NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 592, 21 August 1909, Page 10

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

i - -. ' PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON., London, July 8. Mr. and Mrs. Frank White, of Pahiatua, arrived by the Marmora, and will bo in England until' October or November. ■ '; / Mrs. Neil M'Lean, of Wellington, who arrived by the Corinthic, is on a visit to Edinburgh, where her son is studying medicine at the university. . . Mr. Frederick E. A. Graham, tho husband of Mrs. Edith Annie Graham, formerly of Christohurch, died on June 21 at St. Leonards-on-Sea. '■ ' ' 'Mr. and Mrs. Trevor W. Evans, of Tβ Kuiti, King Country, who arrived by the Corinthic last month, are at present staying with Mr. Evaijs's brother at Cheltenham. , . ■'■■-• ' Jilr.. J. ' W. Thomson, of Dune'din, has left London on a three weeks' visit to the Continent.. Afterwards he will tour Ireland and Scotland, and leave for Now Zealand, via Canada onSeptember 10. " ''■ Mr. and Mrs. .T. H. Field, of Auckland, spent a fortnight in Perth and a fortnight in Colombo, en route to London by the Orotava. They' propose to visit Scotland and Ireland, and to winter in tho Channel Islands. ■ Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Turton, of South Canterbury/ who have been taking a year's pleasiiro trip, are now in London, and will make the metropolis, their headquarters till they Kail again for New Zealand by the Arawa this month; '' . ' . , . Mr. George, Plummer, of Auckland, and his three daughters, who, came .via San Francisco, will return via Suez, leaving London in .October, and joining their"steamer at Naples. Prior' to their departure they visit Norway and-Scot-" land. ' \■: ■ ' ■•'•■•''.■ ; ,'. ■ :- Mr.'. J. Stanley Monck. o£ Christchurch, and. •his daughter, Miss Gladys Monck, -'arrived by the Riinpehu. and nfter a few weeks 'in- Lon-' don will Visit relations in different parts of England. .Later on they will pay a short visit ■to' Paris. ;'.••.■ : •: . . . On .Tune 15, at St. i-Thomas's Church. Portman Square. Miss' Charlotte Evelyn Kinsey, ■'eldpet.daughter.of the late Mr. G. E;.Kinsey, of Ronwiok Town, whs married:to Mr. George .T. Pavis-Goff, fourth ' son of the . late . Mr. Charles Davis-Goff, of Picton. Mr. and' Mrs. J. L. Kelly, late of Wellington, and. more recently of Hilp, Hawaii, have arrived in England.- Mr. Kelly found the climato of Hilo ton trying, and therefore res|<»iietl his editorship of tho local paper there, and set out for; London, his .'intention-being- -to. settle somewhere in the south of England. - :■.,■ Mr. T. Hyde, of Napier,'who is visiting the Old Country after 41 returned: to London last week from a visit, to his native town, Buckden,.in Huntingdonshire, where : he celebrated his .sixty-first birthday. Mr: Hyde came, to. England \ via America, and he will,return by the Snez route,, getting home some time before Christmas. :, ■ - • Mr. ;W. T. : Glasgow, of .Wellington, arrived in.London on June 18,: via Suez, Italy, Switzerland!' and Paris, accompanied by his eldest' daughter.. They will visit friends -in Ireland and Scotland, and join the Otrauto. at\Jlar--1 settles'-on;October B,.homeward bound. Mr, Glasgow. has just retired on pension, and is

revisiting the Old Country after an absence of .48 years. . '■. ...- . ' -'. ' ■ ■ ', \ ■ . A number of delegates from New Zealand University Colleges attended tho Darwin Ceiitenary Celebrations at Cambridge. Auckland University College was represented' by the Hon. W. P. , Reeves; Canterbury College by Professor-E. Rutherford, who ■ occupies the Chair of Physics, at Manchester, and who is .himself an old Canterbury College :boy; Victoria College, Wellington, by-Mr. H: 1). Bell, K.C.; tho University of New Zoulnml was ruby its . Chancellor, Sir Robert Stout; and the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, by Mr./I. V. Hodgson,-the zoologist of the Discovery Antarctic. Expedition; ■ Professor Sate, of.Dunedin, and Professor J.' Maciiilllnn Brown, of Christ'ehurch; also attended . the .Commemoration.,. ;■;■.■■ ' . ,

! Mr. and Mrs. H.Gilfillan.of Auckland, have returned to London from Oxford, where,they have spent several weeks with , their sun, who is at Christ Church-College... After three weeks in-I'ondon. they purpose going- for ..a- motor, tour in the South of. England, and.afterwards for a trip to Scotland. They will bo'leaving bn then 1 return to Now Zealand- about -Novom-' ber next. ■"• •■■ ■' ■"■ ■".

Mr. and 'Mrs. A. Bruce, of Christohurch,'canifl' to.England'by easy stages, Spending two months in 'Australian, ft fortnight'in. .Ceylon, and a. week in E^yiit.i'jAflor.reaching Naples 'they', came overland via. Roino, 'Liir cerne, Maycnce, Cologne, and' Paris., Thoy will spend ntx or seven weeks in London Mid a couplo of ■ months- on tour in the United Kingdom, returning to New Zealand via Si' beria and Japan. They hope to reach'Christohurch by tho end of the year.

Mr. William Williams, of Duupdin; arid his daughter, Miss Isobello Williams, who , arrived here by tho Ortona in April, have since been touring the British Isles; This week they aro paying a visit to Mr. Willidiiis's married daUfh. ter, Mrs. A. Whitehead, who left New Zealand two years ago, and has.since resided in the neighbourhood of Portsmouth. ; From thoia they- proceed to Scotland, and after n stay in Paris,, depart for Australia by tho'Ophir, leaving Marseilles end of August,

Canon H. C. Pollock, of Rochester Cathedral, who.has been chosen to proceed to New. ZenJand'on a Mission'of Help, similar to that held in, South , Africa spino'time.ago, will have associated with him tlie Rev. H. A. Kennedy, vicar of-Horbiiry'(Wakefield)., They aro to .sail at (he ■ end of the present j-ear, in order to commence work in Now Zealand about Ash Wednesday. They will probably spend about six weeks in , each Island, and return somewhero about Ascension Day I btit at present .their- qlans aro not yet dofliltcly sottloi ' *■.

Mr. J. D. Ritchie, of Wellington, Secretary for Agriculture, has arrived in London, having travelled overland from Brindisi, where ho disembarked from tho India. Mr.. Ritchie, whoso trip to tho Old Country was taken principally for health and pleasure's sake, expects to 'remain here for about ten weeks. lie goes to Scotland, and .will probably remain there during the month of July. Whilst in tho United Kingdom ho will visit tho principal agricultural shows, and'has already scon tho Royal Show at Gloucester. Ho will return to New Zealand, via Canada. ' ■ ■ Captain James Tnylor,' the commodore of tho Clyde-Rangoon Fleet, who has just retired after 40 years at sea, was for 19 years in -the/trade between Glasgow and New Zealand. He made his first voyngo to New Zealand in 1863, as an apprentice in the Robert Henderson, and,l3 years later lie' attained his first command on the ship Timaru.' , Since 18*2 he has been voyaging between the Unilod Kingdom and Rangoon. Throughout , his'long career in the mercantile marine, Captain Tnylor has been with the .one firm, Messrs. ;P. Henderson and Co., of Glasgow.. ■'' . ' ,