NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 6, 10 August 1910, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, July 1. Air W. P. Fitzgerald, of Roseneath, Wellington, who arrived by the German liner Gneisena, on July 7, is combining business and pleasure. He leaves next His Excellency Lord Islington has acthe position of patron of the Auckland Orphans’ Club. Air. R. S. Reynolds, of the Auckland Customs, was a passenger for the South by the Rarawa on Sunday. The death is reported in Timaru of a Crimean and Indian veteran named Air. Charles Massey. He saw much service, and went to Timaru forty-two years ago, having then been eight years in New Zealand. Air. Hugh APLeod. of the Union Company's Wellington wharf staff, was last Thursday afternoon presented with several handsome wedding presents by the company’s wharf and officers of the coastal steamers. week for Edinburgh and Glasgow, and afterwards will visit relations in Ireland. Later he will visit Paris and Brussels, and leave for New Zealand by the Bremen. on October 2. Mr Leishman Ruuciman ami his sister, Airs Haydon, of Buenos Aires, have been visiting London and Scotland, en route to New Zealand. . They will leave for A lick hi nd to-morrow, on a visit to their parents, the Rev. D. W. and Mrs Runciman, and will travel via America, joining the Mara ma at Vancouver. Mr Maurice Wyatt, of New Brighton, 'Chiistchurch, who arrived at Avonmouth on June 22. by the Cornwall, intends remaining in England until October, and is due back in New Zealand about Xmas. He is on a holiday trip, and intends to see as much of England as possible.

waite, of Dunedin) has been engaged by the Bristol Choral Society for “The Creation” this year—she sang at the •Mendelssohn Centenary Night in “The Hymn of Praise,” for that society. Air A. Bland, of Christchurch, arrived at Avonmouth on June 22, by the Cornwall, on a six weeks’ visit to the Old (Jountry. He is on a pleasure trip, taking a run over to Canada before returning to New Zealand, via Suez. He expects to arrive in time for Xmas. Air. and Mrs. Alex. Gillies, of Dunedin, and Miss L. Gillies, who arrived by the Aforea on June 4, with the intention of making a lengthy stay on business combined with pleasure, have had to alter their plans and cut short their tour. On arriving in London, Air. Gillies received cable news of the death of his eldest daughter, and he has in consequence arranged to leave for New Zealand to-day by the steamer in which he came to England. During his brief stay in this country, Air. Gillies spent a week with his brother in Glasgow, and also visited his birthplace in Dumbarton. Air. and Airs. Stewart Alonteith and Aiks Monteith, of Reefton, travelled by •the Orvieto to Alanseilles ami came to London by way of Paris, where they spent some days. They now’ intend touring through Ireland and Scotland, and will afterwards spend some time in London before returning home by the direct route at the end of the year. Mr. Fred. Smith, manager of the Dunedin Savings Bank, and Mr. Edmund Srniith, his son, who is a solicitor in Bum din, arrived in London on June 27th after a most enjoyable trip through Canada. and the United States. Mr. E. Smith ha<6 a little legal business to transact in London, but the itrip is principally one of pleasure. After a fortnight or so in th? metropolis, they purpose touring Scotland, and possibly Ireland. Then after returning to London, they will spend a month on th? Continent, and join the Otranto at Naples on Bth October, arriving back in Dunedin about the middle of November. Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Alcßae. of Dunedin, arrived in this country by the 'l’urakina, and are now staying in Lochalsh (X. 8. for a few weeks as a preliminary to a ramble through Scotland. They return to New Zealand in a few mouths’ time by one of the N.Z. Shipping Co.’s steamers. Air. and Airs. W. Parker, of Wellington, arrived in England some little time ago, and are shortly going to Scotland for a visit. Air. Parker is intent on gaining further practical experience in optical work. Air. and Mrs. A. Webster, of ITawera, left the Orsova at Naples and travelled through Italy. Switzerland, Germany, and Holland, arriving in London on June 17. They thoroughly enjoyed their trip across the Continent, especially through the Italian and Swiss Lake country and across the St. Gothard. They are taking the trip mainly for pleasure. At the same time, as Air. Webster is connected with the Bank of New South Wales in New' Zealand, he is keenly interested in the way banking business is conducted on this side, and hopes to get a fair insight before his return. Theii' present intention is to go to Scotland, probably next week, visiting Edinburgh and Glasgow and other places of interest, and later on to Paris and possibly the Channel Islands. They have booked return passages by the Orsova. leaving Alarseilles January 12. for as far as Colombo, and from there by the Otranto on February 11, to Sydney, en route for New’ Zealand. Lady Islington will take her departure for New Zealand by the s.s. Turakina, which leaves England on July 9. She has engaged a suite of cabins, which are being specially decorated for her ladyship by Alapie’s. In order that she may have fresh milk on the voyage, Lady Islington is taking with her a cow from one of her husband’s Wiltshire estates, and one of the grooms who are going out by that vessel has been told oil to look after the animal. He is now' taking lessons in milking! A number of Pekinese spaniels will accompany her ladyship to New Zealand. These valuable little animals are a breed which, so far as I know’, have not yet been introduced into the Dominion. They were first brought to England from China after the advance of the Allies upon Pekin at the time of the Legation riots some years ago, ami they are now very popular as pets in the West End. Some valuable old furniture, specially selected in London by Lady Islington, is included in her baggage, and some halfdozen of the servants for Government House, including a chauffeur, a garden-

