NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 12, 22 March 1911, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON. February 10. The Rev. M W. Kinloch, who is rector of Eceleston and chaplain to the Duke of Westminster, has returned from the Mission of Help in New Zealand full of enthusiasm for the Dominion, as indeed have all the missioners. Mr. Kinloch did not sj>eak at the welcome home last night, but he gave some impressions of his tour in the course of an interview. He declared that there was no field in the world which afforded a better training ground for young English clergy than the Anglican Church in New Zealand. “There is a most wonderful opportunity there,” he said, “for the Anglican Church. There had been a sort of idea among many out there that the Christian religion was rather a played-out superstition, but our mission showed to the people that, on the contrary, it was very much up to date; and, indeed, that it was the only power that administered to men’s spiritual needs. Many of the people are British to the back-bone, and are so filled with the Anglo-Saxon spirit of ‘grit’ and ‘go’ that they are more ready to put their principles into practice than the people here at home. At one place we were having Communion service daily at seven o’clock in the morning, but some of the men said it would lie of no use to them, because they would be busy at work, and the only time they could come was at four o’clock in the morning, so I arranged a service for that time, and a considerable numberattended. At another place, in the ‘back blocks,’ where there was but one hotel, the hotelkeeper came to one of the services, and was so much interested that on the following evening he went down into the bar and persuaded all the men there to go with him to the mission service. Night after night he was always there after that, bringing with him the group of men he had brought to the first service.”

Mr. J. L. Sousa, who is taking his celebrated band for a world’s tour very shortly, opens in Hobart on May 13th, and goes from there through the chief centres of Australia and then to New Zealand. In the Dominion lie gives concerts at the four largest towns, possibly, also, fitting in visits to the West Coast and to Rotorua. Some 60 performers compose the band, and with him Mr. Sousa takes his wife and two daughters. The tour is under the direction of Mr. Edward Branscombe, who will be well remembered as the director of the Westminster Glee singers, the Scarlet Troubadours, and the talented Cherniaski boys. The eldest of these, by the way, Gregor—who made a name for himself in St. Petersburg—is now in London, and is to accompany Mme. Ada Crossley, as violinist, on her tour of South Africa, which starts next month.

The High Commissioner for New Zealand informs me that he has received assurances from the Colonial Office that a certain number of tickets for a Government stand on the Coronation route will be reserved for New Zealand. The tickets are being distributed among the High Commissioners in numbers proportionate to the population of their respective countries. New Zealand will get its due proportion, but the number will certainly not be sufficient to satisfy the claims of New Zealanders anxious to see the Coronation processions to advantage. Lady Stout made a speech at Croydon for the W.S.P.L. on Tuesday, and on Wednesday at Brighton for the National Union, and has supplied me with further details of her engagements for the next four busy weeks. To-day she speaks for the British Women’s Temperance Association at Hoisted Reynes, and after spending the week-end there with Mrs. Martingale, goes to Manchester again for the B.W. Temperance Association, speaking on Monday and Tuesday. A visit to Blackburn follows, and there Lady Stout speaks to the mill-hand members (men) of Mrs. Lewis’ Mission —an institution that has existed for 20 years, and secured hundreds of pledges. From there she goes to Sheffield to Miss Adela Pankhurst, speaking three, times at Scarborough as well. On the 20th she lectures for the W.B.P.U. at Manchester, on the 22nd ami 23rd speaks at Harbury Rooms in South Kensington, also on the 23rd takes the chair at the Journalistic dinner at the Lyceum, then speaks in London on the 28th 'for the W.S.P.A. The, Hon. \V. P. Reeves, late New Zealand High Commissioner, has been appointed president of the Economic Science and Sta(tistica_spctipn of the 1911 congress of the British Association for

the Advancement of Science, which meets at Portsmouth next August under the presidency of (Sir Wiliam Ramsay, F.R.S. Miss Alma Dale, late of Papanui, Christchurch, who has oeen in this country for the past two years, has been engaged by the president of the British Women’s Emigration Association as matron, to go out to New Zealand in charge of a party of domestic servants, leaving London by the lonic on March 30. The girls are for the Hawke's Bay district. Professor Edgeworth David, of the University of Sydney, lectured to a crowded audience in the lecture theatre of the University Museum at Oxford on Saturday evening on the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-9. The chair ■was taken by Dr. Spooner, Warden of New College (Pro-Vicfe-Chancellor), and the lecture was illustrated by a large number of lantern slides. Professor David, who is Professor of Geology at the University of Sydney, was a scholar of New College, and gained a first-class in classical moderations in 1878. In convocation last Tuesday the University con ferred on him the honorary degree of D.Sc.