NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1021, 10 January 1911, Page 9

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

9 PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, December 1. Mr. J. A. Watson, of Wellington, has passed his second professional examination in London, for the degree of L.B.C'.l'. ana M.R.C.S. ■ Miss Bffic Young, of Wellington, who has been staying m Essex since her arrival in England, leaves this week 011 a visit to Exeter. Miss Phillimore, sister of Mr. Justice Phillimore, is giving a farewell tea at Poplar 011 Saturday to the London work-ing-class lads whom Mr, 'I'. 11. Sedgwick is taking out to Now Zealand to work 011 farms there. At a meeting, of the General Medical Council, held in London last week tor the consideration' of penal cases, the name of Mr. Jumes Dulziel, L.8.C'.1. 1 (Edinburgh, 1867), of Auckland, was directed to bo erased from the register. Among the medical students who have just passed the third (M.8.; 8.5.) examination for medical degrees of the University of London is Mr. I\. Stout, of Guy's Hospital anil New Zealand. Mr. Stout is a sou of Sir liobert Stout. Mr. Thomas 0. I'"ox, civil engineer, of Christchurch, who arrived here last June, , has taken the opportunity to inspect, various dock and other engineering works, and has visited France, and spent a couple of months in Ho will return to New Zealand next January. The Hon. Surgeon Thome George, M.L.A., director of the Waihi Mining Company, with Mrs. George and Miss George, will leave London for Auckland by tiie P. and o._ Mantua, to-morrow, on their return to New Zealand. The Mantua is the first boat to go to Auckland via Sydney this season. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Brown, of Feilding, and their son Eric, who arrived here eighteen months ago, have settled down in Cambridge, where Mr. Brown's people reside. During the summer they visited Eastbourne and Brighton, and Mrs. Brown., with her sister, Mrs. Mahon and ■Miss Ethel Mahon, of Nev; Zealand, have been.to Manchester, Leicester, and Liverpool. , Mr. George Carrick Steet, the oldest medical man in London, who died a few days-ago, visited New Zealand and the : Fiji Islands in his younger days as medical- attendant to the late Lord Pembroke. He afterwards became medical offieer-in-., chief to the General Post Office, retiring in 3891. ' Mr. Stoet was 92 years of age, and qualified as a doctor as long ago as 1849. Mr. lienry A. Armstrong, of Wellington, left to-day for New Zealand by the Osterley. Since his 1 arrival here, Mr. Armstrong has been studying optics in' London, under the tuition of Mr. Lionel Laurence, of Bedford Row, and has just received word that he lias passed' the final examination of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, and is now a Fellow of the. company. .Mrs. M. J: Mahon, of Feilding, and her. daughter, Miss Ethel Mahon, who arrived ill England four months ago. are staying at Cambridge with.relatives. They; . have visited many places in this country, and spent, also a holiday in" Paris.'''After' Christmas, _Mrs. and Miss Mahon go north to Leicester, Manchester, and Liverpool, leaving from the latter place for Now Zealand 011 January 7 by the; Buteshire. . Mr. H. Hill, 8.A., F.G.S., Senior Inspector of Schools for'the Hawkc's \ Bay district, who travelled , via Canada, and spent aljout a month studying local conditions, has now been three months in this country, and has given several' lectures on various aspects of New Zealand. He has lectured at Worcester, Smethwick ■(near Birmingham), and at Whitfield's Chanel, London, and will shortly do so. at Cheltenham,' Stourbridge,, and Lye;''. The.friends of Mr. Justice Denniston will be sorry to hear of his'severc illness. With Mrs. Denniston and.his .daughter lie., intended.to sail for" th'c'D'oininion 011 'Friday -Inst-.- However, lie was taken' slid-" denly ill, arid it was decided that .an operation was Inccessary. This was, performed early this week, and it is pleasing to learn that the judge is progressing favourably. Mrs. Denniston remained in London with; her husband, while Miss Denniston proceeded to New Zealand. Mr. Guy Niekalls is still finding- ex- . cuses for the defeat of Barry by Arnst on the Zambesi.