NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 333, 21 October 1908, Page 11

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, September 10.- , Sir. Arthur E. Coleman, of ChristchurcHf has passed his examination for- chief en- ■ gineer. Mr. Coleman is paying visits to relatives and friends in Devon, the Mid- • lands, and elsewhere. He returns shortly to New Zealand. Mr. Richard Hoffs, of Auckland, who has been spending the summer in the Old Coun- ', try, leaves London this' week on his rfeturn to New Zealand. He will travel overland as far as Naples. Dr. J. L. Gregg, M.8., of Alexandra South, Otago, who arrived by the Morayshire at the ' end of last month, intends travelling through ' Ireland and Scotland before settling down to a post-graduate course at' the West London Hospital. Mrs. G'. It. Haydon, of Auckland, who ar- ' rived at London by the Papanui from Buenos ! Ayres, where she has been for 1 the past ' fifteen months with her brother, Mr. Leish- : man Runciman, is spending a couple of months in this country before sailing for New • Zealand. Mr. Ernest- V. West, of Palmerston North, who arrived in July, intends remaining in Loudon for about two years to study English architecture at the Architectural Association, after which he will visit Italy • and ' other European countries. Mr. West will spend; a short holiday next month in-Denmark. Dr. Terras Bell, of Christchurch, ' who is now •at Edinburgh University, was lurried on Thursday, Inst; at, Lee, to Miss. Kathleen Brown, youngest daughter! •of'.the.hlate Mr. W. H. Browny/rof Upping*!' ham, Rutland. Dr. Bell is the son of Mr. J, T. 8011, a well-known Christchurch resident. ■ Mr. E. W. Elliffe, of Auckland, is revisitmg the Old, Country after 24 years' absence. Since his arrival last. June he has hunted up some of his old friends ill South Croydon. Surrey, the placo where he was born, ana beforo his departure will visit friends in Scotland. Ho sails from Antwerp for New Zealand on travelling via Suez, by the Gorman liner Bremen. Mj. James T. Partridge, a well-known' \\estport identity, has arrived in London to endeavour to float a company to develop certain coal areas in the vicinity of W«st- ■ port. Mr. Partridge travelled via America, i spending several days in Montreal and New • York en route.' Mr. Partridge holds a long lease over 3000 acres of coal land near Wostport, and is interested in 1200 acres more, the whole block covering some seven square miles of country. He ml] lay before British capitalists a comprehensive scheme ' for, the development of these properties. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchen and Miss Hutchen, ' of Wellington, are on a visit to London, They travelled by the Canadian route, spendjng a week in Vancouver and a fortnightin Toronto, and making shorter, stiys at Banff, Paris, Hamilton, Niagara, and Buffalo. They had a week in New York, and crossed to Liverpool in the Mauretania, ar- ; riving hero in May last. After visiting London and Oxford they toured Scotland forten weeks, and returned to London via Sheffield and Birmingham some ten days ago. Before leaving for New Zealand by the Moldavia, on September 25, they will visit ■ Paris, and ■ perhaps other towns on the Continent. . , , ■ ~ Mr. John Fuller, of vaudeville fame, left London for America recently with his 'wifo . and daughter, en route to New Zealand. The past part of their holiday was spent on the Continent, where, after a week in Paris, they went to Lausanne, to Interlaken,. and Lucerne, and thence to Wiesbaden. " From there they_ returned down the Rhine to ' Cologne, via Brussels. After landing at. Dover, Mr. Fuller went on to Margate, and spent a lively week with Mr. Harry Randall and other old friends. After six weeks in America they will cross from San Francisco to Japan, and spend some time there, arriving in Auckland soon- after Christmas. Mr. James Stichbury, of Auckland, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had been revisiting London after an absence of 47 years. Since his arrival by the Asfruriaa ■ last May, Mr. Stichbury has toured est on-' sively in Ireland, and crossed from Belfast over to Glasgow,, where he was most hospitably entertained. Afterwards ho visited 1 Paris, and later on attended a big conference of Foresters at Northampton as a delegate from the • Auckland district branch of the Order. The congress lasted a week, and was attended by 845 delegates, who were entertained on different days by Earl Spencer, Lady Thornton, and the Mayor ;of Northampton. Australasian Foresters will bo interested to learn 'that on the motion of Mr. Stichbury the congress decided to devote two pages of the Foresters" Miscellany each year to the affairs of the Australasian branches. Hitherto, it appears, Australia and New Zealand have never figured in the annual miscellany. Mr. and Mrs. Stichbury and their daughter will return to New Zealand by the Ophir, leaving London on October 2.