NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIII, Issue 20, 17 November 1909, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) October 8. The Very Rev. Dean Harper, of Christchurch, has arrived in London on a visit to the Old Country. The Dean is on six months’ leave of absence for bis health, having suffered, I understand, from insomnia. He spent three months in Canada on the way to London, and the trip has c(»ne him a great deal of good. The remaining three Tiioirbbl* of his holiday will be spent in the United Kingdom. Last Saturday Dean Harper paid a visit to the New Zealand Pavilion at the White City, awonqvanied by his nephew, Mr. C. H. Tripp, and Mrs. Tripp, of Timaru. Mrs. Gore Martin, of Christchurch, who arrived here last June on a health trip, han visited Scotland, Ireland, and the South of England. She will spend the winter in thia country, and remain until early next summer. Dr. Chapple, of Wellington, has gone to Huntley, in Scotland, to-day, to give a lecture on New Zealand. Dr. and Mrs. Morice, of Greymouth, since their return to London from the Continent, have taken up residence at

their old quarter* in St. James’s Court, B'Kkiugham Gate. They intend remaining iu England til! January next. Mr. and Mrs. Mill ward left London last Monday, October 4, for a trip to the Continent, prior to returning to New Zealand. They will join an outwardbound Orient steamer at Naples. Mr. R. E. Hall, of Christchurch, who is studying medicine at Middlci-ex Hospital, intends giving a lecture on “New Zealand” in Sunderland, and the High Commissioner’s Department is lending lantern-slides for the occasion. Mr. O. D. Ormandy, of Christchurch, who has spent the past six years in England to gain experience in bookbinding, delivers the following crushing indictment of English football: “I have come to the conclusion that Rugby football in this country is. only a farce, played by a class that are as soft as putty, and think more of their appear ance than of giving a good shove in the scrum.” Mr. Acton-Adams, after convalescing at Llandrindod Wells for three weeks after bis recent illness, motored back to his country house and residence. Redwood, Kenley, Surrey, where he has since been entertaining a series of house parties, including several New Zealand friends and Mons, de Rustafjaell. the distinguished Egyptologist. Mr. ActonAdams has made Redwood a very pretty place, and is “At Home” to his friends every Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Stewart, of Stratford, and her two daughters, are returning to New Zealand after an extended visit to the Old Country, where the Misses Stewart have been continuing their education. They will leave London by the Corinthic on November 11. Mr. and Miss Riley, of Haw’era, and Mrs. G. Oxley, of Auckland, will be passengers by the same vessel. Mrs. C. M. Brooke, a well-known favourite of Christchurch concert-goers, has

recently arrived here from America, and will stay in England for a few weeks. She has been engaged to sing at Leeds and Hunstanton, and afterwards she will probably return to America, where she won golden opinions on the occasion of her last visit, and where American managers are trying to induce her to go on the vaudeville stage. This, however, she has not undertaken to do. It will be remembered that Mrs. Brooke was a pupil of M:idame Mathilde Marches!, Signor Visetti and Signor de Giorgio. The eldest daughter of Colonel Denny, head of the shipbuilding firm which has constructed so many steamers for New Zealand, was married this week at Dumbarton to Captain W. M. K. Marshall, the Gordon Highlanders. Colonel Denny gave his daughter (Miss Violet Denny) away. She was married in a gown of white mousseline de soie, trimmed with antique Honiton lace, with a tulle veil covering a wreath of orange blossom and white heather in her hair. She was followed by two pages in picturesque Charles I. costumes, and five bridesmaids—the Misses Ruth and Jean Denny (her sisters), Miss Eileen Denny, Miss Phyllis Berry and Miss Kathleen Anson—who wore pale blue satin, trimmed with silver embroidery and touches of black, with large black panne hats, ornamented with blue wings. The bride’s going-away dress was of blue faced cloth, trimmed with black satin and braided in Oriental colours, and a large black beaver hat. Miss Beatrice Cartwright and her sister, Miss C. Cartwright, of Pleasant Point, Canterbury, are on a pleasure trip to the Old Country. Leaving Auckland early in June, they travelled to Vancouver, and thence via Chicago to New York, and so to Liverpool, crossing the Atlantic in the Lusitania, and arriving here on August 4. They have since visited various parts of Ireland and England, and at present are staying at Walkern, Stavenage, with Mr. and Mrs. Seowen, formerly of Pleasant Point, N.Z. From there they will go to Scotland, and they intend remaining in the British Isles until after the New Year. They will spend a short holiday in Paris before returning to Hew Zealand, via Suez.