NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 15, 13 April 1910, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, March 4. Air. and Mrs. Lionel Paget, of Wellington. who arrived in July last on a year’s trip abroad, on account of Mrs. Paget's health, are at present staying at Rothley. Mrs. Paget is.. ; progressing slowly after a long illness in Glasgow. The date of their return to New Zealand is at present quite indefinite. Mr. W. Lancelot Moore, of Christchurch. is expecting to be sent out to New Zealand shortly to represent his firm. Messrs. Boving and Co.. Water Power Engineers, and will probably leave London about July. Mr. Moore has been away from New Zealand about three and a half years, the greater part of which time he has spent in Scotland. Norway and Sweden, making a special study of water power developments and turbine machinery. "The latter country is by far the most interesting from a hydraulic engineer’s point of view,” he told me, “on account of the tremendous development which has taken place in the last few years in low pressure water power schemes. There is hardly a stream or river in the whole country which has not worked some sort of mill or factory, while every village of more than about 400 or 500 inhabitants has its electric light from the same

source.” While in Sweden Mr. Moore was connected with the largest firm of turbine makers in the country, and spent some time at the Trollhattan Falls, where they are erecting several turbines of 12,500 horse-power each for the State railways. Mrs. Tabor Frost, daughter r.r Colonel Stanhope, of Nelson, New Zealand, was presented at Court on Friday night by Mrs. Asquith, the Prime Minister’s wife. Mrs. Cecil Jones, of Wellington, has arrived from the Dominion and gone to Scotland on a visit t'o relations. Mrs. Govier, of Waitonio, has arrived in this country, and is staying at present at Ascot.

Recent callers at the High Commissioner’s office:—Mr. G. A. Stent (Nelson), .Mrs. Cecil Jones (Wellington), Mr. W. Lancelot Mone (Christchurch), Mr. A. Ross (Foxton), Mrs. L. and Miss L Desborough (Christchurch), Mr. T. D’Arcy Hamilton (Kawhia), Mrs. Govier (Waitomo Cres.). A venerable clergyman who has relatives of the same name living in various parts of New Zealand, has just died in the Rev. Raymond Blathwayt, vicar of Christ Church, Totland (Bay, Isle of Wight. He was the father of Mr. Raymond Blathwayt, the author and journalist. Deceased was ninety-two years of age.

Mr. J. Hemmingway, barrister, of Auckland, has recently arrived in Lon-

don. Although he is on a holiday trip, as the result of a breakdown in health, the lectures at the London School of Economics have attracted him as a new way of spending some of his time while in London. The Shaw Savill liner Atlienic left London to-day for New Zealand, via the Cape, with the following saloon passengers: —Mr. R. de Ascanio, Miss A. Hall, Mr. M. Herapath, Mrs. Herapath, Mrs. F. M. Izard, Mr. G. G. Kirke, Miss Nelson, Mr. R. Nelson, Mr. W. Oliver, Mr. A. K. Shiells, Mr. A. D. Thorpe, Mrs, Thorpe, Miss M. Thorpe, Mr. S. Turner, Mrs. M. Alexander, Miss E. Andrews, Mr. A. B. Arney, Mr. A. B. Boyd, Mrs. Boyd, Mr. E. Cruttenden, Mr. D. H. Goddard, Miss M. A. Heighten, Miss A. J. Holmes, Mr. H. Horn, Miss C. Johnstone, Mr. A. Knight, Mr. E. F. Levy, Mrs. Levy, Miss I. Mackenzie, Mr. L. V. Marchant, Mr. J. McDougall, Mr. G. Nordstrom, Mrs. M. Nordstrom, Mr. H. J. Palmer. Mr. S. A. Frobyn, Mrs. J. L. Smith, Miss J. L. Smith, Mr. T. P. Somerville, Mrs. Somerville, Mr. P. Somerville, Miss L. M. Sterling, Miss L. E. Trendall, Mr. G. W. Trendall, Mr. A. Whyte, Mr. A. Wilson, and 180 third-class. A solemn Dirge and Requiem was sung at St. Augustine’s Abbey Church, Ramsgate, on Tuesday last, March 1, in memory of the late Dr. Lenihan, Bishop of Auckland, wiio was a former pupil of St. Augustine’s College, Ramsgate, and a fellow student of the present Abbot and President of the College, the Right Reverend Abbot Egan, who presided at the funtion, and, in full pontificals, gave the final absolutions.

There was a large congregation present (college boys and staff as well), many of whom knew Dr. Lenihan personally, and the music of ths Requiem was sung by the Benedictine Fathers, who had assembled in force for the ceremony.

It was this community of Ramsgate that had supplied the Auckland diocese with many missionaries, and a bishop in the person of the Right Rev. Dr. Lucls The celebrant of the Mass was the Very Rev. Dr. Egan, 0.5.8., elder brother of the Abbot, assisted by the Revs. Anselm Fox and Adalbert AmandofinV 0.5.8., all of whom had worked for several vears in the Auckland diocese.