NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15098, 14 September 1912, Page 5

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

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Lon-dck, August 10. Mil. 11. J. Wi •;!'.'-••! (Hamilton) purposes leaving for New Zealand in October.

Mrs. Moon (Auckland) and her daughters are going back this week by tin Macedonia.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Markham (Opunake) have hooked to sail bv the Orvicto on August 30.

Mrs. Stephen Walter is going out to New Zealand on a visit to her mother. Mrs. Coleman (Napier).

Mr. Keith Izard (Wellington) has been taking part this week in the croquet tournament at Hurlingham.

Mr. Martin J. Kilgour (Wellington) is now making .satisfactory progress after an illness of a good many weeks' duration.

Mr. James Grice (Whangaroi) will bring his visit to a close on September 19. Ho has been making a general tour of England, visiting relatives and friends.

Mr. Herbert Black, associate Otago University School of Mines, has accepted an engagement under the West African Mines Trust to proceed to the Sefwi goldfields, Gold Coast Colony, for eight months.

Captain G. H. Walker (late of Waikato), who commanded the 4th _ (New Zealand) Contingent in South Africa, has came to London on a visit from West Africa, whither ho intends shortly to return.

The list of names of successful students in the final classical school. Oxford University, is published. S. L. Sale (New College) has taken a third class; Mr. C. J. N. Adams (St. John's) and Mr. C. K. Rhodes (Brasenose) each a second class.

At St. Peter's Church, Bayswater, on the 31st July, the marriage took place of Mr. Walter Moore, only son of LieutenantColonel Moore, of Geraldine, Now Zealand, to Miss Jano Mather, fourth daughter of Captain John Mather, of Christchurch, late of the 14th Hussars. The bride's homo trill bo near Paris.

Captain R. J. S. Seddon (New Zealand Staff Corps) is at present an inmate of the King Edward Military Hospital, making a rapid recovery from an operation last Monday for appendicitis. _ Mr. Stuart Seddon has returned from his stay in Paris, where he was studying architecture.

Mr. J. M. Muir (Wellington) will leave next week for Canada, and will spend about two months in the Dominion and tho States, returning then to England to complete his furlough here. Mrs. Muir raid their son, Mr. It. M. Muir, who has just token the first section of his medical final at Edinburgh, are in Switzerland.

Mr. W. It. PJiodes-Mcorhouse, his bride, and another passenger, after crossing the English Channel by aeroplane at the beginning of this week, had a very narrow escape, for at Bethersden, near Ashford, the aeroplane dashed into a huge tree, which it literally tore up by the roots. The machine was wrecked. Mr. Moorhouse had a slight scratch on the face, but neither of his companions was hurt. The journey up to London was completed by motor car.

There is a. noticeable falling off in the list of new callers at the New Zealand Government office—a not uncommon occurrence in August. This week's list is made up of the following names :—Mr James Grice (Whangarei), Mr. and Mrs. W. Markham (Opnnake), Mr. Edward 0. Mousley (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. .T. Harris (Wellington), and two sons. Mr. C. Hamerton (Wellington), Mrs. W. E. Taylor and Mrs. Arnold B. Williams (Kelbume), Wellington), Captain Pi. B. Neill (Duenedin), Miss E. Whelan (Wellington), Mr. S. S. Swan (Wanganui).

Some of the passengers on board the Ruahine when she sail? next week will be:— and Mrs. B. C. Lysaght. Mr. and Mrs.'J. Hutchinson, Mr. and Mrs. J. Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. H. Gavford. Mr. and Mrs. G. Allen, Mrs. J. Lyon, Mrs. M. Ramsay, Mrs. Kerr, Mrs. E. Brit tain, Mrs. A. Here, Miss N. Marsh, the Misses G. and E. Cock, Miss M. B. Yool, Miss E. Chilcott, Miss D. Borrett, Miss N. F. Taylor. Miss E. King, the Rev. C. Price, Mr. F. 'Russell. Mr. J. Watson, Mr. W. H. Thomson, Mr. D. C. Peacock, Mr. D. L. Leith. Mr. J. Rose, Mr. J. Martin, Mr. H. Withers, Mr. K. Mcintosh, Mr. A. Rogers, Mr. S. C. Wellburn, Mr. L. Evans, Mr. Fitz-Herberi, Mr. P. W. W. King, Mr. .T. F. Clayton. Mr. A. Cogen, Mr. C. Thompson, Mr. E. W. Manning. Mr. F. L. Armstrong. In the third-class the list now totals some 250 passengers.