NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 762, 10 March 1910, Page 4

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

''■'■■"■" ' ■ London, January 27. Mr. William Fownes Somerville, of Now Zealand, died on January.lS at Dinder, '.Wells!,; gppiefset, in his fifty-ninth year.. "'Mr.''Geoffrey Milburri HartJ Osborne (New' Zealand), has.passed tho; final examination qualifying him as licentiate of the Royal College of Physiciais and of Surgeons, Edinburgh. . . :'..

Mr. John. C. Wason, the Liberal candidate for Orkney; and Shetland, who is im'mensely popular in the islands, is a New Zealander, and-was many years ago a member of the Dominion Parliament. vMf?iW;;H;;'Hemingway, F.N.'Z.A.A.,' is due'itf'Eoh'don this month. He;is coming in order to go through a special course at the, Lpndsn-University Schoill ofEcolater visit the 'Continent a'n'd-'Anierica. i ' :■

' Miss Gertrude.'Lonsdale, who toured New Zealand a few years ago with a con-cert-company, has been engaged for the roles of Hansel in ."Hansel and Gretel" and the Vagabond in Mr. Frederick Delius's "A- Village Eomeo »nd Juliet" durjng.the season at Covent Garden. ■

,; Mr. Tho/rias Dunhijl, who, it will be rememberedj gave, when but in ;New Zealand.as examiner for the Associated Board of;Music/jiySeries of lectures for students, is the composer of a new pianoforte quintet, which .will be hea.rd;for,thei first time .on February 5 at.the Salle Erard at a given by, Mr. Josef Hoi-' ibro6ksrj'C;'"i"":'■'';! ■ .'f. "An old Wanganui hioy.'Mr/'B.'A. Mayne, who, after serving for a number of years in the New Zealand : telegraph service, went.to America, and took up wireless telegraphy, is now manager of the Great Lakes Division, of the North American Wireless Company,'which is stated to bo the largest operating wireless concern ,in existence. Mri; : Mayne.,has just offered to the New'Zealand'Gbvernment a wireJess apparatus.';at;*, cost of about ,£2OO, which: 'wonlcl b> .-made in Chicago under Ins. perspnajvsupervjsion. -.'•;"■ in the general election wore several Australians and New Zealanders,. and quite a number of politicians who have visited the colonies, or who are connected in one way or another with ttem.'-'.Mr. E. G. Jejlicoe; the ex-We}lington barrister, sustained defeat in .the Walton ,, divisipri of Liverpol; Mr. Arthur Fell, who waa"' born in- 'Npw Zealand, has been again returned' for Great .Yarmpuili as'a'-"Unionist; Captain E* S. Grogan, who married a New Zealand girl, stood as a Unionist candidate for Now-castle-iinderrLyme, and was defeated; Mr. /Richard. Jebb, who visited Now Zealand a year or two ago, and afterward wrote "Studies in Colonial Nationalism," stood lor Marylebbne .East as an Independent Unionist/and was badly beaten; Sir W. C. fihaytor,' the: defeated Unionist candidate forßishopvAuekland, is a relative of the well known' New Zealand family of that name; Sir Willam Anson, M.P. for Oxford University, is a brother, of Mr. F. A. Anson, who married Miss Roberts, of Akarda and,still resides in tho Dominioni'' 1 r.;-;-.-.'-.'.- ; "i' v .-:'■"' - ■,'■:

■ MESSRS. WM. CABLE* CO.'S '■!;■ .■■-.; PICNIC. ■■:■-/; : ■ '.-.'' ■... - '■♦— ~— ; - : '" , ' , :''. . Messrs. W. Cable and Co.'e .employees held- their annual picnic-on Saturday last '.at:-Maidstone-Park' r . Upper. .Hutt. • The weather being excellent, a pleasant time was spent, about 350 being present. The following'is the list of the sports events: championship (410: yards)—Jl'Donald, l;Burns, 2.. ; . Apprentices'(under 18), 100 VI i Brown, ?. Assistants' ■ handicap/ IOCT. yards—J.'.iGray; 1; Aitken, 2, 880 yards handicap—Burns, 1; iM'Donold, E;>- Boilermakers'-.-handicap, 100 'yards—Little,' 1; H*ndejvwn,.,2...,,Journeymen's handicap, 120 yai'ds—Jlbwa'tt, 1; Ackroyd, 2, Apprentices (over 18), 220 .'l(!Donald; :2.:'.' Married men's race, : 100. yards—Little, 1; Baker, .2. HopVstepV'nnd.jnmp—A'itkeh,'l. Cdmmittedmeh's. race," JIOO yardsfc-Ounninghaiu, 1;. Mansieret,.2. ;•■. Morrted vladies' race— • Mrs! Henderson,'!; Mi's'.'Hart,'2./' Single ladies' race—lliss,\ 1;' . Miss Kelly, 2.- , i , vJrugrDf>-3Va'lfiTßoilermakers v. rest ■: employees, won by bpilermakers. Tlie r-f picnic J cominjtteo'v;' ijcknpwiedge .trophies from .the fqllowing,j,firms:— Messrs!'Jenkins and ilack,. M'Eeod, Weir, ■and'Hopkirk, S.;Brown, Ltd.';-Point Elizabeth Coal Company, J. Duthie and Co., Ltd.,' Wardell Bros., A. S. : Patcrson and Co., Richardson and Blair, S-. Wood and Son, Kilpatrick and .'.Co.y/.P/ J. Fitzgerald, W. H-' Bowden, W. C. Gaseoigne, j._JE_JSitzgerald,-X—E«ss~3nd-Co.',; J. Chambers and Son, Briscpe,(jnd Co., Len }rKpnV\e,':Jj'ysaglit^arvdX'o.> ; ajii( ; Vaciuiiii Oil, [Cor- -.—,"--.^•- ! -^- v .»-> ;