SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1052, 15 February 1911, Page 11

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Garden Party. Ycstad-i} afternoon Mrs Matthew Holmes gi\o i garden part} at her parents' residence at Seatoun, spec al cars convejing the guests Mrs \>ho wore a gown of blue silk fishei net o\er blue with a gold-touched cream net yoke and a hat trimmed with black ■velvet and a lenjo pink rose, recened her guests on tho lawn Mrs Raw son woro a golden brown silk dress and a w b to hat with brown feathers Tea and refreshments were serial m hrse in-rtMicci on tho lawn, and ices m tha ro e o garden In all parts of tho pretty grounds were to bo found tables =et out u'th snoots and grape, (grown in Mr Rawson's grape house) During tho afternoon p band played selection l ; Among tho many guests were Lady Ward, Mrs Grace, Mr= Joseph, Mr« Fi»chett, Mr ant' Mrs Ouiek, Archdeacon and Mrs Harper, Mi=3 Ward, Mrs Adamson, Mrs and the Misses Watson, Mr« Eucn, Mrs Mile«, Miss Mile«, Mrs, rid tho Mi«=os Sin.p--■=o3, Dγ and Miss Collus Dr Tolhurst and Mss lolhurs 1 , Mrs Mlnueh, Miss Coate>, Dγ Isarrf, M«s Italic, Mrs and Miss Kennedy, Mrs. Bowcrbank, 11 h Bcgg, Mr , Mrs, and Miss M'Kellar, Mr« Stafford, Mrs Hall, Mrs L Reid, Mrs •and Miss 3. Seed, Mr?, and Miss Didsbury, Mrs. M. Burnott, Mr. end Mrs. Gillon, Mrs nnd Miss Br'ston, Mr and Mrs. Hayward. A Yachting Picnic , Tho weather that has been prevailing for tho last two nights has been responsible for the holding of various boating and vachting parties With a calm se% and a moonlight night, it would seem as though very little else (!Ould bo desired, I save, perhaps, a Htilo wind.- : On Monday evening a yachting picnio was held at Shellej Baj, somo ot those taking part in it being Miss Brewer, Mr & and Miss Howard, Mr. R and Miss E. Giny, Miss Blake 'ei, the Messr- Ilaybiltlo (2), MiM' Wilberioss, ili«s K Hunt, and others. Mr and Mrs and Mj c s Richard<-nn have returned from a visit to Duucdin. Miss Luckie sails for England within the next fortnight. Mr« J King left Wellington for Mis terton yesterday, and will '.attend the show. Miss Wilton, of Oriental Bay, Is givWX a tea this afternoon for Miss Marshall, who is shortly to be married _ Mr. Burncy, sub-inspector of the Bank of New South Wile-, md l Mrs Burnej, ■arc'fctajing at Balmoral v Miss Lucy Bcckingcalc, B A , who has been a member of tho teaching staff of the l'olmerstou North High School , for tho past two years, has been appointed assistant teacher in : tho secondary,department ot tho Wanganui High School Mrs. F. Leckie, who has been spending l some weeks at Bolton Bay (Pelorus Sounds), returned to Wellington urday.

Mr. and Mrs. La Trobo. (Auckland), who. have been staying witlf Mr. and Mrs. La Trobe (Oriental Bay), left for their homo yesterday.

Miss Ella Collins, daughter of Colonel R J Colhn', is malting a c ali«factory recovery from tho'effects of tho operation sho underwent last week'.

Miss Bright, senior, who has been ill for 'oiie months, is fir from hiving thoroughly recovered I writes tho Otaki corrcpjndent of Ihl Do-miov), and is «till unibjc to lcive hei room Hoi manj friends in all parts of the district, however, will be glad to,hear of a slight improvement, aud Mill \\i e h her a «pcedy rccoierj.