NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 23, 7 December 1910, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

LONDON, October 28. ®Tr. D. C. H. Florence, M.A., M.Sc., jwho has been studying at Victoria University, Manchester, returns to New Zealand by the Orontes to relieve for one year Dr. Farr, Professor of Physics at •Canterbury College. Mr Charles Moore,' of Wellington, since tiis arrival in England on May 30, has spent his holiday travelling over England and Scotland, and has covered most of the counties from Penzance to Oban. He saw the combined fleets off Penzance, and attended the aviation meeting in Lanark. He has visited a number of ■works and factories. “So far,” says Mr. Moore, “I have not experienced that glassy eye and cold hand that some New Zealanders have discovered: quite the contrary. Those to whom I have letters of introduction have given me the glad hand, as the Yankees say.” Mrs. E. B. Ostler and Miss Ostler, of Wellington have just returned from a Continental tour. They went through Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland to see the “Passion Play” at Oberammergau, and visited Austria and Italy before returning to England. They intend remaining in London till after Christmas. Mr. Carl Klettc, the late Acting-Consul for Austria-Hungary in New Zealand, delivered two lectures on New Zealand at the Commercial Museum in Trieste on October 14th and 19th respectively, which were received with great interest. Typical photos of New Zealand industries and scenery, which were exhibited during the lectures, were much admired. The Commercial Museum in Trieste has

set itself the task of developing the trade relations between Trieste and all the foreign countries. It arranges periodically exhibitions of produce of foreign countries, and answers all inquiries relating to -the export industries of Trieste, free of cost. Mr. F. C.. Grieg, of Otago University and University College, London, was admitted this week as a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Mr. and -Mrs. A. F. A. WooUains. of Auckland, who arrived here via Suez early in May, left London to-day by the Orvieto on their return to NewZealand. Miss Hilda G. Bennett, younger daughter of the late Ami Bennett, of Auckland, and of Mrs. Bennett, of Upper Norwood, S.E., was married on October 22nd to Mr. W. If. Allberry, elder son of Mr. C. H. Allberry, of Forest Hill, S.E. Tire wedding took place at Anerley, S.E. The Hon. TV. P. Reeves, late High Commissioner for New Zealand, is to lecture on “New Zealand" at Birmingham University on December 8. The University has arranged for a series of Empire lectures by prominent AngloColonials, for the benefit alike of the business community and of students. Miss A. Anderson Hughes, of NewZealand, is giving lectures in England on the progress of the No-lieense movement in New Zealand. Speaking at Oldham a few days ago, Miss Hugnes declared that if everyone who was a total abstainer in England were an enthusiast, it would only take five years to clear all the liquor bars in the country. Mrs. Knight, wife of Dr. A. O. Knight, of Auckland, left London this week by the Rotorua on her return to New Zealand, after three years' residence in the Old Country. She is accompanied by her family, with the exception of Miss Dorothy and Mr. A. Knight, who are remaining in London to continue their musical and medical studies respectively. Mr. R. Grainger, who has been absent from Auckland for the past two years, spent chiefly in Australia, is in London just now on a pleasure trip. He came via South Africa, and has visited Paris and South Wales since his arrival, and he intends spending a month in touring Scotland and Ireland, leaving again about January for Australia. He will spend three or four weeks on a sheep station in New South Wales, and then return to Auckland. The statement, just issued by the Rhodes Trustees records that in the Final Honour- Schools a first-class was gained by S. N. Ziman of New Zealand (Balliol), in Mathematics, and a seeondelass by C. M. Gil-ray, of New Zealand (University) in Litterae Humaniores. Mr. Ziman passed the Indian Civil Service examination in August, and Mr. Gilray again represented Oxford in Rugby football. Mr. and Mrs. James Slator, of Auckland, who have been spending five months ■in the Old Country on a pleasure trip, intend returning to New Zealand by the Turakina, leaving on November 24. It is 43 years since Mr. Slator was last in England. His wife and he have travelled through a good deal of England and Ireland, and had intended going to the United States, but ’left it too late. They hope to make a special trip to America later on. Mr. and Mrs. Slator celebrated their golden wedding day in London this week. The Rev. A. B. G. Lillingston. vicar of Holy Trinity, Hull, who is one of the Anglican Missioners now touring NewZealand, writes Home to the “Eastern Morning News” from Auckland concerning the Mission: “The spiritual results cannot be measured, but they exceed the most sanguine expectations, hundreds sending in requests for prayer, hundreds more coming forward to renew their baptismal vows, and very great numbers seeking interviews with their respective Missioners in order to ask counsel for various difficulties. The most experienced among the band of Missioners have felt that such a response has not been known before, and that it is overwhelming evidence that the bishops, in arranging for the Mission, had rightly gauged the spiritual needs of New Zealand.” Mr. Russell Bartley, a young Aucklander, has done well since he came to England to gain experience in his profession. He joined the Coventry Corporation Electricity Department in April, 1909, as charge engineer, and remained in that capacity till May, 1910, when he was promoted to electrical draughtsman with a substantial increase in salary. Fortunately, it was just at the time of his promotion that negotiations were in force for considerably extending the plant, and Mr. Bartley was

