ABOUT PEOPLE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 97, 24 April 1912, Page 2

ABOUT PEOPLE.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON Obom otjb own corbespondent.] LONDON, 15th March. The following officers have passed examination C . for promotion : — Captain R. J. S. Seddon and Lieutenant W. M'G. Turnbull, New Zealand Staff Corps; and Lieutenant I. T. Standish, New Zealand Artillery. Captain Seddon, who has been for 6ome weeks with the Assistant Director of Supply and Transport at Aldershot, will transfer next week to the staff of the- Assistant Quartermaster-General. Dr. Mackm (Wellington), who has been absent from the Dominion about , eight months, reached London from Paris on Wednesday evening, and on. Thursday morning went straight to the hospitals to commence his studies of new developments. Dr. Mackin spent some most enjoyable and instructive months in Java, Sumatra, Siam, India, and Egypt. He studied the social customs of the Javanese on the spot, observed the quiet rural simplicity of Burmese life in a week's voyage on the Irrawaddi, saw the Durbar in Delhi, and spent weeks in • a leisurely journey of 500 miles through the State of Kashmir. For several months Dr. Mackin slept every night in the Government dak bungalows which are a feature of the- country in India.. Dr. Mackin will make a most thorough tour of the London .hospitals and attend courses of lectures and demonstrations of the latest treatment before returning to New Zealand, probably by way of America, in July. Mr. and Mre. Heinrich yon Haast are staying for. a little while in London. Their plans for the future include a visit to Vienna to see Lady yon Haast, and a tour of Italy and Sicily. Mr. yon Haast, who is here on' a "holiday visit, is one of the delegates of the University of New Zealand to the Conference of the Universities of the Empire. The Misses Easterfield, daughters of Professor Easterfield, are now staying with their aunt, Mies Eaeterfield, at Combe Down, near Bath. Later they are to go to school at Weeton-euper-Mare. Mr. E. A. Simpsoa had the rather interesting experience, coming through the Suez Canal on board the Orama, of passing the German steamer Grosser Kurfurst. These two steamers are the largest passenger boats that journey to Australian ports. Mr. Simpson' is going to remain in Europe for about a year. Mr. D. J. O'Keefe (Wellington), who was for some time conductor of St. Anne's Choir, Newtown, has been studying music for the last year in London. He left for New York this week, and, although homeward bound, he expect* to spend a few months in America. , Mr. T. E. Sedgwick has received a notification from New Zealand that sixty more boys could bo placed on farms if he would 'send thcni out, but he cannot do so unless the Government will consent to supervise the lads, as was done with the last party.. During the past few days Mr. Sedgwick Has lectured on New Zealand at the Women's Settlements, at Canning Town, Radcliffe, and Camberwell; also to Sir Joseph Lyons'e employees at Cadby Hall, and at a large meeting in Gloucester. There are a number of New Zeaianders travelling in. Italy, including : t Mr. and Mrs.'D. T. Stuart (Wellington^ who' have spent the' winter on, the Italian Riviera; Mr. and Mas. J. D. Adams (Dunedin), Miss Moss (Dunedin), Mr. and Mrs. F. Ba'rraud and Miss Wright (Wellington), who have been staying in Rome j while the following list is given of some who are in Florence : 'Mr. and Mm. Burgoyne, Mre. J. MThail Geddes, the Misses and Messrs. Geddeg, Mrs. and Miss Henderson, Miss Lindsay, th« Misses Douglas, and Mr. Robert Bell (Ashburton). Mr. Jacob Hope Primmer and Mr. Edwin Eli Elphick, who have accepted appointments as veterinary surgeons undel' the New Zealand Government, leave for the Dominion by the Ruahine this week. A New Zealander who had the honour of presentation, to the King at this week' 6 levee at St. James's Palace was Mr. Pani Paora Ohamberlin, the young Maori whp is the adopted son of Mr. T. Chamberlin Chamberlin.' The Earl of Seaficld made the presentation.