NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 138, 5 March 1908, Page 5

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. - : : ! .London, January 23. The London Gazette " announces " tlie King!s - approval, of'tho appointment of Mi - . Charles Louisson- as Consul ...of : .-Liberia at Cl'xistchurch. .-.Sir. Joseph. Ward-; has been elected a vice-, president ot the. British Science . Guild, to-' gother with the .Premiers ,of the Commonwealth, Cape .Colony, and. Natal. /Tho Guild is a .body - whose object is to. demonstrate to the public " how the application of science may be cbnducivo to tho public welfare." . ■ fciir. John Gorst,! who spent some years. in New Zealand in the .early' sixties., and'who went out' again iii 190 ft as British Commis : sioner'to the New Zealand International' Exhibition,'{has:, embodied -. his. , impressions of travel in a new volume,, entitled " New; Zealand' Revisited," : which will',be published in a. few days.. '•' '•'- ' ' .'''■ ' .'" ' •Mr. Richard Garnett; of' the 1900-Club, is visiting New Zealand; in company with his wife: and . daughter,, to study the agricultural and social, legislation of the Dominion. Mr. ; Garnctt, who is a practical farmer at' Bradford, takes' a keen' interest': in Imperial politics; and. is an advocato.of colonials preference. •: -. : .-' • •Recent callers at the High Commissioner's officoMr.- - : E. Spear-(Nelson), Mr; S." C. Humphries'(Wellington), Mr. James B: "Lapland; Mr; Clyde A. M'Laren (Chmtchui'ch), Miss. Ellen Mortlock '(Christchnrch), 'Mr; and < Mrs. H; . 51. '. Smyth (Hokitika); • "Mr. liorber't; Babbage".(Wangirini),--'-'Miy G. W. Barltrop ■ and Mr. 'A.' Scott'' (Wellington), Mr'. C. E.'.lliley'(Blenheim), Mr. A thole'-V.' Davis (Auckland). . . "';;!'.! --Mr.-.and Mrs. S. Hurst Seagcr, •of jGhrist- : church,' aro 'staying' at" Canterbury;;-pripr 'to •leaving 'for Switzerland, Italy; and ■ Spaih. -'During-"his: Stay iii Europe ! Mr: Seag'er- has visited: many sites of ancient cities, including tho:-lloman remains at Aries," Ninacs; . and Aviguon;' From " Naples ho mado trips to Sicily; Tunis) and: Carthage," 'and- in England he'.has made each'of the Cathedral towns a centre for a sh"brt.-st'ay'.'' They expect 1 to'be back iii lionddn 1 about' April or May. . For the positiqn of art master at Wangariui Technical 'School,' Mr.' Dennis ' Seaward has beon' : selected, by a. comniittoo, consisting of Dr. Garhett; :of tho Education Department of the L'.C.C.; Mr.' S.-.J.-' Cartlidge,.lnspector, of Art' Schoolsand the High' Commissioner: for' New' Zealand; Seaward, . who is 31 years "of /age; and; was trained at tho Dover School of -. Art and the Royal. Col-, lege.'of :Art, v Soiitlr'Kensiiigton.: • Ho is Van Associate of the Royal 'College of'! Art," and, holds the : Art .Master's Certificate (Group 1). He won tho Queen's Prize fcr modelling the; Antique;-' and other 'prizes at tho Royal' College:; of Art- for modelling'' and painting. -As regards.teaching' experience,.Mri ; Seaward put in 'five 'years as master' in training at' the Royal College'of Art, arid 1 in addition' He'has boon • drawing ■ instructor to tho Royal : College' of Scienco and the Royal School' of. Mines,, assistant at Dover School of-Art/for 5 fivo years, art master at* th'o : Deal Technical Institute' for - four years, and- temporary head-: master for three at'Bridgenorth; School of Art. His credential's are excellent. . -Mr." William: Green, the' tenor-who accompanied Madame Albani ofi her recent tour of' Australia! and' New Zealand, has returned to London, ami mado his reappearance iii public at.- the .concert: of. the Royal Amateur Orchestral Society, at' Queen's Hall, on Wednesday ovening. • .