NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 609, 11 September 1909, Page 14

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON^ London, J'ply 29. 1 . Mr. P. L. Cameron, of "Glengylo," Wanganui, formerly curate .at_Karori-,- is now in Ross-shire on ivvisifc to his sistor. Cameron came to the Old Country by the Ophir last month.- ' Mr,. Gresloy Xnluny who was on - the' sick list during a considerable portion of the Imperial Press ' proceedings, is now getting back to normal health. Ho leaves for New Zealand ,by the Rnapehu on August 6. Mrs. J. S. Cottereil, of Shaftesbury, To Aroba, is in London on a twelve months 1 visit to this country. . At present she is staying, with hor. father, iir. > John Hastie, at Notting-hill. Later on she will visit her relatives in Scotland; nnd'her husband's relatives in the South and West of England. , . . Mr. T. H. C. Bedford, of, Wellington; is on a business visit to London. : Ho travelled via America, visiting San Francisco, Chicago, and Niagara, and spending six weeks in New-York. Mr. will probably spend a couple of months here; and 'visit Scotland . and Paris afterwards . returning to Australia and New Zealand by the Orient Line via Suez. • . .Wr..and Mrs. Freeborn Parsons, and Miss and Mr. jB, Parsons, of Ben More, Kaikoura, ar: rived by thb'Suenc, on July 5. After, a week 1 London, they are now off to Paris for a fortnight, and, on their return they will-visit relations _and friends. Mr. Parsons, sen., who is revisiting England after an absence-of 33 years, will ; return to Now Zealand with his August 2(f ° ° ui ' ! eoTin ß London 'on iSw™?' Miss Bessie and Mr. . Legg, of New Plymouth, who arrived Inst May by the Asturias, will return by tUo new Orient liner Osterley, leaving' London on August ,6.; Ml'. Legg. is attending the International Congress on Alcoholism in London, and he ,will also Be-present at a Masonic reffit^. bythoXMd ° nTe ~ Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Ward; of Kaiapoi, are in : London, after an absence of 30 years.' Since thou arrival by tho Athenic last month -they w/ 1 to Kent, and Cornwall, anil contemplate trips , through the 'North of England and Scotland, before leaving for New Zealand in the middle qf October.' 'William Brown,' ofLy'ttelton and their son, arrived at Naples by the Orontes on April 23, and visited Rome/Florence Venice and'.Lausanne. .-.At. tho' last-named plaeo Mr. Brown s son was'successfully operated on. for. goitre by -Dr. I?au.\, a 'specialist, and •Is,is.now.u, the best.of health. -Mr. Brown .intends to visit his birthplace at Sunderland and also to toiir.in .Scotland and Ireland, leaving. for -New Zealand on October 15 . The Misses Lanedon, of Christchurch, who ™S th « • A .%we on May 25, have,.been spending .the .past:five weeks with,relatives ■ in Devon; Ihoy- aro now. in' London for. a fortnighty and afterwardsvthey will': visit Scotland and Paris, returning Whence to Devon. -Miss ■ Maj. Langdon, returns to New Zealand by the Ked Sea; route,in October,-and her sister.; Miss ■«.■ .Langdon,' proposes to spend twelve months i in_this country ,in order to study 'painting.' ■! v_JUr. J. Barton, of Dnnedin',!travelled by the 1 Marmora, as far 'and then spent I a month .on f the Continent. He visited the - ' principal cities, and 6pent' some-time.at Carrara .among - quarries. and studios there .arriving in London on June 25 to renew qnaintance _with England after, an ; absence : of Jo-years..; He misspend-about two' months "in l-Ta,-S" ,^ ed j Swtland and I r f 1 nd, ,r and letmn £ , for Zealand again \by the Vancouver route- .". ; S> g" 1 the latter VsisnmmV f M ¥,p r r ' ; °- f -iWelHagton, left the, Omrah at.Naples, and-.spent,six weeks on the Continent,- Visifang . Italy, Austria, Germany" Holland,-and -Belgium.' This 'month' they are spending in^ London, and in: August-they pro-' pose .to.yisit lreland and, Scotland-afterwards touring in France, Switzerland,/and Southern Italy, and joining tho Orsovo at Marseilles'' homeward- bound: • iV - ;y,>..-.v.; " who arrived' by the Euai 16, pa3t: jenw in New, Zealand with his two sons,- who; are farmiiie-' Mr •tw?" G the other near Timaru) : Judge .the" price of lab-L fw r ! 5 u?l1 :hl 4 e^: '¥ n ln ■ the' Old ,• Country,'. SL S ii. the. climate' ;is very 1 much - san5 an «•"' • Xew Zealand," def. ,ud 50,,, is .a ..grand- farming coun-.