PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14508, 24 October 1910, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

[FROM our OWN correspondent.]

London, September 16. Mr. Colin M. Gilrat, on© of the New Zealand Rhodes scholars, is about to start reading for law at the Middle Temple.

Tho Cambridge University has in prospect, the publication of a volume on " The Dominion of New Zealand" by Sir Robert Stout.,

Mr. F. H. Brown, of Auckland, left London this week for a short visit to Canada. He will return to England before finally departing for home.

Lord Plunket was a caller at the .japaxiBritish Exhibition at Shepherd's Bush during the week. He was much interested in the New Zealand pavilion.

Mr. C. F. Saunders, of Auckland, has much improved in health as the result of the sea-voyage and rest, in England. Ho hopes to return about the end of the year.

Mr. F. .T. Hewitt, of the Waikato. has just reached London after an extensive trip through Canada and America. He will spend six weeks here before catching his boat at Marseilles. 1

Mr. Jj. Abrahma, of Auckland, is Home on a short visit. He arrived this week by tho s.s. Ruapehu, and will leave again by the s.s. Turakina. at the end of November. Ho is staying with his parents in London.

Mr. F. Pearson, the Worcestershire professional, goes out to New Zealand for the winter to take tip the engagement at Auckland usually filled by Mr. A. E. Relf. who, in company with Rol?ert Relf and Killick, sailed for India last week.

Mr. and Mrs. Barker and family, of Gisborne, wo are now residing at Coulsdon, in the Surrey Hills, intend remaining in England over Christmas, and l finishing the winter on tho Continent. For next summer a long motor tour is in preparation.

Miss May White has just arrived in London from Auckland, having made the journey in the s.s. Moldavia, but does not purpose to remain( here long. She intends shortly visiting Paris, and proceeding to Athens, Constantinople, and Tiflii.

Mrs. Ivilgour, of Auckland and Wellington. is spending a very enjoyable holiday in England, and does not propose to return to New Zealand for some time. Mrs. Kilgour has done a great deal of motoring, and has now left. London for Oberammergau and the Continent.

Sir Daniel and Lady Gooch, of Hyland.?, Essex, are shortly to leave for Australia and New Zealand on a long holiday tour. Sir Daniel is the third baronet, the tide having been given in 1866 to his grandfather, who was a celebrated engineer, chairman of the Great Western Railway, and M.P. for Cricklade.

The engagement is announced of Miss Dorothy Knight, daughter of Dr. Osborno Knight, of Auckland, and Mr. Frank Mildmay Stevenson, fourth officer of the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Waimate. Miss Knight has been four years in London studying singing, the latter part of the time under Madame Marchesi.

Mrs. T. T. McCarthy and Miss McCarthy, of Napier, who arrived by the lonic last. .Tune, started on their return journey by the s.s. Arawa, which left London to-day. Both ladies spent considerable time in Scotland and Ireland. At Liverpool they attended the wedding of an old Napier boy, Mr. Reginald A. Webb, of the Gold Coast-, to Miss Ethel Gould, daughter of CaptainJ. Gould, of Wallesey.

Mr. Thomas Allen, of Auckland, is again in London, making his final preparations for returning to New Zealand. Ho hopes to leave London in the course of a week or so for France. Switzerland, and Italy, joining the Orient R.M.S. Orvieto at Naples on November 5. and expects to reach England one week before Christ-mas. _ During the past few weeks he hits been visiting various places of interest, including Oxford and Cambridge. Ho has also been away visiting friends in Cheshire.

Mr. John Bissett. superintendent of the Christian Institute Work at Motherwell, and secretary of the Lanarkshire Christian Union lor more than 10 years, has been appointed missioner 'to the Auckland Central Mission, of which Mr. W. H. Smith, of the firm of Smith and Caughey, is tho superintendent. Mr. Bissctt has directed the whole work of the institute and tho union for the county of Lanarkshire, and is regarded as a thoroughly capable man. He will leave for New Zealand by a White Star steamer in the course of the next week.