SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1154, 15 June 1911, Page 9

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wedding at Feilding. •U the Feilding Presbyterian Church yesterday, the marriage was celebrated of Miss Ethel Haycock, third daughter of' Mr*. C. Haycock, of Feilding, to Jlr. Hubert Hart, of Makino. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. G. Budd. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr. B. Haycock, wore a cream silk voile gown, trimmed with lace and insertion, and the customary veil and orange blossoms. Miss Hilda Hart and Miss Olive Hart attended her as bridesmaids, both wearing cream vrtil«"frocks and cream crinoline hats. The bouquets carried by the bride and the bridesmaids were the Rifts of Mr. John Glover, of Rongotea. Mr. Frank Nelson was the best man, and Mr. Leslie Matthews the groomsman. After the ceremony <1 reception was held at the residence of the bride's mother, and later in the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Hart left 011 their honeyfnoon journey, the bride wearing a brown tailor-mado costume, with a maroon velvet toque. Exhibition Competition. ' Thero were close upon thirty entries for tho camisole competition, held m connection with the Home Industries Section of the Exhibition yesterday, somo _of them being the resnlt of most painstaking work. Some were hand-sewn, but til's greater number were machine-stitched, and very elaborate. • The first prize was won bv C. W. Webster, and tlie second prize by Miss Bowling. Tho?? highly commended were: Ireno Webster, 0. Coley, 0. Eowe. F. Co-ley, Miss. Dowling, Miss Carter, Miss Dowling. Miss Danby, and Miss Calcinai. Mrs. Hamerton was the judge. An Afternoon Tea.

'. ..Yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Gray ■ (ICel burne) was the hostess .at a tea given foi Miss Mackerras, who lias been her guesl for soino little time. Very lovelv spring flowers dccorated the rooms, am! in tin dining-room, where tea was served, tin violets and white narcissi . with whicl tho table was arranged were much ad mired. Songs were sung by Mrs. F. M 8.. Fisher, and Mrs. Malcolm Ross re cited. Among those present were: Jlrs Leslie .Reynolds, Miss Reynolds, Mis Beatrice Day, Mrs. F.M.B. Fisher, Mr? Dean, .Miss A. Macandrcw, Mrs. Burne; Mrs. Field, Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Moss Mrs. Kennedy, Mrs. Tewsley, and Mrs Hull. Sale of Work, Yesterday afternoon a sale of work wa opened in tho schoolroom of tho Uni ( tarian .Church, Ingestre Street, and thos ■aUSio.tis to secure dainty articles for. ornn ment or for common, everyday use, ha no need to. search further afield. Th work stall, under .the management o ; Mrs. Jellv, