NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1030, 20 January 1911, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES/FROM LONDON. ' . " London, December S. • Dr. Douglas Reid, of Blenheim, who studied medicine in Edinburgh, has been spending a month in New Zealand, and id shortly cxpccted in this country again. Tho young New Zealand lady who • writes under- the name of "G. B. Lancaster/' has a story in the Christmas number''of "Scribner's Magazine," cn- ■ titled "Tho; Little White Girl." The lion. John Yarde-Buller, who succeeded to the title of Lord Churston last week on tho death of his father, is a relativo of Canon Yarde-Buller, of Navy House, Chatham, who has been on a visit to New Zealand for his health. ■Mr.--Henry W. Norris, of Invercargill, who holds an exhibition awarded, by tho Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the. Royal College of Music, has had his period of free tuition extended for a, further period of one year. Mr. F. JI. Browne, of Auckland, who has been spending the past few months in visiting the Old .Country and Canada, left London on Saturday week to join the German liner Gneisenau at Southampton, en route for Sydney and New, Zealand. Mr. Eugene.Manier Wason, nephew of 'Mr. J. Cathcart Wason, who was at one time a member of the New Zealand Parliament, is to be,married to Miss Kathleen Woodhouse, younger daughter of Sir James Woodhouse, Liberal M.P. for Huddersfield from 1895 to 1906. E. M. Wason holds an appointment under the Board of Agriculture. Mr. Anthony Wilding, of lawn tennis I fame, is at present staying at Kormend, | in Hungary, with Prince Balthany-Stratt-inann. Be motor-cycled from London, and went all through Hungary and Servia. After he leaves Kormend, the New Zealander intends going to South Hungary for some shooting, and later he will go to Italy, and then to tho Riviera to play lawn.tennis. • .Recent callers at the High Commissioner's offices have been:—Miss L. M. Gillie? (Dunedin), Mr. A., Mrs. H., and Miss R. Spratt (Taranaki), -Misses ThompMH'(lnv€Tcargill),' Mr. -J. Nicholson w U c. w i r * Ferguson (Gisborne), \V. b. Lockhead (Dunedin), the Misses Constance and Beatrice Macbeth (Christchurch), Mr. and Sirs. John* T. Midwood (Wellington),- Miss K. Henry (Wellington). .Tho, Hon. W. Pcm.bcr R-eevcs, head of the London School of Economic?, is chairman of tha Universal-Races Conference, which is to bp'.'held in London next July. The object of the conference is to discuss the general: relations subsisting between the peqpksiof the East, and those of the West, etc. Representatives from China, Japan, Egypt, India, Turkey, Persia, and the negroes of America and • Africa, will be present.

Mr.; William S. Lodkhead, ex-member of -7th New Zealand' Contingent, and son' of the ...principal of Lickhead, Limited, Duns-din, having passed a Board of irado examination in London, has accepted the post of hydraulic engineer to tlie . v Brazilian Goldiiokis Company, Limited;- llio"Grande Do Sul, Brazil. He -was offered. several other important appointments of-a like nature, one in-Siam. Sinco his arrival;in London lie.has made many friends, 'a-number of whom outer-, taincd him-at-Frascati's Restaurant on

the evening prior to his departure. Among thos,e present, .were:—Messrs. Thomas Nisbet, of Carron Company, Mr. M. ,8.. Mitchell-, of Forth and Clyde Iron Company, aiid .Stuart, Reid, a Duriedin artist/'-'who ; '.is meantime . furthering his studies;in .Britain and.on the .Coaitnent. He . sailed for Brazil from Southampton en December .2. '-.

Mr. and Mrs., John--T., Miilwood, .of Wellington, are visiting the-Old Country, having travelled hero via 'Canada'. At tho SiagarfcFallß^thcy'-'i»w- Captain L'arsen go through the Grand Jjapitls in a small mtftor ' ;lauiich.'' % .TKpj':.'spent: six weeks in-New'York;'and saw the great motor race for tho A r anderbilt Cup, and watched tho late Ralph Johnstone mako his record altitude flight. They left for England on November 12', and spent a week'.in'the North of. England before ; coming on to London, where -,they arrived last Saturday, week. Their present plans nro to mako a stay of fly* or six weeks here, and then to visit tho Continent, calling at Paris, Venice, Lucerne, Rome, Naples,, and Cairo. Thence they will • proceed to, Sydney, via Colombo, and expect to arrive in New Zealand about Juno. . •

1 Major Cosmo Gordon Stewart, D.5.0., Royal Field Artillery,. son of the-late Sir •Tohn Marcus Stewart, Barf, of Atheray, county Tyrone, who is to marry in February Miss Gladys Honeymaii (daughter of tho late Dr. J. H. Honevman, M.D., of Auckland, and of Mrs. Bruce-Porter, of Grosvenor Street, W\), is on. . tho General Staff, of the Army, and holds temporary rank as lieutenant-colonel. He has had a distinguished career in tho Army,-.-.like his eldest brother, Sir Hugh H. Stewart, Bart. He commanded one of the guns which Colonel Kelly's party, tnrough great hardships, crossed the subws of the Chitral mountains, brought to the relief of Fort Chitral, fighting every inch of the way, and on 'one occasion the Tyrone man helped to drag the guns himself. He was mentioned ■in dispatches, and awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He served under Lord Kitchener m the Nile oxpeditiJn, 1897-98 and rendered good service in the South African .War, being mentioned in dispatches m both campaigns. p eal £ ml Hi s)' Commissioner, 2 Mr. T. E. Donne, Commissioner for immigration, visited Liverpool last Wednesday to inspect the twenty-five Liverpool lads whom Mr. .Sedgwick is taking to jSeiv Zealand b,y the Athenic on Dp* ff-ber 0. They saw- tho education ?£ thorities, through whom the. bovs were selected., and then saw each boy indiv® papers'.' pm ' ious, r <*ainiucd his