NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue IX, 27 August 1898, Page 276

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Mr Janies Kitahie, of Southland, was one of the numerous passengers in the favourite Gothic. He is going to visit friends in Scotland and run over to Ireland in time for the Dublin horse show. He will leave by the lonic on the 26th October.

.Mr J. G. Pascoe, of Wellington, has much benefited in health by his travels. After spending some time in the neighbourhood of Port Rush and journeying in Ireland, he crossed over to Scotland, visited Glasgow and Edinburgh, and was shown over Lord Glasgow’s estate at Fairlie. It is forty-five years since Mr Pascoe left London for the colony, and he confesses himself lost in it now and fairly bewildered. He is thinking of taking the Suez route back to Ma.orila.nd in October.

Mr and Mrs Keith Ramsay left on Thursday for another visit to Scotland. after a very enjoyable but rather fatiguing spell of sight-seeing in London. With the exception of some three weeks in the metropolis they have spent their time in Scotland, chiefly with Mr Ramsay’s brother at Closeburn Manse, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, and in Edinburgh. They will spend most of their remaining time in Scotland, but will probably visit Ireland' and the Continent also before leaving for Dunedin.

Mr Robert Fenwick, of T. and S. Mokrin, Ltd., of Auckland, arrived by the Teutonic last week just too late lor the New Zealand dinner. Mr Fenwick. unlike most of the Moana’s passengers, faced the long journey via Seattle to Victoria, Vancouver, ami crossed the continent by the Canadian Pacific railway. With this route both he and Mr Thomas Brydone express themselves entirely satisfied. At the present time of the year no pleasanter long railway journey could be imagined. The cars are comfortable, the stoopages for meals sufficient and the scenery superb. Mr Fenwick broke the journey at Glacier House, at Banff House (which is 5000 feet above the sen, and boasts sulphur springs akin to Rotorua), and at Chicago. With the whirl of business life in the great western city he was immensely impressed. New York scarcely approached it. Mr Fenwick is just now immersed in business, but goes to Scotland next week with Mr Brydone. Both gentlemen have taken up their quarters at the Euston Hotel.

Miss Swanhilde Bulau was interviewed the other day by a representative of the ‘Cycle’ on the progress of the Rational Dress League, of which she is the secretary and moving spirit.

She told him that they had just been in time to save the rational costume from an ignominious death, that they proposed to wear the costume on every possible occasion, in every kind of sport, walking and house duties, and that they believed it would be the dress of the future.

Notwithstanding his unfortunate experiences on the China Mr A. H. Nathan has resolved to again risk the possibilities of the Suez route, and leaves by the steamer of the 3rd August with one of his boys. The other remains at home in England.

Amongst the arrivals by the Gothic 1 note Mr and Mrs William Henderson, of Dunedin, who have taken rooms in Torrington Square pro tern., and Mr and Mrs Wm. Patrick. The latter have gone to Scotland to stay with friends. Mr James Smith, the well-known Dunedin solicitor, is also amongst us. He has quarters at present at the Junior Athenaeum Club.

Mr W. A. Money, of Christchurch, is in town for a fortnight. He went out to Newmarket last Tuesday to visit an old New Zealand friend and attend the July meeting there. After staying awhile with his people in Cambridge he purposes paying visits in the Eastern Counties, at Bury St. Edmands, Thetford, Chatteris, Isle of Ely. After returning to London he will go on to Devonshire. He expects to return to the colony about the middle of October.

Mr F. Cuming, of Fyfe and Cuming, Dunedin, is looking a great deal better than when he arrived, and his enjoyable trip via ’Frisco and sojourn on this side has quite restored his health. At Salt Lake City he was fortunate enough to witness the great Mormon festival, some forty thousand taking part in the celebration. Chicago and New York were revelations

Mr George Scott, of Christchurch, is very much better for his trip Home in the Rome, and when he looked in at the office was brisk and bright. He had just returned from Birmingham, where he spent two days examining the machinery at the Royal Agricultural Show. In cream separators he noticed a novelty or two, but in ranges, of which his firm makes a specialty, he found the British article much inferior in pattern and finish to the colonial, and strongly urged, but to little purpose, an old-fashioned Luton manufacturer to adopt the block and plate system, if he didn’t wish to be cut out altogether by his American competitor. The Show, by the way, was a failure this year, the attendance being very bad. After a week in Birmingham Mr Scott spent a week or so in Derby and Southport, and is now dividing his time between business and sight-seeing with his daughter in London, after a fortnight of which he intends touring in Scotland and crossing the continent to rejoin a P. and O. steamer at Brindist in September.

