PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIII, Issue II, 9 July 1904, Page 47

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(From Our Special Correspondent.)

LONDON, May 27. Air and Mis Richard A. Carr, of Auckland, who arrived in London on the 21st May, after an exceptionally tine voyage in the I*. and O. steamer Mongolia, are staying at 'lulse Hill l ark. Early in June they leave for a visit to relatives in Ireland, and on their return journey to London will probably spend a short time at the English and Scottish lakes.

Mr ami Mrs J. IL Dalton, of Auckland, have arrived in London. They bail a splendid voyage from Sydney and line weather continued to favour theni in their trip across the Continent to Lugland. From Auckland to London, says .Mr Dalton, they did not have half a dozen hours of rain, a record which dwellers in this country at least can only contemplate with envy. Air Dalton intends remaining about three months in the Old World, visiting Scotland and the Continent, and the return vovage to New Zealand will then be made via America, where a visit to St. Louis Exhibition will form part of the programme. Air Dalton’s trip is chiefly one of pleasure, but he is also taking the opportunity to study the latest developments in machinery in connection with his business.

Air Joseph Evans and Airs Evans, of Awanui, were among the passengers for London by the lonic, which reached Tilbury last week. Air Evans is on a pleasure trip, but he was hoping also to do some business while in London in connection with the kauri gum trade. He finds, however, that the London gum market is in “a very bad state,” to use his own words, and there is no business to be done. He and his wife will visit friends in Afiddleborough, and on their way back to London will spend a few days in Staffordshire. They leave for New Zealand about the end of June, travelling via Suez. This visit, by the way, is the first Air Evans has paid to the Old Country since he left here for New Zealand forty years ago.

Callers at the N.Z. Government offices were again fairly numerous this week. The following Auckland arrivals from the colony registered their names in the visitors’ book: —Messrs. John A. Skinner and E. Sutherland (Onehsmga), Alessrs. 11. E. AlcKeever- and G. 11. Bray, Air and Airs J. 11. Dalton, Air W. S. Dalton, Air John Savage, and Atiss Savage, Air H. Pentland Norton, Air Julius AV. Williamson, Air 11. B. Alorton, Air G. A. Alorton, Aliss Florence E. Cranwell. Air Robert Cranwell, Air R. Alartin, Air E. V. Senn.

Among the recent arrivals in London from the colony were Air. John Savage, of Auckland, and his daughter. They both speak highly of their experiences on the White Star liner Aledie, by which steamer they travelled to the Oid Country. Air. Savage was somewhat unwell during the early part of the trip, but recovered before the white cliffs of Old England came into view, and he is now feeling very much better for the change of air and scene. He proposes to stay in Europe till the end of the year, but has made, no definite plans as yet fulfilling in the time ’twixt now and then. For the present he is staying with his brother in Tavistock Square, but proposes next week to retire for a time to Haslemere, a pretty hamlet in Surrey much favoured as a summer residential locality by literary and professional folk.

Air. IL Pentlaud Norton, of Auckland, who arrived here via New York at the beginning of the month, spent three weeks in America, and since landing at Liverpool has visited Edinburgh, Kirkcaldy, and Dundee in Scotland, and also Wolverhampton and Birmingham. He spent the Whitsuntide holidays nt Dorking, in Surrey, but came up to London last Monday to see the annual carthorse parade in Regent’s Park, a competition in which over a thousand horses took part this year. Air. Norton is leaving shortly for a trip to the West Coast of Scotland, and on his return will visit relatives in Bucks and Kent. At present the date of his departure for New Zealand is uncertain.

. Mr. A. F. Blakiston, of Auckland, arrived by the lonic last week. Like a number of his fellow-passengers, Air. Blakiston has come Home to improve his health by a sea-voyage, and to revive old memories by a visit to the scenes of his youth. He is a colonist of 52 years’ standing, having arrived at Melbourne just at the time of the discovery of gold. A few weeks at the diggings sufficed for an inexperienced “new chuin,” and as New Zealand seemed to hold out the promise of a more congenial life and climate, Air. Blakiston sought its shores. After a short stay in New Zealand he came Home to make final arrangements for settling down in the Canterbury settlement, then about two years old. A second visit to the Old Country was made about 20 years later, and now, after another interval of 30 years, Air. Blakiston finds himself again in the Motherland, having travelled hither by the lonic. His tour will take him chiefly to the Southern and Midland Counties, with a run over to Ireland. “What has impressed me so far,” ho says, “is the wonderful improvements which have been effected in London since my last visit. The sylvan beauty of the country, too, is very charming.” Air. Blakiston’s intention is to return to New Zeaalnd before the cold weather sets in, but by what route he has not yet decided.

