THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 19, 23 January 1929, Page 12

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs. E. J. Rcnn, of Nelson, is a guest at Stonehurst. • * * •

Dr. K. Curtis, of Nelson, is a visitor at Cargen Hotel. » # • •

Mrs. W. Belfield, of Sydney, is staying at Hotel Cargen.

• • • • Mrs. H. Toml)s, of Wellington, is staying at Stonehurst.

* • • • Miss H. C Coyne, of Stratford, is a guest at Stonehurst. • » • »

Mrs. T. A. Anderson, of Wellington, is staying at the Grand Hotel.

Miss B. Edmondson, of England, is staying at Cargen Hotel.

• • • • Mrs. H. R. McKenzie, of Sydney, is a guests at the Central Hotel.

Mrs. Buckleton and Miss Buckleton lave returned to Wellington.

Mrs. E. Knight, of Bradford, England, Is a guest at the Grand Hotel.

• • • • The Misses D. and M. Gibbons, of Lon don, arc staying at Cargen Hotel.

• • • • Grand Hotel visitors include the 31isses D. and E. Holland, of Sydney.

Miss M. Knight, of England, is touring the Dominion, and is at the Grand Hotel.

Mrs. W. W. Lambert, of Whakatane, arrived from England by the Ulimaroa yesterday. • • • •

An oversea visitor to Auckland 5s Mi«s E. Vemey, of Belgium, and is staying at Hotel Cargen.

Mrs. J. B. Winell, of Keswick, England, is a visitor to Auckland and is at Hotel Cargen. • • • •

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Tmpett and Mr. Kenneth Impett left yesterday on a motoring tour of New Zealand.

Mrs. H. R. Campbell, of Palmerston North, is staying with Mrs. D. R. Campbell, Rosebank Road, Avondale.

The greatest, heiress in Madrid, Senolita de Ampudia, who was recently marTied, wore her great grandmother's wedding gown. The headdress and veil were stitched thickly with pearls of an estimated value of £40,000.

Miss Nancy Cunard, the only daughter of Lady Cunard, and a brilliant poet has set up a printing press in her home in *?* Bce ' Aroong the authors whom gM Ato.nnMfth editions are George Moore and Norman Douglas! • • • •

» Before Princess Alice returns to South Africa with Lord Athlone, she will git tor a portrait to Philip de Laszlo, who as painted more Royal personages than toy artist of his times. The Laszlo Jiiortrait will probably be a silver wed#ng g'ft. as on February 10 Princess Alice and Lord Athlone will have been married 25 years.

-Princess Mary was presented with a ifllver horseshoe for "luck" before she 14ft Ireland recently. The horseshoe was forn as a charm by the Greeks and omans 2000 years ago to protect them from evil. The belief is that evil travelled in a, circle, and the horseshoe, in the shape of a crescent, breaks the *pell of evil if the points of the crescent are presented in self-defence. So the horseshoe has become a most famous talisman. How ever used or where ever seen, the horseshoe is a world-wide •ymbol of "good luck."

i'Dr. and Mrs. Percy Herring, who arrived in Auckland by the Ulimaroa yesterday and were staying at the Central Mptel, left this morning for Ro f ,orua. m- Herring is one of New Zealand's most distinguished scholars. His boyhood was spent on his father's run, the Alford Estate in Canterbury. He entered Canterbury College and rapidly attained distinction both in the medical and scholastic world. He is, and has been for many years, principal of St. Andrew's University, in Scotland.