NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.
<tl • PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, November 3. Miss-A. Anderson Hughes, of New Zealand, is giving lectures in England on tlio progress of the No-License movement. Captain Albert V. J. Lockie, son of Mr. Jas. Lockie, of Wellington, has been elected a member of the Transvaal Parliament. Major and Mrs. J. Hughes are on their way to New Zealand by the Rotorua, which left Plymouth last Saturday. The Rev. C. Hall (Englaud), who has been appointed to the Auckland Unitarian Church, is expected in New Zealand early next January. Mr. F. C. Grieg, of Otago University and University College, London, was last week admitted as a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Mr. I. W. Raymond, of Invercargill, has been invited to stand for the Carlisle seat in the Unionist interest at the next general election, and has consented to do so. Mr. Frank Wild, who accompanied Sir Ernest Shackletbn on his famous dash "farthest South" over tho Antarctic wastes has been lecturing on his Polar experiences at tho Letchworth Garden City. . Mr. R. Grainger, Auckland, who is now in London, has visited Paris and South Wales, and intends spending - a month in touring Scotland anil .Ireland, leaving again for Australia, eh route for New Zealand, about January. Miss Hilda G. Bennett, of Auckland, was married on October 22 to Mr. W. H. ■ Allberry, elder son of Mr. C. H. Allberry, of.Forest Hill, S.E.' The wedding took . place at Anerley, S.E. Tho Hon. W. P. Reeves, late High Commissioner for New Zealand, is to lecture on New Zealand at Birmingham' University on December 8. The university has .arranged for a series of Empire lectures by prominent Anglo-Colonials. : Mrs.'E. B. Ostler and Miss Ostler, of Wellington, have-just returned from a .Continental tour on which they went through Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland to see tho Passion Play at Ober-Am-mergau, and visited Austria and Italy. They intend remaining in London till after Christmas. Miss Effie M. Young, of Wellington, New Zealand, is at present visiting friends in Essex. Miss Young was the pioneer member of the Girls' Realm Guild in New Zealand. ' Mrs. G. Blandford, L.R.A.M., is at present in England, but probably leaves next ; week for Las Palmas, there to spend a year wit;h one of her married sisters. Mrs. Knight, wife of Dr. A. 0, Knight, of Auckland, left London last week by the Rotorua. on her. return to New Zealand after three years' residence in this country. She is accompanied by her family, with the exception of Miss Dorothy and Mr. A. Knight, who. are remaining in London to continue their musical and medical studies.'respectively. Mr. D. C. H. Florance, M.A., M.Sc, .who has been studying at Victoria University, Manchester, returns to New Zealand by the Orontes to relieve, for one year, ]Jr. Farr, Professor, of Physics at Canterbury College. During the vacation of the Victoria University Mr. Florance took a cycling tour, through the North of England and. West of Scotland, returning, via Edinburgh and Durham, and, altogether, covering some 1200. miles. Mr.'. Florance afterwards attended the Scionco Congress at.the Brussels Exposition; and from. Belgium went to Switzerland, returning through Germany and Hcilland. • Mr. A. R. Littlebury (Wellington) was in London this week, from Manchester, where he has -his headquarters. Mr. and Mrs. David Laing (New Plymouth) are staying in Mount Ararat Road, Richmond. Tho Hon. Seymour Thome George, M.L.A., and Mrs.'George, 'with their daughter, leave for New Zealand by the s.s. Mantua, on December 2. Among the callers-at the High Commissioner's office this week were-.—Mrs. Prentys (Duiiedin)', Mr.' and Mrs. H. S. Dadley (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hetherington (Thames, N.Z.),- Mr.'' J. M'Donald (Dunedin),- Mr. Mark Harrison (Nelson). .' . Mr. Carl, Klette, late Acting-Consul for Austria-Hungary in New Zealand, delivered 'a couple' of lectures on New Zealand at the Commercial Museum in Trieste three weeks ago, which were received with, great interest. Typical photographs of New Zeala'nd industries and scenery were exhibited during the lectures. The Commercial Museum in Trieste has set itself the task of developing ■ the trade relations between Triesto and all the foreign countries. It arranges periodically exhibitions o£. produco of foreign and answers, all inquiries relating to the export industries of Trieste, free of cost. - ■
Misses Eva and Hilda Nixon,.of Christ--church, who were -in Paris during the recent French railway strike, have just returned from the Continent At present they are motoring with friends through the Midlands, and intend paying another visit to Scotland, returning to London in December. They have booked their return passage .by '.the Otronto, leaving [ \ for New Zealand on January 20. . .
