SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 30, 30 October 1907, Page 5

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

■ ■■ ■ —__^ —: —_ - New Zaais-Ttders Abroad. Lotto; s received from Miss Warren and Miss Barft-i-, who left New £ialaml in July, p.nnounoo tbeir arrival .in,-London after i very onjoyablo voyage They r.-ero fortunnto m arriving during the most beautiful weather London had known for months. In the thr'oo days boforc thoy wrote thoy lud soon a great many of the sights, and were quite in love with London. Miss Wnrrori in the course of a letter says:, 'If there is one- thing we are disappointed with ..hero, it is tha'want of crowds-. But I suppose it is.the ompty time of tho yo.sr. We. never sco-the traffic -stop'wrt fo- '.rinrs than n.fow seconds, and h:»v? .wsr. L*j,-,»ou Bridge with about one 'bua, iv man, p.nd a dog on.it. I expected, to -find Win crowds shrging on endlessly. Of conrsa in the mornings and evpnings it'is a little more so." Dr. and Mrs.: Knight; and family, of Auckland,, who went to the Old Country aboil six months ago, have boon spending some time;in Wales. They hayo. taken a furnished house at Harrow, and intoud to remain in England for throe years.

r Mr. and Mrs., W'.'K Tisdall,- formerly of Karori, hayo been motoring through England arid send enthusiastic accounts of their "trip, j Among other.New Zealandcrs at present in. England : are Nurses Collins and Canning, of. ,Christchurch;,.:Who. have, been spending ■"most of their, time,in London. They arc returning, to, New Zealand in March. . Mrs. arid the Misses Kempthornc, of Auckland, are '.having a,. most enjoyable trin in England. They : hayo been visiting the English lakes,' and are now doing the highlands: Thoy will return to New Zealand by the Macedonia, via Sues, and. hope to bo homo in' tinio to spend .Christmas with their relations. ,'. ~

Mr. and Mrs. Aigar' Williams are spending their, honeymoon at ,tho Southern Lakes. Mrs.. J. Prouse and her daughter left last Saturday for. a visit to To. Arolm and Rotorua. They expect, to be away;from home for about a, month. . , ; • Mrs: F.'.Harvey,' who left last ■ week; for a long stay. in.Timaru for itbe" benefit of her health, will during her stay in" that town be thoguestof Mrs. Costcllo. ' •' Mr. and Mrs/ Joseph Studholm'c have returned from Christchurch) and are now stay ing' with Mrs! Rhodes at the Grange, Wadestown. .. . -

' MiS3'Donnistoun, who has been staying at Bishopscourt, has now returned,,to her homo at- Peel, Forest,, South Canterbury. Among the passengers expected to arrive by the Monowai from Sydney this afternoon'' Charles Johnston, who has been absent for many months, and has most, of the time in England. V ;"' MissMaisie Deans, of Christchurch, who has during the last few .weeks been tho guest of Miss Brandon, returned to Christchurch last week. Mrs. Newman's many friends will bo glad to hear that her health is improving,'and it is hoped that she will soon be quite well. Mrs. Arthur Hoby, and ->liss. Hoby, who have been visiting Auckland with Mr., Hoby, returned, to town last night. •'. Miss May. Whitelaiy,,'of Auckland, is .at present paying a visit to her sister, 'Miss Gray, of Giant Road. Miss"Whitclaw has -only recently returned from England, where she. was nursiiig in the Children's Hospital, London. Colonel (Mrs.) Fisher; of the Salvation Army, private secretary to Mrs. Commissioner M'Kie, who is in charge of the Salvation Army's social loforrn work for Australasia, ;,is- ' touring' the -/Dominion, and is expected to arrive on Thursday in Wellington where she will'inspect the.Army's homes for ■women and: children. ' '' '•'■■'-. ' , .rMrs. W, A. Evans is, to give a lecture on Charles Lamb at the.rooms of the V.W.C.A. on Friday, week "on behalf; of the Y.W.C.A. The Society has this session had the help of several friends. Air. R. Brown gave them an elocutionary evening, Mrs. A. R. Atkinson lectured before them on. .'.'Literary Frauds of the Seventeenth'. Century," and Dr. Agnes '-..Bennettgave a lecture on "Hygiene lor Girls."