SOCIAL AND PERSONAL,

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 2631, 5 August 1908, Page 5

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL,

The Commissary of tlio Anglican Bishop of Auckland has received cabled intelligence from the Bishop (1) that Miss Hancock, the successor of Miss Hudson as lady superintendent pf St. Mary's Homes, wilL sail on: October. ,9. f Previous intelligence-.was that she was to have s'ailed on July 9. Miss Hudson and staff of St. Mary's Home have consented to stay for another three months. ■Mr. and Mrs. J. Schwartz, of'Christchurch, leave Wellington for America, via Sydney, on' Friday week. Mr. and Mrs. Schwartz are at present staying in "Wellington. Mr. E. M. Simpson has taken a seycral years' lease of Lady Stout's house on the Terrace. . ;. ; Mr. and Mrs. J. B. MaeEwan havo let their house in l'ipitea Street, and are staying at Mrs, Cruickshank's on the. Terrace. Mrs. Mac E wan leaves for England next month. Mrs.. Fitchett leaves on Friday for a short visit to Christchurch. Mrs. .Alison and, Mrs. . Baume left for Auckland on • Saturday . ■ - The ladies'. committee which has been formed to make 'arrangements for an entertainment in aid of the Academy of Fine Arts is to meet in the/Mayor's. Eoom at ■tho Town I-lall this afternoon at half-past two. • " V v Mr. J. Liddell 'Kelly, associate editor of tlio "Weekly Graphic," was married at Eo.rauera, Auckland,: yesterday, to Mi;s. Ellen Ingle,- lato of Brockley, Xondon. Tho bride and bridegroom leavo to-day by'tho Hauroto •for Suva, en route for Honolulu, where Mr. Kelly has received an editorial appointment. , Mrs. .Geo. Fowlds gave aharge "At Home" at the 'Hotel AVmdsor yesterday' afternoon. Tlio guests were entertainedin the largo dining room, where the many " little tables, prettily decorated- \vith narcissi and violets, invited them to form themselves into sociable little parties, and where a string band played during the afternoon.. Mrs.. Fowlds received in a very handsome frock of black chiffon taffetas,!with yoke and sleeves of cream lace,, and a black plumed picture hat. Among tho many guests were Lady Stout, Lady Ward, Lady Gibbbs,'. Mesdames Hislop, : Fitchett, Hogben, Firth, Rutherford, Ell, Tanner, Jennings, Arnold,; Izard, Fisher, Mills, Barber, Stevens, Herries, Jolliffo, Sinclair, Hogg, Stallworthy, Thompson, Field, Glasson, Macdonald/ Hamer, Prouse, Stott, Evans, Miller, Crosby, l Christie, Donne, Bulkley, Cooper, Stevens, Sinclair, Dawson, M'llraith, Meadowcroft, and Winder, Dr. Agnes Bennett, and Misses Maclean, Humphries, Kensington (2), Eutherford Bulkley, Hall : Jories,' Alison, Cooper, Orr, ; . and Prouse. ;

