NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 156, 26 March 1908, Page 3

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON,

. London, February 13. . Two more veterinary surgeons, Mr. Blair and Mr. Brown, leave London this month for New Zealand,-under ;engagement to the Department 'of . Agriculture. Mrs. George Thomson, formerly of Oamaru, has arrived in London 011 a: visit from Mexico, where her husband is engineer at the San Francisco del Oro Mine. Mr. Jasper Calder, son of Archdeacon Calder, of Auckland, who has been 011 a visit to.-London for the purpose of studying for the, ministry, lias returned to Now Zealand. 1 ' p ' Mr/ W. H. Koebcl has written a story of a New Zealand sheep farm in a novel entitled "The Anchorage," which has . just; been published in London. " The Times " describes it as a pleasant and wholesome narrative. ' ■ Recent callers at the; High Commissioner's office:—Mr. W. Mahoney (Christchurch), Dr. Adelaide Orchard (Christchurch), Mr. K. J. Thomson (Gisborne), Mrs. E. B. Buckeridge (Gisborne), Mr. A. H. Baskervillo (Wellington), Mr. W. Cocks (Christchurch). The Hon. W. I'. Reeves contributes to tho current number of, the " Financial Roviow of Roviews'" an interesting article on-'."Old Ago Pensions in New Zealand." Ho contends that, so far from* the pension system diminishing thrift, there has been during the last decade a very gratifying and solid increase in the growth of deposits in savings banks, membership of friendly societies, and policies' of life insurance. Mr. Roland St. Clair, of Auckland, has returned to Loudon after a month's visit to Norway, whither he.went partly on business, and partly for pleasure. In his official capacity as Norwegian Consul' at Auckland ho made theacquaintance of the Norwegian Minister of Commerce -in Christiania, and was introduced to the King of Norway, the President of the Storthing, arid various members of the Government. He found them greatly interested in New Zealand's industrial and social legislation, and had to answer many questions regarding tho working of the various democratic laws for which the Dominion is noted. • ,

Mr. James Adamson, M.A'.jLL.B. (Etlin. the now Dean of tho' Faculty, of Law; at Victoria College, Wellington,' leaves England today by tho P. and 0. liner: Himalaya. Mr. Adamson,_ who is 37-years of age and unmarried, is a member of the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh, arid a practising member of the Scottish Bar, to which he was called 'in 1896., ; Ho had a 'brilliant career in the Law classes, and as a Law graduate at Edinburgh Univdrsity,- taking .first prizes in many subjects. One of his examiners, the Professor of Scots Law at/Edinburgh University, wroto to'him' as follows:—"I beg to congratulate you on the best sot cf papers I have ever had tho pleasure to examine." Mr. Adamson is deeply road and thoroughly versed in his profession. He gained tho degree of Bachelor of Laws "with distinction " in 1896.