ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1509, 3 August 1912, Page 11

ON TOUR AT HOME.

LONDON'PERSONALS. London, June 20. Mrs. Foster and Miss Foster are at the York- Hotel, Berners Street, W.C. - Mr. and Mrs. Mihett, of Auckland, have arrived in .London, after an extended tour through Canada. Mrs. George Binney and Miss Binney (Auckland) are staving at the Welbeek Palace Hctcl, .Wolbeck Street, W. Mrs. M'Clelan, Miss Foote, and Miss Still have - arrived from Now Zealand, and intend spending some timo in England and on the Continent. Tho. death .has occurred at Smeath, Kent, of George Yagg, 76, a Crimean veteran,- who was at tho storming of Scbastopol, and subsequently ■ fought iff New Zealand. Among New Zealander visitors at present in London is Mr. Nat Woods, of Messrs. Nat Woods and Co., Ltd., OhristchuTch. Mrs. and Miss Vera Chalniors, of Wellington, are just now. starting on a tour through parts of rural England. They also intend' visiting Scotland, Ireland, and tho Continent, and join the Otranto at Naples. Miss R. Marchaut. of Timaxu, and her father, after spending seven weeks in London, are staying in Kent. They later intend going to France and Vienna with friends, • and then to do somo motoring through England. ... ■"Mr. n. Easton Taylor, of Wellington, who arrived by the Athenic, has gone from -London ito Liverpool, Wis native place. Mr. Taylor, reho is travelling principally for his health, proposes returning by the Ruape'hu at the end of August. 'Mr. and Airs. William M'Kay, of Greymouth and Hokitika, havo arrived in England, after visiting the principal cities in the United States and Canada. Mr. M'Kay will remain on this ft'de tor a fewmonths in.the interests of his firm. Mr. and Mrs. Frio Riddiford, Miss Maria Bauchop, Mr. Miles and two daughters, Mr. Corrigan, Mess Stewart, Miss Elsie 'Simpson, and Mr. M. Kilgour, all of Wellington, were among the guests present at the trooping of the colour at-Whitehall, on Friday. ' ' ~ ,' Mr. Richard Reynolds, of Auckland, nr- ' rived .in England recently, having broken his journey from New-Zealand with a two months' spell in the Argentine. Mr. Reynolds, who' is accompanied by | his wife, expects to remain in the Old Country for somo months. Miss Elizabeth A. Newman, of Christchurch, arrived on Juno 1, 'having visited en-route Cairo and the Pyramids. She 'returns, to Now Zealand by the Maloja, which' leaves on November, 29. She this , week intends going into the country, and hopes to visit the Continent later on. Mr. M. J.- Kilgour, of Wellington and -.' Christchurch, arrived in England after a very extensive tour of Japan, Ceylon, tho Sudan, and Palestine, which occupied seven months. He intends to spend most of his time in England, but will shortly visit Scotland, and, later,' Norway. Mr. A. G. Lee, of Auckland, leaves London to-day for a short visit to Scotland and Ireland, returning on July 2, and remaining in England for threo months, after that making a short, visit to tho Continent, and returning to New Zealand, via Canada and tho United States. He expects--to reach Auckland. early in December.. . . "■ - Mr.-R. M. Maunder, of Palmerston North, accompanied by his wifo and child, has been spending a month in Devon and the West of England. They leave London shortly for Portsmouth, and then go to the North.. They have booked passages by the Persic, and intend" to spend some tune in Australia before returning to New Zealand. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Paterson arrived in . London by. the Osterlcy, and have now gone on visits to .relatives in the Midlands. They intend visiting Scotland and the-North of England (after an absence of forty-two years), and after that, visit Canada, and return to New Zealand via Vancouver, arriving in Auckland in the early part of October. Mr. F. E. Bassett, of Wanganni, who came to England, via Suez, going inland in Ceylon, and visiting Cairo and the Pyramids, etc., has since visited France, Switzerland,; Italy, Germany, and Belgium. Ho will.be in Great Britain until August, when he leaves for Canada, to spend five weeks there, en route for New Zealand. ■••',- Mr. George A. Field, of Wellington, and his wife, arrived by the Friedrich de