SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 449, 6 March 1909, Page 11

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Tea at the Kiosk. A very enjoyable tea was given yesterday afternoon at the Kelburne Kiosk by tho Misses M. and B. Gibbs. Most of tho guests were Victoria College graduates or students, and they entered very cheerfully on a competition that would have been terrifying to many people* Three words wore supplied to tho guests a$ each table,-and they were asked to compose a verse of ; four or six lines containing the threo worthy and tho undertaking caused great amusement. Tho table that found itself confronted with the task of making one poem containing the threo words, shining, walrus, and dissect,- quicklv throw up the sponge, and tho company that had cabbage, garrot, and languid, given as their ingredients, did not faro very well, but others stuck bravely to the work and battled through. _ It was generally felt that the table which had received the words excavate, tremendous and molasses had not done badly when it sang— | When I think of tho college that looks o'er the sea, From the height' of its mountain tremendous ; I sorrow and fear were a treacle-mine there^— To shift it were- not so stupendous. For the loafers who now think that toilers are asses Would excavate fiercely a hill of molasses. Among 'the guests were Mrs. Raine, Professor and Mrs. Picken, Mrs. Salmond, Mrs.

and Miss Thornton, Dr. Bennett, and Messrs. de la Mace, EicheTbaum, Richmond Beere, MacDougall,. Bogle, and Taylor. College Old Cirls. The annual afternoon tea given by tho Wellington College Old Girls' Association takes place to-morrow week at the Girls' College. A3 this is always a very pleasant function, tho girls sparing no pains to add to tho pleasure of those present, a large attendance of old girls is extremely probable. Music, recitations, and competitions are included in the afternoon's entertainment. Garden Party. A gardengiarty in aid of the funds of the Young Woifgn's Christian Association will be held by Mrs. Keene at Island Bay this afternoon. Mr. Keene's extensive and beau-tifully-laid-out grounds are in themselvc'fl well worth a visit, and the association has arranged an interesting musical and elocutionary programme. It is to be hoped that a number of people will bo present. Farewell at Fellding. On Thursday at. York Buildings, says our Feilding correspondent, Mrs. Prior wasthe guest at a tea promoted by her friends as a farewell before her departure for Eugland. On behalf of those present, Mrs. Sandilands read a valedictory address to Mrs. Prior, and presented her with a handsome travelling rug, finishing up with' a little speech. During the afternoon vocal items wero given by Mrs. Prior, Miss Prior, Mra. Walker, Mrs. Hoult, and Miss Hill. Miss N. Turner is going to stay with Mrs. Dunn in Hawora. Miss Sylvia Fell, from Nelson, is at present the guest of Mrs. Walter Fell. Mrs. Bendall returned to Wellington last night after a stay of several months at Napier. ■' ■ ' • '■■ ''■■■■ ■ • Mrs. Theta Poynter has gone for a holiday visit to Gisborne, where she will.be the guest of Mrs. Donner. Miss Restell and Miss Dot MillEop, who have been visiting Mrs. Francis Stevens, Oriental Bay, left by the Maheno for Christchurch. The engagement is .announced of Mr. Vincent A. M'Cardle, son of tho Hon. W. W. M Cardie, of Auckland, to Miss Florence E. Inompson, of Wellington. Mr. and Miss Christie, of Sydney, who nave been visiting relations in Wellington, Vv ™ S J tlne y b y 'tho Mokoia yesterday. Mrs. Christie, of Grant Koail, with whom she had been staying, gave a pleasant little farewell tea for Miss Christie. A number of Lady Stout's frionds assembled on the Avharf yesterday to wish her a pleasant voyage to the Homeland. This is the first time that Lady Stout, has visited the old world, and there is no doubt that, with her wide interests and outlook on things, she will enter very thoroughly into her new experiences. Mrs. and Miss Sclanders, who have been spending a week in Wellington with Mr. Kenneth, inlanders, returned to Nelson on Thursday, Mr. Sclanders accompanying them for a short visit. He has been transferred trom the (Jablo Company's station at Singapore to the one at Peerth, and will take up his new appointment in a few weeks. Mrs. Sclanders and her son and daughter wero entertained by several of their friends during their stay in Wellington. ,