NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 219, 9 June 1908, Page 11

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL 'NOTES- FROM LONDON

London, Apiil 30. . . . Miss Audrey Richardson, the New : ZeaJand rviolinist, gives a recital-, in tho /Eoliau Hall this evening. 'v. ' / ; An Anglo-New Zealand wedding took placo •at. 11. .Kensington Park Gardens on April 14, when Mr. J. JR. Friedlander, eldest son of Mr; Rudolph Friedlander, of New Zealand, was married to Miss Hildegard Friedlander, only ..daughter of/ Mr. Waldeniar Friedlander, fpf Jl- Konsingt-on Park Gardens. ; -Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Striith;' of Auckland, ••returned to London last, week from the south of"; France, 'wliero they "spent tho winter. They stayed four, months at .Mentone, and on the way iback to London they spent a .month' in Paris. . They expnet to remain in England until;the end of the .present '.year. . . Mr. and Mrs. W. White, of Wollingtbn, arrived by .the Orontes,; via Suez, on April 4. Mr. White is travelling for his health, and, as tho-weather has been so severe - this month he has' not been able to net about much so far. Tho date of his return- to Now Zealand is uncertain, , but ho will travel uy the-Orient Company's.route. .- * . - i Admiral Richard Moorman, who celobratod his 98th . birthday , last' wtiek; visited--New Zealand' .as; far • back as 1827, and rubbed 1 loses,; with ; ; a. Maori,,chieftainess who had rubbed noses , with Captain'.Cook, tho great explorer:" ; He - paid a .second'visit' in 1841, and 'met ione. of. .the chiefs whom ho had seen : m ' 1827: The : latter consigned. his. grandson to the care of Admiral Moorman, and tho young man remained on board .ship for a year, and then went to a naval -school'in ■: ■ England, subsequently returning to New Zealand. ' : >

Miss Unnie Bramwell, elder ' daughter of Mr.,/ Rowland Bramwoll, of Auckland,' was married on April 22 to Mr. Edmund B. R Prideaux, M.A., D.Sc. (Lond.), formerly of Auckland. 'Tho wedding tool; place at the parish church at Eastbourno, the Rev. Wm. JDawson, cousin of the bride, performing, the ceremony, assisted by. the Rey. George Nelson!'! Emmet. '. 'Another New .Zealand wedding took- place on the following day 'at Barton, Yorks.,, where /Mr. Carl,, Wilfred Sorenson, youngest ; son of, tho lato far. Carl Marius Sorenson; was married to. Miss Beatrice lirundel, • daughter of tho late Mr.. Samuol Drew'Arundel.'; ■ Recent callers at the High Commissioner's office Miss Maud Shand (Christchurch), Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Cooke (Lawrenco), Mr. and Mrs. A!- Rogerson (Auckland), Mrs. and Miss Jamieson, Mr. T. E. Dairson (Wellington), Mr. -A;' C. • Cunningham (Christchurch), Mr. Q. Samuel (Wellington), Mr. R. M. Watson ! (Wellington),. Mr; G. J. Henderson (Christchurch), Mrs: R. Milton (Palmcrston North), Madamo;H. A. Milson. Mr. 0. E. Milson (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. W. White: (Wellington), Mr. T. Biggs, Mrs. M. Irvine, Mr.' and' Mrs. and Miss Waldegrave (Palmerston North). Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Spragg and family, Mrs. C. R. Spragg (Auckland). Mr. J. 8. Handyside (Akifcio), Mr. E. J.vEforrick (Tantane), Mr. J. B. Clarkson (Ciiristohurch), Mr. W. Mason Bayly (New Plymouth), Mrs. J. J. Steel (Spreydon), Mrs. W. B.' Clarkson (Riccarton), Mr. and Mrs. W.AV.,Clifford (Jolmsonville), Mrs. Hamertou (Taranaki). ' '