NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 7, 17 August 1910, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, July 8. lady Islington left London this afternoon for Plymouth, there to join the s.s. iTurakina, which sails to-morrow for New Zealand. She is accompanied by her little daughter, the Hon. Joan DicksonPoynder, and her suite includes Miss Pauline Cotton (lady companion), a governess for the Hon. Joan, and Captain G. C. Hamilton, A.D.C. Extensive alterations and improvements have been carried out on board •the Turakina for the convenience of Lady Islington and party. The furnishing of her ladyship’s apartments has been done by Maple’s, in a deep pile Saxony carpet of pale grey tone. The furniture in these rooms is a reproduction in waxed mahogany, of Georgian furniture of the best period. The curtains are a pretty tone of blue jaspe silk. The sitting-room is similarly carpeted, and the tone of the hangings in this department is a beautiful shade of green. The furniture is of cane, light and graceful in appearance; and this, together with a comfortable-looking settee, is upholstered in one of the latest shadow cretonnes, forming a very dainty scheme of decoration. In the Hon. .loan Dickson- Poynder’s bedroom the tone of grey in the carpet is the same as that used in Lady Islington’s suite. Mrs. Asquith accompanied Lady Islington to Plymouth to-day to see her off for New Zealand. The Hon. Sir Wm. Hall-Jones was one of the guests at a dinner given by Mr. Buxton, M.P. (President of the Board of Trade) at the House of Commons on (Wednesday night. Sir James and Lady Mills, of Dunedin, were among those present at an “At Home ’ given last Saturday by Sir Trevor and Lady Dawson at their country residence, Edgwareburv House, Elstree, Herts. Mr. J. C. Field, of Gisborne, bought the first prize pen of Romney ewes at the Liverpool Show, and Mr. C. H. Rhodes, of Rangitikci, bought the second prize pen. They also bought several rams, making ten in all. and these are being shipped to New Zealand by the Turakina, which left London yesterday. All the Romneys have been bred by Messrs. Palmer and Lyle, the Kent breeders. Air. and Mrs. A. A. Smith, of Auckland, leave Antwerp to-day by the German liner Gneisenau on their return to New Zealand. They have visited Scotland, Ireland, and many parts of England. and Mr. Smith's health, for the sake of which he made the trip, has greatly improved. Eulogistic references were made to Miss A. Whitelaw, of Auckland, the new headmistress of Wycombe Abbey, at the Speech Day celebrations at that school. Miss Dove, the retiring head mistress, concluded her speech on the year’s work thus: — “Now let my last word be for Miss Whitelaw. She comes young and fresh, full of zeal and energy to the work, and with much experience or its requirements. 1 know she will receive a warm welcome, but let us also give her the sympathetic help that she will so sorely need; let us at least refrain from putting needless difficulties in her path. Miss Whitelaw is already thinking much of us; we, too, look hopefully to the future under her guidance.” The Rev. J. H. Skrine (late warden of Glenalmond) congratulates the staff of Wycombe Abbey school upon a piece of good fortune in being able to provide out of the bosom of tin* staff itself a successor to the great head mistress who was leaving. He thought that to Miss Dove it must be a very special happiness to think that one was coming after her whom she had done so much herself to form for the great task, and he was sure it would be a matter of great pride to the staff and their comrades to feel that they were able to give this rare proof of their help and loyalty, that not. only had they been able to servo the cause of that great school during the rule of Miss Dove, but that they were able to further extend that loyalty and help through her successor, to her in the future. The Rev. Dr. Burge, headmaster of Winchester, who is president of the Wycombe Abbey School Council, paid a high tribute to Miss Whitelaw’s character and abilities. Miss pove has been presented by the School with a house and garden; tho porch has been added and the terrace paved by the mistresses, and the garden planted with roses by the girls.-

Miss Hutton, of Takapuna, Auckland, and Miss E. S. Kemp, of Titparoa, are on a pleasure trip. They arrived on April 9. by the Malwa, intend returning to New Zealand, via America, about September or October. They have visited Liver pool, Wales, North Devon, and Stroud, and are now on their way to Scotland. Mr James Morton, of Auckland, who has been living in Uruguay and t hili for some years, arrived in London three weeks ago, and has since been over to Holland. Mr. Morton, after visiting Liverpool, Belfast and Scotland, sails next month for Auckland. Mr. Robert W. Gunson, of Auckland, arrived in London this week, v a America, where he has been spending the last six weeks. He proceeded yesterday to Scotland, and three weeks hence he will visit the Continent. Mr. Gunson proposes to leave for New Zealand, via Suez, in October, arriving home towards the end of the year. Captain H. \V. G. Burnet t-H itchcock, 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, has been noted for employment with the forces ot either the Commonwealth of Australia or the Dominion of New Zealand as a staff instructor. Captain Burnett -11 itchcock has served in the Royal Fusiliers for over eleven years, was promoted captain in 1904, and is now attached to the sth Battalion at Hounslow. He ■served on the staff in South Africa, and engaged in the operations in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony, and Cape Colony. An Anglo-New Zealand wedding was celebrated on June 29th, at the Wesleyan Chapel, Bowdon, by the Rev. J. Courtenay James, B.D. Mr. Norman Barker, second son of Air. and Mrs. John Lees Barker, of Bowdon, Cheshire, was married to Miss Rhoda Grace Bodie, younger daughter of Mr. and Airs. Frank Bodie, of Auckland, Now Zealand. News has been received of tho death on Saturday, at Srinagar, Kashmir, from cholera, of Captain Kynard Hawdon, of the 21st Cavalry (Daley’s Horse). Captain Hawdon was the hero of a remarkable journey to Quetta, via the Transcaspian Railway, Ashkabad, Aleshed, Seistan, and Nushki, his own account of which was published in the “Times” of April 26, 1905, under the title, “Overland to India in Thirty-seven Days.’’ Ho was the grandson of one of the earliest settlers and explorers of Australia, the late Mr. Joseph Hawdon. who in the early days pioneered the overland stock route from Sydney to Melbourne. and thence to Adelaide, and who afterwards sat in the New Zealand Legislature. Recent callers at the High Commissioner’s office: —Air. Wm. Dobbie (Christchurch), Air. N. R. Sanders (Christchurch). Air. Hugh Christie (Auckland), Thos. Empson (Auckland), Air., Airs. 11. K. and Miss E. Wilkinson (Dunedin), Surg.-Gen. Sherman (Marton), Air. and Airs. Wm. Dobbie (Hamilton). Air. and Airs. Thos. Field (Nelson). Air. J. Liddell Kelly (Wellington), Air. AL Clifton (Westport), R. J. Erskine (Westport), R. Al. Taylor (Shannon), Chas. E. Parkhouse (Auckland), Miss E. Kelsey (Auckland), Airs. W. D. Marks (Christchurch), Air. J. and Airs. Alann (Dunedin), Air. Herbert Cowell (Dunedin), Air. and Mrs. J. Hole (Timaru), Air. P. F. Egan (Auckland), Aliss Kathleen and Air. Henry K. Allison (Christchurch), Aliss Annie Amble (Christchurch), Air. and Airs. W. and Alisses Croft (Dunedin).