; Miss Rutherford gave a little tea for Miss Ivy Hislop yesterday morning 'at 'Messrs. ICirkcaldje and Stains': tea-rooms, when the following were among her guests:—Mrs. Christie, the Misses Hislop (2), Hall-Jones, Myers, aiid Henderson. 'Mr. and Mrs. J. Studholmo left yesterday morning for Auckland, where they will remain through Fleet AVeek. The-.wedding of Miss Avis Edwin to Col<(nel D'A'rcy Chaytor is to take place this after,noon at St. Paui's pro-Cathedral. -, The eighth annual dance given by the College Old. Girls' Association Jast night .in the 'Sydney Street'Schoolroom-Was a) most-en-joyablo affair. The hall was decorated with lycopodium, lines of it being- carried diagonally across tho room with little fairy lights .attached at intervals to them..-. The stage was carpeted, and "made: very' attractive looking with palms and easy , chairs for tho chaperones, and those who were not energetically inclined. Tho" secretary, Miss Dora Meek, with l her committee, consisting of the Misses Winder, Pollock,- Fruhauf, E. Meek, E. Richardson,; V., Zohrab,'and Hobday' mado most attentive hostesses,' doing everything possiblo for the enjoyment oftlio guests. The chape- |- rones were Mrs. Louis Blundeil,' in black silk, and Mrs. Beere in black'silk. Miss Richardson Wore white chiffon taffetas; Miss Dora; Meek, white chiffon taffetas; Miss Fru- ' liauf, - whito . merveilloux; Miss ■V. Zohrab, "white embroidered muslin;, Miss Ethel 'Meek, whito chiffon taffetas; Miss Hobday, whito chiffon taffetas; Miss Pollock, white chiffon taffetas ; Miss . AVinder, blue silk, all of whom,';being members of the' committee, wore a rosette : ;of the College-colours, black and gold. Among others present were ,-Mrs. Izard,: in blue brocade ; Miss Ecclesfield, black silk ; Miss tD.: Bulkloy,-blue silk; Miss E. Richardson; blue silk with'white not; Miss Veitch, whito silk ; ' Miss D. Kerslake, bluo velvet;-Miss AVarburton, eau-de : nil chiffon taffetas; Miss Hilda Mowlem (Palnicrston), .cream 'silk -with cluster'* of pink roses and' pink sash; Miss Le Sueur,'deep cream frock; Miss Moys, green chiffon taffetas; Miss Olive Smith, white: chiffon taffetas trimmed .with silver ;'Miss N. Zohrab, white muslinj Miss D. Henry, white frock; Miss HardingMaltby, egg-shell' bluo covered: with ' laco robe and trimmed with black .and silver'; Miss M'Kellar, pale bluo frock; Miss K. Fruhauf,. white mervelleux; Miss Jacobson, pale pink - chiffon taffetas; Miss ,L. Levi, whito silk';. Miss -Dorset, ;pale' blue and her sister pale pink;! Miss Kelly, white chiffon taffetas with a cluster of scarlet poppies; and also Messrs. Downes, E. Warburton, Luke, Tanner, Marchant. Strauchon, Home, ' Bender, TownsenclV Weir, Beere, AVix, Butt, C. Smith, Guthrie, Brodie, : Bevau, Freyberg, Donovan, Armstrong, Rothchild, Exloy,; Kerslake, and Dr. Robertson.. Tho supper tables wore very charmingly decorated with spring bujbs, and a very, effective touch was given by black arid yellow ribbons carried' diagonally across the tables, v

At St. Mark's, Church, Remuera, at 8.30 oil Saturday morning, a wedding of . unusual interest was quietly celebrated by the Rev. AV. Beatty (say 3 tho Auckland "Herald"). Tho bridegroom was Mr. Frederick Minnitt (inspector New Zealand Insurance Company), son of Major Minnitt, and grandson of tho late Sir Frederick AA'hitaker, whose name is prominently associated with early New Zealand'history, the brido being Mrs.' Kekwick (Winifred), widow of tho late Mr. Louis Kekwick, and second daughter of Mr. T., Buddie. She was attended by hqr sister; Miss/Ivy 'Buddie, as maid of honour. Mr. and Mrs. Minnitt subsequently left by tho 10. o'clock express for Rotorua. . A great , many people wero present at tho "At; Homo" given yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Jacob Joseph at her homo, in Hobson Street, The folding doors between tho draw-ing-room and tho library had been thrown, open, and both rooms lavishly decorated with spring flowers and maplo foliage, ivhilo tho tea-table decorations wero. of .anemones. Mrs. Joseph wore a frock of black silk with whito lace; Miss Joseph was in black chiffon velvet with cream laco; and Miss Elsio Joseph in * white., Mrs. AValter Nathan's daughters helped to servo tho tea, Miss Nathan wearing a frock of chiuo silk, and her sisters being in pink! Among other guests were Mrs. and Miss Myers, Mrs. and Miss Van Staveren, Mrs. and Miss Barron, the Misses Richmond (2), Mrs.'and Miss Bell, Mrs. and Miss Stafford, tho blisses Coleridge, Mrs. and Miss O'Connor,', Mile. Baradeaux, tho Misses Turner, aud Mesdames I). Nathan, Duncan, Moorhouso, Fell, Dymock, Milhvard, Fulton, Beere, Fitzgerald, Johnston, Firth, Izard, Tuckev, Rankiue-Brown, Cliatfiekl, AVatson, Rolles'ton, M. Deimiston, A. Brandon, Samuel, Kcbbell, Grace, Louisson, Hall, Quane, Biss, AVebster, Harcourt, and Homes. Mrs. Cornwall, of Now Plymouth, is at present on a visit to Mrs. Beattie, of AVellingtoii Terrace.

WHY DID THE POMPADOUR SMILE? • AVliy? That's easy. She had a nice palate and exceptional opportunities. Sho hail succeeded in getting for her private uso a Tea that had in it (as it were) the beginnings of the final perfection of Sunitura. Surutura "D" (25.) lias qualities magical in charming away all weariness and ill-humours. 15