NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1188, 25 July 1911, Page 10

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, .Tune 13. Dr. Will lis, lato Bishop of Wellington, lias recently arrived in England. Mr. .). M. llathani, of Wellington, is, after a very long absence, visiting friends in England. Mr. and .Mrs. J. L. McG. Watson, of New Zealand, nro remaining in London for the reason.

Mr». S. and Miss M'Laughlin, of Auckland, intend lo visit relatives in various pails of Jrelaud and Scotland..'

Mr. .I\ Buchanan and Mrs. Buchanan hope, to go for a lengthy motor tour ■through England, Scotland, and Ireland. .Mr. Cecil .1. Wray, of New Zealand, was married recently to Miss Ada \Vray, a well-known teacher of music in London. Mr. S. Manning is paying a vis-it to 'London after twenty-seven years' absence, and will bo in England until September. Mr. P. J. Mcdsley, of Diiiicdin, after a stay in Loudon, intends to tour the Continent, and return to New Zealand by way of India.

Mr. and Mrs. Cutler, of Wellington, after spending it short time in London, will tour in France before returning to tho Antipodes. Mr. C. Jenkins, of Auckland, intends visiting Paris and Ireland before leaving for home, via Australia, some timo in September. Lady Russell (Hawke's Bay) has boen staying with her daughter, Lady Price, at Bed Park House, Kadburne. Mr. J. E. Hall, of Auckland, intends paying visits to Kent and Yorkshire, and, later on, to go to tho South Coast. Mr. Leopold Lenet, of Auckland, who was a member of the New Zealand Coronation contingent, expects to remain in the Old Couutry for about a year.

Mr. Louis M. Nathan, of Auckland, arrived in London via Vancouver, Chicago, and New York. Later on ho intends to make a trip to Norway and Sweden.

Mrs. J; Grant, of New Plymouth, is revisiting tho Old Country after 36 years' absence, and will spend some m'onths in visiting old friends in England and Scotland.

Mr. P. J. Povey, of Auckland, is on a threo months' visit to England.

Mr. George P. Blott, of Auckland, has been visiting friends in the South and' West of England, and is now in Paris for a few daj-s. Judgo Palmer, of the Native Land .Court, and Mrs. Palmer, of New Zealand, were among the guests at Sir George field's reception at the Imperial Institute last Thursday.

Mr. T. Wagstaff, of Timaru, is revisiting England after 31 years in New Zealand. He will visit Newcastle, his native town, and Switzerland, Scotland, and the English Lakes. Mr. W. Lantin spent some, time in Italy and France before coming on to London. After seeing something of tho British Isles, lie hopes to make a trip to NewYork before returning to New Zealand. Mr. Paul Entham, of Auckland, intends to visit relatives and friends in Yorkshire, and is touring tho Lake district. During July he will lie in Loudon, and later ho hopes to get some golf in Scotland. Miss A. Michie, of Duncdin, recently arrived after a. year in Montreal, and sho intends spending three, months in this country, visiting Scotland, and, perhaps, the Continent, and returning to New Zealand, via Suez, about August 13. Gunner L. G. Sisson, of the "A Battery Field Artillery, one of the New Zealand Coronation Contingent, will, on leaving England, spend a month on the Continent, and stay some time in Australia boforo • returning to New Zealand. Mrs. W. Dawson, of. Duncdin, who has been spending some timo with'relatives in Essex, has now taken a. flat in lorrington Square, Bloomsbury, for the Coronation period, after which she will spend somo :tiino on tho Continent.!Mr.' F. J. Tasker proposes to tour in (ho United Kingdom and on the Con-' tinent till mid-September, when ho leaves for Australia, in which country ho re-, main's till next November, returning to New "Zealand later. - Miss J. Platts, daughter of tho lato HewF. C. Tlatts, of Tort Chalmers, who has, since her arrival, been staying with her married sister in Guernsey, wi 1 return to tho island, and will probably reside there for a couple of years. . New Zealandcrs who have subscribed to the decorations fund in connection with the great Suffrage procession to walk through London on Juno 17 include Mrs. Finch, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Napier Bell, Miss Moss, and Mrs. Harverson. Mr. Georgo E. Roberts, of Auckland, is now touring some of the beauty spots of the South of England, and goes to tho Isle of Man' for tho motor-cycle races to bo held at the end of this month there, lie will spend July in Franco. _ Mr. Charles W. Martin, a member of tho New Zealand contingent, has spent somo time in Cornwall and on tho South Coast since his arrival here last April. Mr. Martin goes to the .North of England and Scotland, and ho expects to leave for New Zealand in October. Mr. Alfred Kidd, ex-Mayor of Auckland, and Mrs. Kidd, who aire on a pleasure trip to England, visited Sydney, Egypt, Italy, the Riviera, and Paris before coming over the Channel. They think of making a trip to Norway and Switzerland boforo returning to New Zealand in seven or eight months' time. The Rev. Lewis Hudson, of Christchurch, and Mr. L. W. Hudson arrived via Paris and Naples, and will remain till the end of September, returning via Canada, and attending, in that country, tho Methodist Conference, to be held at Toronto in October. Mr. Hudson expects to attend the Methodist Conference at Cardiff in July. Miss M. Bauchop, of Pert Chalmers and ■-Wellington, sister of Colonel Bauchop, has come over to England for a couple of years to pursue her studies in pianoforte, probably at tho Royal Academy. Since her arrival sho has spent a good deal of her time with her sister, Mrs. Hinds, and sho has also visited the West of England and Paris. Later in the summer she goes to Scotland. Mr. A. J. Entrican, of the Auckland City Council and Auckland Harbour Board, Mrs. Entrican, and their son, Mr. W. Gilbert Entrican; are now in Belfast, but will return to London. Later they go to Scotland, then back to Ireland, afterwards on the Continent, making a tour, and short visits to tho Channel Islands, and Holland, before they leave for New Zealand.late in October.

The many friends in Duncdin of Mr. Arthur Alexander will be pleased to hear that he has just received an appointment as a sub-professor of pianoforte at the Uoval Academy of Music. Mr. Alexander is responsible for most of the music for the'colonial section of the Pageant of Empire, the first performance of which took place at tho Crystal Palace on Saturday. The current "Musical Times" speaks very favourably of the New Zealander's score.

Sir Charles and Lady Bowen are at present staving at Thrybergh Rectory, at Korherhanu in Yorkshire. They have had, greatly to their regret, todeclino all invitations, as Lady Bowen has had so bad a cold that she completely lost her voice. Sir Charles Bowen and Lady Bowen were at a dinner given recently for oversea visitors at the Lyceum Club, and Sir Charles Bowen then returned thanks on bohalf of the guests.