SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 497, 3 May 1909, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

: /Notices of Engagements and Weddings!— • When reports .of weddings and announce- ■ ments of. engagements are sent to >■•■ "Dominica" for publication, the name and address, of the sender should be enclosed; not for. publication, but as an evidence of good faith. Otherwise .the. announcements '. cannot be published.] ' > Frcomasonry's Women Folk. As is very well known, tlio secrets of Freel masonry are not for women, nor are women ' greatly troubled about that fact; except wheni" very occasionally they feel a little natural , 'curiosity as to the mysterious happenings in ■ the Lodges. " It may be frankly, admitted • that .women could not successfully, run any. 1 of . these secret societies, to which men are ' prone, for. the simplo-reason that while most ' ..women can. keep, secrets, most carefully, not 1 all women would'be strong enough to hold ■ out .against the insatiable curiosity of every' I •man, the curiosity that, will take a ship-load "of -them into a winter-long, night, merely so ; that in the spring time they, may , have the pleasure of seeing what, a magnetic polo looks ; liko, and that will make,them spend later on still many more thousands of pounds to obtain the same soul-satisfying glimpse of the South Pole itself. This is all by the way, and > merely, a • preliminary to. the.; statement • that tho Grand Lodge' of Freemasons is meet« ing this-.week fin-Now Plymouth, "and that , though.-women are not admitted to the.heart ofFreemasOnry, thej; aro still to be allowed to share in the. festivities arranged, by, the' Now Plymouth people for the occasion. On Wednesday .afternoon the ladies visiting/New Plymouth .with the '• delegates will.. bo enter-tained-by'the ladies connected with the local Freemasons, and On Thursday afternoon, the delegates and'ladies are to be entertained at a garden, party at Aotea, a beautiful bit of native; 'bush': belonging to. Mr. - Sole, and his brother, ;whil,o;iii ; the'evening a reception will be hold:'by, their-Excellencies'tho Grand. ter (Lwd.'?lnnket)', and Lady Plunket, at which .there. Will-be-a. musical programme followed, by-a- danco:-- " Girls' Roalm' Guild—Kia Ora Centre. ■ A most'successful outdoor sale of work and , afternooii tea were held by the Kia Ora centre .at Glenleith Lodgej- Austin Street, on Saturday, afternoon. ./..The day was an ideal;one' for.'all, out-door functions, and, good business ■ was done at tho Various stalls,'.and the mombers, all of 'whom wore touches of heliotrope,' violet, : arid • white; (the ; Guild colours) : in thoir hats and.dresses, were keptrvery : busy.' -.A' 1 noyelty,.m..the l shape of;a giant : bird's nest, in which various lucky bundles were hidden, proved a great draw. Those in -'charge of the stalls- were:—Flower stall—Misses. E. May and M. Gilmor; fancy stall—Misses I E. and •Mi-' Young,/ Buck, ;M. Duff, t G. Neweiihami ■and G. Oliapman; sweets stall—Misses 0; Chapman, and E. Salmon; giant bird's: nestMiss . Bastings; afternooh :tea -— Misses Stevens, Truman, .Davidson, .. Nash,. Carte, Marley, Bull,, Kean,, Saxon, .7.' : Newenham,. and Hugogatekeeper—Miss,Prendevillo; tea. cup readings—-Miss' Murphycard' readings— Miss M.;Prendeyille. - The Messrs. H,.Eugallj D.; Newenham a,nd Wilson-ialso -proved-.-very eneTgetio-helpers. ;?Tho guessirig'competitions -'■ —name of a doll, weight of a cake,, and :num- 1 ber of beans in a bottle-rwero won'.by ;thb- ; Misses . Isabel; Young,- E..' Cooper, and Mrs. Stevens' respectively,,:,.An auction salo .of surplus plants and flowers, with Mr. D. New-. . enham as /auctioneer,-1 created ;hiuch, amuse-'' proceeds of the sale will amount, jn all to £12, which sum .is to be spent mainly in material ;to be made up at the centre's Morithly,..Sewinjg.,Bees. into, clothing.,for .'the poor.'! - The YiW.CjA. - -VTesterday afternoon about Vfifty/.people. 'were'jpreseiijfc; at;^^tho;:,YpungCWomeri , s,.Chris-. : . ■tian.;.Association.: rooms,-; when Miss MlGregor,, who .has'lately returned ;from'M^naramab4i's ; ■Mission in,lndiair'tave''a : vefy'-interesting account of thework -done there. / After- her', address,'tea was served, and nedrly 'all pre-': 'sent -remained'.for what has become-a very pleasant little gathering. ' This evening at the Y:M.C.A. Miss M'Gregor will give a lecture oh ■ the mission, illustrating it with limelight; views. ■ ; .-Mr; and Mrs. W. Gray ; havo returned to their home on the Terrace; The Hon, Mr.: Carroll and Mrs: Carroll aro at present on a visit .to' Hastings.;. , Miss ,Mac Lean, ; principal, of .the Wellington Girls' College, is going to Canterbury .for her holidays.' ■•'i- •'•"'• ' Miss M. Young, of .the Town' .Clerk's office, left for the Waikato- and Auckland, via Main Trunk line, on' Saturday.. J ; Mrs. Alfred and 'Mrs.' Joseph ' Caselberg, of Masterton, have been visiting Wellington for a fow days, -v Mr. and Mrs. Algar Williams from Auckland. whoro thoy attended'tho marriage of Miss Eila Williams. " "-- ■ / _ Mr. and - Mrs. Arthur Russell and the Misses' Russell returned to Palmerstori North •from Auckland last'Sattirday. / ' Sir Francis Price, who arrived last week from England, is at' present staying at Flaxmere as the guest of Sir William and Lady Russell. Mrs. W. Kennedy' is giving a > harbour picnic this morning for Madame Melba, and Lady Ward is afterwards entertaining Mad- . amo Melba at a lunchcon party at "Awarua." - -■ Miss Slatter, who after'ten years''servico as registrar at the" Wellington Technical School,' has been obliged through 'ill-health to resign the'position, was on Saturday presented by members 'of-the staff, with' a purse of-sovereigns.' Miss Slatter . has made her- : self ; very popular , among those with 'whom | shd'has come in touch, and she will be very ' much missed. -' . . I love the old people, the:old place, the old ' faith; would, that L were worthier of them all I ! —Lord ;Shaw, •' of Dunfermline, referring to his native town. ' : . (