at once deputed to prepare a scheme and all plans for the work, which, is now in full swing, costing approximately A'54,000. Prior to Mr. Bartley's joining the Coventry Corporation Electrical Works, he was assistant-engineer on the North Metropolitan Electrical Power Supply and Distribution Co., Lindon, for twelve months, and before that was with Messrs. Crampton and Co. in their works at Chelmsford, for twelve months. So his all-round txpenenee has been of the right kind to prepare him for filling with efficiency still higher appointments. •Major and Mrs. J. Hughes and their child are returning to New Zealand by the Rotorua, which sails from Plymouth to morrow. Recent callers at the High Commissioner’s office:—Chas. Moore (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Slator (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. J, W. Raymond (Invercargill), Mrs. E. Georgetti (Wanganui), Mr. and Mrs. A. F. A. Woollams (Auckland), C. Cecil Sterndale (Timaru), A. R. Littleburg (Wellington). G. Brieknell (Christchurch), Mrs. Tribe. Misses Doris and Phyllis Tribe, Mr. Leslie Tribe (Wellington). Mr. I. W. Raymond, of Invercargill, has been invited to stand for the Carlisle seat in the Unionfist interest at the next general election, and has consented. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond came to England over two years ago with the object of giving several members of their family the advantages of English and Continental education. Their daughters have been at Cheltenham College and at Madame Sutir's. at Neuilly, Paris. Their second son is at Harrow, and their youngest at King's College, Wimbledon. As one who took a considerable interest in educational matters in the Dominion, Mr. Raymond is in a position to draw a comparison between the two systems. “Beyond question,” he said to me this week, “the Colonial curriculum, in the hands of the energetic and generally enthusiastic teacher, secures for tne scholars an allround education, which fits them for the battle of life much better than does the English one. The English one has, however, distinct advantages, and some that I am satisfied could be transplanted into our Colonial system with advantage.” During their stay here Mr. and Mrs. Raymond have been practically over the United Kingdom and portions of the Continent. When travel began to pall, they took up house. They are now at Wimbledon, and have many friends there, so find the life generally congenial. Mr. Raymond has taken up interests in British East Africa, and finds these and others ample, he says, “to prevent rust making its appearance.” He took an interest in the last general election in the United Kingdom, and spoke in various centres of England.

Scotland, ami Wales. "The experiences 1 met with,” Mr. Raymond told me, "were some <*€ the most interesting during any period of my public life. Some months ago 1 was offered a seat not far from London in the Conservative and Unionist interests, but, recognising it as a seat that any candidate on our side can annex next election, I preferred to take on one that had to be fought for. Carlisle was unanimously offered to me by the local party, and I have accepted the nomination, so this will help to keep me in form, and from ennui.”