SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 138, 5 March 1908, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Tliis week tho. /gallant '.ofenders—when necessary—of Jth r '"\-Dpminic-' * ro camping out at Trentham, ' .1.1. ,-,at )p,st ono lady, Mrs. Welsh, wife of the- captain of the Opaki Rifles,: is enduring tho hardships incidental to tho life of a soldier's wife. Lady Ward, who is-with' Sir- Joseph'''-in. Auckland, is expected back in Wellington 0:1 Monday. Mrs. Palmer, of Davis Street, is going to England for a prolonged visit, .and has booked-her passago :by . : tho Runic, leaving Sydney next' month.. ■ - : Mr.'Arthur M'Ewan < and ihjs' briclo, who have: been spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs:'J: B. M'Ewari, aro returning to New Plymouth to-day. Among, tho Wairarapa residents 'who have booked passage® for Great Britain aro ;Miss IC. Buriny, of, Ahiaruhe, and Miss Kiimmer. and Miss B. Kummor, of.Kummerstein. - Mrs. Lewis Woolcott, of. Sydney, and her mother, -Mrs.Grant, of Muritai, .aro at present spending' a fortnight's holiday in Mas-t-erton.' /Mrs.', Woolcott intends to return toSydney in. about a'month's-'time. : • Miss; Meinertzhagen,' who. has been; spending a fowdays in Wellington, 'leaves this morning for Hawke's, Bay.-., '*. ' ./• Mrs. Cecil Jones, wifo of tho manager, of the Huddart Parker Company, is giving a tea this', afternoon on the company's new boat,, tho Ulimaroai.- . . •According to -a''Press* Association' telegram, thevNapier .Telegraph gives.''currency'to .the report .that Mr. Bent, Premier "of Victoria, •is engaged to be married 'to the widow of an old'settler in-this island. " ■.