-. His latest excuse, according to last week's "London Opinion," is that tho English .sculler "started slowly, and never succeeded in making up his lost ground, his striking being altogether too slow." The fact remains that Barry rowed himself to a standstill, and it is reasonable to suppose that had he quickened liis stroke he would have exhausted himself oven-sooner. Mr. Niekalls seems . -to find it difficult to admit that in this_ race the best'luiWTwon'. . The opera, "A Summer, Night,",written 1 by the New Zealand composer, Mr. E. 11. Clutsam, .was produced for tho first time at His Majesty's Theatre some months ago by Mr. Beecham, arid achieved a notable success; but Mr. 13ecchniu's season 1 was just finishing, and' there: was. Ilo' time 1 to repeat the opera Now, however, it has been" given again by Mr. Beecham at Covent Garden, with tho same cast. The critics- are enthusiastic over Mr. Clutsam's. music. "One hears more good ' music," says the "Times," "in the hour i and a quarter which 'A Summer Night' ■ occupies, than inmany 'works which hold ■ the stage at Covsnt Garden from 8 to 1 11." Lady Stout has a ver.y busy time ahead of'her for some time to come. A few days ago she spoke to a-very d'stiii&uishcd- ■- audience at Lady Brnsse.v's l ouse 011 "Woman Suffrage"; 011. Saturday at/Mrs. Scholfield's, in Phillimore Gardens; 011 Sunday to the men at Mr. Herbert Stead's | Browning. Settlement, in AValworth; 011 ■ Monday to the Liberal women in Birkdalo (Manchester); 011 Tuesday .fit a.temi peranco meeting also in that place On Wednesday she returned to London for , the Maryi'ebone Women's Liberal Assccia- | tion meeting,. and she now goes to Cambridge, to address the Cambridge branch of the National Union, in >pite ot t!iis strenuous work nnd the'.l'.d weather, Lady Stout i 5 in excellent heal-iY. . 1 That there are many N.nv Kt-slciutos ! in London nt present is., evident l:y the ,■ number of callers upon tho High Commis-; - sioner in Victoria Street. Tlio past fortnight brought the following:—Mrs. M\ 1. [ Mahon (Folding), Miss M. ]. Mahon, Mrs. t 11. P, Brown (Feilding), Mr. Thcs. '0. . Fox (Cliristchurch), Mrs. Ragnar Janssen (Dannevirke); Mrs. J). G. Monr i'l (I'almerston), Mr. J. W. Copithiruo (Wellington), Miss C. E. Wolfe (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. 'Barnard Brown (Wanganui), s Miss Bainard Brown, Mrs. A. Nathan and 1 her two daughters, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. 0 Hawdon (Canterbury)," Mr. E. F. Hoguc c (Dunediii), Mr. Andrew- Bryson (Timaru), * Mr. A; Bell (Blenheim), Mr. and Mrs. A. 0 Osborne (Woodville), Mr. W. Gillimi s - (Fcatherston), Miss L., M, Gillies (Dun- " edin), .Mrs, 11. Spratt (Taranaki), the Misses Thomson (Invcrcargill), Mr. J. 1 Nicolson, Mr.. J.' It. Fergut'on (Giijborne), Mr. W. S. T.uckhoad (Dunedin), the Misses " Macbeth (Clirisfchiircli). 0 Sir George White, chairman of "the. British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, e of Bristol, says that Hie airmen whom n the company are sending out to Austrac lin and New Zealand to give flying oxhibi- , tions, will arrive in Australia 111 tho 1 course of December. Alter visiting all tho large cities in Australia, they propose . to proceed to Now Zealand, and visit several of tho leading towns. The chief aviator in the "commission" is a New Zealander, Mr. Joseph Hammond, who is a certified pilote-aviateur. Born in Feilding (New Zealand), Mr. Hammond, was r educated in Wellington ,nnd later' went 1 sheep-farming in Australia, gold-mining " in Klondyke, and trapping in Alaska. s He also travelled in the United States I Cor six months as a cowboy in Buffalo , s Bill's AVild West Show. Coming to II Europe, lie took up aeronlaning at the- * school at liheims, and gained his pilot's !1 certificate there in the record time, of ten davs. A stall' of mechanics, one of whom, 0 Sir. 1.. M'Donald, is also a certificated r air-pilot, are accompanying Mr. Ham- '' mond, and the company's manager, Mr. D Svdney E. Smith, is in chargo of the commission. Mr. Hammond will use Iwo "Bristol" biplanes, made by Sir George White's company at. Bristol. 11 Among the well-known pilots who have used "Bristol" biplanes are Captain Dickson, Mr. Cecil Grace, Lieut. Gibbs, and Mr. Juilerot. The last-named is to give ' flying exhibitions in India, on-behalf of r the Bristol compniiy.