FEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 5, 31 January 1912, Page 6

FEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

LONDON, December 22. "The Rev. W. F. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy are returning to New Zealand on the 2st December. They sail by the Rotorua, but break their journey at the Cape, where Mr. Kennedy has been asked to relieve the Rev. Ramsden Balmforth,. of the Free Protestant (Unitarian) Church for a couple of months. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy purpose settling in Dunedin for the present, and should arrive there about the second week in April. Mrs. H. Feldwiek, of Invercargill, accompanied by the Misses Edith, Mabelle and Cora Feldwiek. sailed by the P. and O. Malwa for Egypt, where, after spending some time in Cairo, they travel up the Nile to Assuan (the first eateraet), breaking the journey en route to stay for some days at Luxor. Returning to Port Said they join th? s.s. Mantua, travelling by her to Auckland, where they arrive on January 19, 1912, at the end ef which year they return to England. New Zealand papers are asked to record the fact that on December 15, at Leytonstone. there died suddenly (of pneumonia) Horace Cotton, aged 58, eldest sou of Stapleton Cotton. Mr. Catheart Wason, M.P., who has eat in the N.Z. Parliament, and now is a member of the English House of Commons, and Mrs. Wason. left .Southampton on Wednesday by the R.M.s. Trent for the West Indies and New York. Miss Catherine Aulsbrook, of Auckland, has recovered from her recent illness, and is singing at Brighton. Eastbourne, etc., in the near future. She has a number of engagements at New York. Mr W. J. Crowther, of Remuera, Auckland, with his brother and sister, is at present at the Grand Hotel du Charmossaire. in Chesieres, where all are enjoying the w inter sports. They spend Christmas there and leave Marseilles on December 28th by the Orsova.' Recent callers at the High Commiseioner’s office: — Mr. H. MaeQuarrie (Auckland), Captain G. S. Richardson (Wellington), Mr. Kenneth Richardson (Wellington), Captain Al. AL Gardiner (Wellington), Mr. R. Ellison (Christchurch). A. E. Greenland (Wairarapa), I. and P. Ward (Christchurch), R. A. Wood (Christchurch).

Among the passengers from England by the Tainui, which reached Wellington last week, were the Revs. J. P. Hampson and W. H. Williamson, both of the Church of England. Mr. Hampson, who is vicar of a parish in Hampshire. is making a tour of the world, and purposes going from New Zealand to the Islands and afterwards probably to Japan. Mr. Williamson proposes settling in New Zealand.