NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 19, 9 November 1910, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

LONDON, September 30. Mr. and Mrs. J. Ballantyne, of Christchurch, and their daughters, are in London just now. Mr. Ballantyne is combining business with pleasure, and the sightseeing of the party has included Edinburgh and the Trossachs, Mrs. Ballantyne and family motoring from there down the coast to London, and afterwards visiting the Midlands and .Southern counties. They have also visited Holland, Germany, and the Brussels Exhibition, returning to London via Paris. They are leaving shortly for New York, and will spend a month in America, sailing for New Zealand from Vancouver by the Makura.

Mr. H. G. Cayley Robinson, late of Invercargill, is over here from Dutch Guiana on a business mission. He went out to Dutch Guiana for the second time nearly two years ago, to manage a gold development company for a British syndicate. Latterly, however, he has been exploiting some gold concessions of his own about 100 miles from Paramaribo, in Dutch Guiana, and a week or two ago he arrived in England with the object of trying to secure the mining plant and concessions held iby a Dutch company, and now lying idle, on behalf of himself and two friends. Mr. Robinson is also representing some Trinidad friends who own oil-bearing land in Trinidad, and who wish to sell them to an English oil group. He expects to proceed to the Hague in the middle of October, and return to London in November via Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris. He will leave England for Trinidad in the first week of December, proceeding to Dutch Guiana via British Guiana early in January. Mr. Alexander Crow, of Wellington, who has been on a holiday trip to the Old Country, intends returning home by the Mongolia, leaving London on October 7th. After his arrival here on April Ist Mr. Crow spent five weeks in London, and then visited France, Ireland and Scotland, making many pilgrimages to scenes of historical interest in those countries. -

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kaye, of Christchurch, intend leaving. England on October sth, via New York and Canada, on their return journey to New Zealand,where they expect to arrive early in •December. Mrs. Kaye, since her arrival in the Old Country last April, via Suez, has attended the World’s Y.M.C'.A. Conference in Berlin and the World’s Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, Mr. and Mrs. D. Haynes, of Dunedin, their daughter (Mrs. Mill) and her son, are visiting London at present. They came to England by the Morea, via Suez, arriving in June, and spent some time in Scotland. Mr. Haynes remaining in London on business. Mrs. Mill had a delightful motoring tour through the Southern and Midland Counties with her sister (Mrs. J. Ballantyne, of Christchurch ) and party. They leave shortly for New York, and will spend a month crossing America, via Canada, taking steamer at Vancouver for New Zealand. Miss Florence M. L. Jones is returning to Wellington, via Suez, by the Otway. She has been in England. and Wales for the last two years. During part of the time Miss Jones has been studying music under Dr. Rowland M. Winn, of Birmingham, and has been successful in gaining the L.R.A.M. degree at the recent Metropolitan examination. Mr. H. A. Neilsen, of Auckland, has recently returned to London from a trip to Denmark, where he has been visiting the scenes of his youth after an absence of 26 years. In his younger days Mr.

Neilsen was a steward in the DmM* Navy, and saw active seryice pearly 6* years ago in the sea fight against aflw4 of German and Austrian warships off Heliogoland. The. Danish fleet was sues cessful'in that fight,"but the death-roll was heavy; and Mr. Neilsen saw many of his comrades laid to rest in the grave* yard at Christiansund. Before he left for! New Zealand he received at the hands of Prince Valdemar of Denmark a photograph of the cemetery where his comrades killed in the battle were buried. On his return to Copenhagen recently Mr. Neil* sen paid a call on Prince Valdemar, and, although at first the Prince could not recall him, mention of the photograph w’as sufficient to bring back all the circumstances to his memory, and he welcomed the New Zealander very heartily, and had a. long chat with him at the Palace over old times.

Among the many New Zealanders wild have expressed pleasure in the New Zealand exhibit at the White City is Mr. Justice Denniston, who on Tuesday evening last inspected it. Mr. Justice Denniston said that he considered the exhibit did great credit to New Zealand and the exhibitors. Mr. S. Hetherington and Mrs. Hetherington, of the Thames, has just returned to London from a trip through Ireland and Scotland. They intend to spend some time in London, where Mr. Hetherington is attending to business matters, and they purpose wintering further South, possibly in the South of France, though this is not yet decided. Mr. Charles A. Purnell, M. 8., elder son of Mr. Charles W- Purnell, Barrister-at-Law, New Zealand, was married on September 19 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, to Miss Nora 'Kathleen Bee, daughter-of Mr. James Bee, of Normanhurst, Lee, Kent. Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Maxwell, of Northcote, Auckland,, are op r a visit to London-. They left New Zealand early in June, coming via Vancouver, through Canada, and on to New York, Mrs. Maxwell found! the heat too great in New York, and came on to Liverpool a month ago, but her husband had business to look after, so he stayed behind, afterwards rejoining Mrs. Maxwell in London. They are at present spending their time between London and Buckinghamshire, where they have relations.’ They will probably join a’ steamer at Genoa early in November, aiid get back to' New Zealand about Christmas. ■ ■ ~ ’ — -■'

' Recent callers at the High Commissioner’s Office: Miss F. M. Jones (Wellington), F. S. Dubarnes (Gisborne), Mr. Robert Grainger (Auckland), Dr. and Mrs. Charles H. Gregory (Apiti), Miss M. B. Richmond (Wanganui), Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell (Auckland), Miss Evelyn Isitt (Wellington), Claude B. Welsby; (Wellington), J. H. Aitken (Wanganui), H. G. Cayley Robinson (late Invercargill), Mr. John Withen (Timaru), Mr. Edwin A. Tanner (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. D. Haynes (Dunedin), Mrs. Mills and son (Dunedin), Mr. and Mrs. J. Ballantyne and the Misses Ballantyne (Christchurch), Mrs. Pudney and Mr. F. Addison Pudney (Christchurch), Mr. Geo. Shalfoon (Auckland). ‘ Ji Mr. George Shalfoon, of Auckland, has. recently been revisiting his birth-, place at Mt. Lebanon, in Palestine* after an absence of twelve years, and is now in London. He spent a month ii* Palestine and a week in Paris, arriving in London on September 17. He leaves again on October 6 for Canada, and is due in New Zealand, via Vancouver and Fiji, on December 5.