ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2112, 1 April 1914, Page 5

ON TOUR AT HOME.

LONDON PERSONALS.

London, February 19

Lady Islington has taken her daughter, Lady Joan Dickson-Po3'nder, abroad to finish her education.

Sir Ernest-Rutherford was amongst the representatives of Manchester who came to London on.Saturday night for •the great non-party demonstration organised by the Naticmal Union of Woman Suffrage Societies. _ ■ The many friends of Miss Katie Mills, eldest daughter of Sir James Mills, will sympathise with her in tho very sad bereavement she has sustained in the sudden death of her fiance, Signor Marx de Alcazar, to' whom she was to have been married shortly. Ho was on the way to dine with friends, was taken ill in the , ,street, arid was helped into a hotel,' I 'thence to Charing Cross Hosnital, 1 where he died the following mornIng. Deceased taught tho Queen of Spain Spanish, and was' very popular with her ,and King •Alphbllso', l with' tfhonV lie frequently dined wheiv m England. The High Commissioner for New Zealand had the honour of being:received, by tlie King' oii r "Saturday.''- ■ '■'' The Earl and Countess *f■ Hardwicke, who have been in the' Riviera, are now visiting Paris on route for England. Mr. C. Brook, of Christehurch, anil , Mme r . Betty Brook, have again come over to England,'the latter for health reasons. Mr. J. R. White, of the New Zealand University, was last week admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. ■ " Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Burberry, of Wellington, are in Egypt. , They intend •to live on their return to/England at Ascot." Mrs. Burberry was Miss Elsie ■Scott. •:■-■•• Miss Winifred Hardy, daughter of Mr. C. A. C. Hardy, M.L.A., formerly M.P. for Rakaia, hasreturned to' London from Ireland. This week the High Commissioner entertained the'voluntary staff of s.s. Opawa at Lindfield Gardens, Hampstead. Mr. John Coham, Northcote, Auckland, is going to Southampton to stay with relatives. Major late ,of Wellington, gave a lantern lecture' on New Zealand at Littlebourne last week. Mr; Cecil Donne, who was operated on last week by Dr. Kellock, is progressing favourably. Mr. H. D. M'Kenzie, of Maharahara, is in England on a holiday trip. He leaves for New. Zealand shortly, but expects to go to Scotland first. Mr. and. Mrs. Clarke Johnson and their daughter return to, Wellington, sailing on February 19, by the Reniuera. While hero they have visited England, Scotland, and; tho Continent. Dr. : Frank Hitchcock, who was recently appointed medical officer to the Whangamomona Medical Association, is leaving England by the Afric on February 24, for New Zealand. Messrs. Ernest Skeet, of Greytown North; C. A. Johnstone, of Woodville; J. R. Adam, Halcombo; E.. O. Staward, Danncvirke; and W. G. Stubbiugton, of Nelson, are now leaving on their return to New Zealand to-inor-roiv.. .

Dr. H. J. Rawson, of Wellington, who has been studying at St. Thomas's Hospital; has been appointed houso physician to the Essex County Hospital, Colchester, and takes up i his duties at once.

The High Commissioner for New Zealand and Mrs. Mackenzie woro present at the dinner given by the. American Circle at the Lyceum Club to tho American Ambassador on Monday evening, when Mr. Mackenzie replied for New' Zealand.

Mrs. Somerset Hiomas, of Auckland, ■arrived here a fortnight ago with her daughter and two sons. She has placed ono boy at Cheltenham and tho other at Osborne, aiid she and her daughter havo now gone to Devonshire on visits to relatives arid friends.

. The Rev. Nicholas Turner leaves London on March 12 on his return to Auckland. On ,the way he will visit Paris, Italy, Palestine, and Egypt, joining the Orient liner Otway at Port Said on April 22. Mr. 11. C. Canteron, Produce Commissioner 'for New Zealand Government, gave a lecture on New Zealand last Thursday, under tho auspices of the Victoria., League. Tho audience was so large that many had to bo turned away.

Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons have just published a book on Russia by Mr. Harold Williams (son of the R'cv. W. J. Williams, of New Zealand), who was appointed Russian correspondent for tho "Manchester Guardian" and the "Morning Post" somo'time ago. Ho then went to Constantinople as correspondent for the "Morning Post," and is now. in St. Petersburg again'. Professor D. B, White, of Otago University, now retired, and Mrs. and Miss Whito, who" recently arrived in London, aro staying at Holland Road, W. Professor While'will attend'the Teachers' Conference, to be held, at Lowestoft at IHaster, ias a representative of New Zealand.