Mr. Chas. Moore, of Wellington, since his arrival-in England in May, has very thoroughly travelled, over England and Scotland, and has visited a number ofworks and factories. "So fnr," Mr., Moore says, "I have not experienced that glassy eye and cold hand that some.New Zoalandcrs have discovered; quite the contrary. Those to whom I have letters of introduction have given me the 'glad hand,' as the Yankees say."
■ Mr; and Mrs.. I.' W. Raymond, of Invercargill, came to England .some two .years ago with the object-of educating some, of their family in England. 'The daughters have been at Cheltenham College and at Madame Suter's, at Neuilly, Paris; the second son is at Harrow, and the youngest at KiDg's College,- Wimbledon. After travelling for some time in the' United Kingdom and on the Continent, • Mr. and Mis. Raymond have taken a house in Arthur Road, Wimbledon Park.
Iho following wero among those who visited the New Zealand Pavilion at the Anglo-Japaneso Exhibition last week:— Lord Kitchener, Miss R. Hall-Jones, Miss H. Hall-Jones, Mr. ■ and Mrs. Donno and party, Mr. C. Donne, Mrs. H. C. Cameron and party, Mr. and Mrs. Hamer, Mr. and Mrs. H. Gregson, Auckland; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mason, Mr. L. and Miss Cohen, Palmerston North; Dr. H. Morrison, Selby; Miss Wood, Dunedin; Mr., Mrs., and Misses Ponsonby, Dunedin; Mr. W. M. Campbell,, Christchurch; Miss E. Young, Wellington; Professor Bickerton, Christchurch; Mrs. and Miss Campbell, Auckland; Mrs. W. H. Chard, Napier; Mr. and Mrs. A...8e11, Blenheim;. W. Balloch, New Plymouth; Mrs. M. J. Barclay, Dunedin; Mr. A; H. Thomas, Wakefield; Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Jackson, Waihi; Miss M. Lonias, Wellington; Miss B. Reade, Christchurch; Mrs; E. Allen, Waimate; Mr. J. J. O'Brien, Auckland; Miv.G. Bennett, ■ Christchurch; Mr. R, Jackson, Waliaroa; Mr. J.. Hastic, Auckland; Captain W. Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. P. Isaacs, Wellington; Misses M. and I. Barr, Dunedin; Miss A. C.. Sterndalc, Timaru; Mrs. R. J. Neill. Wellingtpn; Miss E. Neill, Wellington; Mrs. J. Faulkner, Auckland; Mr. C. Moore, Wellington; Mr. .E. Craig, Auckland; Mr. J. W. Castles. Wellington; Mr. A. R. Watson, Port Chalmers; Mrs. A. Smith, Wellington; Mr. P. J. Patrick,.Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Scholefield, Wellington' Miss Scholefield,- Wellington; Mr. - T. Fahey, Wellington; Miss P. Carson, Wanganui; Mr. Malcolm Hnlcrovr. New Plymouth; Mr. H. Bignell, jun., Groymouth; Mr. J. Geaney, Greymouth; Mr. S. Mitchell, Mr. S. E. Cooper, Wangamti; Mr. W. L. Young, Wnnganui; Hon. S. Thorno George, M.L.C.; P. T. Gell, Christchurch; Mrs. P. and Miss M. Harper, Dunedin; Mr. E. M. Nottie, Auckland; Mr. N. G. Honelow, Caversham; Mr. C. R. Clayton, Wellington; Mr. H. J. Rowe Auckland; Mr. P. W. Walton, Dunedin; Mr. G. A. Leslie, ■ Wanganui.-
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 995, 9 December 1910, Page 6
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