LONDON PERSONALS

Otago Witness, Issue 3566, 18 July 1922, Page 29

LONDON PERSONALS

(From Oub Own Correspondent.) LONDON, May 30. Dr F. C. Hutchison (Dunedin), who came Home as ship's medical officer of the Pakeha, has reached London. It is his intention to go through to Edinburgh this week to start his post-graduate course at the University. Mr H. J. Le Cren (Dunedin) intends remaining' in London for three weeks and then to spend two months on a motor tour through England and Scotland. France and Switzerland are to be visited later. Miss Leslie Le Cron, who has been in England for some months, came up to London to meet her brother, whom she will accompany on his tours. Air and Mrs Murray Hobbs (Christchurch), spent two interesting months of travel in the United States, and they arrived at Liverpool by the Baltic a week ago. Approaching the Irish coast, they experienced the dense fog, which caused tiie disaster to the Egypt, and the experience was not a pleasant one. Their intention is to travel leisurely in the Mother Country and abroad—beyond that they have no fixed plans and no arranged programme. They will fce in London for the race seasonj and they wall leave for the West of Sn"land. " Dr James Whitton (Oarnaru) has come to Great Britain primarily to study diseases of the heart. tie is now attending a clinic in London, and he will remain m England until the beginning of next year Alr s Whitton and their daughters are wnh him. The New Zealand jockey, Mr Hector Gray, was riding Mr j. Musker’s Esteem at the Lingfield Park meeting, in (lie Weir Courtenay Plate event, but he was not placed. At Beverley he came in second on Sir H. Cunliffe-Owen’s White Satin in the Welcome Plate event. The winning horse got in by , a length and a-half. On the same owner’s Legend he came fhr d in the Zetland Plate at York. At Salisbury he had better luck, bringing in White Satin first in the Maiden. Plate." While Air and Mrs E. 11. Reid (South Canterbury) were in Rome recently they had the honour of being received in audience by the Pope—a privilege which they immensely appreciated. Six mont.ixa ago Air and Mrs Reid left for the Continent, and they spent most of the time, on the Italian Riviera, at San Remo and Bordighera. They also visited the French Riviera. To the South of France they met a number of New Zealand friends, in eluding Dr and Airs David Colquhoun, Mr J. (j. Marshal!, Miss Cutien. and Miss Stack They returned to London by way of the Italian Lakes. Paris, and Brussels. On September 9 they will sail for Capetown by onoseanf the Blue Funnel steamers, and. after spending a few weeks in South j Africa, they will continue the journey, expecting to be homo bv Christmas. Mean while, they will pay a round of visits ii England; going first to Bournemouth.