NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 21, 23 November 1910, Page 5

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, October 14. On the 10th October, at Westminster Cnapel, by <the Rev. G. Campbell Morgan, D.D., Mr. Charles J. Nairne, eldest son of the late C. J. Nairn, of Pourerere, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, was married to Miss Lillian Helen (Pam), youngest daughter of the late Dr. Vincent Ambler, London, and Mrs. Ambler, of Eastbourne. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzherbert, of Featherstone, have let <their house in the Garden City at Hampstead, and intend to leave on Monday for a holiday trip to Switzerland, taking their baby with them. Miss Lenore Pulsford, of Wellington, was one of the singers at the weekly "At Home” of the Austral Club, held on October 11. Mr. X- A. Munro, of Mangaweka. arrived in England last week, after spending a month in the south of France and a couple of weeks in Paris. He left again on Wednesday for a tour round (Scotland. The Swift cycles, on which Mr. Bert Drew, of Wellington, and Mr. G. E. Woolley, of Whangarei, recently toured through England, covering about 1500 miles, are now being exhibited in llolborn by the makers at their London office. It is the makers intention to send the machines out .to New Zealand to be placed on exhibition there by their agents in the Dominion. Messrs. Drew and Woolley leave next week by the Persic on their return to New Zealand, after about two years’ absence. Mrs and Miss M. Bridge, of Christchurch, who arrived in this country four months ago, have since been travelling in Surrey, Monmouthshire. Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and Lincolnshire, and are now in London “doing” city churches and picture galleries. Next week the New Zealanders go to Brighton, to stay with Dr. Griffen, brother of Mrs Bridge, an old Christ’s College boy, who has been ophthalmic surgeon to the county hospital there for many years past, ami to the hospital at Worthing. Mrs Bridge and her daughter expect to be in this side of the world for another year yet. Though it rained nearly all the time they were travelling iu Worcester—where their family have many associations • —and while they were making all the notedl Warwickshire excursions, Mrs Bridge is of opinion that “it says much for the beauty of English scenery that in spite of that drawback, it charmed and attracted everywhere, even as regards summer rain enhances it somewhat, to my thinking, by the consequent soft, niisty atmosphere and exquisite greenness. Much as our New Zealand scenery surpasses this in grandeur and variety, the clearness and brilliancy of New Zealand’s air and sunshine Bakes in summer for hardness and glare." Another visit was paid in Lincolnshire among the wolds, with interesting excursions to Somersby Rectory and Church, the scenes of Tennyson's boyhood; also to Lincoln Cathedral. They also saw Peterborough Cathedral on the way back, but admired Lincoln more than either of the others. Mr. Jas. W. Watts, manager of the Onehunga branch of the Auckland Savings Bank, and his brother, Mr. Arthur Watts, are on a visit to London. They arrived by the Persic on September 27th, after an enjoyable fair-weather voyage, and have since been sightseeing in the metropolis. Next week they will take a trip to Scotland, and they hope to visit Paris before leaving next month for Sydney, where they propose to spend ■two months 'before returning to New Zealand. Mr. J. W. Watts is on holiday leave of nine months’ duration. Mr. Francis Hutchens, the young New Zealand pianist, gained a “commended" in the competition at the Royal A-.a-

demy of Musk for the Diszt Scholarship for pianoforte or composition. Mr. Acton-Adams has returned from Bed wood to 74, Park Mansions, Knightsbridge, for a month. He leaves on November 5, via Canada and Fiji, for New Zealand, to visit his sons and his estates. He will remain there for a couple of months, and then return via Australia and Suez or the Siberian Railway to London, arriving about mid-May, 1911. Mr. and Mrs. \V. R. Holmes, of Auckland, who have been spending the past summer on a holiday trip to the Old Country, intended returning home by the Morea, via Suez, leaving London on October 21. They have done a good deal of motoring in England and Scotland during their visit, and have thoroughly enjoyed the holiday. The weather has been splendid, and they are charmed with the beauty of Old England. Mr. s. N. Ziman. one of the New Zealand Rhodes .scholars, who passed 71st in the Indian Civil service examination this year, has been assigned to the Bombay division of the I.C.S. Mr. Ziman was educated at the Auckland Grammar School, the N.Z. University, and Balliol College. Oxford. Mr. and Mrs. J. Liddell Kelly, of Wellington, left London to-day by the Otway, en route for New’ Zealand, via Suez. They’ will leave the steamer at Melbourne and proceed to New Zealand via Hobart, a route whith will enable them to see various places which neither of them have visited. Visitors to the High Commissioner’s office :-Mr. Fredk. Marten. Messrs. J. and A. Clarkson (Christchurch), T. A. Munro (Wanganui). Mr. Stephen Highman (Christchurch), Mr. Wm. Stourton (Blenheim). The Hon. T. Mackenzie, of New Zealand, is among the Colonial Cabinet Ministers to whom invitations have been sent through the Colonial Office by the Royal Agricultural Society, to attend the Society’s annual show next year at Norwich. ' Colonel Heard and Captain J. T. Burnett Stuart left London to-day by the Otway, bound for New Zealand, to take up staff appointments in the Defence Force of the Dominion. Mr. C. Wray Pa Hiser, representing the High Commissioner, saw them off at St. Pahcras. U«apt. D. C. Spencer-Smith, staff officer to the new Commandant of the New Zealand forces, will join the Otway at Marseilles. Lady Stout, who is one of the speakers at the Suffrage meeting at the Queen’s Hall on Monday, is still busy making speeches in various parts of th<*'country in support of votes for women. To-day she addresses two meetings of the Lancashire Convention of the Wofoen’s Christian Temperance Union.