LONDON PERSONALS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7851, 13 July 1911, Page 1

LONDON PERSONALS

LATEST NEWS BY MAIL THE DOINGS OF NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD. FIIOM OCR PI'FCTAL CORRESPONDENT* LONDON, June Air Alfred Kidd, ex- . Mayor of Auckland. and Mis Kidd, arrived in London this'week via the Continent, on a pleasure trip to the Old Country. On the journey from New Zealand they spent ten Jays in Sydney, visited Cairo and the Pyramids landed from. She s.s Otway at Naples, spent a week in Koine, and another four weeks visit! »K "Venice, Monte Carlo, Nice and,-Palis. Air Kidd reached London just iu time to attend the Derbi —ami hack the winner, Sunsfar. -dr Kidd anticipates !>cin« here >‘ CT! " n or eieht months. He hopes to visit a number of centn-s of interest mdhis cmintiv and will possibly make a trip to Noiway and Swile.eilnml. IVth ho and his wile are in oxe-llent he il. h. and thoroughly ■ enjoyins their travels.

Sir .Tasrpli and Lmly Ward attended the Kmpirn parade of 10.000 boys and rirls in Ilvde I’ark on Saturday afternoon. .As they wore driving away after the review one of Iho Hoy Scouts leadivccuiiscd Sir 10-soph and called for three efioors. and the cßcpriug accompanied the New Zealand Prime Munster in his passage along the ranks nil the way to the park pates. This week’s issue of the London "Graphic" contains a fin© full-page cartoon of Sir Joseph Ward.

Mr Cunningham Eridgemnn, who for some (inn* oast has been endeavouring to get Air Alfred Hill's opera "A Moorish Maid" produced in London, received this 'week from New Zealand the score of Air Hill’s ".Maori Symphony.” He has subrai'ted it to Dr Cowan, and that wellknown musician is delighted with it, and intends placing it on the programme of the New Zealand Empire Concert at the Crystal Palace.

Air F. -T. Percy, of Auckland, who arrived by the Ruahine a week or two ago, ia visiting the Old Country on u pleasure trip, the principal object being to see his father and mother who are residing at Ealing. London. AA". Air Povey expects to have about three months in this country.

Dr J. AC. Bell, formerly director of the Geological Survey of New Zealand, with his wife and Mr Colin Fraser, recently of tho Government mining geological staff, arrived, in England a few days ago. On the way Home Mr Fraser spent some time in Australia visiting Broken Hill nnd the mining centres in West Australia. After a brief holiday in the Old .Country Dr Bell and. Mr Fraser will, it is understood, proceed to Canada. .

Mr C. Jenkins, of Auckland, who arrived by the Ruahine on May 17th, is on a pleasure trin to England. He has been visiting Portsmouth nnd London, and intends going, after the Coronation, to Paris, and then to Ireland, leaving for home via Australia somo time in September-

Mr and Mrs F. E. Cory* of Auckland, .arrived in London this week via Australia and the Cape. They are on a pleasure trip. Mr Cury bavins received six months’ leave of absence from the "Auckland Star/'

Madame Betty Brooke, of Christchurch, sans nt' the “Ventc do Charito” .Tubilce. held at the Kensington Town Hall, and was received with great enthusiasm. The affair was onened bv thr Countess Clancarty. Madame Brook-'’ sane ot Mi ft Cheyno Children’s Ilosnital a"d concert at 33, Cavendish square.

Mr A- J. Entrician, of the Auckland City Council and .Auckland Hnrboir Board. with Mrs Entricinn. arrived horr last Saturday by the Orient liner Orrleto, which brought passengers thir trip—the record for th? season on thr route, I understand. They leave London to-morrow for Belfast, where they will spend a week and attend the General As Kcmbly of tho Irish Church, returning via Liverpool to Louden for fhe Corona tlon. Later they go to Scotland, probn* bly in August, then back to Ireland to visit Londonderry, Mr Entrician's native district. A tour of live Continent, and shorter visits to tho Channel Islands and Holland arb also contemplated, and the return journey to New Zealand will be made in the Ostcrley. leaving London, on October 27th.

Mr Paul M. Hansen, of Auckland, is paying a short visit to London on business, and intends to visit Franco and Germany before returning homo. He will ho hero only about five weeks, Mr Hansen is accompanied by his wife and son.

Mr Leopold Lenet, of Auckland, who is a member of the New Zealand Coronation Contingent, expects to remain in the Old Couriryjor practically u year. After the Coronation he will commence a tour of tho United Kingdom, but has at present no definite itinerary mapped out.

Mr Charles W. Martin, of "Wellington who came to England early in April, has been spending the interval seeing some thing of Cornwall and the south coast. Mo returns to London a few days hence to Join the New Zealand Continjrcnt, which -commences training for the Coronation next week. After tho Contingent is disbanded Mr At a r tin commences ? business-cum-p.loasure tour in Scotland and the North of England. lie expects to loavo for New Zealand in October, but may spend some time iu Australia on route.

Mr Louis M. Nathan, of Auckland, arrived in London recently, having travelled Homo by way of Vancouver, Chicago and New York. _ His overland journey he found highly interesting and most enjoyable. After tho Coronation Mr Nathan intends to make a trip to Norway and Sweden, and will spend a few weeks in other parts of the Continent. Business and pleasure will probably detain him in these latitudes till winter is upon us-

Mr Paul Eastham. of Auckland, who arrived in London by tho Orvieto lost Saturday, bas spent, a busv week sightleeing in the metropolis. *For the next Cow weeks ho will bo looking up relations and friends in Yorkshire, and in touring in the lake district. July will be spent chiefly in London, after which Mr Eastham proposes to spend somo time in •Scotland and indulge in a little golfing on somo of tho famous old courses.

