NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3, 17 July 1912, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

tFn in Our Ow n Correspondent.) LONDON, June 4. Mr. R. M. Simpson, of Wellington, and his two daughters, arrived in London a fortnight ago. and intend to make holiday for about three months. They leave in a fortnight for Lancaster—Mr. Simpson’s birthplace—spending a few days there before going to ’’-utland. A trip to the Continent, it is hoped, will be worked in also. Mr. G. F. J. Townsend, of Dunedin, who is at present in Birmingham has ju-t obtained the diploma given by the Worshipful < onifanv of Spectacle Makers. He holds the D.8.0.A. degree and has recently passed their highest examination and lieeome a Fellow. Mr. Townsend is not sure upon this point, but thinks he is the first New Zealander to obtain this latter distinction. He ia also a Fellow of the Institute of Dpthalmic OptK-iaius. He remains in England, mak-

ing obsixvation of the most modem methods j n hi s work till about September. then goes to Germany, also ob studv bent. N .

The Rev. Arthur T. Boscawen, whos6 spe. imens of leptospennum svoparium Nieholii obtained so high an honour at| the International Horticultural Exhibit tion of 1912, in reply to a request front your correspondent writes regretting that as, at the time of the show (save for the first day. when he was one of the pioneer guides of the King and Queen) he was unable to be in London, he had no opportunity of getting a photograph of his exhibit to send to the New Zealand papers. ’’ I have a good collection of New Zealand plants in my little garden here,’’ Mr. Boscawen writes from Ludgvan Rectory, Long Rock (Cornwall). "In fact, I have made a speciality of New Zealand plants for some years. It- is certainly a great achievement, a New Zealand plant! receiving the highest award for the most! meritorious novelty at such a-how as the. International.’’

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Berry, iron* Rangitikei. arrived in England by thet R.M.S. Otranto on May 16th. and after, making a short stay in Plymouth. rvenS on to visit friends m Bristol. I'hey are' now in London, where they will stay a short time before going north.

Mr. F. Andsen, of Dunedin, is in England on a pleasure trip, and is vi-iting Manchester. Sheffield. E linburgh and Belfast. He probably returns about the second week in August. Mr. Joseph Butler, of Hokitika, intends to stay in Loudon for a few weeks, after which he sets out on visits to friends in England. Then a short Irish ami Scottish tour follows, after which lie goes to the Continent for a lew weeks, returning here about September, and leaving for New Zealand in November. Mr. and Mrs. George France, of Dunedin. arrived, via <uez. and. after traveling on the Continent, return to New Zealand via America. Mr. S. Williamson, of Wellington, is ag present an eng.neer on the s.s. Minnewaska a liner belonging to the Atlantic Transport Line, trading between London l and New York. He intends returning t<X. the Dominion after sitting for his final examination, which will take place at an early date. Mr. Errol T. Tylee. of Napier, eame to England last Sunday by the Indraptwa, on wluch he was on the engineering staff. Mr. Tylee intends remaining several years at Home, in order to gain further engineering experience in the shipbuilding yards on the Clyde, at Glasgow. Dr. and Mrs. W. Beedie. of Wellington, are at present living at., Hammersmith, to be near the West London Hospital, where Dr. Beedie is doing post-graduate work. Later on both go on visits to relatives in Scotland and Ireland, l’he length of their stay is at present indefinite. Mi-s Edith \\ ybotu'ne. of Christshurcb, ■is in England ju-t now on a pleasure trip, in which -lie is a.-eompaliving her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. an I Mis'. H. E. Ati lrew-s, of Wellington. Next month tKe party intends motoring through England, Scotland and Wales, and later wifi visit the Continent. Dr. E. Teichelmann, of Hokitika, left Wellington at the end of March, and travelled via Rarotonga and Tahiti to San Franei-eo, thence overland bv the Santa Fe line, stopping t-n route to vieitji the Colorado Canyon. From Chicago he went to New York by the 20th century express, from New York to Dover by the Red Star Liner Kroonland, arriving early in May. After spending some time visiting old friends and relations. Dr. Tekhelmann intends to devote some time to professional work in the large hospitals of England, Berlin, Paris, and Vienna. He intends to return to New Zealand at the end of the vear.

Mr. ( halies C. Reade, late editor ot the “N.Z. Graphic,’’ who is at present in London, lately underwent an operation in a private nursing home. After l-eing incapacitated for several weeks, he is now quite himself again. Since his arrival in London. Mn Reade has been appointed a—i-tant-«een*tary of the Garden Cities and Town-planning Association, the pioneer organisation which brought about the creation of Ix'tihworth Garden City, and is now engaged in promoting similar projects in England. The Association, it is nneler-tood. proposes to pre-ently send out to Australia and New Zealand ai* emissary to deliver lantern lectures on the subject of garden cities and townplanning. and it is just possible that Mr. Rea.le may find himself chosen for this task.