NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1111, 26 April 1911, Page 8

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, March 16. Miss Preece, of Parnell (Auckland), who will remain hero until after the Coronation, is the guest of EngineerCommander Percy \v. Leater and Mrs. W. Lea tor. Mr. Fred Glover, of Wellington, who has been studying dentistry for the last two and a half years at Guy's Hospital, has been appointed dental house surgeon there.

Mrs. James Russell and the Misses Russell have taken Langton House, Palace Gate, until the end of April. Miss Russell's marriage, to the Earl of Hardwicke takes place towards the end of that month.

Tho Victoria League intends to entertain colonial visitors who come to London for the Coronation, and Mrs. Chirnside, of Wirreby Park, Victoria, who is a member of the hospitality committee or the league, has undertaken to look after tho entertainment of 'New Zealand visitors other than thoso officially representing the Dominion.

Mr. J. Lawson Baffour leaves to-day for Christcl'urch, New Zealand, and will bo absent, for about six months, after which ho returns to London. Mrs. Balfour (Miss Eve Dalfour), who has nil engagement in "Macbeth" at Her Majesty's, remains in London. Mr. Balfour is taking a few pictures with nun, and has some portrait commissions to execute in New Zealand.

Miss Effie M. Yoiing, of Wellington, who lias recently come to London,' contributes an article on ''Tho New Zealand Girl" to tlio current number of Iho Girl's Realm." Miss Young declares that "the flower of. young womanhood is leaving tho shores of New Zealand every year, and crowding into the older cities to swell tho great heaving mass of competition"! Mr. L. S. Stringer, of Christchureh, was on- the winning side in tho semi-iinal between Guy's Hospital and Bart's Hospital on Thursday last. Guy's won by six points to nil, and thus qualified to meet London Hospital this week i'i tho final for the Hospitals Cup. Stringer played his usual accomplished gamo at wing-tbreequartcr, and scorei the first of Guy's two trios. But, taken all round, the quality of the play was poor.

Ven. Archdeacon A. Noild, of Dunedm, and his family, who arrived by the Rotorua on February 22, landed at Plymouth and went straight to Hmvclon, m Cheshire, where they are now staying with relatives. They will probably spend most of their time in that neighbourhood, but the Archdeacon is also desirous of seeing something of the working of the Church of England Men's Society, and of renewing acqi.ainta.nce with some of the missioned who visited New Zealand last vcar.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Coop, of Wellington, and Miss Nancy Coop, since their arrival in this country in December, have been visiting industral centres in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and spent a few days in tbe Isle of Man, which Mr. Coop found greatly changed since his last visit in 1879. They have now set cut to visit Edinburgh, Glasgow, the English Lakes, and Ireland, and afterwards intend to see something of Paris mid Switzerland before returning to New Zealand by the Orsova on Mav 12.

Professor C. Coleridge Farr, of Canterbury College, spent eight weeks in the Argentine before coming over to England, and was there, at the invitation of the Marconi Company,'present at some successful experiments in receiving ' wireless signals from Ireland and Canada over a dstancc of nearly 6000. miles. Professor and Mrs. Farr reached,; London'SbbUt ten days ago. His object in coming is to see all the physical laboratories that he can, to renew old friendships, and make new ones between himself and men engaged in similar work.

Dr. Daniel Colquhoun, the wellknown Dunedin practitioner and lecturer at Otago University, arrived hero by the Rotorua- on February 23. accompanied by Mrs. Colquhoun. Dr. Colquhoun is combining a good deal of professional work with travel and sightseeing, and will visit the leading hospitals here and probably on the Continent also. Meanwhile he and Mrs. Colquhoun are about to leave London for a month's tour in tbe Eastern Mediterranean, visiting Constantinnnle and Crete among other places. They will bo in London for the. Coronation.

Their New Zealand friends will be interested to hear of the marriage of Mr. Stanley Bowmar, of Wellington, to Miss M. A. L. Hartley, of Dunedin, at Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., on February 10. While in.London, Mr. Bowmar joined the staff of Mr. Joseph Fels, tho American millionaire, and after acting, as his secretary for some time, Mr. Bowmar accepted a position with the Fels Fund Commission. Miss Hartley has for the past.two years been studying art in London. Lady Broome, who died on Thursday week, at her residence in Eaton Terrace, S.W., in her eightieth year, was one of tho early settlers in Canterbury, New Zealand. She had written a number of books, mainly for children, under the name of Lady Barker, her first husband being Sir George Barker, a soldier who greatly distinguished himself in the Crimea and the Mutiny, and who died in 1360. Five years later Lady Barker married Mr. (afterwards Sir) Frederick Napier Broome, of Canterbury. Lacly .. Broome's "Colonial Memories," published some years ago, gave many interesting side-lights of life on the Canterbury Plains in the early days. Miss P. V. J. Jacobsen, of the teaching staff of the Auckland Girls' Grammar School, is visiting England on a year's leave of absence, in order to study educational methods in thn girls' secondary schools. Last week site commenced duties as a member of the staff of Wycombo Abbey Girls' School, High AVycombe, tho principal of which is Miss A. Whitclaw; late headmistress of tho Auckland Girls' Grammar School. Miss Jacobsen will probably remain on the Abbey staff until the long vacation, which sho will spend abroad. She hdnes to spend tho winter term in another' large school. Lady Hall-Jones, wife, of the High Commissioner for New Zealand, was "At home" on Thursday afternoon at her house in Redcliffe Gardens, and numbers of Now Zealandors called betweon four and six, among them being Mrs. Walter Nathan, of Wellington; Mrs. Hohnwood (Wellington) and her daughter, Mrs.' Sallance, also, of Wellington ; Mrs. Raymond (Gore); Mrs. Sauerberg and her sister; Mrs. Statham (Wellington); Mrs. and Miss Scholelield (Milton and London); Miss Grace Joel (Dunedin); Mrs. Rous Marten; Miss Halso (Taranakil; Mrs. and Miss Lane (Wellington); Mrs. Hind (Port Chalmers) i Miss Lsitt ■• (Wellington); and Mrs. Cowie. Lady Hall-Jones was in black grenadine, with a vest of white lace. Mrs. Christie, her daughter, wore a beautiful gown of grey silk crope, with broad yoke, and sleeves of prey ninnn over gold net; Miss F. HallJones, black crepe do chine.: Miss Rosa Hall-Jones, pale grey eolienne; and Miss Hattie Hall-Jones, rose dit barri foulard, spotted with white. Mrs. Christie's long visit.-to this country is now over, and, on Tuesday afternoon, Lady Hall-Jones gave a farewell "At home" for her'daushter.