WOMEN'S CORNER.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16163, 18 March 1918, Page 2

WOMEN'S CORNER.

Matter for publication in this column should be addressed to the Lady Editor, and should bo fully authenticated.. Mr and Mrs Fenwick (Napier) are

in town. Mr and Mrs G. S. Radley (Wellington) are visiting Christchurch. Mr and Mrs R. Neill (Auckland) are staying at Warner's. Miss Kathleen Barstow (Auckland) is staying in Christchurch. Mr Justice Stringer and Mrs Stringer arrived from the North on Saturday. Mr and Mrs Arthur George (Wellington) and Miss George are visitiag Christchurch. Australian visitors to Christchurch inciudo Mr and Mrs Chve King (M°|" bourne), Mr and Mrs Dunlop (Sydney), and Mr and Sirs Berte (Sydney). Mire W. J. Martin (Martinborough) and her daughters are in Christchurch on their return from Mt. Cook. A jumble sale, arranged by the Red Cross Depot, was held on Saturday in St. John's schoolroom, Madras street, lent for the purpose by the Rev. J . J. Cocks. Many quaint articles, contributed bv various people, were for sale, as well as produce and articles from the Red Cross skop in Cathedral square. The proceeds are to go to tho Red Cross Society. There was a large attendance on Saturday at the Society of Arts Exhi-bit-ion, when «v most onjoyabi© programme of music, arranged by Mrs Osmond Smith, was listened to. Airs* Smith herself played two of Macdowcll s ''Sea 'Pieces," and, with Miss Rachel Ross, a brilliant duet. The vocalists were: Mrs Pidgeon, Miss Dora larrcll, and I>r. Stanley Foster. The afternoon tea arrangements wero in the lianas or Mrs Norman Macßefli, assisted by a number of pretty girls in Red Cross uniforms.

Airs Agnes AlcKenzie, who is well known in Auckland, was stewardess on tho steamer Matunga when the vessel was sunk bv the German raider »yolr. A cablegram has been received irom Mrs AlcKenzie, who is in Denmark, asking that her relatives be informed of her safety. Mrs Mckenzie is a widow, her late husband, who was an engineer in the employ of the Union Companv, having been killed in an accident at Onehunga some years ago. Since her husband's death, Airs AlcKenzie has been a stewardess on several steamers. She was on the Matunga for a few months prior to the sinking of that yessel Air and Mrs AlcKenzie resided in Wellington, but since becoming a widow Mrs AlcKenzie had been domiciled for the greater part of the time in Auckland.

The outfit allowance payable to members of the New Zealand Army Nursing Service has been increased from 12s to £lo 15s, and the annual upkeep allowance from £8 to £9 9s, both increases to date from 23th January, 1918. The recent death, at an advanced age, of tho brilliant wife.of the most brilliant pioneer of art in Australia, Nicholas Chevalier, closes a chapter of history that will bcc<""" fascinating when tho art of the Ausi.; ! New World attains that great placc i.i the art. of the future it is manifestly destined to fill (says the "Sydney Daily Telegraph"). Mrs Chevalier was a worthy helpmate of that remarkable man whose great and varied gifts will be more appreciated as time goes on. She accompanied him on some of his most adventurous trips, and aided him in those brilliant social successes he began in Melbourne and finished in the courts or I Europe. Mrs Chevalier was remarkable in her way; she will be greatly missed by a wide circle of friends. The charms of the Old orld did not dim her affection for. the new, and the public galleries of Australia and New Zealand arc likely to be enriched by mementoes of her gifted husband. The marriage took place in St. Marv's Church, Auckland, last week, of Miss J. 3>. Mace, daughter of Air Charles Alace, of Auckland, to Dr. Hugh McDonald, Resident Magistrate of Kotoma, Fiji- Archdeacon MacMurrav performed the ceremony. Aliss Jessie 'Martin was "bridesmaid, and Mr James Rolleston the best man. Dr. and Mrs Mac Donald left almost immediately for. Sydney.

Another of New Zealand's old colonists has passed away, in the person oi Airs Andrew Luff , who came to \> eliington from England about 65 years aco with her father (Air Cliannon) and two sisters. The late Airs Luff was one of the pioneer settlers of the Hawke s Bay province, having journeyed there round the coast about the year leoo. there being no roads "between Wellington and Napier then. At the end of 1874 she went to England with her husband and family, returning to >ew Zealand and settling with them in Welin 1880, where sho resided until her death. Mrs Luff was one ot the original members of St James s Presbyterian Church, and took a great interest in Sunday school work, baying been a teacher for upwards of thirtyfive years.