Grosse at Easter, after an absence of over thirty years. Mr. and; Mrs. Field have spent the interval in visiting relatives and friends, and in touring in Yorkshire, the English Lake, District, and elsewhere. It is their intention to leave for New Zealand by tho Ruahine early in August. Mr. and Mrs. John Walling, and Mr. Albert Walling, of Wellington,-arrived hero a month ago. j Mr. Walling, being Dick Arnst's backer, is spending a good deal of his time With Arnst, at Putnpy, where tho champion is training for his great race with Barry on July 29. Mr. and Mrs. Walling left for a few days in Dubjin last week ,nnd after that have a week in France. Dr. Emily H. Siedcberg, of Dunedin. who came to England recently, will spend nino months here, principally in'holiday, but also doing some professional work. Accompanied by her sister, who is ah-o in England, Dr. Siedeborg intends to visit relatives in tho North of Ireland, in July, then going to the Norway fjords, and later to Paris, Switzerland, and Venice. ■ Staff-Surgeon S. H. Woods, whose marriage to Miss Rubi Sneddon took place some months ago, has been appointed to H.M.S. Hood, which is stationed in / Queenstown. Mrs. Woods has quito re;overed from the operation she underwent recently. . ■' The Rev. G. H. Mann is on a visit to England. Mr. Mann is attending a conference in Norwich, and is engaged to preach and lecturo at Cambridge at the end of the month. Ho has preaching engagements in London each Sunday in v July, and addresses a mass meeting in Finsbury Park, organised by the ".United Kingdom Alliance. Tho Earl and Countess of Seafield are to receive a public welcome from the' inhabitants of Cullen, in Banffshire, when they arrive at Cullen House next month, 'f lioro is to be , a general holiday; the shops are to be closed and the "houses decorated; sports are to be held for tho grown-ups and a picnic for the children, and illuminated, addresses are ...to bo presented to Lord Seafield by the corporation and other public bodies. Miss Whitelaw, late of Auckland, and now principal of Wvcomb9 Abbey School Tor Girls (Bucks), last Friday proposed at' the 38th annual conference of the Headmistresses' Association: "That in the opinion of this association even- effort should bo made by the individual members of tho association to take mistresses on their staffs who have had experience overseas." Miss Whitelaw is the'chairman of the overseas sub-committee of the association. Mr. and Mrs. F. Hubert Chamberlain, of tho West Coast, arc for a short time in London, prior to leaving for New York this month, when Mr. Chamberlain, who for five years was chief engineer to the Christchurch Tramway Board, and foi two years' was managing engineer of the ■ Westport-Stockton Coal Company, is to take up the position, of superintendent of a new coal company in Pennsylvania. For tho past threo months Mr. and Mrs, Chamberlain havo been travelling extensively ; on the Continent, aiul in England. Tho "Sunday School Chronicle" print: ah interesting interview with the Rev, John Mackenzie, M.A., convener of tin Sabbath School Committee of the Church of New Zealand, who, while delighter with the kindness and hospitality he ha; received here, is thankful that his hom< and work lio beneath the Southern Cross *[ '• where life, he says', is simpler, and ii °" ! ''.i a.sense easier than in Britain, becausi *j - "our problems ore less complex, our bur ' • ,'- > '..J''dens not so crushing. Our history lies al *" before us, wo are children of to-morrow Wo sing without difficulty or'hcsitatioi tho song of hops." Mr. T. S. Culling, now of Auckland but formerly of Dunedin, has returnci to. London from a motor tour, on I ii Continent'. Mr. and Mrs. Culling am their family spoilt thn winter on th Riviera, afterwards travelled in Snuthen Italy,', then crossed to' tho Adriatic sid of tho peninsula, and motored on t Venice, where they saw.tho opening of th new Campanile^ ELECTROLYSIS. The only permanent cure for the p jioval of superfluous hair. Tin's can on: be performed by an expert. Consult Mr HaybitUe, long and favourably known f< all treatments. No 268 Lnmbton Que foTar Orr, Chemist). Tel 1594.—Advt.

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