SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 238, 1 July 1908, Page 5

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Miss \ allance, of Masterton, is staying with Mrs. Hayward at the Hutt. Mrs. Alec. Mowat and hor children, who have been staying at the Hutt, returned to Blenheim on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ewart, of Masterton, are staying with Mrs. and Dr.-Ewart at the Hospital. . . Miss Moore from tho Wairarapa is the guest Of Mrs. George Pearce at- the .Hutt. The engagement is announced of Miss , Gertrude Brown, of Masterton, to Mr. i Taylor, of the Bank of New Zealand, Rao- ;• tihi. ; The Misses Lcda Lee and E. Allport, with : Messrs. Strauehan and W. Callonder, . are 1 arranging a little ontertainniont at the Hutt |. on Friday, July -10. There are to'be pri- ; yatb theatricals, followed by a danco. i . Miss Eileen Ward is giving a farewell tea .for Miss Kathleen Beauchamp this afternoon at "Awarua." Mr. and Mrs. -W. Jackson returned to Masterton on Monday, after spending two . .or ..threo days'in-town. - '.3/r. and Mrs. Eliott AVyoti are at present visiting relatives in Masterton. The engagement of Hiss Walton to Mr. Duncan Cameron,, of Pahoa, has lately boon announced. Oil Saturday afternoon, at. tho Anglican Church, Levin, Mr. Fred Collin was married to Miss Bertha Howard. After the ceremony,- which was performed by tho Rev. A. E. Worsley, Mr. and ,-Mrs. Collin and a number of guests wore; entertained at afternoon tea bv Mrs. Brewster at her house'in .Queen Street. Miss Olive Kent, the popular young lady in charge of the bees at the Levin Experimental Farm, who was also on the apiaries .staff at the Christchurch Exhibition, has been appointed an inspector under the Apiaries Act, 1907 (writes our Levin correspondent). Yesterday afternoon the mothers of tho children who havo been attending the Free Kindergarten in Tory.- Street wore, entertain? Ed - at' afternoon tea -by ■ the Kindergarten Council in the'new home of;the kindergarten the' Anglican mission! Toom in -Taranaki Street; 111 spite of the'rain there was a good attendance of both mothers and i little children, and a-very pleasant afternoon .was spent. Tea was served from several, littlo tables set, about tho room, which had. beon beautifully decorated with narcissi and daf- ! ! fodils. Mrs. S. Harcourt gave;a charming little .recitation, which was'much appreciated, and Short speeches were given by. Mrs. jHislop, Miss Richmond, and Mr. Walton. . i So far Wellington households do not seem j to . have beon suffering as acutely as might j have been expected from tlia shortage' -in J bread. One hears here and thero stories of 1 little difficulties encountered by housewives, and probably moro scones wero made in Wei- ' lington yesterday than in the preceding week, j but it seems that Wellington people afe ; ! adaptable,', and soon they will bo quite con- j tent to go without their daily broad. " Dominica" did not suspect .Wellington goner- ] ally of literary Pastes, but she is assured that I -the favourite quotation of the day is, "Tell • me .whero is fancy bred ?" J Mr. Charles Ernest Hickey, the well-known j cricketer,'eldest .son-of tho late Mr. M. C.- ) Hickey, was married yesterday, morning at j St. Mark's Church to Miss Amy Millice'nt < Eversleigh, eldest daughter of'-Mr. H. A. ,] Eversleigh; of Wellington'. The' Rev. A. M. Johnson, M.A., officiated. I (

Miss Kathleen Beauchamp is leaving tomorrow for L'yttelton on her way to England by the Papanui, and yesterday afternoon sho and her sister, Miss C. Beauchamp,, entertained a number of their girl friends at a farewell tea. Tea was laid in the 'diningroom,.' where.the. table was decorated with spring flowers , and Violets, and after tea the guests adjourned to another room for music., Here quite a concert was given by -many of the girls, among those, who sang being Misses ■C. Beauchamp, .Ward, Fulton, M.'TavishJ IL Mile's, Jones] R. Seddon, and'Newman. Miss Beauchamp - wore a frock of lilac taffetas; Miss Kathleen Beauchamp, winc-coloured braided, cloth; Miss Bendall, white .cloth; MissyMenteath, dark green frock with cream blouso and green glace hat/with wings; Miss* M'Tavish, pale blue frock and hat; Miss K. Marcliant, brown costumn, and brown hat with wide spreading ceriso wings; Miss Perkins; brown velvet; Miss Ethelwyn Kirk, , black velvet. Among others pros'ent were Misses Butts, : Putnam, Pell, Dean and Stuart.