Mr F. Terry, of Tima.ni, has just arrived and has been staying at Barnett’s Hotel with Messrs Beswick and Studholme. I understand he is going into one of the hospitals to undergo an operation upon the kidneys.

to him. For the. last two months Mr Cuming has been hard at work buying for his firm with, I understand, considerable success. He is now taking a wTell-earned holiday in- Scotland, after which he contemplates visiting Yorkshire, Jersey, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland and Italy, and joining the Britannia at Port Said. Mr John Begg, of Dunedin, has just arrived on this side after a very pleasant trip in America. Leaving the Aorangi at Vancouver, he journeyed through Canada by the C.P.R., stopping en route at Banff. Crossing into the United States he visited St. Pauls, Minneapolis, New York and Chicago, in the last of which towns he spent twelve days. New York he found as gaily decorated with flags in honour of the war as if some gala day was being celebrated. At Coney Island be was almost bewildered by the high jinks that go on there. At Chicago he was much struck by the universality of cycling and the cheapness of machines, and he seized the opportunity' of buying a Columbia Chainless, which he found ran very smoothly. From New York he went to Detroit and Toronto, the Niagara Falls, and Montreal, and visited Lake Chaplin and Albany, journeyed down the rapids of St. Lawrence and back to New York down the Hudson River. On inspecting the second-class accommodation of several of the Atlantic liners he found it much inferior to that of the Aorangi, and accordingly crossed the herring pond in the Barbarossa. After a fortnight’s stay in London, Mr Begg proceeds north to his native haunts in Stirling and the Forth, where he intends to make the Columbia Chainless hum. He hopes to spend a few weeks on the Continent before returning by Suez in time to reach Dunedin for Christmas.

Mr John Holmes is fairly on his homeward way, but the inevitable interview and half column on New Zealand in the ‘Scotsman’ followed his arrival in Edinburgh, where he had a good time. He was one of the guests at -a lunch given by the corporation to a party of officers of the Austrian training- ship Donan, and his health was one of the toasts of the afternoon.

Captain Rochfort Snow has gone to stay with Sir Charles Doly-, Bart, at Blandford in Dorsetshire. Mr Joe Gould and Mr and Mrs Ottersoil had a. New Zealand party at Henley last week, their guests being Miss Williams of Dunedin, Miss Teschemaker and Mr H. J. Beswick. They rowed about the course and dined and had afternoon tea at ‘Clubland’. Other New Zealanders there were Mr ‘Fred’ Studholme, who is to undergo an operation upon his nose shortly after which he leaves for a holiday in Ireland, returning to the colony' in October, and Mr and Mrs Beaumont of Christchurch. Miss Edith Cooke, from the Hamner Plains, who had a delightful passage Home in the Waimate, is hard at work at the National Hospital, Queen’s Square, studying both the theory and practice of massage, and means to lake her certificate and visit her aunt at Jersey before her return to NewZealand in the autumn. She is stay-

ing at Bayswater with her friend, Miss Lettie Hassell, who I hear was singing at Lady Crossley’s At-Home a day or two ago, and with Mrs Tom Hall and Mr John Millton made up a theatre party on Wednesday for the Liebhart benefit performance. Miss Cooke had an amusing experience the other day. Gazing into a shop window wherein were displayed all the attractions of the summer sales, she observed two ragged little urchins approach, and remark, ‘She’s a new chum.’ Just then General Tom Thumb’s carriage proved the centre of attraction, and Miss Cooke rushed into the crowd. Her attention was rivetted on the dwarf, when she suddenly discovered that one of the urchins had snatched her purse from her hand. She pursued him hot foot, and, grabbing him with the strong arm of a masseuse, managed by allusions to a policeman to recover her purse. Since then she has invested in a patent attachment by which the purse is strapped to the hand. Lady ‘new chums’ please note. Mr Donald McKay, of Rangiora, is representing New Zealand at Bisley. Mr Rankin, salesman of Neil and Co., of Dunedin, arrived by the Gothic and has gone into the country to visit friends. His run Home is purely a pleasure trip.

Mr Beswick has been engaged on business for the last few days. He left on Thursday for Hull, whence he intends running over to Liverpool, returning to London in about three weeks’ time. Before his departure, he paid a visit to Bond-street to see the excellent portrait which Mr A. K. Bloxom has had painted for the money subscribed by the legal profession, and which will no doubt eventually hang in the Supreme Court Library at Christchurch.