PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8189, 21 July 1906, Page 6

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(From Our London Correspondent) I LONDON, July 7. Mr Charlea Gray of Gisborne, is still with us. He aniyed from New i York on April 29th. We will be here I another four or five rnonhts return- j ing to New Zealand by the Suez ] route. ' Messrs 0. V. Glasaon and 0. E. I Tendall, of Christoburoh, came over < via America and intend spending several mouths vißiting different 1 parts of England, Ireland, Scotland and the Continent, returning to New i Zealaud, via Suez. Miss Marion Gilford Cooper, of i Auckland, ftbo is on a pleasure trip to the Old Country, is visitiug her uncle at Stoke Keotory, Guildford. Mie a Flora Faulks, of Dunedin, has just arrived and will remain here about a year. She will get as much training us possible in the theory and practice of kindergarten work. Mr Andrew Mackenzie, of Wellington, formerly of Inveroargill, of the firm of Briscoe and Co., Ltd., arrived on May 14th, after a pleasant stay in Milan, Switzerland, and Paris. He considers the soenery of Lucerne finer even than that of Queenatown, In Otago. He speaks euthusjastioally of the magnificent buildings, pablio parks, monuments and statues of Paris, whioh made him somewhat less impressed with London, although he still considers the latter oity second to none. The intense historical interest attached to places like the Tower, Westminster Abbey, and the exhibits in the British Museum, all help to make a visit to this country soon a pleasure to a New Zealander* whose country is so young, and where there is scarcely a building that is more than 70 years old. After being used to cities of 50,000 inhabitants it is naturally dlffhjult at firs* to find one's way about a place oontaming over six million; but it doesn't take long, he says, to overcome all the mysteries of twopenny tubes, and underground railways. He goes, shortly, to Scotland for a month, but bis future movements, generally, are uncertain. Messrs Meadbwcroft, of Wellington, and George Powlds, attended the annual meetngs of the Congregational Union, hb delegates l from the New Zealaud Union. Messra L. W. Ormanby and W. Baigb, of Obristcburch arrived by the Afrio. They are here for eight months and will visit most parts of the United Kingdom, and Patla, re--1 turning via Australia. Mr J. H. Aitken, of Wanganui, arrived m May 12tb by the Marmora. This is his seventh trip home during the last twelve years. He has during his journeys visited most of the show places all over the Globe. He goes shortly to Denmark, St. Petersburg, back to the .North of Sootland, and So Peterhfead, bis birthplace. He says . your colony Is in a most prosperous, condition with a nappy.oon- ' tented people, growing richer every year. , |. Mr and Mrs J. R. Johnstone, of i Wellington, came via Fiji, sCanada . and the United States. They intend . spending some time with relatives.in rural England, and are also looking ! forward to a trip to Scotland. Mr and" Mrs W. R. Baker* of . Uisborne, are still- ■, here. They left , New Zealand with the Misses Eya and ' May Baker, sisters of Mr Baker. [ They visited Sydney, Japan, Hong , Kone, Va'jtiouver, the Rocky Moun- - tains, whioh still had their winter covering of snow, Minneapolis, \ Chicago, Detroit, Montreal, Quebec, andiNew York to I I Liverpool,; passing Niagara Falls on. j the way. Japan, they found a most interesting oountry; they were , jnuob struck with the industry and: [intelligence of the , people. oTbe t country has been made the most of; . every available foot of it being under cultivation. They were oharmed ' with the glimpse of English Oountry 5 afforded by-,-the. train.jonrney to . London.