NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 492, 27 April 1909, Page 8

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

. PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON, ■ , r ' London, March 18". Mr. A. Hanwell, of Napier, and Mr, H. J, Knapp, of Greymouth, who arrived by the Rimutaka on February. 28, are spending a : few .weeks,; in London before proceeding to ■Wales on a visit. ■■ . , Mr. • Norman MacMunn, lato of the'Auckltuid "Star," who caino to London sorno nronths ago, ha 3 gone to, Lucerne - as .English teacher in a school of languages there. His idea is to mako a. study; of European languages 'for subsequent use-in journalism. Recent, callors at.tho High Commissioner's Office-Mr. G._ Coup (Christcliurch), Mr. Ed/. Percy :■ Field(Wellington), Mr. Clayton Dudley Hall (Christcliurch), Mr. Gregory ■Watson, End .Miss Molly Watson (Greymouth), Mr. Thos. H. Murray, (Dunedin), Mr.v and AI rs. J. D. Millton (Canterbury),. Miss F. Ethel Wood (Opawa,, Christcliurch), Mr. A.. Hanwell • (Napier), Mr. C. West "(Wellington). l •- . Mr. D.: Grant, lato of tho Whangarel Manual' Training and Technical School, ' arI rivedin• London'by the Victoria, : 'after spending three weeks in Australia en routo. Mr.,, Gordon, ;of Masterton,\.who is going to. Glasgow to;; study ■ medicine,'; was, .the. ; ; only.' i other> passenger from 'Now Zealand. ■ Mr. Grant .will spend some/time in England to gain fresh-experience and knowledgo of his' profession - : ? Mr. . Charles Owen, a Now Zealander, who ■ has lately gone to resido in Reading,\lecsturod; a.; few. nights , ago. at the-Beaconsfield Club, Reading, on "New Zealand and Pre;ferential JTariifs,",. illustrating hisdiscourse' . .with_: lantern-slides lent by the. High, .Commissioner's Department. 7,".',-.' . ; Miss Victoria Crowthor. gave aii "at ; home" at Lipscombo'svGardens at Sandy; Bay. '" The function took place in the .evening,, and the' grounds wero lit with electric globes and! Chinese 'lanterns.: Bridge" was - arranged * in' tho large fernery.' . The garden was full of sweet-scented . flowers' and. fragrant balls of, perfume hidden hr-the vines added to tho sweetnossof tho'air. The girls-present wore picture hats withitheir evening frocks. Mr. E. West, of Palmerston North, has just returned.- to London-from a two' months', .tour, in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. : He leaves fora. trip, to the United States; next; July,' and' will l speiid three months'in America, afterwards' returning ■to London', and leaving here for New Zealand early next year. • Oil his' way.'home .Mr. - West will , travel ' through Germany, France, and Italy, and hopes to spend threo or four months in Italy. At-preseiit ho is 1 studying under Mr. Mervyn ' E. Macartney, surveyor to. St. Paul's Cathedral. '. 'v "■ • , ;;x:'Mias : -Agnea. ■ Millicenfc Ewen, youngest daughter of the late Jjohn A.'Ewen;. J.P., of 1 Potter's Bar, and Mrs. Ewen,'of Duiedin; was' married last Thursday to Lieutenant Charles M. Forbes, R;N., ;of H.M.S. -Dominion, .second son of ,Mr. Jaines . Forbes, of - : Potter's Bar. Tho wedding took place at St. Columba s, Church of Scotland, Pont Street, • .London, tho Rov. Alexander M'Crao officia:tmg. > v -;:.\' 1 :: V, ; v : - Tho High Commissioner for New Zealand,' on behalf of the marine; 1 engineers of New' Zealand, will :., shortly present Mr; 'James, Adamspn,: secretary, to the Institute of Marine'. : Engmeors,;with_ the ! gold emblem,of New ■■ fland,. in recognition of-'his services' to young colonial, engineers in the Old Country. At i the last meeting of the-,institute.was read a' letter, signed by tho president and secretary : of the Wellington branch of the Australasian : Institute of: Marine Engineers, "and addressed ' ; to Mr. Adamson, in which -ho was " asked . to' ' accept, the position of a . life honorary associ- *] ato ana to accept^the gold emblem.. . j