NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 4, 27 July 1910, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.! LONDON, June 17. Miss Christina Kirk, of Christchurch, is now in England on a pleasure trip, accompanied by a friend, Miss Rennie. Their present intention is to remain for some weeks in London, going, later on, to Scotland ami the Continent. Mr. Arthur Bayley Potter, who is a member of the Reform Club in London, intends leaving shortly for an extended tour in New Zealand, where he will probably spend a year. Mrs. Mathews, widow of the late Chief Forester in New Zealand, arrived in London this week from Wellington, on a visit to the Old Country . Messrs Sisson and Bromford, of Christchurch, who arrived this week by the Onirah, will spend about six weeks in England, and then visit America, returning to New Zealand via Vancouver. They are combining business with pleasure, and will be absent from the Dominion about six months. Mr. Percy C. Olliver, of Christchurch, left the Orient liner Otway at Naples, and spent three weeks on the Continent Before coming on to London. After seeing something of London, he will spend six or seven weeks in Wiltshire and Devon, and then visit Scotland. Mr. Olliver is combining business and pleasure, and will make an extended • stay in this country. Mr. George Watts, of Tirnaru, who arrived recently by the Otway, is revisiting the Old Country after 30 years’ absence. He went down to Oxfordshire to-day to see his birthplace. Mr. Watts is .on a. pleasure trip, extending over seven months. Mrs. Tooman, of Auckland, and her two daughters have been visiting Ireland and Scotland since their arrival on May 7 by the Mongolia. They will leave on Monday for the Continent, where they propose to spend a. month. They return to New Zealand, via Suez, about October. List of New Zealand visitors at the New' Zealand pavilion at the White City for the week ending June .18th:— Misses E. and F. Jones (Sumner), W. B. Warren (Tirnaru), Miss E. van Asch (Sumner), M. Hearne (Devonport), H. jW. Kennedy (Dunedin), Misses Colbeck i(Auckland), Miss'M. Davidson (Christchurch), E. R. Booth (Christchurch), Mr. ami Mrs. T. Kahn (Auckland), E. Young (Petone), Mrs. and Miss Livingstone (Fiji), W. .Smart (Denniston), Miss Vallance (Masterton), Miss N. ‘Bennett (Masterton), Miss Chalmers l(Wellington), F. and J. Dignan (Ashburton), G. and E. Yearbury (Wayby). O. 1. Pinnock (Towai), Mire M. Green Shields (Auckland), H. Rowe (Auckland), A. C. Tonkin (Auckland), H. T. B. Drew' (Wellington), A. E. West [(Dunedin), Mr., Mrs., and Miss Louis '(Auckland), Miss A. A. Hayhurst (Tomaka),Mrs F. Hayhurst (Christchurch), Mr., Mrs. and Misses Forrester (Dunedin), Mrs. and Miss Harvey (Dunedin), Miss May- Davidson (Kumara), Mies Mabel Churton (Auckland), H. Hibbs (Auckland), M. Goldingham (Palmerston North), Mr., Mrs. and Miss Upton ’(Auckland), Dr. J. M. Mason (Wellington), Mrs. H. Cooper (Waikato), Mr and Mrs. A. Rose (Oamaru), Mrs. and the Misses Tooman (Auckland), R. S. Macdonald (Wellington), K. R. Dennison (Oamaru), Mrs. Cornwall (New Plymouth), I. G. Skeet (New Plymouth), E. Hardwieke (Wanganui), Mr. F. and Miss R. Ford (Auckland), A. M. Thomson (New Plymouth), Mrs. and Miss Millar (Invercargill), A. W. Jaggers (Gisborne), Mrs. and Miss Ballantyne (Christchurch), Mrs. Haynes (Dunedin), Mrs. and Master Mill (Dunedin). Mr. and Mrs. Allport ' (Tuakau), ■F. \V. Maunsell (Masterton), G. Bennett (Hastings), F. Lancaster (Kaikoura), W. G. Prosser (Opawa), E. L.

