NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 14, 5 October 1910, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

LONDON, August 26. We are now in the full flush of the holiday season, and it might be said of the drowning season also. Every day produces its own crop of seaside bathing and boating fatalities, and, praise be its (record, of plucky rescues. One of these stands to the credit of a New Zealander, Mr. Pani Paora, the adopted son of Mr. Phamberlin Chamberlin, erstwhile of Dunedin, but now residing at St. Ives, Who distinguished himself last Thursday by the gallant rescue of a visitor to that most favoured Cornish resort. Mr. Broomhall, a Liverpool merchant, and his son went bathing from the rocks between Clodgy and Carthew Points, a place rarely used by bathers on account pf the risks attached to starting from the spot. They swam out and tried to round Carthew' Point. The younger man did so safely, but landed quite exhausted on Porthmeor Beach, but his father was not so fortunate, for when he had still i>ver a hundred yards to swim, his strength gave out, and he was in great danger of drowning. Two visitors noticed liis parlous plight, and ran for the lifebuoy which is kept near at hand ready for emergencies. They heaved it out towards the swimmer, but it only went a few yards. By this time a crowd had gathered, but the only man to make an effort at rescue was Mr. Pani Paora. He had been bathing, and was dressing on the rocks when his attention was called io Mr. Broomhall’s plight. The young New Zealander grasped the life-buoy, plunged into the sea and swam out to the drowning man. With powerful strokes he soon reached Mr. Broomhall, and gave him the lifebuoy, whereupon those on shore pulled him safely to the. shore, where his wife was anxiously awaiting him. In diving in where he did, Mr. Pani Paora ran considerable risk, and, strong swimmer as he is, he experienced some difficulty in getting away from the rocks owing to the breakers. The local papers, in recording the New Zealander’s gallantry, are in agreement in condemning the Broomhalls for taking unnecessary risks, and agree that but for the effort of the young Maori, there would undoubtedly have been an addit.on to the list of fatalities on the coast. It will interest New Zea-

the “Colonist”) was based on lines •which won him the respect and affection of the youngsters. Mr. David Hood, for many years engineer of the Greymouth Harbour Board tug, died last week at his residence, after a short illness. Mr. D. Miller, chief postmaster at Wanganui, who has been promoted to the charge of the Wellington office, was entertained last week by a large gathering of post and telegraph officers, representing air grades of the services. Mr. Miller was presented with a gold chronometer, and Mrs. Miller with a gold muff chain. Rev. Dr. Nisbet, pastor of the First Church, who returned to Dunedin last Saturday, after an extended visit to Australia, owing to ill-health, died last week. Dr. Nisbet obtained leave of absence in July, 1909, on account of illhealth, and after spending some time at Pieton, he went to Australia. He was 52 years of age, and is survived by a widow, two sons, and a daughter.

landers to learn that Mr. Robert Nunez Lyne, F.L.S., F.R.G.8., who for the last fourteen years has held the position of Director of Agriculture for the Government of Zanzibar, has been lent by that Government for a period of two years to the Government of Portuguese East Africa, for the purpose of reorganising the Department of Agriculture in that Dependency, and is now on his way to take up the work at Ixirenzo Marques. Mr. Lyne attributes his success entirely 'to Lincoln College, School of Agriculture, Canterbury, where he went through the regular course of lectures and practical farm work under the late Mr. W. E. Ivey, the first director and organiser of the college and the college farm. Mr. Lyne, at the age of 18, went to New Zealand, and thence to his cousin Mr Chudleigh’s sheep station at the Chatham Islands, where he remained four or five years. Returning to New Zealand, he entered at Lincoln College, and after his course there, came back to England, obtained an estate agency, and after a short time was appointed agricultural lecturer at Wellingborough Hall, under the County Council; thence he was appointed to' his present position. Mr. Lyne modestly ascribes to Lincoln College and the teaching of Mr. Ivey all the honour of any distinction which has come to him, a't the same time he thinks that the Board of Govenors should confer degrees, as he considers that it would be an immense advantage in after life for ex students to hold a distinctive degree. Mr Neil Kenyon,the well-known musichall artist and actor, who made a pronounced success in “The Islander, has sailed on a long trip, at the advice of his doctor. Mr Kenyon will visit Australia and New Zealand. Whether he -will be able to accept the offer made to him to play his “Islander” part in Australia will depend on the state of his health. He will return to England via America, where he is under engagement for a short season. He is expected back in London to appear at the Pavilion in February. Mr L. A. Eady, of Auckland, who arrived in the Old' Country at the end of June, has been chiefly engaged since then in business connected . with liis pianoforte depot. This week he commences a brief Continental tour with the same object, and will leave for New Zealand about the middle of October.