LONDON, June -1. Mr. and Mrs. Trounson, Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore, and Mrs. W If. Smith, all of Auckland, are visiting the Old Country. They travelled by the German liner Gneisenau, leaving the vessel at Naples, and spending a month on the Continent before crossing over to England. They will stay two or three months in this country, and Mrs. Smith and her two sisters (Mrs. Trounson and Mrs. Gilmore) intend making a pilgrimage to their family’s old home near Belfast.

Air. Alexander Alacintosh, the general manager of the Bank of New Zealand, travelled Home by the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Ruapehu, which reached Plymouth this week. On inquiry at the Bank last evening I was informed that Air. Alacintosh was spending a few days at Plymouth, and would not come up to town until next week. Air. William Burton, the manager of the Suva branch of the bank, leaves London this week for America, having decided to travel back to Fiji via Vancouver.

Callers at the Agent-General’s Offices in Victoria-street this week included the following Aucklanders: Air John Andrews, Air Wm. Aforgan, Air Henry E. Alay. Air AV. Butler, Air T. AlcMaster, Air If. C. Choyce.

Air J. R. Alartin, of Alt. Albert, Auckland, was one of the numerous New Zealanders who came Home by the A-longolia on her last voyage, reaching London on Afay 14th. After a spell of sight-seeing in the metropolis, and a visit to Epsom for the Derby on Wednesday last, Air Alartin left for Ireland, where he intends to spend some time with his uncle. On his return to England he will have some shooting with a friend in Yorkshire, and he expects to leave again for New Zealand about October 14th.

Air T. Ale Alaster. of Auckland, has returned to London from a four weeks’ tour of Ireland and Scotland. On the way back he stopped at Bradford to see the exhibition of textile fabrics now open in that city. Air Ale Alaster hopes to spend another couple of months here, leaving for New Zealand in August.

Amongst the New Zealanders in London just now are a party of four from Onehunga—Air E. Sutherland (the wellknown representative footballer ami athlete) and Alessrs G. Bray, J. Skinner and A. AlcKeever. They travelled Home via Suez by the Orizaba, and have had about a fortnight in the metropolis, seeing the various sights. On Wednesday they braved the thunderstorm aird went to the Derby-, and although they failed to back the winner, they got very near it, their selection, John o’Gaunt, running second. In about a week’s time the party purpose setting out on a cycle tour through England, in order to see something of the country. They will probably go as far North as Glasgow, and then return to Liverpool to take ship for New York; but this is not

yet settled. They expect to bo away from New Zealand for about nine months altogether.

Air E. V. Senn, chief clerk of the General Post Office at Auckland, arrived at Plymouth on 22nd Atay by the s.s. Aledie, and after a short sojourn there, at Exeter and London, is now visiting relations at Carlisle. Thence he proceeds to Paris, Switzerland and Italy, returning to the colony via the United States, where, if time permits, he will visit the St. Louis Exhibition. As his health is fully restored, the visit to his old haunts in Switzerland after an absence of over 28 years should prove specially enjoyable.

Air 11. B. Alorton, of Auckland, is enjoying a pleasure trip to the Old Country- with his wife and family. They came Home by the Gothic in March, and after a three weeks' stay in Cornwall came on to London, where another three weeks have been spent. Last Saturday they left for- Cambridge, ami later hope to visit the Continent. Air Morton intends staying in England until towards the end of the year.

Air Robert Cranwell, of Henderson, Auckland, v hose arrival with bis son and daughter I recorded last week, is re-visiting his native land after an absence of 42 years, and lias, so he says, received a most genial welcome from friends old and new. After a short run on the Continent the party will visit, friends in Lincolnshire, the-north of England, and Edinburgh, returning to New Zealand by way of America before Christmas. Air Cranwell, jun., has purchased a motor-car in London, .which he will take back to the colony with him, and which he may use in the meantime in touring through this country.