SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 222, 12 June 1908, Page 5

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

_ According- to a Wellington .lady who jias •just ,retiirnod_:from a visit to tlipse cities, the [fashions in Sydney .and Melbourne are not much in ,advancc .of what wo havo here, and the Sydney, styles are perhaps not oven as smart as ours. Tho pripes ill both cities are not . below ours, and she quotes the case of _ a (juiet but .pretty " . hat .which she priced and found cost.£4 10s. Some of ,tho best-dressed women in Melbourne aro wearing the .floral, toques which, have lieen so popular at/Home, aridi these are remarkably pretty, ■but.as expensive as pretty; • 'There is a'great .yogtio:'for real' flowers for .evening wear, large.'. sprays hein'g. used '.to decorate the corsage, arid occasionally , a rose will be worn in,the hair, though for this purpose ribbon Js moro worn. ribbon is threaded in and ■ out of; the hair, and finished on each ' sido in a large bow. Combs set with: brilliants, thp sort'that used to be in:favour here a year or two ago, are still all the thing in Melbourne.' In Sydney the hat covered with drenched feathers seems to/have taken possession'of the streets'. One meets it everywhere; but as . tho shops are busily selling bunches large enough to cover any hat, at Is. lid. the bunch, it is : supposed that 'the fashion will speedjly,die." ;, f ;.- ■

Mrs.-Brandon, of Wanganui, -is visiting Wellington, and is'staying with her daughter Mrs. Ewa'rt. ';. : The.'.'prize;;:given ,by, Mrs. iPonsonb'y to • the Miratnar Ladies 'Golf Club was won on Wednesday by Miss Alice Turner.. Mrs. North, wife of-Dr. North, the. Indian missionary, was among the passengers who arrived;/by the Warrimoo on Wednesday. Mrs. iNorth,; who has brought her two young 's,ons -:to_?bo educated in New Zealand,will remairih'n the'Dominipn untii the end of the year, ivhen' she will return ■to India, i.; jVljss''Tt'ain'sfordj a Canterbury lady niissioriary,: who is on .furlough, was- a passenger by tho same boat. ,' . \,- , - : .Mr. and Mrs. Ahrens are leaving Mastertoii this week for Sydney, where they intend to-spend somo months. ~ 1 Miss R. Tjiouiea-u his returned to'Mastertori, after a short' visit ' to' Wellington, and ■ 1 -/

| ' 'Miss Murray/.of Willis Street,'■ returned ;by tho Warrimoo .from a two months' , visit to ! Australia. ■■■■'/ ■ ■ ■ v v Yesterday :the Vivian Street. : 'Baptist Church,.-Miss,'Fulcher, of ,the Indian; Zonana'ahd medical missionj gave an address . on mission wort in India. ' 1 Yesterday afternoon.tho ladies of the Navy' ■ -League; went', to sea..: They, put-out from' 1 shore, in boats maimed by. stalwart: maim)'.war's- lads," and they arrived at the end of a'> not too long: journey, during which there ,was';- just .'/the.: suspicion of ■ waviness, at tho . Airtokura's; front:, door, towards -'which' they', .mounted .withJ/inpre-.graice than -is'usually: achie^d.in climbing a ship's side. . From.that -.t'ine on they-had■an-, entertaining afternoon. ■ zlhey watched ' tho .'.boys who, were at work, and,/those at play, they climbed down' tho • j>fei. rs 'ito ; : the ,boys','.quarters, where'nothing :but.-;hooks ;and. lockers' wqre .to befseen,.rind .here the • lads .obligingly-'-slung, a liammock; into-which another swung himself, so /that the ■ ladies.- of the League;;might rea-lise-how the sleeping accommodation - is ar : ranged. The hammock ■is certainly a great: invention, -. and its iextended-.use . might- solire ;.somo' of- -Wellington's housing =, problems, for '.in;-a space: so' smaU that" one would.:think it would bo ,difficult to swing; the traditional cat,; eighteen -boy's hang'. their hammocks" at night, :- and they ; have .- lots -.of - room. •latCT-pn&j display .of'gun; cjrill was, given ;by a, detachment...';-The;ladsyjvero verylpleasaht, and willingly did'their share in. entertaining the-guests. /It-docs not seem 'certain that they.,willall - eventually follow• the,. sea as a I prof ession, -but. they -havo j been gi ven a good start ;in',. : that" direction; :'and ; therecan \be littlo:, doiibt ..that.;whatever",they become 'in i after years tho discipline of . the term on the - I Ampkura will have been excellent for them. Afternoon ..tea ; was. served/on the "deck, arid J iri -the 'saloon,, and.the host'arid hostess, Can- 1 tain • Hooper, RIN., and : his .did all -in ..their. pbwer to make the: visit enjoyable. So didthe., boys,' and -several of them kindly ■ imdortook'an,obstacle racerindorarid through. many obstructions,,the victors-finally em'erg- c ing?from; a'long tunnel'of tarpaulin; covered 1: with flour and fhished with success. Among o the visitors to the Amokura, : including; most A of .the; members ,of tho; Navy League Ladies' I .Committee, wero .Mesdames "Hislon. L: Blun- -ii dell, J.'. Blundell, Firth, Butt, Ward, and Fanning, and Misses Butts, Winder' arid I Cobb. ■: . „

Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Donnelly,.of'Hawke's Bay, • aro expected to arrive from Nanior by 'the Moana. THey tranship - to' the • Moeraki which leaves for Sydney to-day.. . . '