NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15950, 22 June 1915, Page 8

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

[FROM OtIB OWN CORRESPONDENT.].. .(. I ..'■ , May"ll... Lad?. Vogel and --*S8 Vogel .are back; .;■ in London from Switzerland, where they ' spent about nine months. ■ Mr. S. G. Raymond, K. 0., Christ- . church, Mr. Adam E. ; Smith, Christchurch, and Mr. j£M. Gouldsmith, Gisborne, have become.Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute. V ■ ' J Miss' Amy E. Moss, 'of Auckland and Wellington, who has-been staying with her sister, Mrs. E. P. Hudson, at Wimbledon, is returning to New Zealand by the Remuera. She arrived early last August.' On April .24 the' marriage took place of Mr. G. K. R." Totton, eldest son of the late Mr. Charles Stevens' Totton and ■ Mrs. Totton, Parnell, New Zealand, to Miss Enid M. Springthorpe, only daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Spring- ' thorpe, M.D. ' ' jV The engagement is announced of .Lieutenant Wiay Falliser, son of. Mr. G. iWwpV&lfe&T, teweUxy to Mis, Sots 'tov ,laud Government O&ro in. Loudon, and Miss Iris Bickiord, elder daughter of Mr. 1 and Mrs. Bickford, 0! Uommonwood, Looe, 1 Cornwall. Lieut. PaUiser belongs, to the loth Worcestershires. '. Amongst the saved from the Lusitania AS Mr. E. A. Heighwayl of Thames, New Zealand, a seaman who distinguished him- ! self in the loss of the Volturno last year. : Mr. Ecighway was then a seaman on the I Cannania, and when that vessel reached the crowded boats of the Volturno he jumped into the sea and saved one or two lives. The Heme Bay Press this week contains a letter from Miss.M. W. Hilman, of Heme Bay, Auckland, in response to the request of the editor for something descriptive of the Antipodean namesake of the Kent watering place. It will be remembered that nags were recently exchanged Between the Herns Bay schools at the two ends of the world. The following Aucklanders have been among recent callers at the High Commissioner's office Mr. W. H. Tait, Mr. S. J. Banna, Mr. S. Howard Ellis, Miss Gillies, Miss Hudson Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. J. Mitchell, Mrs. Donald Ross and Miss Ross, Miss Wayraouth, Mr. Edmund G. Baskctt, Miss W. Dudley, Lieutenant 0. T. Maclean, Miss Olive " Herdman, Lady Russell. It is nearly two years since Madame ,Louie Meyrat, of Auckland, left New ' Zealand. She went first to America, and for just a year she has been in London studying singing with Mr. Aliston Webb, the , principal tenor of the Brompton Oratory. Latterly, she has been taking a course of cinema acting with Mr. Ross, . who is a well-known producer. On May 14 Madame Meyrat will sail bv the Mongolia, hoping to be in Auckland some time in August, at the conclusion of a stay in Australia. The Rev. W. Herbert Rattray, who is • on his way to. New Zealand by the Remu-;', era, was presented, just before departure, v with' a French clock and an illuminated i address by the parishioners of All Saints', Surrey Square—a South London parish, to which he had been attached for 2J years'.';-: It is nine years since Mr. Rattray left New Zealand, and during that space heal has studied and has, had experience m% various parishes. He hopes to take up% duty in the Auckland Diocese. , Mrs, Rattray is with her husband. ■■- '-*■