THE SOCIAL ROUND
PERSONAL ITEMS.
Mrs. Eric Rhodes, of Remuera, Auckland, is a visitor to Wellington.
Mrs. Hart and Miss Muriel Darling, Auckland, are visitors to Wellington.
Miss E. Culling, Miss J. Reid and Miss F. Hamlin, Auckland, are in Wellington for the golf tournament.
Mrs. Skeet, of Masterton, is visiting her sister,* Mrs. Trevor Thomson, of Parnell, Auckland. > • • • •
The Earl of Orford, accompanied by the Countess of Orford and their small daughter, the Hon. Anne Walpole, arrived by the Ruahine on Friday. The Earl intends making a lengthy stay in the Dominion for health reasons.
A daughter of Lord Orford, who arrived in Wellington from England on Friday, is Lady Dorothy Mills, the author of that interesting and entertaining book, "Beyond the Bosphorous," has, so states an English exchange, a dazzlingly-painted front door to her house in Ebury Street. Lord Orford has been twice married, and has a daughter only by each marriage. Lady Dorothy Mills is the daughter of his first marriage to an American lady, Miss Corbin. The heir is an Eton boy of 15, Robert Montgomerie Walpole, a distant cousin of Lord Orford, who will succeed, not to the earldom of Orford, which becomes extinct on the death of the present holder, but to the barony of Walpole.
ENGAGEMENTS ANNOUNCED
The engagement is announced of Dorothy Elsie, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Wright, Khyber Pass, to Clifton Edwards, eldest eon of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Clarke, Shelly Beach Road.
The engagement is announced of Isabel Clarey, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Clarey, of Auckland, to Frank H. Hardman, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hardman, Manchester, England.
The engagement is announced of Harold Reeve, second son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Morey, Wallace Place, to Claire, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Gee, Glenmark, Takapuna, Auckland.
The engagement fs announced of Gladys Grayson, eldest daughter of Mr. W. Arthur Grayson, of Abbotts Road, Mount Eden, to Ernest D. Thomas youngest son of Mr. and the late Mrs. J. E. Thomas, of Mount Eden.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 18
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