NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 17, 26 October 1910, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

.From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, September 16. Mr and Mrs G. Tattle, of Wellington, and their daughter, Miss Edith F. Tattle, who arrived by the Morea on June 4th, spent two delightful months in Scotland, afterwards touring North Wales and various parts of England. They are now on a visit to Devonshire, but will return in a few days to London, and leave here on September 23 by the Moldavia, outward bound. They are on a pleasure trip, and intend to spend some time in Melbourne and Sydney on the return journey. Miss M. Hartley, the clever Dunedin artist, has been awarded a Teacher Artist certificate by the Royal Drawing Society. This society Was founded by Mr T. R. Ableth some ten years ago for the encouragement of drawing, painting and modelling, as a means of general education and for preserving and developing in children the spontaneous pictorial memory. .So successful have its methods been that already its certificated teachers are to be found in many of the modern schools and colleges in England. Miss Hartley is making unusually good progress at the Parisian studios. Most of her vacation she has spent in sketching excursions in the provinces; at. the time of writing she is at Aylesbury, Bucks, one of the most charming oldworld towns in this country. Mr F. K. Hartley, who has for the past 18 months been studying at the Royal Academy of Music, intends to return to New Zealand early in the New Year. Last month he was relieving the organist and choirmaster at the Enfield Parish Church. Miss Ethel Irving, who is at present touring with “Dame Nature,” is to go to Australia next year. She will appear there in “Lady Frederick” and “Dame Nature.” Mrs. Wilcox, of Banks Peninsula, who has been absent from New Zealand about seven years, spent chiefly in Germany, left London to-day by the Arawa on her return to the Dominion. Her daughter, who is married to Professor Hamelins, of Liege University. Belgium, is at present on a visit to London with her husband. Mr. Jas. Aiken, of Wanganui, who has just returned to London from an interesting tour in Spain, intends leaving for New Zealand bn October 21 by the P. and O. liner Morea. He will spend the intervening month in and around London. On behalf of the overseas delegates. to the Journalists' Institute Conference, Mr W. H. Triggs, of Christchurch, New Zealand, on Wednesday presented to Mr. H. Cornish, the secretary of the institute, a handsome solid silver teapot in the Georgian style, with chased border. “In recognition of his many kindnesses and courtesies to them at the conference of 1910.” Mr. W m. E. Caldow, of iVel.ington, who has been visiting England on business and pleasure, leaves London next Sunday for Marseilles, to join the Orsova there on the 22nd inst. Mr. Caldow arrived in London on the I4th May, and after spending a few weeks henvisited some of the manufacturing towns, viz., Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Sheffield, and spent some considerable time in each place. The month of August 'was.spent in touring the Eng. lidi Lakes and Scotland, and he returned south to be present at .the performances of “Elijah.” “Messiah,” and “The Dream of Gerontius” during the Gloucester Festival week. He is due in Wellington on November 2. The Hon. W. Pember Reeves, the first High Commissioner for New Zealand, and now head of the London School of Economics, is chairman of the Executive Committee of the Universal Races Congress. which is io be held in London towards the end of next July. The object of the Congress will be to discuss the general relations subsisting between Hie peoples of the West and those qf the East, with a view to encouraging between them a fuller understanding, friendlier feel ings, and a heartier co-operation. Arrangements are completed that China. Japan, India, Egypt, Turkey, and Persia, besides the negro race in America and Africa, should he represented by eminent speakers of their own kith and kin. N 6 less than a dozen Governors of British colonies, eight British Prime Ministers, and over four colonial bishops are to be found on the list of sympathisers, which also included nearly 30 Presidents of Parliament, 130 Professors of Interna tiono*

