OUR LONDON LETTER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2610, 18 September 1909, Page 3

OUR LONDON LETTER.

(From Our Own Correspondent.). LONDON, Aug. 6

Lieut.-Col. R. H. Davies, InspectorGeneral of the New Zealand Forces, lias arrived here accompanied by Mrs and Miss E. M. Davies. He is to be attached to the War Office for twelve montlis to study army administration and training in this country. Dr W. A. Chappie, ex-M.B. for Taihape, has taken liis two daughters, to Germany, and his wife is taking the two youngest on a visit to friends here. The eldest recently won the swimming championship of the Iloedean School, at Brighton, and gained a silver CU jir JI. T. B. Drew, a Wellington journalist, and Mr G. E. Woolley, also from the Dominion, have just completed an interesting cycle tour on the Continent. It occupied four months, and in that oeriod the two cyclists travelled through eleven countries, and covered a- distance of 3260 miles, doing anvthing from 50 to 100 miles a day. A tour like this, says Mr Drew, can be done very cheaply, jf tho tourist will ioin the Cyclists’ Touring Club, and avail himself of the facilities which that body provides. “So far as hostile feeling to the Britisher is concern ed,” he says, “our experience was that everywhere we went, even in German) —except, .perhaps, in parts of Prussia—people could not do enough for the Britisher.” Mr W. G. Broad, of Napier, who recently sold his interest in the firm of Broad and Tristram, of that city, chemists and photographic dealers, is taking a holiday in the Old Country, after an absence of twenty-three years. He came by the Oswestry Grange (Federal Houlder line), and will return to New Zealand about the end of the year.: . 1 . - Mr W. T. Williams', a Wellingtoman, just now in London, js on his way to the World’s Conference of Young Men’s Christian Association., which is being he'd at Barmen-Elberfeld,.in Germany. Ho attended the luncheon and reception given to the delegates at the Hotel Russell by Mr Howard Williams, chairman of the British and Colonial Un;on of Young Men’s Christian Associations.