shjw i; Sayili steamer Goiinthic; leaving' London oil I)ecejnber 13. He will be accompanicd by Mrs. and Mips Hull-Jones and Mr. G. Schmidt (private secretary). By the same vessel will trayel Mjv' B.eiisted,' thy. Principal of the : ;iiow Government Home for Defective Boys, and Mi. Lmdley Richardson, tho new assistant art instructor for the Wellington Technical 1 School." Miss Nora Loiig; tho we)l r knpwn singer; , foi'iiierly of Welliiigton, ■ was ph.tliusiastiifally ,encored ' r "cliarmiug " rendering p'f TQiiand .tu chimte " (Gounod); with f.violin ohbligato, at tho Gaiety, oil Sunday 'evening. Miss 'Lrag-V well-cultiynfed soprano' is very, well suited to 'interpret 'charisons. l ''-' The 'death of ife.v Caroline Cadotte Blanchard, who passed away on'Fri-day--in ■ her. 87tl) ■ ycar' ; ~ She was one of thepioneers in tho movement for the, emigration pf women to the British colonics, and was for many years emigration 'agent, fpr th'b Governments,- of. New "Zealand, New South" Wales,! "^d,*'sQvth : arid had travelled extensively in Australia and New Zealand. In 1890 her services wero re- I cognised by the grant of a Civil List.pension-' - A yeyy fino cinematpgraphic 1 panorama of a trip lip the Avon, New Zealand, ig being shown at the Alhamb'ra this'-week. ' ' , Mr. Eric, Caerlyon Bonnett, of Christchurch, who canio to England last year, hns been studying singing with Professor Isidore do Solla and Dr. Hamilton Robinson-at the Guildhall School of Music, and has also Had some stage 'experience." He leaves for' Milan about the'end'of January for further tuition in singing under Signor Sabatini. Alter eight or'nine months in Italy, he will probably spend a. 'few -'moiithis 'lit 'Gprmany, and also stay a .while.in France'beforo returning to Xew Zealand. Mr. F. W. Platts'and Mr. and: Mrs. J: Fortesciie Mills, of Wellington, arp on'a visit to the Old Country. They travelled trorn New Zealand via the Far' East, and spcijt 'a fortnight in Jajjan, leaving the beaten' track and' trayelliiig. in .riclishaws," with a guide, th'rougj) . that picturesque an,d 'interesting' country. •' From "Japan tliey went to Vancouver' an.d thence 'by rail to Npw York, crossing 'tp';'Liverpbor in ' the Baltic. They, 'jviir return to New Zealand Via' Suez eany in the New Year.. . '' : Mr, Harry Linley Richardson, who has been selected f,or the position-of assistant art instructor' at the Wellington Technical School; nvill sail for New Zealand -by tho porinthi9 oil December 13. Mr. Richardson is twentyreiglit year? of. age, and unmarried. Ho has had considerable experience and success as an illustrator,' exhibitor, and teacher, and in 1905 lie was elected a member ot the Royal • Society 'of British Aj-tists. ; Ho was trained at tho Goldsmith College School of 'Art, the Westminster Technical Institute, and the Acadaniie Julian in Paris, where lie studied figure-painting under' Benjamin Constant and Jeari/Pa'ui .Laurpns.." From-1903 to 1906 Mp. Richardson conducted'private studio,clashes in figure-subjects. 'Hd has'also paintei} portraits _(c.6riimissioned) and figure subjects for exhibition, apjl has done a good deal of black' and white .work for magazines, posters ".for" coriimercial' firms', and book-, illustrating for' leading publishers, including. Qassjjirand Co., Warne's, Dent and Co.. and Isbister's..' He 'has exhibited at the Royal Acadomy, tbp Royal Cambrian 'Academy, the Walker 'Art" Gallery at Liverpool,' the Royal Society of Artists,' Birmingham,' ana .'at Bradford, Bath, Hull, arid otliei\ towns.