IN THE HOMELAND

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8608, 19 December 1913, Page 3

IN THE HOMELAND

NEW ZEALANDERS ON TOUR LATEST MAIL NEAVS. LONDON. November 6. The Earl of Scafield has been appointed Deputy-Lieutenant for this •county of Elgin, Scotland. Tho Hon. Thomas Mackenzie has promised to bo present at the Pilgrims’ dinne- to v.'e Iconic home Mr James Bryce. The American Ambassador will preside. Lord Kelburn, the eldest son of tlio Earl and Countess of Glasgow, leaves London by the Otway in December, to take coTumand of Ii.AI.S. Pyramus, in New Zealand waters. .Mrs Pember Koovc-s, of New Zealand, is tlio opiioscr in a donate on “A ’wife’s Claim to Her Husband's Wages,” to be held under the auspices of rue Women s Lauour League on November filth. Mr Harold G. Cook, late of Messrs A. J. T-ntricaii and Co. s stall, and son of Mr H. G. Cook, of Whangarei, is shortly expected in London, where ho intends to continue Ins commercial training. . Two young New Zealanders are playing football lor St. Paul’s School, siugton, this year—Mr C. H. latest and Mr Lester Donne, who aro both playing left-three-quartcr-wing m their respective teams. Air Skeat is also captain of tho St. Paul’s senior cricket team. , , , , iwo New Zealand boys and two New Zealand girls won prizes in the British and f oreign Sailors Society’s Empire Essay Competition for 1913, when the subject was “Tho benefits accruing to the United Kingdom and its Dominions on the one hand, and to the United States on tho other, from the Treaty of Peace, 1814.” Mr and Mrs C. Hall, of Hawke’s Bay, who are on a visit to the Old Country, arc at present staying with friends at Malton. in Yorkshire, Mr Hall’s native place, which lie has not seen for forty years. He has-beta interviewed at length by a representative of tho local “Messenger,” and his ,views 1 concerning New Zealand aro being given to its readers in weekly instalments. Callers at the High Commissioner’s Offices last week included the following:—Miss Annie C. Liston, Dunedin; Mr J. Marshall, Christchurch; Mr W. Mclntosh, Napier; Mr Herbert C. Simson, Auckland; Mr Herbert Hob-, son, Christchurch; Miss B. E. Sibbald, Christchurch; Mrs and Miss Margoliouth, Napier; Mr and Mrs Se.ager, Christchurch; and Mr E. AV. Kc>, Dunedin. Miss Hopkinson, a former student of tho Froebo College, Bedford, is shortly going over to New Zealand to take up an appointment in connection with the Free Kindergartens in Auckland. Mr K. H. Abbott, of Auckland, who is accompanied by his daughter, Miss Abbott, has arrived in England, via South America. spending several weeks in Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil. They have just returned from a thousand-mile motor tour of the West of England and the central Provinces, and are staying at St. Ermin’s Hotel, Westminster, for a few weeks. They then go on to Paris to visit friends there, through Austria and Germany to Trieste, where they sail for Bombay. They spend a month in India before returning to New Zealand about February next.