NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1005, 21 December 1910, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, November 10. Miss Stubbs, of Christchurch, who has been during tho past year studying and visiting friends in England, is returning to New Zealand by the lonic to-morrow. Mr. T. E. Sedgwick, who will conduct a party of 50 British town lads to New Zealand, is to lecture before the Society of Arts on November. 15, on the need for emigration.

A set of silver tureens is to be presented to the Hon. Thomas Mackenzie, of the New Zealand Cabinet, by a number of the British delegates who attended the Congress of' Chambers of Commerce of the Empire iu Sydney.

Mr. Justice Denniston and Miss Denniston wero present at tho Whitehall

Roorns when the Royal Colonial Institute held a meeting on Tuesday evening. Mr. Justice Denniston returns to tho Dominion at an early date. •

About 2GOO New Zealanders signed the visitors' book at the New Zealand Pavil-

ion during the Japan-British Exhibition, and to these must be added the not inconsiderable number of New Zealand visitors who went away without registering their names. ,

Mr. R. E.' Wood, of Wellington, who is the eldest son of Mr. E. H. Wood, of Scargill, North Canterbury, left by the Mooltan last woek, after a two months' visit to England. He intends to make his headquarters' in Melbourne for somo

time to come. Mr. Alfred Saunders, of New Zealand, has been awarded a gold 'medal at the Royal Academy of Music, London, for pianoforte playing. Ho intends sitting for the L.R.A.M. diploma, and for the organ diploma, then settling in Auckland arid taking up music professionally. Mr. A. Selwyn Bean, 8.A., only son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bean (of Christchurch), has been ordained by the Bishop of • Gloucester, and accepted a. curacy at Rugby. The Rev. Selwyn' Bean studied for. five years at Keble College, and at the" Clergy School at Leeds.

Mr. E. Bicknell, of Christchurch, who arrived- here by the Orient line on August 21, has since then been visiting friends and relatives in Sussex, Surrey, Hants, and Suffolk.

Lord Kitchener paid a visit to the New Zealand Pavilion at the Japan-British Exhibition the day before it closed, accompanied by ,Colonel Aubertin, who has travelled extensively in Australia and New Zealand. The visit was purely a private one. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Harrison, of Nelson, are revisiting England after an absence of 20 years. They left Wellington in February, and since arriving at Monte Video havo travelled extensively in America and this country.. Their eldest son, Mr. W. E. Harrison, is head science master and principal of Handsworth Technical School in Birmingham. Besides visiting relatives and friends in Sheffield and other places Mr. and Mrs. Harrison have held several religious services, and are

very pleased .with the response mado. They leave again for New Zealand by the Tongariro on December 22.

Sir Lambert Ormsby, representing New Zealand, responded to the toast of _ the oversea Dominions at the banquet- given last week by the Society of Knights Bachelor, the most ancient Order of Knights, in honour of Colonel Sir Henry Pellatt, of Canada. Sir Lambert Ormsby, who is an Aucklander by birth, lives in Dublin, and is an ex-President of the Royal - College of. Surgeons of Ireland. Tho late Earl of Egmont, who was born in New Zealand, and served as an ordinary sailor for 20 years, subsequently joining the London Fire Brigade, and afterwards becoming Vestry Hallkceper at Chelsea,', and who died on August 11, Aged 54, left' estate valued for probate at .211,750 gross. He left all his property to his widow, Kate Dowager Countess of Egmont, daughter of Mri Warwick Howell, ' of South Carolina.

Mr. S. 1. Ziman, tho 1908 New .Zealand Rhodes Scholar, who. was educated at Auckland University, and who recently passed the Indian Civil Service Examination, is the only one of the New Zea-

land Rhodes' Scholars who was young enough at 1 the time of his election to compete for a position' on the I.C.S. He is 2-1 this month, nnd this year took his B.A. degree at Oxford with first-class honours iu mathematics. The Misses H. and E. Card, of Feathers-

ton, have just completed a four weeks' trip on the Continent, spending most of the time in Paris and Lourdes. They in-

tended going to Rome, hut when cholera brolto out abandoned their visit. They will now spend some iveeks in the south of Ireland, together with their mother, Mrs. J. Card, and then a few weeks in London, before the -three return to Neiv Zealand early next year. Mr. John Feldwick, of ilnvercargill, may leave England for the cold months before returning via Egypt and India to New Zealand, where he expects to bo in about fifteen months' time. Mr. Feldwicl; and his brother have toured .the Continent, visiting Holland, Germany, and France. Mr. Walter Feldwick leaves next | month for Sydney travelling, via Egypt and India. Mr. Fred H. Browne, of Auckland, is back in London from a six weeks' trip, to New York and Canada, and leaves again for New Zealand towards tho end of this month. Mr. Browne's hobby is yachting, and as a member of the New' Zealand Royal Yacht Squadron lie was very hospitably received by the yachting men in Canada and New York. He was' greatly impressed with tho speed of the Canadian motor-launches, which, he says, frequently do their 30 knots an hour, whereas.in Auckland ail 18-knot boat is considered a ilier: Ho took part at Hamilton, on Lake Ontario,, in an exciting ten-mile race between two motor-boats, and steered one 'of them to victory by the narrow margin of a yard or two. The speed, ho says, was quite 30 knots. At City Island, "New York, 111'. Browne saw many famous yachts, including the America Cup defenders, Columbia and Reliance, and on his return to England he spent half a day on Sir T. Lipton's yacht, the Shamrock. He thinks tho English yachtsmen can learn a good deal from the Americans in regard to rigging their boats. While in Canada Mr. Browne saw something of farm-life there, and the dearness of agricultural implements in Canada was brought home to liim when lie saw little girls digging up potatoes with .their hands. -