er, aud two grooms, are going out by th 6 Turakina. In all a staff of 28 servants will go to New Zealand.

Lady Islington had the honour of being received by the King and Queen on Alonday, and remained to luncheon. Queen Alexandra received Captaiii Scott, of the British Antarctic Expedition, at Buckingham Palace on Saturday, and expressed her deep interest irt the forthcoming Antarctic expedition. Her Alajesty presented Captaiit Scott with a Union Jack to be cairreA with the expedition, and to be planted at the most southerly point reached. The appointment of Lord Islington aS Governor of New Zealand was referred to on Speech Day at Harrow yesterday; at the headmaster’s luncheon. Dr. Wood-, the retiring headmaster, in responding to the toast of “ The School,” said the government of the whole world seemed to be gradually passing into the of Harrow men. The Colonial Secretary, the Earl of Crewe, was a Harrow man, and so was Colonel Seely, Under-Secre-tary for the Colonies. The Viceroyelect of India was a Harrow man, andthe Governor-General of Canada and thd Governor of New Zealand were also Harrow’ men. So might it always be, and it ought to be, added Dr. Wood amid cheers. The Hon. Sir William Hall-Jones*, K.C.AI.G., High Commissioner for New Zealand, presiding at a meeting of tho Institute of Marine Engineers, held ori Saturday afternoon at the Garden ( lub, Japan-British Exhibition, said that in New- Zealand their only trouble was that they were so far from the heart of the Empire. In this matter the Alarine Engineers bad been of immense service to them. When ho first went to the country it took him just 100 days in a sailing ship, and many of the ships took 120, 130 or 140 days. But with the assistance or the marine engineers and improvements in machinery, they could rely upon their steamers getting from London or Plymouth to the New Zealand ports in six weeks. He wanted further to shorten the distance between this country and New' Zealand. There was a lot of talk of an “ All Red route” for the Empire, and that was. generally spoken of as a service running from Britain to Canada, right across Canada and thence from, A r ancouver to New Zealand and Australia. He, however, desired to see the? boats which travelled direct from this country to New Zealand travelling at a much higher speed. Air W. Cecil Leys, of Auckland, arrived in Berlin yesterday from Japan, via Siberia and Moscow, and is due in London on July 12. Sir James Alills, of Dunedin, arrived in London by the “Empress of Ireland” recently, having visited San Francisco, Alontreal, Ottawa, and Vancouver, on his way over from New Zealand. His plans, at present, are somewhat indefinite, but he has taken a house at 21, Ilans Place, where Lady Alills and Miss Geraldine Mills are also staying. Air Carl Klette, late Acting-Consul for Austria-Hungary, in Auckland, lias arrived in England, after an interesting trip in South America. Mr Klette intends to stay some time in London, later visiting Paris, Antwerp, Cologne, Mayence, Nurenburg, Prague, and the exhibition in Brussels. Mr J. Afontaine, of Aloungatnroto, is revisiting England after 30 years’ absence. He will visit Scotland, see the Dublin Horse Show, tour the English provinces, and have a look at France, returning to New Zealand about October or a little earlier. On the 25th inst., the Rev. H. Darwin Burton, vicar designate of St. Michael's, Christchurch, was married to Miss Lilian Toulmin, daughter of Mr IL J. Toulmin, of “The Pre,’’ St. Albans. Tim ceremony took place at St. Alichael’s Church, St. Albans, and the Rev. Lord Victor Seymour officiated, assisted by the Right Rev. Bishop Gaul and the Rev. L. S’. Westall. Air P. A. Brett returned to London this week by the direct route from New Zealand, where he has been on a visit to his relatives in Auckland. At Plymouth, Air Brett was met with the sad news oE the death of his mother, Mrs R. B. Brett, which had taken place only a week before his arrival in England.