The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-06
TRAVELS OF
MACINTOSH
interesting Meetings
With Island
Friends.

| England and OF his meetings with
former Honolulans:
Leaving the pleasant surroundings at
| HOLLYWOOD, we started to explore the
southern coast of England and to call
| upon friends, old and new. By one
| of those condolences which please us,
/ we happened to pass through, or rather
/ by, the place of my wife's birth on her
| birthday. We could see the royal stand
| ard flying from the tower Of Windsor
| Castle, and the Elton boys Were rejoic-
| ing in their montem. We were sped
| almost too swiftly through the lovely
country, and we reached Kismet, the
rather ominous name of our friends
| home in Torquay, as fresh as when
we left London. It is, as usual, our
fate to be entertained most heartily.
1t was a delight to the mother and
sister of our friends in San Francisco
to see US, and to know that we had
seen so recently and left SO well their
relatives, whom they had not seen for
many years. My charming guide pilot
ed me through the silvan mazes of this
semi-tropical town, the atmosphere I'M
til evening being so much like our own
in the islands. We sauntered through
parks, past ancient buildings and
tered the Norman church, with all the
signs of centuries of public worship, and
the Victorian church furnished for to-
days requirements. We gained the
heights and looked over the English
channel towards France. The shore was
lined with seaside tourists, old and
young, all of whom were revelling in
the ecstacy of leisure and freedom.
The services in the churches we at
tended We're good. The early ceiebra-
ton of Holy Communion had a large
number of communicates. But the
church, of course, suffers from the
fiuctuating nature of the population. 1t
was with much regret that we could
spend so short a time with our hos
pitable hosts, but we had to hurry on
to the Isle of Wight to our dear old
Honolulu friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Walker
and their daughter Beatrice, who has
bloSsomed into a young, beautiful and
accomplished lady. 1t would take a
volume to describe adequately our de-
lightful sojourn in this paradise of En-
gland but all of you who remember
those people and their goings in and
out amongst us in Honolulu, will be
gratified to know that their lines are
in such pleasant places as could not
possibly be excelled. Winterbourne,
their spacious house, is replete with
history, and it is as open to all corners
as was the villa in Honolulu. The
grounds are laid out in most romantic
misunderstanding highly cultivated,
sometimes like a primeval forest; here,
splashing fountain-there, turbulent
little river. Close by is the Church of
ST. Boniface, which was built in 1910,
the Shadow of the Cross William
Adams. He was buried there Jan: Z,
1S4S; on his tomb is a sun-dial and the
shadow of a cross is often over the
grave. Mr.. Walker has settled down
into the country gentleman, and he is
full of good works for the people of
his neighborhood. At Shanklin our
former colleague of Hawaii the Rev.
Cecil Tompkins, is working. We had
the pleasure of meeting him and his
wife (nee Greenfield of Hamakua) at
luncheon at Mr.. and Mrs. Walkers.
His Hawaiian friends will be glad to
know that ne is now perfectly we'll and
quite happy in the old country.
Marie had gone on to Bournemouth
TO visit Mr.. and Mrs. T. May, and we
were disappointed not to see them on
our way. 1t is very delightful that
these old Honolulu friends are so near
together. With Honolulu on our lips
and in our hearts, we left the Isle of
Wight for Tunbridge Wells to see an
other of our dearest friends still linked
with dear old days. But on reaching
Portsmouth we were met at the train
by Colonel and Mrs. Teviss, the sister
and brother-in-law of Captain c. NJ.
v Forster of Honolulu. I had had a
delightful call on Mrs. Teviss the day
before, and told her about her brother
and his good fortune. and to make the
best use of my time in Portsmouth I
had luncheon with Mr.. Blake, the
brother of Mrs. Reilly of St PauI's,
San Francisco, at his club. I missed
one friend whom I should have been
delighted to see again, the Rev. Mr..
Marwood, who visited Honolulu as nav
al chaplain several times, and who had
resided in Portsmouth up to a few days
previous to my visit.
On arriving at Tunbridge Wells we
found Mrs. Theo. H. Davies and her
family all exceedingly well and I'M
changed. BY degrees all but one of her
English sons and daughters joined the
household and we five, my son having
Joined US, made a great Hawaiian
party But the first person we met was
Mrs. Brine, Mrs. George Davies /
mother, who left Honolulu only few
months ago. 1t is peculiar how we
drop across people we know. Very
happy days we spent in this lovely
home. replete with every joy but one.
The speaking likeness of the once head
of the family hung on the walls in sew
eral rooms of the stately mansion, and
seemed TO breathe a blessing upon
those he loved so well and for whom
he had striven so hard
While at Tunbridge Wells we paid a
visit TO the mother. of our beloved ply
stefan. DR. Herbert, and while with
her we met several other members of
her numerous family. She, in fact all,
of them enjoyed hearing of the well
fara Of their mis-