Air George G. Blott, of Auckland, who is now holiday-making iu the Old Country, has been spending a delightful time sinco his arrival by tho Kuahinc iu mid-

May visiting friends in th© South and West of England. He proposes to spend a few days m Paris prior to tile Coronation, for which ho returns to London. Beyond that period his plans are unsettled.

Mr T. Wagsrtaff, of Timaru, who arrived recently by tho Otway, is revisiting England on .pleasure and business after an absence of thirty-one years, all of which he has spent in New Zealand. Ho will stay in London till after the Coronation and then visit Newcastle, his native town. Switzerland, Scotland and the English lakes are also in his programme, ana ho hopes to be back in New Zealand by December, travelling by* tho Orient vompaiiy’s route.

Gunner L. G. Sisson, of the A Battery Field Artillery, who is one of New Zealand's Coronation contingent, has been enjoying life ‘at Brighton and in Kent sinco his arrival a fortnight ago. Early in July he will leave England for Australia, whoro he intends to make holiday for some time ere returning to Now Zealand, and will .probably spend a week or so on tho Continent en route.

Mr J. Buchanan, of Auckland, who is accompanied by his wife, arrived in London last week end. Whilst in these parts he purposes combining business with pleasure. London will claim his attention till tho Coronation is a thing of the past, and then ho and Mrs Buchanan will iodulgo in a lengthy motor to.ur through tho United Kingdom and Ireland.

Mr and Mrs Cutter, of "Wellington, who arrived iu tho Old Country by the Orvieto a few days ago, propose to remain in London for the next three or four weeks. Then-they go on visits to friends at Hastings and Bristol, and after a further spell in London will tour awhile iu prance ere joining the Orvieto on her noxt trip to tho Antipodes.

Air George E. Roberts, of Auckland, who came Homo by the Kuahino recently, is now touring the seaside resorts and “beauty spots” of Che South of England. Ho will return to London for Coronation week, and will go heuco to the Isle of Man for the motor cycle races to be hold at the end of June. July will bo spent louring iu Franco, but beyond that month Mr Koborts’ movements aro uncertain.

Dr G. E. Gabites, of Timaru, who with his wife and family arrived in London on May 20th by the Karamca a long but very pleasant voyage from New Zealand, does not expect to return to the Dominion till the end of September, 1912. It is thirteen years since the doctor left tho Old Country to take up the post of resident medical officer at tho Timaru Hospital, and ho has come Home chiefly for the purpose of post graduate study at the hospitals in Loudon, Edinburgh and Vienna. As ho holds tho rank of major iu the New Zealand Medical Corps Dr Gabites will form one of tho Coronation contingent, and arrangements are being made for him to be attached to tho Koval Array Aledical Corps for a period of training. *

Tho Kev. Lewis Hudson, of Christchurch, and Mr L. W. Hudson arrived in London .a few days ago, having left tho Orient liner Otway at Naples and travelled overland via Paris. Thty expect to remain in England till the end of September. During their sta\* here the Rev. Lewis Hudson expects to attend tho Methodist Conference at Cardiff in July, and proposes after Coronation timo to

indulge in travel in Scotland and . tho English provinces. He and his son v return to New Zealand by way of Canada, and will en route attend the Methodist Ecumenical Conference to bo held at Toronto during tho second week in October. For tho period of their stay in London Mr Hudson and his son are tho guests of his sister, Mrs G. Itestali, at Bnxton.

Mr William Davidson, of Morningion, arrived in London recently. His object in making the trip to Europe was for health sake, and to iuqu.re into educational matters generally, and education in rural districts particularly. Mr Davidson travelled from Australia by tho N.D.L. Gneisenau to Naples, and, landing there, spent seven weeks touring in Italy. As regards education in that country he is quite certain New Zealand, has notning to learn from it, and the lot of tho rural teachers there is, ho declares, pitiabui?. Mr Davidson spent u fortnight in Switzerland, where he found a vastly differont condition of affairs obtaining. From 'Switzerland he thinks Now Zealand might get a hint or two In regard to rural education, and particularly from the canton of Geneva.

Airs Henry Feldwick, of Invercargill, accompanied by Miss Mabel Fcidwiok, is at present on a cruise in the Mediterranean in tho P. aud O. Mantua. They return, to London on the eve of the Coronation, and will remain iu tho metropolis for some weeks. Mr C. Hastings Bridge and Air C. Wray PaJiiscr, of New Zealand, attended on Monday night a dinner given by the council of tho Surveyors’ Institute to tho burveyors-General, who were taking pari iu a special conference on surveying iu connection with tbo Imperial Conference,

Air Cecil J. AVray, of New Zealand, was manned last week to Aliss Ada Wray, a well-known teacher of music in'London, Airs Wray intends to continue the practice of her profession here.

Mr W- Lantin, who travelled, toEuropo by the Orient liner Otway, left that vessel at Naples and spent seme days visiting Capri, Sorrento, Blue Grotto, PomSeii, Rome, Pisa, Genoa, and Monte ario. From the latter city ho went to Marseilles and thence to Paris, where he spent the best part of a week seeing the sights. Ho arrived in London on May 21st, and will stay in the metropolis for the ensuing three weeks, after which business affairs and the pursuit of pleasure will take him to some of the leading industrial centres in tho Midlands and to Scotland and Ireland, A trip to New York will precede his return to New Zealand.

Air F. J. Tasker, of Palmerston North, arrived in England on xfleasure bent by the P. and O. f Alorea. He proposes to tour iu the United Kingdom and on the Continent till tho middle of September, when he joins the Marmora at Marseilles for Australia. He propokes to remain in tho Commonwealth till November, and return to New Zealand in timo for tho general election*