NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 102, 23 January 1908, Page 5

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

I'EHSONAL JOTTINGS FROM LONDON. .London,. December'l2. Hecont callers at the Hi"h Commissioner's office:—Dr. It. ISowen .Hogg (Timnru), Mr. J. 0. Howson (Tecston), jUr,- J.-'lt::'Fried-lander (Ashburton), Mr. L. M. Hcrap'ath (Auckland), Miss (.1 race 'E. Armstrong (Dunodin;. ' • ' . .Mr, J. B. Friedlaiider, of Ashburton, - is amongst tlio v recent- arrivals... from tho' Do-, minion, ,-jrj iMr*.s;Friedlan.i|er ''-'lia's'" ' conio'. toLondon.to' commolicp business as a merchant-' in all aiKf import interest; to New. ZpHijiul A 'v^gJfftorcstjingfcxhibition'.,-.of:, sketches in -vvat?p<»lftur w of''?oenes in New; Zealand is being lield/iifi-lo Dover- Street, Piccadilly, by Mr. Alfred Longden. ■ Olio particularly good examplo is the sketch, entitled, "In tho New Zealand Alps, Mount Earnshaw." The Rev. Cliarlqs Inwood, '.who has for many years boon ono of tlie loading speakers on, tho well-known Kcswick Convention platforms in England, is expected to visit Auck l land, Wellington, Cliristclmrch, and Dunedin towards tho end of. next January. .At a Consorvativo . social .gathering at Xi andsiyorth iCoiyn Hall on Tuesday evening,' a ladies't-flcbate : on "Votes;for.J\Vomen'! was open'ed in the affirhiativo by Mrs. Pomber Reeves, wifo of tho High .Commissioner for Now Zealand. Sho wiis opposed by-Mrs. Cassidy, the Battersea Poor Law Guardian. Mrs. John Lanibic, of Rakaia, and Mr. and Mrs. J. Clucas. of Ashburton, aro. on a visit to this coiint-ry. Thcv - arrived- here last July, and havo visited a -number.'of-'the principal towns in England and Scotland. They lfuvov againvoh their, v . return 'to the Domiiiipn b*y„.tho Orontes on Dcceniber 27..' Tlio only New Zealahder .selected'to ;play 4 in tho'.;.. mter.-.lJniv'ersfty Rugby Football' match', dccidcd at Queen's Club, West Kensington, on Tuesday, was Mr. G. M.-Chap-man, who is now studying at -Cains College, Cambridge. Chapman was iu the, forward rank of tho .Light Blue brigade. No other colonial appeared in the Cambridge tram, but Oxford had three South Africans playing, all hailing- from St. Andrew's University, at.-Grahanistown.^;.---,. .... -, Mr. ~p. Ststli Smith, of the council of the Zoological Society, leaves' London 'on December v lB join the Orotava at Marseilles, outward-bound. v Mr. .Spth Smith-Avill-make ofßcial-Visits' to. tho- zotilbgical Now Zftjilaiid and. Australia, and 'arrange for tho shipment, to' 'London . of. collections, ofanimals and birds for tho exhibiiton of Australasian', iadpa, tb; bo lield . in -'tho -London "Zoo:-'; Juno. - Collections: from this sido will be;, sent. out .in roturn .for . those preseift-fed tbo Governments of Australia and Nfetv Zealand.

The- 'Higji 1 - Commissioner's: Department "is arranging "Tb'r. tho: shipnierit.to New Zealand Of'the- interesting, and. valuable collection' of paintings and pcucil sketches of New Zealaiid scenes by <the lato Mr; ■ Nicholas-Chevalier, which, the. artist's widow lias 'genorously presented t-o. the New Zealand. Government. ,Tho collection comprises : 60 /water-colour' painting and 340-pencil 'sketches/;- v They were ddiio 'by Mr. Chevalierduring a .-two iii New Zealand in the late sixties, when he travellexl extensively-in tho North and South Islands :of tho infant cplony, as; it then , was. ./The.: artist' lias caught and ■■'reproduced ' -with.''' wonderful bpauty. of - mountain, lake, and gorge..;-Some ;of his pencil-drawings aro of exiiuisite . delicacy, and tho. colour effccts and composition-:, in ■ tho. larger: - works are will be oxhibitcd permanen'tlv- in We.llingtOll. ■ . . j . • s .