SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 240, 7 October 1916, Page 17

SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

_ Mrs. J. Jamieson, who has 'been on a six months' visit to Australia, returned by the Niagara on Monday. Mrs. Wardle, accompanied .by Miss Norman, arrived in Auckland on Monday on a trip to New Zealand.

Mr. and Mrs. M. Gudex were passengers by the mail steamer from Sydney at the beginning of the week.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Berry arrived in (Auckland by the Niagara. "Florence Barclay," the author of The Rosary" and "The Mistress of Shenstone," is a .woman of peculiar charm in social life, and of highly original ideas.

A Wellington lady has received a letter from a friend at Edenbridge, Sent, England, whose house' has been turned into a hospital which accommodates twenty patients. She says: "You will be surprised to learn that we hear the guns of France quite well here. It is a constant distant Tumble, and it is so ghastly to think what loss of life every rumble means."

A very ipretty wedding was celebrated at Knox.* Church, Christchureh. The bridegroom was Mr. Arthur Edwin Fallwell, eldest son of Mr. S. _C. Fall•well, of Mount Roskill, Auckland, and late of the Union Steamship Company, and the bride was Miss Jean Thomson Meikleham, younger daughter of the late William Meikleham, ''The Lodge." Lochnagar, Scotland, and Mrs. iifeikleham, Bealey Avenue, Christchureh. and granddaughter of the late Professor Meikleham, of Glasgow College. It is interesting to know that the bride, on her another's side, ia closely related to the family of the late Sir Walter Scott. The bride wore a smart French gown of handeinbroidered voile, with swathed silk waist, finished with, silk horseshoes sewn with seed pearls. An embroidered net veil, worn over the face and falling in graceful points was draped over the usual coronet of orange blossoms. Her ornaments included the bridegroom's gift, a beautiful .brooch of diamonds and pearls, set in platinum, and a string of her mother's pearls. She carried a bouquet of choice iwhite flowers. Mrs. Meikleham gave a. reception at Broadway's in honour of the event, and the bride and bridegroom departed shortly afterwards, en route for the Wanganui River, the Waitomo Caves, and so on to Auckland. The bridegroom goes into camp at Trentham shortly, and from there into the Patrol Service of the Navy.

It was Princess "Victoria of SchleewigH olstein, who, impressed by the rest Unite of the V.M.C.A-, and their canteens ai the training camps, 'began to wonder why there should not be eimilar provision made for the munition-makere. A com mittee was. formed, and a deputation, consisting of Xedy Henry Grosvenor and Lord Derby, waited on the superintendent of the arsenal, and offered to provide meals for the workers. They ac quired the drill hall of the artillery, aDd very coon it was converted into a big, cheerful dining-room, with eeating room for 1,500 men. In a very short time the big tall was too small. Now in these canteens there is room for 34,000 people ■t one meal.