Norman (Mangorei), C. D. Spence Hokitika), Mrs. D. McLennan (Christchurch), Mrs. J. Drew Morrison (Wellington), C. Kidson (Nelson), Geo. Page (Nelson), Miss Matthews (Hawke’s Bay), Dr. G. Ussher and Miss Ussher (Dunedin), Mr.’ and Mrs.’ F. Bates (Wellington), H. E. Windle (Palmerston North), J. McLaren (Reefton), V. J. Plummer (Auckland), H. Wilson (Stratford), E. G. Essex (Dunedin), J. Hall (Christchurch), Mrs. G. Rack (Devonport), T. Stone (Harewood), Mrs. C. Bennett (Hastings), R. Ellison (Rongotea), Mrs. A. J. Houghton, Rev. T. Fla veil (Christchurch), A. W. Manning ( Wellington), Mrs. Anderson (Tapanui), Miss M. T. Symon (Auckland), P. C. Olliver (Christchurch), G. Watt (Timaru), A. E. Mabin (Wellington), P. Adams (Nelson), W. A. Adams (Tipapa), J. Knight (Auckland).

Colonel and Mrs. R. Snow’, of Christchurch, and their family have settled down in rooms at Kensington, and are seeing everything they can. One day recently Colonel Snow’ and his eldest daughter journeyed to Colchester for the purpose of visiting his cousin, MajorGeneral T. D’Oyley Snow’, who commands the Military District. Among the regiments they visited during the afternoon was the Northamptonshire Regiment, which bears the proud sobriquet of “The Heroes of Talavera.” The 2ml Battalion, the 58th, served in New Zealand during the Maori wars. The commanding officer showed Col. Snow some paintings of Maori chiefs who were prominent in those days and a most valuable old book published in 1858, giving a history of New Zealand, to which are attached many good sketches of Auckland and Wellington in those old days. Col. Snow was also shown an account of the ceremony of removing the colours of the 58th from the Supreme Court to the Art Gallery in Auckland, an event in which all the officers were greatly interested. Captain Russell, son of Sir William Russell, of Napier, serves in this Regiment. Mr. H. T. B. Drew, of Wellington, has an article in the “Morning Leader” of June 14th on “Land Valuation: How New Zealand Solved the Problem.” “The directions which are laid down in the British Budget,” say’s Mr. Drew, “suggest that, in essential particulars,, at least, the system to be adopted here will follow closely the one in operation in New Zealand.” Mrs F. M. Young, of Winchester, Canterbury’, arrived in London by’ the Otway on May 28th, via Suez, on a pleasure trip, and, after spending a fortnight in and around the city, has gone to stay in Essex, whence she goes to-Wales, Liverpool, Scotland and Ireland, returning to London later for a few weeks before setting out for the Continent. Mrs Young will probably return to New’ Zealand at the end of the year. Mr and Mrs Edwin T. Taylor, of Wellington, who arrived by the Otway on May’ 28th, are staying in London at present, but intend leaving shortly for White Hall, the residence of Miss Taylor, at Sydnstone, Norfolk, where they will stay for a. few days, and then return to London. On Ist July they propose journeying to Scotland, first to Glasgow to interview business connections, and subsequently Edinburgh and other centres. Afterwards they proceed to Ireland They intend to return to New Zealand via Australia by the Orontes on September 2, embarking at Naples.

Captain P. Palleson, of Tirnaru, is at present in this country with his wife and daughter for a trip of business and pleasure combined. Before coming to England the visitors spent some .little time in Denmark where, on May 29th and the two following days. Captain Palleson’s sister celebrated her silver wedding. From London the New’ Zealanders go to Manchester, Waterford, Liverpool, Leicester, Scotland, Norway and Sweden, finishing their trip with a second visit to Denmark. They leave for New Zealand by’ the Otway on October 14th. Mr W. Cecil Leys, of Auckland, is travelling overland from China to Moscow, by the Trans-Siberian railway, and is due in London at the beginning of July. He spent a month in Japan, and after a glimpse at Korea and Southern Manchuria, went on to Pekin, and stayed a week in that most fascinating of eastern cities. A trip some hundreds of miles inland to Hankow followed, after which Mr Leys went down the Yangtse river to Shanghai, and from there went north to join the Siberian express. Mr and Mrs James Forrest, of Auckland, arrived in London by the Morea, on a holiday trip, and intend visiting Jersey, Cornwall, and Ireland, while on this side of the world.