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BADGES FOR SOLDIERS' WIVES AND MOTHERS. WEDNESDAY'S PRESENTATION. In connexion with the distribution of badges by her Excellency, the Countess of Liverpool to wives and mothers of our soldiers, in the Choral llall, on Wednesday, arrangoments are being made to accommodate 500 wives and mothers. The Mayor of Christchurch (Mr H. Holland.) will preside. Mrs Wood, President of the Women's National Reserve, has received from Wellington samples of the badges for wives. _ The badge is of handsome and artistic design, being a silver bar and disc surrounded by dark blue enamel. The badges for both wives and mothers will make permanent mementoes _ to those who acquirc them, and will prove of absorbing interest to future generations a.s records of the present world war, and of the sacrifice and help given by the wives and mothers of New Zealand. To those desirous of obtaining these badges it will be necessary to call at the rooms of the Women's National Reserve. 257 Manchester street, not later than. to-day or to-morrow, and give the name of the son or husband, together with the military number and name of reinforcements. Members of the Women's National Reserve Committee will be in attendance at the Choral Hall on Wednesday, 20th, at 2 p.m., to marshal all recipients of badges to their reserved seats.

VICTORIA LEAGUE. On Saturday a most eniovable outing -was arranged for the delegates to the Victoria League Conference by members of the Christchurch committee. Unfortunately some of the delsKates had already returned to their homes, but those who remained expressed themselves delighted with the entertainment. The outing took the form of a motor picnic, there six car-loads. The cars proceeded first to New Brighton, where morning tea was enjoyed, and then dro\e b> war of the Hcathcote Valley up to Mount Victoria for a picnic luncheon. The afternoon was employed in drivin,T through some of the city s piettiest suburbs, visitors being loud 111 their admiration lor the beauties disclosed to them. --No one wil dispute the claims of Christchurch to be called the 'garden city of New Zealand, was the remark of one delegate as suburb after suburb showed new beauties of garden and shrubbery. And he by the wav. was an Aucklander. Miss Coates.* Mrs Chatfield, and Mrs Grey. "Wellington delegates to the Victoria League Conference, returned home on Saturday night, while Miss Burt, Miss Jackson, and Miss Chalmci- (Dunedin). and Mesdames AYoodward and Sutton (Oamaru) went south by Saturday's express.

N.Z. SOLDIERS ;AXD MARRIAGE AT HOME. Mr I. "W. Raymond, chairman of the executive of the New Zealand War Contingent Association, wroto to the London papers in January, giving tho procedure when a man of the lorco wishes to marry in England A certificate of character will bo procured which must bo given bv tho minister of the church to which the intended wife belongs. The soldier will apply through his commanding officer, attaching this certificate, and stating to whom his allotment is payable. The commanding officer will then forward theNapplicatioii, etc., to the Headquarters. The records aro searched to find out whether tho soldier is single, and the name of his allottoe. The staff paymaster then cables, at the soldier's expense, to New Zealand, asking that the allotment be varied from the present allottee to the intended wife. Upon receipt of cabled instructions from Now Zealand authorising this, permission to marry is granted. Jhe New Zealand Government incurs no obligation or liability whatsoever in respect of tho passage to New Zealand of tho soldier's future wife or famih', if any.

to-day's "Recipe. Hot Beef Mould.—Required: One pound of shin of beef, three ounces of haricot beaus, two onions, one carrot, a tablespoonful of tomato pulp, the same of barley flour, a cupful of bone or vegetable stock, pepper and salt. Cut the beef into inch cubes, soak the beans overnight, season the barley flour with pepper and salt, and roll each piece of meat well in it. Grease a large basin well, at the bottom put a layer of sliced onion, then a, layer of beef pieces, then one of beans, over this put the tomato pulp, and the carrot thinly sliced. Repeat the layers until all the ingredients are used, and at the top have a thin layer of beans. Season each layer and pour over all the stock. Tie a grease paper securely over the top and steam steadily for four or five hours. Sorvo in the same basin, or, if liked, the contents may be emptied on to a hot dish with a wall of hot mashed potatoes round them. .