ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1567, 10 October 1912, Page 5

ON TOUR AT HOME.

LONDON PERSONALS,

. London, September 10. llr-. Russell, son of Sir William Russell, of i'laxmere Station, Hawke's Bay, returns' to New Zealand next month. Jlr. and Mrs. C. F. Furby, of Auckland, last lvcek visited tho Horse Show at Dul> lin, as did also Mr. and Mrs. Mack, of Wellington. Mr. Scott, of Messrs. Scott Bros., of Wellington, left for America on Saturday on his way back to New Zealand.

Miss L.'Wilson, of luvercargill, who arrived in England some weeks ngo, will return to NW Z-aland in November.

• Miss Ann Robertson, of Kotoriia, who is at present in London, hopes to return to Nmv Zealand on October 10 by the Mantua, visiting the Home.Land en route. Miss Gem Witt, late of Dunedin, is spending a holiday at Brcfughty Ferry as a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Alex. "U atson. Mrs. C. Gawitli, of Jlasterton, and her family, • have visited the North of England, Scotland, Ireland, and tho Continent, since they arrived, and aro now eettlcd in London for a time. . Major-General Robley, who sustained 62vem injuries a few weeks back, as a result of being, run down by a motor-car, has now been able to leave hospitalMr, and Mrs. Pafliser, of Wellington, and their two daughters, 'who have been on this sido of the world for about eighteen months, and have recently paid a visit to Ireland,'will return to New Zealand for Christmas. ,■■■'" • j. , . Mr. H. M. Snunders, and Mr. Herbert Thompson, of Auckland, who arrived in England on July .20, leave again by tho Orsova, on November 22. ... Mr. Claude IrHameifon, of Wellington, expecis to remain away from New Zealand for four or- five years. He proposes to gain general engineering experience m some of the great shipbuilding yards, and to put in some time at sea, in order to qualify for a chief engineer s certificate. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Banks, of Auckland, have spent the last two months touring England and Scotland, and" leave by the C'ameronia for New York, bound for British Columbia, where Mr. Banks is to manage a group of mines on behalf ot a Scottish firm. ' . Miss Chrystal. of Wellington, has been travelling with Mr. and Mrs. Donald M'Lean, and their family, in tho United Kingdom and Ireland, and is going to the Continent for a fortnight at the end of September. She later goes to Ireland again, and sails- b'y-.tha Athenic for New Zealand on November 7. _ ' Mr. and-Mrs. Kernot, of Wellington, who have toured , most parts of England and-.Wales inUhe past few months by mdtor-oar, intend to tour Ireland thoroughly after the Horse Show. They are now in Dublin. .Later they either to the South of France or to Algiers. Lady Findlay, who arrived here a few weeks ago with her three sons, has booked a return passage by the Malwa,. in November. ;. ' , , Mr. William H. Gummer, of Auckland, who arrived in England in June, leaves again for-, New Zealand on Friday. Mr. Gummer' eaine to England to finish his architectural education. His sister, who has also been in England, returns with ■Mr. Herbert Black, A.6.5.M., son .of Dr. Black,{of Dunedin, after a long spell, as a mining engineer, in Western Australia, has gone to the West Coast of Africa under engagement to the West African Mines Trust Co., for eight.months. Mrs. Black and family will remain, in London until Mr. Black returns. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Sibbald, of Auckland and Dunedin,' and their two - daughter'*, who came over to England last y*ar, and have sinoe spent some months in Switzerland, are now again in London. Mr. Fred. W. Thompson, of • Christchurch, whose health'has much improved, is staving with an aunt at Bournemouth, and later he goes to Mr. W. T. Chai'lewood (hits of Christchurc'ii), at Biddeford,then to his brother, who is thfe Vicar of Weston-super-Mare, - afterwards • visiting Scotland-, Ireland, and Paris. Mr. Thompson returns to London for a course ot post graduate study ;at the Itoyal Dental Hospital before leaving for Philadelphia and Canada. -.' ■

Mr. A. J. Sinclair, writing from Wellington to the ''Glasgow He-raid," in onswer to critics of the Defence Act, says: "In conclusion, I can only jepeat that compulsory military training has already firmly established itself in the hearts of the peoipie of New Zealand." Mr. Donald M'Leau,' of Wellington, who for some months post has been touring England, Ireland, and Scotland, with his wife.and two daughter's, made an interesting trip to the isolated island of St. Kilda, while in Scotland, recently, and also took part on Saturday week, in the historic gathering of the Clan U'Lean, in the island of Mull, to .celebrate the reacqm'sition of Castle Diiart, the ancient stronghold of the clan, that has been in strange hands 'for 220 years. At this gathering, when M'Leans from the United States, Canada, Germany, Holland', and Xew Zealand (and Kaid Sir Harry M'Lenu, of Morocco fame), took part in the ancient riles and rejoicings, Jlr. M'Lean represented New Zealand. Jlr. and Mrs. M'L«m and "their family will b6 in London tfll September 213, when they sail for America and Canada.