NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 195, 12 May 1908, Page 3

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, April 2. Mr. and Mrs. A. Robinson, of Wellington, who arrived here by the Athenic on March 14, intend remaining about twelve months. They are on a pleasuro trip, and will visit Scotland, Ireland, Jersey, and the Continent during their sojourn in these latitudes. Mr. W. M. Maclean, of Dunedin, arrived in London oil March 18 by the White Star liner Medic, which came from Australia viaDurban, Capetown, and Tenerille. Mr. Maclean is on a business trip, and purposes remaining in London about three months, returning to New Zealand by tho Suevic, which leaves Liverpool early in June. Mr. E. G. Loverscdge, of Beckenhany Christ-church, and the .Misses Edith and Alice Leversedge, arrived by the Athenic on March 14, on a pleasuro trip. They will spend a few weeks sight-seeing in London' and Paris, and then visit friends in Somerset, returning to London in time for the opening of the Franco-British Exhibition. They leave again for New Zealand by the Arawa, which is due in Wellington on July 14., Recent callers at the High Commissioner's Office:—Mr. Nigel A. M'Lean • (Hawke's Bay), Miss M. E. Warren (Wellington), Miss Barber (Wellington), Mrs. Joseph M'Annulty and Miss M'Annuity (Auckland), . Mrs. Gilchrist (Auckland), Mr. H. P. Kennedy (Christcliurch), Mr. E. Eade (Cbristchurch), Mr. Wm. M. 'Maclean (Dunedin), Mr. Sydney Smith, "Mr. Thos. Horraco, Mr. L. N. Recce (Christcliurch), Mr. Percy Pentlcs (Wellington), and Mr. R. H. Lucas (Nelson). Captain Greenstreet, of the Rimutaka, the popular commodore of tho New Zealand Shipping Company's fleet, has just lost his father, Mr. Henry John Greenstreet, who died at the Charterhouse, London, on March 12, at the ripe age of 93. Mr. Greenstreet was very ill-when his son left for New Zealand on his last voyage.- Tho deceased gentleman was the son of General Greenstreet, who saw' a good deal of active fighting in India while in command of British troops there. ' Mr. Keir Hardie had great praise for Now Zealand on his return to London last week. He described it as " the nearest approach to the ideal State" that he had "seen, in the course of his world-tour. Everywhere in tho Dominion he found an air of prosperity. He describes Mr. Tregear, tho head of the Labour Department, as "one of tho sweetest, strongest, • cleanest souls in tho Dominion." Captain Robert Scott/ of Discovery fame, and Lieutenant BarneSi who was one of Captain Scott's officers, aro: ceiulucting a series of experiments , with- motor-sledges in the mountains of Northern France, in company with Mr. Jean Charcot, the well-known French explorer. ,- They ;, hopo to prove the possibility of motoring to 'the Polos over the groat ice.wildernesses. Tho experiments with the sledges have- so far proved romarkablo successful. Dr. Charcot is starting on August 1 on a voyage of discovery to tho South Pole. New Zer.lnnders will bo pleased to learn that Colonel and Honorary Major-General J. M. Babington, ' C.8., C.M.G., who commanded the military forces of the Dominion with such acceptance, has not yet reached. •the. end of ' his usefulness to tho Empire, although ho has been on retired pay for some time, as he has just been appointed to the ■command of tho Lowland Mounted Brigade— that is, tho Imperial Yeomanry—of the Territorial Force of Scotland. Tho' appointment of nn old cavalry officer of tho standing of Major-General Babington augurs well for the future of that particular part of the new Homo army. A now composition for tho violin by 'Mr. Harry Farjeon, the New Zealand,composer, was performed by Miss Ivy Angrovo at tho Bechst-ein Hall, on Thursday evening.;