ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1233, 15 September 1911, Page 9

ON TOUR AT HOME.

LONDON PERSONALS. London, August 10. Mr. R. P. Lempriere, of Auckland, will 'visit the Channel Islands-and Glasgow before leaving for ..Now ■ Zealand .at tho end of September.' Mr. John. Coom, who for many years' was Chief Civil Engineer "on. the New 7ioaland Government Railways, is visiting London. The Rev. Hoani Parata, late of St.Paul's Cathedral,' Dunedin, has been appointed to preach in tho Episcopalian Church in Naplos during August and September. Jfr. A. Chase-Morris, of Wellington, has arrived in London to join his people hero, after having spent the last eighteen months in Sydney. He proposes to go into business in tho city for some little time.

Judge Jackson Palmer, of the Native Land Court, left on his return to New Zealand on Thursday. Mrs. Palmer, whoso brother is seriously ill in a private hospital at Woking, remains in England for some time.

Mr. and--.Mrs. Alfred- Kidd, of Auckland left London on Friday for a'fort-, night's tour of the provinces, preparatory to leaving for Belgium and Germany. They sail from Naples for New Zealand in about a fortnight's time. Mr. J. B. Shacklook, of Dunedin, who came to England in Juno, via America,, has visited many of tho large business cities, and, boforo leaving for New Zealand on September 29, proposes to see something of Scotland and the Continent. Mr. Gordon Keesing, a New Zealand architect, son of Mr. Harry Keesing, of Auckland, is, after somo years in Australia, visiting London with the object of studying Renaissance and Gothic work, and, later, intends to visit America. The funeral of Drummer Dudley Stackpoole, V.C., who died at Wara Workhouse, aged seventy-five, took place at Mill Hill, near London, on August 5. Ho had served in tho Middlesex Regiment, and gained the Viotoria Cross for gallantrv in rescuing a wounded comrade during the New Zealand War in 1863. Mr. H. H. Vassell. who is known in New Zealand, and whoso wife was Miss Gwen Chase-Morris, of Wellington, has received an appointment under the Colonial Office, and sailed for Nyasaland, British Central Africa, some weeks ago, with Mrs. Vassal!. Mrs. G. F. Clulco, of Dunedin, is in this country just now, combining pleasure with the business of buying champion pomeranians and Persian cats to take back to New Zealand. Sho has been to Scotland and Ireland, and is going to Paris before sailing for New Zealand in the autumn.

Sir William Tyrone Power, wlio died last week in Ireland, was Agent-General for New Zealand for several years, being first appointed to the post in 187 G. He was at one time Commissary-General-in-Chief of the Army, and while attached to the Commissariat Department served in the Now Zealand War.

■ Mr. and Mrs. Thco. Cooper and tho Misses Cooper (three), of Christchnrch. who have been staying in the West of England, propose to remain in London for the next few weeks, after which Miss Cooper will spend some time in Ireland, while the rest of tho family visit various places.. They then all go on to tho Continent before' returning to tho' Dominion early next year.