NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1162, 24 June 1911, Page 10

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

London, Mav 18. Mrs. Alice Eoskruge, of Auckland, arrived in London rewntly, and expects to remain, in this codairy till the end of tho J'car,,occupying her limo in travel. At present Mrs. Kosk'rago is staying at Putney with l>»r l daughter, Mrs. Garnet Holmes, who will probably return to New Zealand with her mother on a long visit. Mr. H. K. Hyatt, of Auckland, has arrived in Ixjndou after tiavelling for some timo in Italy and 'Switzerland, having disembarked at Naples. Ho will bo in till after the Coronation, making short visits to various parts of the South of England. Tho rest of his time ho will pass "in tho northern counties amv 'n Scotland.

Among the New. Zcalanders at present in London is Mr. Frank Lake, a veteran of tho New Zealand War of ISC3, wlm arrhed by the Corinthie, and is revisiting the scenes of his youth after an absenceof, GO ycais, Mr. Lake proposes remaining in these latitudes for some six weeks, during which time ho will visit his old homo in Somersetshire, stay a fow days with relatives in Statu Wales, and spend Coronation week in London.

Mrs. Ilockcn, widow of Dr. Hoekou, who presented a library to Dunedin, and tier daughter, Miss Hocken, of Dunn.'lin. iic in Londm just now. They arrived at Genoa last November, awl'spent tho win. ter in Europe. After the curl of .Time vhey prop-iso visiting Ooi-iiiaii.v. Miss Neill, who accompanied them fiom Dun-e-din, is at present visitiiigj'clativcs in Ireland, una loturns to New Zealand next month.

The New Zo.ila id debutantes at Tuesday's and Wednesday's Courts at Buckingham Palace last week woro Miss HallJones and Miss Haitio Hall-Jones, daughters of the High Commissioner for New Zealand; Mrs. W. A. Chappie, of Dr. Chappie, M.P. for Stirling; her daughter, Miss Chappie; Miss Valerie Mententh; Mr*. Raymond, late of Invercargill; and Miss Violet Kussell, daughter of Sir William and Lady Uussell, of New Zealand.

Sir William and Lady Hall-Jones are among tho patrons of (ho Austral Club Coronation ball, to he held at Prince's Galleries, Piccadilly, ot Wednesday, .Tnno 7, when it is hoped- that a New Zealand quadrille may Uo formed. The High Commissioner nnd his wife nro also patrons of a largo ball and reception to bo given under the auspices of the British Women's Pabioti: Lrigno at the Grafton Galleries on May 25, iii aid of tho fund for tho Bisley prise which is given annually bv tho league to men in the Territorial Force.