NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIX, Issue 19, 7 May 1913, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

LONDON, March 28. Air. K. Bin-ney, of Alarlborough,is finishing his architectural studies in Italy, and is now at the British School of Rome. He goes to Siena, Florence, and Northern Italy before returning to England. Miss Af. 11. Gore, landed in London in November on visits to English relations, and will probably be away from: New Zealand ' for some eighteen months. She spent January and February on the Italian Riviera, travelling via Turin and Genoa, and returning by the drench Riviera, and is now in Devonshire. The Hon. Thomas Mackenzie and Miss Alary Mackenzie spent Easter in the South of England. They visited Selsey, a seaside resort, Chichester, Goodwood, and Arundel, and were in Selsey the night the severe gale swept over’ England, and witnessed an exciting scene. Signals of distress were sent up by two vessels. The lifeboat was removed from its shed, but, owing to the wildness pt the storm, could not be of effective service. It took hours to get the boat launched, during which proceeding one man had his leg broken and another his thumb smashed. Fortunately no loss of life occurred. At Arundel Castle, the seat of the Duke of Norfolk, Mr. Mackenzie and Im daughter .saw a very fine collection ot priceless treasures. Arundel Castle, once a powerful fortress, was the seat of the Fitzalans, Earle of Arundel, from 1243 to 1580, and since then of the Howards. It was a massive- Norman keep. lOOit high, part- of which dates from the days of King Alfred. It has stood tlire.e great sieges, in 1102, 1139, and in 1644 The old chapel has been replaced by a splendid Roman Catholic Church, which cost the Duke of> Norfolk £150,000. Oh Tuesday last the High (,'onimis sipner’s office received no fewer than 570 letters, which constitutes a record for one day’s niail. To those who imagine that the office staff' are fed on the sweet bread of idleness, this fact may come as a revelation, am! suggest that the High Commissioner’s staff has not a par ticularly easy time of it after all. On Wednesday Air. Mackenzie was pre sent at a dinner given by His Majesty’s Government at the Foreign Office, amt

on the following day ho attended a luncheon given by the Agent-General for South Australia at the Troeadero, to the Premier of the State, who has come to London, like Colonel Allen, in search, of money.

The lecture hall at the Harlesden Public Library was well filled last night by an appreciative audience, when Mr. H. C. Cameron, produce commissioner for the New Zealand Government in London, delivered an illustrated lecture on “New Zealand—The Britain of the South.” The chairman, in proposing a vote of thanks, remarked that in his opinion the wonder was not that, after hearing such a lecture as they had. listened to, people were induced to go to New Zealand, but that any remained behind in this country. Mr. Cameron has, during this season, delivered over a dozen lectures on New Zealand in various parts of the country, the greater number of them being under the auspices of the Victoria League. Mr. John Davies Enys, of Enys, Penryn, Cornwall, who died recently, leaving estate of the value of £137,000, spent many years of his- life in New Zealand, where he amassed a considerable portion of his wealth. Mr. Enys was the descendant of a family who have resided in Cornwall since the reign of Henry 11., and by his will has done what he ean to perpetuate the name of Enys in the county. Hie real estate he left upon trust for his nephew, the Rev. Enys Henry Rogers, for life, with the remainder to his eldest, son Charles, and his heirs in tail male, and with remainder to his second and other sons, and their heirs in tail male and with other remainders, and he directed that the tenant for life not bearing the name of Enys shall assume it by Royal licence within 12 months of succeeding to the estates. On behalf of His Majesty’s Government, Earl Beauchamp entertained at dinner at the Foreign Office on Wednesday evening, the Hon. W. Watt, Prime Minister of Victoria; the Hon. A. H. Peake, Prime Minister of South Australia ; the Hon. James Allen, Minister of Defence of New Zealand; the Hon. W. A. Holman, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice of New South Wales; and the Hon. L. O Louglilin, Speaker of the House of Assembly of South Australia. The banquet was quite a private affair, and in consequence of the Court being in mourning it was divested as far as possible of formality and ceremony. Callers at the Higli Commissioner’s offices this week have been:—Mr. A. Wallace, of Auckland; Mr. K. Macky, of Auckland: Mr. L. N. Nael, of Wellington; Mr. E. T. Tylee, of Napier; Mrs. A. E. and Miss Bedford, Auckland; Air. W. F. Ware, Auckland; Mr. B. Gray, Wellington; Mr. E. V. Smith, Christchurch; the Rev. G. Davys, Wellington; Mr and Mrs A. F. Foster, Auckland; Mr and Mrs C. Banks, of Auckland.