NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVLI, Issue 10, 6 September 1911, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

LONDON, July 28 Mt». Win. L. Turnbull, of Auckland, and her son, Mr. Henry L. Turnbull, have recently returned to London from a visit |o Switzerland and Paris, and, after an interval in the metropolis, intend to go Qti to the West of England. They return to Auckland by the Orontes, sailing November 24th. Captain J. Southern Maidlow, R.F.A., >vhp nas been selected by the War Office pa Instructor in Artillery to the Dominion Forces, will leave for New Zealand with his wife and family by the s.s. Turakina at the end of August. Among tlie new Licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians announced at the quarterly Comitia held on July 27th, were Miss Maysie A. M. Collie, who studied at Otago University and the Royal Free Hospital, and was admitted under the Medical Act of 1876, and Mr. J. G. Crawford, of New Zealand. Miss Collie was also admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons at the meeting of the Council held on the same day.

There died at Tunbridge Wells, last Monday evening, at the ripe old age of (12, one who many years ago served New Zealand in war and peace—Sir William James Tyrone Power, sometime AgentGeneral, and a veteran of the Maori War of 1846-7. Sir Wm. Power was the eldest son of Tyrone Power, in his day the leading Irish comedian of the London stage, who was drowned at the age of 41 in tlie ill-fated steamer President, while crossing from New' York to Liverpool. Sir William entered the commissariat Department in 1841, became Assistant Commissary-General in 1855, Deputy Commissary-General in 1856, Com-missary-General in 1863, and Commissary General in ( hief in the following year. Ho served in China, New Zealand, 1846 to 1847, in the Kaffir War of 1851 to 1853, in the Eastern Campaign of 1854 to 1856, in the China War of 1857, and in Canada in 1862. Sir William served on the Board of Works in Ireland from 1849 to 1850, and was appointed a Commissioner for the settlement of frontier claims at the end of the Kaffir War in 1853. From 1869 to 1871 he held the post of Director of Transport and Supply, and in 1876 was appointed Agent-General for New Zealand. He was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1865, and was a Magistrate and DeputyLieutenant for County Monaghan, serving the office of High Sheriff in 1874. Sir William, who was the author of several books of travel, married, in 1859, Martha, daughter of Dr. John Moorlieade of Armaghmakerigg House, Co. Monaghan. His wife died in 1890. Another veteran of the New Zealand War of 1863 has gone to his last rest. The death of Major Edward Brut ton, late 57th Regiment, has taken place at the age of 74, at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, where he held the appointment of Captain of Invalids. Major Brutton entered the Army in 1855, reached the rank of captain in 1870, and retired with the honorary rank of major in 1881. He fought in the Crimea and in the Indian

Mutiny, and also saw active service in the China War in 1860, when he was mentioned in General Orders and awarded the medal With clasp, and in the New Zealand War of 1863, when he Was three times mentioned in dispatches and given the medal.

Among the visitors to the High Commissioner’s this week Were: — Lieutenant-Colonel R. Logan (Otago), W. H. Collis (Wellington). A. Malinton W. u.' MeKnight (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. David Crewe (Wellington), A. J. Palmer .(Onehunga), Mr. and Mrs. 11. S. A. Clench (Otago), Miss Jean McKinley (Dunedin), Gordon Keesing (Auckland), H. R. Boynes (Wellington), H. G. Green (Wellington), 11. W.; E. J. and M. S. Jennings (Christchureb)), R. I*. Lempriere (Auckland), W. L. Falconer (Auckland), Wni. Parkinson (Auckland), Nurse Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. F. Moore, Captain J. 8. Maidlow, R.F.A. Mr. Martin Taylor, of An<4<land, has been in England for the past two months and will be here for another four weeks on holiday. Mr. Taylor, who is a very keen bowler, played recently at -the (rystal Palace, in the National Championahip tournament — pilled against Ross, the champion of the Crystal Palace and eCanada. The ma leh was won by London. -Mr. Taylor -has travelled extensively in Scotland, Ireland, anj the

North of England since his arrival. He is of the opinion, by the way, that New Zealand is insufliciently advertised in the United Kingdom, and thinks something should be done to improve matters in this direction. He intends to spend -the •rest of his time in London. Mr. Taylpr, talking of bowk, Rays that he could pick out a team in Now Zealand fit to com* pete against anything in England.