Mr John Holmes, of Wellington, late Trade Commissioner and Royal Executive Commissioner for New Zealand, arrived in London last 'Sunday .by the Dumbea, having been met at Marseilles by his son, Mr Garnet Holmes, the inventor of the Trolley-head for Electric Tramways. Mr Holmes, who is in touch with some of the leading financial men of the city, is now in negotiations for the disposal of his son’s invention, and the length of his stay in London will depend upon the results. Mr A. O. Knight, who came Home from Auckland some three years ago, in order to study medicine at Middlesex Hospital, has been greatly handicapped in his work by chronic catarrh. With the idea of obtaining relief he spent nearly three months in the early part of this year in Switzerland, but though he enjoyed life there very much, he received no perceptible benefit from the change, and is still suffering from the complaint. The Rev. R. J. Hall has accepted the pastorate of the Unitarian Church at Auckland. He will leave Ansdell in November for New Zealand.

Mr H. Drew, of Wellington, and Mr G. E. Wooley, of the Waikato, who have been absent from New Zealand for nineteen months, leave again for the Dominion, by the Suevic, on September 23 rd. Mr and Mrs George Wright, of Auckland, and their daughters, who have been in England since May, leave Liverpool by the Megantio on September 3rd for a month’s visit to America, leaving on October 7th by the Mararna from Vancouver for New Zealand, spending ten days in Fiji en route. Since their return from the Continent the New Zealanders have thoroughly toured Ireland, Scotland, and the English Lakes, and they bring their visit to an end with the greatest regret at leaving England. Lord Ranfurly, a late popular Governor of New Zealand, Luly Ranfurly, Lord Northland, and Lady Eileen Knox, who have been staying for some weeks in Scotland, have now gone to Northland House, Co. Tyrone, and intend to remain for some time in Ireland.

The Countess of Aberdeen presided at a meeting of tile Women’s National Health Association of Ireland, early this week, when Lady Plunket (who wore a pretty French grey dress and hat with shaded lilac) was one of the speakers, giving an account of the work done by the New Zealand .Society. Dr. W. Parvis Chrystall, of ( hristchurch, who, since he graduated M. 8., Ch.B. at Edinburgh, has held various appointments in Great Britain, is leaving London to-day by the I’, ami O. liner Malwa for the Federated Malay States, where he is taking *up a Government 'medical appointment at I poll Perak, where he expects to remain for the next three years.

Recent callers at the High Commissioner’s office:—Captain and Mrs. Irvine, Edwin J. Apted and Charles Dale (Greymouth), Captain Ralph Wyman (Auckland), F. N. Johns (Wanganui), Allan O. Knight (Auckland), F. Dennison (Oamaru), F. Harper (Dunedin). John Holmes (Wellington), 1.. Allred Eady (Auckland), Jesse Hollobon (Christchurch), Walter Maenanghton (Wairarapa), Reginald A. Webb (Napier), Dr. Oswald and Madalene Earp Thomas (Wellington), Mr. W., Master, and Miss Hill (Napier), J. Wilkes (Napier), A. B. Hansen (Hawke's Bay), James Duncan (Canterbury), H. B. T. Drew (Wellington), Dr. W. P. Chrystall (Christchurch), Geo. and Mrs. M. A. Tattle (Wellington), G. S. and Miss Prouse (Wellington), Dr. Ernest C. and George Winstone (Auckland).