HEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 8, 22 February 1911, Page 7

HEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

LONDON, January 13. On January 4, at the Parish Church, King’s Worthy, near Winchester, Mr. Bryden Glendinning, of 7, Devonshireplace, W., son of the late Mr. John Glendinning, of Waikua, New Zealand, was married to Miss Emily Edith Hodgson, daughter of Captain G. E. Hodgson, late Essex Regiment, of Saltwood, Cheltenham. A meeting to welcome the return of the General Mission from New Zealand is to be held on the evening of February 9, in the Hoare Memorial Hall of the Church House, Westminster, and several of the missioners will give an account of their experiences in the various dioceses in New Zealand. The Bishop of Kensington will preside on behalf of the Bishop of London’s Evangelistic Council. Recent callers at the High Commissioner’s Office:—R. F. Macßxy (Wellington), Lieut.-Col. A. Bauchop, C.M.G. (Wellington). W. H. Helmore (Christchurch), J. S. de Bore (Dunedin), H. E. Hart (Dunedin), Mrs. Percy Dufaur (Auckland). A very successful reception in honour of Lady Northcote (wife of the Gover-nor-General of Australia from 1903-1903) was given at the Lyceum Club in Piccadilly on Tuesday afternoon by the United Empire Club. Among the guests present were Mrs. Napier Bell, of New Zealand, in a black coat and skirt and black velvet toque; Mrs. Sale and Miss Margaret Sale, of Dunedin the former in a black silk coat and skirt and black toque, the latter in a ec/.t and skirt of mole-coloured corduroy velvet, a large black hat and squirrel furs; Lady Stout (Wellington), mauve cloth Empire costume trimmed with dull gold embroidery, a violet velvet toque; Miss Isitt (Wellington), peacock blue cloth costume, a black hat trimmed with white; Mrs. Downie Stewart (Dunedin), purple velvet braided coat and skirt, black bonnet trimmed with heliotrope flowers, and sable furs. Lady Northcote wore a gown of grey corduroy velvet slightly tr.mined with mauve, and a black velvet toque with a diamond clasp. Miss Beatrice Le Palme, one of the soloists in the Covcnt Garden season, was present, and sang a couple of songs very charmingly. Sir William Hall-Jones is a member of the committee which is arranging a dinner for Monday next, to welcome Mr Frank Lascelles back from South Africa, where he directed the pageant at the Union festivities. Mr Lascelles is Master of the Pageant of London, which is to be given at the Crystal Palace during the Festival of Empire. Professor Biekerton writes me in optimistic vefin: “I am pleased to say I am making most unexpected progress in launching my theory (of the Third Body), in spite of the lethargy of official science.” Miss Blanche Butler, the new headmistress of the Auckland Girls' Grammar School, will sail for New Zealand in a week’s time. Meanwhile she is fully occupied in Liverpool with preparations

for departure, and on this score she courteously begged to be excused from being interviewed. 1 confined my questioning, therefore, to request for her opinion on games for girls, and on this subject Miss Butler replied thus: ‘1 am very much in favour of games, but I also am very much of the opinion that no hard and fast rule about games should be laid down for girls. Each individual case should be considered, and I think the parents are always the best judges in such cases. For myself lam very fond of reading, and although Fean clajm no special prowess at gimes, I am very fond of tennis-—and I think I may lay claim to bedng a very good walker. An Anglo-New Zealand wedding was celebrated at the Church of Our Lady of t ictories. Kensington, last Saturday. Mr Reginald Clarke, the bridegroom, is the youngest son of the late Mr S. L. Clarke, of New Zealand, and the bride was Miss Lydia Mary Wood, elder daughter of the late Mr C. J. Wood, M.I.C.E.