NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 259, 5 December 1914, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

• The ''British : AiistraraHiaii'' of October 22 contains the following items of interest to New Zealand: — Mr Thomas E. Sedgwick leaves London for New/Zealand and Australia. Mr and Mrs Michie have left 74 Albert Hall. Mansions, and are now at the Gore Hotel, 189 Queen 's. Gate. Mrs J. M. Williamson, Mrs C. Duncan, and Miss Duncan, all of Wanganui, left by the Malwa for New Zealand and are visiting. Ceylon for a. fortnight en route. . • Mr and Mrs George Beetham, of Master ton, who have been spending some weeks at Tunbridge Wells, have returned to London, and are now at their residence in South Kensington. Mrs W. Dawson, of Dunedin, who paid a visit to Holland and Germany just before war broke out, has returned to London safe and well. She intends to spend the winter in London. Mr and Mrs H. M. Cohen, of Christchurch, have come on a trip combining business with pleasure, and will visit Scotland and Ireland before sailing again by the Bellina on December 17. for home. Mrs Smyth and her niece, Miss Connie Bain, Christclmrch, are stayingin Hertfordshire until the arrival Of the New Zealand Contingent, of which Miss Bain's brother, Mr A. C. W. Bain, is a member. Mi' and Mrs W. H.-Young and family, of Dunedin, who arrived in England 'two months ago, are at present at 72 Polworth Terrace, Edinburgh. Mr Young is representing his firm in Britain, and .intends to remain several years. - ■..■■-.-. . ~ Major A. A. Corrigan, of Wellington, who has been drilling recruits at the Crystal : Palace, leaves for Canada on

General* Booth has appointed Commissioner W. J. Richards, who has for the past two years been in charge of the Army's forces in New Zealand, to the command of the Salvation Army in Canada and Newfoundland. Since the Em-press'of-Ireland disaster,-when Commissioner Eees and so many other officers .and soldiers, lost their lives, the command has been without a Commissioner. Commissioner Richards, who is an offices of many years' standing, is well known both in field and social cir-eles in England, and before going to New Zealand, held in.succession the Danish, and South African . commands. The Commissioner, with Mrs Eichards, will sail from' New Zealand for their new field early next month. After witnessing the completion .-of the self-denial effort, Commissioner 'Henry Hodder, until recently in charge of Japan, has been appointed by the General to succeed Commissioner Eichards in. New Zealand. With his wife he sailed from Liverpool on Monday, October 12.