NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIII, Issue 14, 6 October 1909, Page 10

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, August 27. Sir Joseph Ward’s departure furnished a good instance of the wonders of wireless telegraphy. The New Zealand (Premier sailed from Liverpool on Saturday, and four days later three wireless messages sent by him from midocean reached the High Commissioner’s Office, with instructions to reply by wireless. Air. J. Cunninghame, of Palmerston North, has been revisiting the Old Country after 25 years’ absence, and leaves again to-day for New Zealand, via Quebec and Vancouver. He expects to reach home before Christmas. After his arrivel here in May, Mr. Cunninghame spent some weeks in Londonderry with his sister, Mrs. Maxwell. He put in four pleasant days in Dublin with Mr. Carty, J.P., uncle of Mr. R. Carty, of Palmerston North. He also visited several seaside resorts on the English coasts. In London, which he made his headquarters, Mr. Cunninghame found New Zealand was in the forefront with business men, and business generally appeared to be on the up grade. Apropos of Air. Cunninghame’s visit, 1 hear from a reliable source that he is engaged to be married to a young lady belonging to a well-known Bristol family.

Air. Adam Werner, of Ellesmere, who was in London this week, has been revisiting his native Germany after an ab sence of 34 years, spent in New Zealand. He was accorded a great reception at Weissenfels, his birthplace, ■where his mother, five brothers, and a sister are still living. Air. Werner found (his family all well, and had many visits to pay among old friends. While on his holiday, Air. Werner is looking out for oil motor tractors for agricultural purposes, and this quest has taken him to all the principal makers in Germany and England. He has traversed England from north to south, but says he has not found any place better than the Ellesmere district in Canterbury. Mr. Werner will leave next month on his return to New Zealand, blit has not yet decided by what route. Air. 11. Percy Brown, of Feilding, who arrived by the Rimutaka a month ago with his wife and child, after an absence of seven years, intends remaining for at least two years, as he has a good appointment in London. Since his arrival Air. Brown has visited Yarmouth end the Norfolk Broads, and at present he is staying with his people at Cambridge, but expects to take up house in Kensington in a few weeks* time. Mr. W. S. Wells, of Manaia, travelled to England by the. Orient boat Ortona, arriving on August 6th. His object in coming was to see his only sister, after an absence of 30 years, and also to learn all he could as to the way New Zealand produce is handled in London. “I have,” he said, “learned several things which I think will be of groat use to us in the Dominion. I must say that I find all the great London houses most willing to show and tell me everything I wish to know, and I also received the greatest courtesy at our Bank of New Zealand, and the High Commissioner’s Office, where they were able to give me much information.” Mr Wells proposes going through the Midlands to Yorkshire, an' on to Renfrew, Glasgow, and Paisley, where the New Plymouth Harbour Board are having a new dredger built. He then proceeds to Bristol to gain some knowledge of New Zealand trade in that port. He will return via Suez by- the «.s. Otway, leaving on the 29th October.

Air. and Mrs. W. Wills and Air. and Mrs. P. Wills, of Wellington, have just concluded a motor tour of Devon and Cornwall. They intend returning to New Zealand by the lonic, leaving here September 18 th. They have enjoyed a visit to Scotland and the North of England, and will make a short stay in London and Darlington before sailing. Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Walkley, of JTawera, who arrived on June 12th by the s.s. Oratava (Orient Line), are on a pleasure trip, and so far they have spent their time in and about London. They propose to begin next week a tour in Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and the North of England. Afr. G. Jameson., of Christchurch, came to England via Fiji, Honolulu, and Canada (Vancouver to Quebec), breaking the journey across Canada at Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec,

aud reached Liverpool a week ago (20th August), coming on to London the same evening by special train. He is now staying at the Thackeray Hotel, Great Russell-street, but has arranged to go with Colonel Hay-hurst and party for a week’s motoring in the South. His stay in the Old Country will bn limited to about two months.

Mr. K. England, of Christchurch, who arrived by the Nairnshire a fortnight ago, proposes to spend some 18 months in thia country to have a look round in the engineering world. He will spend part of his time in London and part in the Alidlands.