IN THE HOMELAND

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8300, 11 December 1912, Page 1

IN THE HOMELAND

NEW ZEALANDERS ON TOUR LATEST NEWS BY MAIL. LONDON, October 31. The Earl of Liverpool was received in audience by the. King on Monday morning, and delivered up his wand of office as Comptroller of the Household, on his appointment as Governor and Comman-der-in-Chlef of New Zealand. 1 Mr and Mrs William Owen, of Wellington, , who returned last week to. London from a fortnight’s stay in Paris, went on to Manchester, where They , will remain until the end of November. Mrs T. •; W. McDonald, wife of Major T. W. McDonald (Wellington), who is attached to the Army here, is at present living at Gordon square, London. Their eldest son is at school at Aldershot.

Dr S. H. Hay, of Dunedin, arrived here at the beginning of September, and intends to remain for about two years, taking a post-graduate course at the Middlesex Hospital. He is at present ActingResident Medical Officer at the Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Maida-vale. Mr and Mrs Thomas Anderson, of Wellington, with their two little eons, arrived in England in September, via Japan and Canada, and are now staying with friends in Wimbledon. They leave for Scotland early in November. The Misses I. A. and O. Burton, of Dunedin, have been travelling for some months, visiting Norway, Scotland, the English lakes, Wales, and Ireland, and are now in London for the winter. Miss Ida 1 Burton hopes to take lessons in art. and Miss Olivia lessons in singing. .. T)r Winifrede Bathgate, of Dunedin, who-has been in this country for a few months,expects .bo leave for home in November-

Mr and Mrs J. H. Taylor, who are at present staying in Sheffield, leave on December sth for New Zealand by the Corinthio. ■' Mrs Taylor, who has been in bad: health,, is now mnoh better. -Mr Arthur J. French, of Dunedin, is paying a short business trip to Glasgow. He returns to London on November sth.

Mr James Proctor, of Invercargill, has returned, from a three months’, visit to the United' States, and is at present in Edinburgh. Mr and Mrs H. J. Pearce, of Dunedin, are staying with friends in Glasgow until November 14th, when they go on to Aberdeen ' for a week. Two New Zealanders book part in the Freshmen’s Eugby football trial, held at Cambridge recently. For the "White,_ Mr W. G. Salmond, of New Zealand University, who is now at St. John’s College, was at three-quarter, and Mr H. M. Chrystall, of New Zealand University, and now at Emmanuel College, was in the "Colors” third line. ■ Lieutenant-Colonel A. W. Andrew, 116th Mahrattas, who is promoted to that rank, obtained his first commission through the New Zealand Eifle Volunteers in ; 18S6, and prior to joining the Indian Army was for x over two years in the Devonshire Eegiment. Ho was with the New Zealand Contingent in . the Boer war, and was mentioned in despatches. Among New Zealanders who have booked their passages back to the Dominion are Mr Fred W. Boyes, of Hawera, who returns in January next; Mr and Mrs Oscar Monrad, of Palmerston North, and their three children, by the Orsova, on November 22nd; Messrs Geo. and Herbert Scott, of Dunedin, in December; Dr and Mrs McKay - Grant, of Auckland, and Mrs Joseph, of Wellington, in February. The Eev. Harry Johnson, of Wilsden, Bradford, has accepted, through the Colonial Missionary Society, the pastorate of Trinity Congregational Church, Dunedin, New Zealand, and will leave in January for the Dominion. Mr Johnson, who labored in Central Africa for eleven •years in connection with the Tanganyika Mission of the London Missionary Society, visited New Zealand a few years ago. He is an alumnus of Cheshunt College. Mr E. A. Belcher, who was recently appointed headmaster of Christ’s College, Christchurch (N.Z.). was an exhibitioner at his school —Queen’s College, Taunton —and graduated with honors, at Lincoln College, Oxford, in modem history. At Queen’s College he was captain of the school XV., and in the cricket eleven, and at Oxford he was captain of Lincoln College Association XI., in the college cricket team, and played in the college Eugby team. Subsequently Mr Belcher played Association for Middlesex County. He is a Major in the Eoyal Engineers (Territorial Force), and has, np to now, commanded the Clifton College Contingent. He has stayed in England a week longer than he intended, in order to take part in field day operations on October 29th, at-Cheltenhapj, in which contingents from Eugby, Cliiton, Cheltenham, Malvern, and other wellknown public schools will be taking part. Mr Belcher will be in command of one nf the" opposing forces.