NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15554, 11 March 1914, Page 11

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

TfBOM OCR OWN correspondent.] London, February 4. Mrs. James Bdchaxan (Auckland) aid Miss Buchanan have been visiting relatives in America., Scotland'and England. They are going back by the s.s. Orsova en February 13.

Dr. C. J. A. Griffin (Auckland) has received the appointment of house-surgeon at the Evelina Hospital for Children, in South London. He will occupy this position for the next six months. Dr. Griffin has recently had appointments under the London County Council for asylum duty.

Miss Ellen Terry ie leaving for Australia on March 27. Her series of lectures on "Heroines of Shakespeare" will start at Melbourne on May 7. Altogether the Australasian tour will extend over four months, during which time 40 or 50 lectures will be delivered and a distance of 35,000 miles covered.

Miss Kiore King (daughter of Mrs. Gerald King., of Tomoana, Hawke's Bay) has completed five terms' study at Six H. Tree's Academy of Dramatic Art, having taken a full course in acting, elocution, dancing, fencing, etc She has been awarded the prize given for " Delsarte " the French system of expressing the emotions by ggsture.

Late callers at the High Commissioner's Office have included Mr. Arthur Kingsford (late of Waihi, now of Mexico), Mr. James Craig (Hawera), Mrs. W. E. S. Thomas (Auckland), the Masters V. and M. Thomas and Miss Edwyna Thomas, Mr. J. H. Shaw (New Plymouth), Mr. and Mrs. Harry Steels (Auckland), Mr. W. J. Mankstelow (Waikato), Mr. W. Hutche'ns (Hawera).

Mr. F. F. Miles, New Zealand's 1913 Rhodes Scholar, now at Balliol, distinguished himself this week in the semi-final of the Inter-collegiate Challenge Cup competition at Oxford, Balliol beating Trinity by 53 points to 27. In the throwi ing the hammer event the New Zealander, whose distance was 77ft llin, defeated Trinity's representative, G. B. Taylor, who threw 75ft sin.

New Zealand has reason to regard the present season ' at Covent Garden as unique. Never before have two New Zealand singers appeared together on this exalted stage and in such an important production as Wagner's masterpiece, "Parsifal." Miss Rosina Buckman and; Mr. Frank Foster both appeared in "Parsifal,".and are both singing in several other operas during the season. Miss Buckman was one of the flower maidens in "Parsifal" and Mr. Foster one of the four esquires. i