NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1033, 24 January 1911, Page 3

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, December 15. Mr. E. G. Jellicoe, who is still iu Hie South of. Franco'for the fake of his health, is kiokeit as n pasff-ngpr to New Zealand I>.V llio P. and 0. steamer Jloroa, sailing thence' from 'Marseilles early in.March. The Rev. \Y. y. Lucas, vicar of All Saints', Nelson, and Dr. Sv A..Lucas, were passengers for' England by the C'orinth'ic this week. The former lias come to this country for medical advice. Miss Waldegrave, of Pnlmerston, Perth, was. a .passenger by tho' same. vessel. Tho Rev. !•'. C. Long, M.A., late of. Te Ante, Hnwke's Boy, has. noiv entered the mission field at Bombay. Mr. Long is a nephew of Canon-Gould. .

Mr. Leslie D> Coombs, of Dunedin, who is now in London, has received word that he has passed-the final examination of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Mr.. Coombs was educated at the Otogo Boys' High School, and, on leaving there, served as a pupil in a-Dunedin architect's office, later going to Wellington for three years as draughtsman to a well-known architect there. In 1908 Mr. Coombs was elected an associate of the. New Zealand Institute of Architect's.

■ .The Eight Hon. Eugene Wason, brother of Mr; J. Cathcart, Wason, late of NewZealand, has been returned unopposed as member for Clackmaun and Kinross..-'

Lord Glasgow, who as Governor of New Zealand gave the Royal Assent of tho Bill which gavo tho. New Zealand women the vote, is strongly opposed to the principle of woman's suffrage, and has written fc> Lady Jersey, one.of the leaders of. the Women's National. Anti-Suffrage League, that ho is, "convinced that it would be deplorable if ever such a measure became law in this country,"- that he ''welcomes the amalgamation' of the different leagues,'.' and "earnestly Wishes all-success to the ariti-suffrago movement."

•At the. farewell tea given on Saturday week, to the London lads whom Mr. T. E. Sedgwick' is taking to New Zealand farms, the High Commissioner called for cheers for' Mi. Sedgwick', "and one moro for the 'future Mrs. Sedgwick." ■■ "A great waste of effort," said Mr. Sedgwick. afterwards, "as I don't,think she has been born!" Passengers by the Shaw Sayill liner Athe'nic, which left, for New Zealand on Friday, included Caotain' A. A. Biggins, Mr. W. S. Dupree, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. nnd Miss I\. Fowler. Ladv Vincent, Mrs. Procope, Mr. and Miss Fairclough, Mr. and.Mrs. S. L. Hollis and.two children, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Mncdonald, the Misses Mncdoriald (2), and Master W; E. Macdonald.

, iMr.'.and Mrs. L. L. Beeson, of Auckland, expect : to leave for the Dominion about.the middle of December. They arrived seven weeks ago, and a fortnight later' Mr. Beosoh went to t.ho United States, on a business visit.- On Ins return here he will' make a short business trip to Germany before starting • homewards. ~ .Mrs. Beeson-.has been- visiting friends in various parts of.England, and hopes ,to spend a week in the Midlands before taking her departure-

.Miss Griffiths, who has been engaged, in Maori mission work :at-Whakarewa-rewa, has now joined her sister as a missionary, in India; '■ - .

.Recent callers at the office of the High Commissioner have been:—The Bev. C. Gordon Biddlc (Hawke's Bay and'.Dnncdin), Mr. Stuart Eeid, (Dunedin), .Miss Ethol Lawrence.(Dunedin), Miss Annie C. Liston (Dunedin),.Mr. Graham' N" Thurston (Dunedin), Mr. .P. .E. Eiddiford (Palmcrston JJorth),Miss Ethel ■ Richardson (Wellington), Dr; Spencer. F. Beard (Ma=terton), N.> J. Davy. (Auckland- and Wellington),. Mr; Sydney. Draner ■ (Hawke's Bay), Miss Emily: Curtiss (Lyttelfon), ■Miss Mary-Cholmondeley (ChristchurchJ, Mr. Wm. Hotchkiss'(Wcsh)ort), Mr. Jas. 0. 'Walters (Wanganui), Mr, G. F. Verc (Christclvu'rck).

. Two young Kew Zealandc.rs arrived :in HSnflon recently.'by tho\Tyser liner.Tom'oana, to study engineering.. Mr. J. R'. Ferguson. hails 'from Gisborne, and before undertaking three years' work; in the .shipbuilding" yards at Dumbarton intends to try his luck at sea. Mr. J.'. KicolEon, of Dunedin; intends to devote the next five or six years to studying'.marine en:gineering, first 1 at Messrs;, Denny Bros., in Dumbarton,' and'later at sea.

'Dr." Sfen'cer IV Beard, having sold his practice in Pahiatua, lias returned to England for a.whilo:to join his family. His children-have been in. this, country

fbr- some yiars for education. Dr. Board ■camo to England as .surgeon to the'.Buteshire,, of tho Federal. Houlder-Shiro line.

Professor Bick'erto'n, of Christchurch ('Now Zealand), gave an.address'befqre the Royal Colonial Institute on Friday' afternoon on "The Birtli of "Worlds." .