NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 114, 6 February 1908, Page 4

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

:• PERSONAL. NOTES FROM: LONDON. '! ... - London, Decoinber 2G. : ;Mr.;.S: H6therington, ,of Auqkland, -and , Miss' London:to-morrow- i .for "jlentone, which will bp their headquarters' 1 for tho rest of the winter. :Mr.vHethering- ' tori hopes to visit Venice and Rome during j his-tour, returning to England in' April next | to; put .'in tho' suriimer hero. ''i The Earl'of Seafield was entertained to : dinner last week "at tho ,Mctropolo by. mom- ' bers : of tho Clan.Grant Society, Tho Earl. 1 is a Lieutenant in tho-Now Zealand Defence ] Force,'and is attached to tho Canterbury ! ( Mounted liilles. Ho married Miss' Nina j Townend, daughter of Dr.; J.-T. Townond, of. Chtistcliurch. '" • • Recent callers at the High Commissioner's, j office: Mr! Percy A. S. Elworthy (Tiinaru), | Miss Dorothy Colbock'and Jiiss ltuth Colbcck | (Auckland), Mr. Lionel E. Riddeford (Hi'itt, i Wellington), Mr. W- .H; ltebinsoii (Christ- j church), Miss M. Ashtbri (Auckland), Mr. ; N. Guthrip (Christchurch), arid Mr. J. Wi ! Leggat (luvcrcargill). ' . . Mr. Hadfield, formerly of Auckland, died ( at his residence 'in' Mount Pleasant Road,, j on December 14. He had not t been well-since his arrival by tho Runic in j August, 1905, and last Juno ho' underwent an operation. It failed/ however, to j I achievo its purpose, and Air. Hadfield grad- ' ually and died last Saturday. Ho> leaves a window, a son (Edwin), and a married daughter (Mrs. John Itoid) in ; England, and .a son in Auokland. , ■ Mr., If. H. Tompler, of .Auckland, who oil a visit to England, has lectured in various jjarts of Cornwall, on -'New Zealand, its Scenery,:. Industries, : rand Social Conditions." A collection of limelight views, supplied by tho High Commissioner's Department, is used to illustrate the lccturo. .< Last week 'Mr.'Templor /Icctured' before' a < large audience iu tho Town Hall at Wadebridgo. Tho Rev. Barton H. Ginger, another Now Zealandor, gavo a lecturo on Now ( Zealand last Saturday at liyde, in the Isle i of Wight. . Mrs. and Miss Russell (Now Zealand), who \ aro now in Cornwall Gardens, leavo shortly i for Malta. Mrs. Russell goes to visit her c daughter,' whoso husband, Major' Hudson, is ( stationed there. " • ( Mr. William H. .Rattray, of- Auckland, t having left tho S.P.C.K. Collego in London. ; :is, now working as a Church of England ( .'evangelist in tho parish of Downham, in ,' Ely, Cambridgeshire. 1 ! Mrs. T. Hamcr, of Wellington, who haß been on a holiday trip to tho Old Country, t leaves on her return to Now Zealand at tho end of tho month. Tho last three months i islio has spent at fho Riviera. ; Mr.,and Mrs. Garnet B. Holmes, of Wellington, havo arrived in London via America. (Mr. Holmes is a partnor in tho Holmes and Allen automatic trolley-head invention, .and c has come to Knglaiul with ii view'to dispos- '1 iiig of the English .rights, of ,tho ..patent. . 1 i Mr. William Luscombo Sciirelle, tho author of "Talcs of tho Transvaal": and/other books, :{ .whoso death took plaeo at East Molcsey last week, spent his 'childhood in New Zealand. I lie ran away to sea, hbwpvcr, at tho ago of j: 13, and tho greater part of his lifo afterAvards was associated with South Africa., I I Mr. 11. Npvill Smith; described by tho C i"llritisli ;\ustral#swjp"',.as ! "Nun' 'Zealand's I greatest violiiiist," is returning to Berlin and I .'London by-tho G.M.S. Bulow, to rirosccuto 1; his musical studies.