LONDON PERSONALS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7449, 25 May 1911, Page 1

LONDON PERSONALS

LATEST NEWS BY MAIL THE DOINGS or MEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD. FROIX our. QPZCUh CORRESPONDENT. LONDON, April 13. .Mrs At. Leslie. Alorison, of Wellington, and lirr daughter, arrived hero by tlio Orrmtes via Suez on April Ist, and proceeded on tlio 3rd inst. to Liverpool, where they will bo staying with relations till the end of April. Thence they go on a visit, to other relatives in Aberdeen. Mrs Moiisou. who has been twenty-six years absent from London, her native city, has como hero to see her* brother and to make further arrangements in connection with her business in Wellington. She nreposes to remain eighteen months. She will he in London for tlio Coronation and will then go to Paris, returning hero about Senteniber—to outer business in London for about nine months, after which she returns to Mew Zealand. Air and Mrs W. Aitcheson Smith, of Nelson, arrived in London a fortnight ago, and intend leaving next week on a lour through Scotland and Ireland. Mr Aitrimuson Smith has come to England principally on account ot Ids health, to consult, n’snecinlist. ami his plans ol travel will depend largely on the medical advice which ho receives.

Tho Rev. R. S. Gray, of Christchurch, .ml Mrs Gray, who travelled hither via ' Palestine. Cairo. Italy, and Paris, havo been in tho country visiting relations sinco their arrival. ACr Gray will do a,, little preaching, and is to conduct a eer- I vice at Spurgeon's Tabernacle, and another at Regent's Pack for tho Eev. F. B. Myer. He will also address a few meetings on No-license in New Zealand, lie hopes to begin systematic sight-seeing | in London immediately after Easter and to hear the most interesting stages of discussion of the Veto Bill in Parliament. He leaves London on Juno 10th for Philadelphia to,attend tho Baptist World Congress os special representative of the Noiv Zealand Baptist Union. At tho Congress ho will spoak on "Tho Church and Working Men." Returning to New Zealand via Vancouver, he expects to reach home about the middle of September. Major W. G. Braithwaite, D. 5.0., Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Captain J. K. Ccchrane, and Cantata W. -K- Piuweil, havo been asked to go to Now Zealand, to be appointed to various districts as General Staff officers of the third degree, at a Miliary of A's3o a year. . Major Braifchwaite has --notified his acceptance of the offer. . . s Mr and lira H. Atkinson, of Auckland, and the Misses Atkinson (3) arrived on April 7th by tho Ath-enic. after n very pleasant voyago. They intend leaving London in a day or two for a tour through the South of England, including a visit to the Scilly Isles. Later in the eaason they will visit the North of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Continent. They aro on a pleasure trip, but. Mr Atkinson will take the opportunity' of looking over varieus - important public! works accomplished or in course of construction. He proposes to arrive, in New t Zealand again next December. . I Lieutenant-Colonel A- Bauchop, C.M.G., I Now Zealand Defence Force, now studying nt the Staff College, Camberley, has been selected for attachment to the Royal Artillery at Salisbury Plain for a month’s instruction. At the International Exhibition at tho Grafton Gallery, Miss Grace Joel. 1 , of Dunedin, has on the lino a head of an old peasant. Mr G. At. Lambert is tho onlv'other Australasian exhibitor, and exhibits a life-size head of a woman, vailed “Portrait of a Dancer.” It is very solidly painted, with all his usual ckill in execution, and in a high key. Miss Joel's-pictnro is painted in a very lour key of colour, and when in tho Salon waspicked out in tho papers as being ires j vivant. Tho Earl of Orford and Lady Dorothy Walpole, and Captain the Hon. J. and Mrs Boyle, son and daughter-in-law of Lord Glasgow, who havo been on a holiday visit to New Zealand, returned to London this week by tho Macedonia. Lieutenant-Colonel D’Arcy Chaytor, Mrs Chaytor and Mies Frances Chaytor were passengers by the same boat. LieutenantColonel Chaytor intends to take courses of instruction at Longmoor Mounted Infantry School, and in cavalry work at Aldershot. . Air John Gore, late of Dunedin, who arrived here on March 23th anil is now revisiting his birthplace. Leamington, tells: TOO that, ho has come to England to claim a. vorv large "estate in Monmouth, Wales. He claims to be the next-of-kin. Mr Gore is revisiting this country after on absence of forty years, and ho intends to stay hero about six months. Mrs Archibald Williams, whose death occurred on April 6th at Moseley, near Birmingham, was a Now Zealander, the daughter of the lute Herbert Henry Vorley, of Westport. Airs Williams was in her forty-first year.i Alisa Aliriam Crichton, of New Zealand, is at present engaged as head historical costumier for -tho Pageant of tho great. Imperial pageant in which 15.000 performers aro to tako part at the festival of Empire. Air Arthur L. Alexander, _of Dunedin, has been commissioned to write tho whole of tho musio for the New -Zealand section of the* Pageant of Empire at the Crystal Palace. The music consists of . three places for a largo military hand, a processional march, a Alaorp dance, and another niece to be played during tho scone representing the- signing of the treaty of U aitangi.

Recent callers at the High Commissioner's offices:—Mr W, Aitchcsou Smith (Nelson). Mr W. Swinnerton (Auckland). Mr and Mrs E. and Miss Anderson (Wellington), ’ Mrs Alepham (Feflding), Mr Alfred Bnkley (Wellington). Miss Luckie (Wellington). Mr Harold E. and Airs Ensor (Christchurch), Miss R. E. Gambill (Wellington). S. Williamson (Napier). Mr David M. Davis (Auckland), Mr Andrew Erickson (Auckland). AExs C. Napier Bell (Wellington). AEr an<l Mrs A. 11. and Miss N. liar (Dunedin), Miss F, M. Harty (Dunedin), Thomas? Howbov (Timaun). E. {■r. Gresham (Auckland). A. Kilsby (Wellington), Airs R. Spence (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs Joseph M. George (Dunedin)., MU? Mary and W. G. Ranskino (Inver-1 oargill). Mr and Airs K, Le Cren (ThnanO, .‘Mr and Mrs H, and Misses (2) Atkinson. (Auckland). P. D. Beveridge (Wellington), Miss Amy and-Mr- Edmund Bucas (Nclcou), Mr and Mrs and Miss Sharp

(Wellington), Airs Walter Seymour (Gisborne), G. D. Jcllyman (Auckland). Miss Gilliatt (Christchurch), Mr Allan Tavlor (Gisborne), G. (Gisborne), Mrs Statham Aforley (Wellington). Airs Sauerborg (Wellington), AEr and Airs G. A- W. Tapper (WclliiLa*'' nj.