SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 135, 2 March 1908, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

At Saturday's farewell.., at v.Trentham: to i .. Mr. , arid Mrs. Harcourt,. reported elsewhere, > a large number.,.of. ladies,, • 'the'.smartest' !of 'frocks', and' the ; sceno 'was gay ;'. After lunch, there .'.wcrir motor ear graces;-■ tho cars full of ladies,''a-vlittle bewildered by the pace they wfcirft 'carHsd through ; the. air,; and;;; hanging-; 1, on'".most, vigorously to their hats during thWriad rush. Tho\fastest car,.fl'as Mrs. Join)- Dijricari's, . and; next the beautiful car of Mrs'.'-Joseph. At '4 the guests wbut -,-to ,tea>iri*:thq;-big luncheon room, arid a- little later -the* special; took them back to town, ending -a" most happy N ,function. . ... ■ -V;'. :• ■ Mr.' Robert Turnbull, vice-presid,c'nt,. was. chairman, and took in Miss ./Harcourt'; : ;to lunch, arid''next' to him '.were "Mi%, Moorhouse' and; Mr. Harcourt. -Among' the .iriariy' guests,", wero 1 Mesdames'. Duncan,." Abbot,' Joseph, Cooper, Hadfield, 11. Johnston, Rolleston,' Barrow, Nathan, Deari,. 'Harpqu.rt,-'A: Duncan, Pcarce, -Bidwillj arid Misses Harcourt' 1 (2), _ Dean,' CooperJ Barron,''Sonierr, , vi.llo, McKenzie, Seddon, Joseph ; (2), Bell, ■ Duncan, ' Coleridge,; etc.' .AVhite;; Was^;the. prevailing ; colour.; Miss ' 'Harcourt viore,,a' pretty pale' blue voile,' arid. Miss .price: Harcourt ..was, in .white embroidered. musliri:;.with a'wide leghorn hat tririiriied with,roses.!; Mrs. Abbot was 'in 'heliotrope confeqtiori:. sur-. ;• .mounted by a petunia, hat;..Mrs.VNatllan, particularly smart wKite' frock';', the Misses Joseph, also white of the daintiest;, .make. '.Many!.. ,;riiostattractive.' . airy ' picture : hats;",' 'relieved the prevailing: /white.. <Mrs.'',H., Johnston was-.in ; grey,and Miss Dean, wore,a fascinating" blue, dress.,'i No '.gar-, den: party,' held "in'.Wellington'"h'itherfcoh.as shown'' stichV'an''-array; of ;really women;; The brilliant, sunshine ;shoivcdithcm "off; to .-advantage,, A and; the. spacious "grounds preventpd..,overcrowding. From;.-.' start to finishthe,-.entertainment' went'.,. spJen'dMly; : Mr.''-and' ' pleased iWith .'.the,, heartinessof 'send-, ■off,;,'arid, it' is. : difficult.to,iniagine'a'more successful' entertainment. , '■' . A largo- number 1 of- the'' friends' .•■of, Riddifora,'; Sirs.: AVorthj , and- Miss'Bfemner ; m?t: at., Mi's:,'..'Newman's ' last > Thursday - .t'o . wish.:them--bon -voyage... . Mrs.- 'Riddilorcl and' , Mrs. 'Worth, are'leaving by . the 'i'Kaipar'a' nest Saturday; -Miss t "Bremnyr. left:..' on' Friday .for South' Africa via Sydney, arid :her marriage to 'Mr. "Macfarlane • place ..shortly after her', arrival at Diirbari.-; ; i;;, Miss' J. G. Rodger, who is severing her ■ connection .with',the .General; Post'. Office,'-on tho/eye .of. Kcr. : marriage,.. received' on'§atiir-' day...from the. ,'staff , a handsome ..presentation, consisting of^.silver'teapot,',fisbfknfycis'arid' forks,;'and';a.', pair ofserviettering S.Mr: D.- Robertson, Secretary .of .tho Department, •in? making tho presentation^. said; Miss' Rod- ■ ger j Had J rendered excellent. service, T ?.first ', in the telephone., exchange,.'.;'and. forVtho • last two years' asa shorthand: writer .'and' ! typist in his. own ofßco.' He wished :h-CT Tdvory; success'm her new sphere of life. i :Mr., V.. Waters, ...Chief j : ,alsbV;spbk,o .'; in similar terms 0f',... the . ...roeipion't-s.':'gdoa qualities as,an officer. A Was made on Miss Rodger s behalf,'.by .Mr! J. C. Redmond,'Principal'.Clerk of the 'Correspondence Branch. . ...

Oiv^iarch-12, Mr.'Bush; President : pf.thb Wellington/BowlingvClub, aiid .vMfs./.Bush i.intenfl."giving a euchre"'party' at, the Bowling .Club's pavilion. ; ; ; -;r-?h Yesterday -afternoon''' ait;-'tho. '"Y.W.C.A. iiooms oii/Lambton Quay, Miss Mclean, who is the President of the Association, delivered an; interesting address ion the subject/of' her recent,psit to the Holy Land. Tho room was. filled "wftlr"members,'t)f th'o, Association /and theirfriend^,. and' though the address took'rather/moro time tliari. Miss MbLean • had intended, ; - all. who were ' present, thought <it Ws p faf^t<»;Bfiortr'Mis3' i McL^'is', , a,v6j7 attractive /graphic 4nd' vivid and /; as' - she /went ,wide,/operi,> •ami; her . mind,. already' stored with infdrma r ■tidn, readx/to/rec,eive r ncw,. impressions, her ' address /was very enjoyable. ; m. ■,'/,-.;:/■

.'; ;A : . tea.. to' ■; strahgerS -aire iriVitcd is held at the Y.W.C.A. rooms on Sunday ;evenings ;:o. ::; :D : r v