NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 814, 11 May 1910, Page 3

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

London, March 31.

Professor Gerald Leighton, of the Royal Dick Veterinary College, Edinburgh, who 13 a New Zealander, lately lectured before the Sanil.irv Society on the "chaotic" state of British meat inspection.

Mrs. L. Desborough and Miss I. 7. Desborough, her daughter, of Christchurch and Auckland, who have been in England since June. 1806, hope to return to New Zealand in September next by the Orient Line. Mi6s Desborough u'iil devote her remaining months here to the study of music.

.D. G. Macpherson, of Otago University and Loudon Hospital, played a great game for Scotland in the match against England, .in which the Englishmen won by li points to 5,. and carried off the Bugby championship for the first time for 18 years. ' Macphorson's work was splendid, and all the critics agree in praising his resourcefulness.

Mr. Eobert Allan, J.P., of South bridgt, has recently returned from a four months' visit to New Zealand, and is greatly impressed with the spending power, of the New Zeolanders, especially as evidenced by the large and busy drapers' shops in the principal towns. He considers, from statistics supplied by a well-known New Zealand politician, that the. spending power of the one million New Zealantlers is more than that of five times that population, in Scotland. \

The Rev. Albert Darell Tupper-Carey, who has just boon appointed Canon-Mi&. siouer of York Minster, will proceed to New Zealand on Juno 16 on a mission of help. He will be absent about three months, and on his return to England will take up bis appointment at York, devoting himself specially to the work of parochial and foreign missions, • The new Canon has. been Rector of Lowestoft for the past nine years. He was a cod.temporary of tho Archbishop of York it Oxford, where he graduated in 1887. The clnss merits for the winter sea. sian of the Faculty of Medicine of Edinburgh University ■ were issued it few days ago. The following Now Zealanders havo taken honours:—Medicine: (Senior Division), second-class honours, V. H. Gordon. (Junior Division), firet-class honours, D. M*D. Wilson. Second-class honours, D. Watson, Peter M'Nab, M. Ramsay, P. Chisholm, (Absent from ono examination), first-class honours, Eobert C. Begg. Midwifery and gynecology: Second-class honours, A. E. Moore, P. M'Nab, W. Stewart, D. MTS. Wilson, H. F. Holmden, D. Watson, W. H. Johnston. Surgery: (Seniors), first-class honours, F. G. BeU, C. B. Tudhope. Second-class 'honours, W. J. Feltham, E. B. Gunson, V. H. Gordon. (Juniors), first-class honours, G. v V. Bogle, R. C. Begg, M.A., B.Sc. ' Second-class honours, D. C. Monro, S. A. Smith, T. H. Horrax, F. Johns, S. H. Arthur. Practical examination: Honours, F. G. Bell ■ (medallist). Diseases of the eye: Second-class honours, J. M. Murray. Diseases of the skin: Secondclass honours, David 0. Monro. Physiology: Second-class honours, S. Cromie, H. W. Wilson. Experimental physiology: Second-class honours, L. F. E. Jeffcoat, E. M. Muir, H. 0. Wash bourn, H. W. Wilson. Chemical physiology : Secondclass honours, A. F. Sinclair, H. 0. Wash bourn. , Pathology: Second-class honours, B. A. Smith. Materia inedica-. Firet-class honours, Peter M'Nab. Sec-ond-class honours, Donald M*D. Wilson, Harry F. Holmden, William H. Johnston, ffm. Stewart, Donald Watson. Practical materia medica: Second-class honours, G. V. "Bogle, T. H. Horrax. Physics: Sec-ond-class honours, W. E. Williams. Anatomy: First-class course, Senior Division, second-class honours, George Cromie. Junior Division, second-class honours, W. G. Muir. Second, half coarse, secondolass honours, H. W. Wilson, A. F. Sinclair, George Cromie. Senior Practical Anatomy: First-class honours, Sidney A. Smith (medallist). Second-class honours, G. V. Bogle, F. N. Johns. Junior practical 'anatomy: First year students, sec-ond-class honours, H. P. White,. W. G. Williams. Seoond year students, - firetclass honours, H. W. Wilson, A. F. Sinclair, E. M. Muii. Second-class honours,' F. J. O'Reilly..