Taw, and the majority of the members of the Hague Court and of the Second Hague Conference. The Rt. Hou. Lord Weardale is the President of the Congress. Mr. James Allen, of Auckland, is in London again, and has been visiting during the past few weeks many places of interest, including Oxford, Cambridge and St. Albans. He has also been visiting friends in Cheshire and in Staffordshire, near Litchfield. Just now he is making preparations for returning to New Zealand. He has booked his passage by the Orient R.M.s. Orvieto, and leaves London in the course of a few days for Paris. He will spend a fortnight in Switzerland, and two or three weeks in Italy, joining the Orvieto at Naples on November 5. He therefore hopes to arrive in Auckland some time before Christmas. Mr. Allen was pleased to see New Zealand so very well represented at the Japan-British Exhibition, and thinks the publicity given to our products and manufactures will result in an increased interest being shown in the Dominion by the people of England. Several New Zealand journalists were among the guests at the luncheon given by the Government last Saturday at the House of Lords to the overseas delegates to the Conference of the Institute of Journalists. They included Mr. W. H. Triggs (editor of the “Christchurch Press") , Mr. G. H. Scholefield (New Zealand Associated Press), Mrs. Henry Cooper and Mr. J. P. Whitelaw (New Zealand Press Agencv), Mr. E. G. Honey (“Daily Mail”), Mr. H. T. B. Drew (Wellington), and Mr. G. P. Armstrong (“Opunake Times"). Mr. Triggs, as chairman of the overseas delegates, was given the post of honour on the right hand of Lord Beauchamp, who presided. Mr. H. B. Irving, the well-known actor, who is about to visit Australia with his wife, Miss Dorothea Baird, was a guest of the Institute of Journalists at their annual dinner this week. He humorously claimed that the actors’ profession was the most modest of all, and tliat it was only the journalists who seduced them from their modesty by the extreme trouble they took to get copy. “If,” said Mr. Irving, “we break one of the ten commandments, it seems to cause an interest in the newspapers that no other class can command. However, I am going to a country, I am told, where the ten commandments can be broken without attracting much attention.” Mrs. Edith Searle Grossmann, wellknown in New Zealand as a scholar and writer, gave an enjoyable tea at her residence, 33, Regent’s Park-road, on Friday afternoon, at which several New Zealanders were present, among them being Dr. Jessie Scott (of Christchurch), Miss Dougherty (matron of Palmerston North Hospital), Madame Hamelins (nee Miss Dora Wileox of Banks Peninsula), Dr. Paul Hamelins (of the University of Liege), Mrs. Wileox (Banks Peninsula), Mrs. May (Christchurch and Auckland), Mrs. Henry Cooper (Waikato), Miss {)avy and Miss Harriet Davy (Wellingon). The hostess received her guests in a gown of tussore silk. On the recommendation of the Council of the Institute of Journalists, the following overseas vice-presidents were appointed by the annual conference of the Institute m London this week: —Sir Hugh Graham, LL.D., Canada; Mr. Geo. Alfred Laurence Green, South Africa; Mr. I*. ■>V. Heney, Australia; Mr. William Graeme St. Clair Straits Settlements; Mr. William Henry Trigg, New Zealand; Mr. John * Evans Woolacot, India. The following overseas secretaries were also appointed:—Mr. Kennedy Crone, Canada; Mr. Digby, India; Mr. W. Sholto Douglas, New Zealand; Mr. E. F. Jenkins, South Africa; Mr. R. M’Millan, Australia; and Mr. A. W. Still. Sir Daniel Gooch, Bart., and Lady Gooch, of Hylands, Essex, are about to leave for Australia and New Zealand on an extended holiday tour. Mr. Laurie Abrahams, of Auckland, who arrived here last week by the Ruapehu, intends remaining until November 24, when he will leave on his return to Auckland by the Turakina. During his visit to London Mr. Abrahams is staying with his parents. Mr. Henry St. George, who was examiner- at the Trinity College musical examinations in New Zealand last year, is at present performing similar duties in Australia. Mrs. Percy Dufaur, of Auckland, is [visiting England, partly on pleasure, but chiefly in pursuit of health. Accompanied by Miss Dufaur, she arrived on August 29 th by the White Star liner Suevio from South Africa, where she had spent some weeks, mostly in Cape Town. She proroses visiting Paris this month, and on er return will pay some visita to relatives Im ths Midlands, From there she

goes to Scotland for about a month before returning to London for the winter. Mrs. Dufaur may return to New Zealand in March or not until July; she has not settled her plans definitely. Mrs. E. M. Kilgour of Auckland and Wellington, left London this week for Oberammergau to see the Passion Play. She will visit Germany, Italy, Switzerland. Belgium and France, returning to London from Paris. Since her arrival here from New Zealand on a pleasure trip, Mrs. Kilgour has visited many parts of the United Kingdom, and thoroughly’ enjoyed her holiday. Lord Plunket (late Governor of the Dominion), paid a visit to the New Zealand Pavilion, White City, on Friday, and expressed himself as “very pleased with New Zealand’s excellent exhibit. Among the passengers by the Arawa, which left London to-day for New Zealand, are Dr. and Mrs. A. McArthur, of Wellington, who have been spending the summer on holiday in the Old Country.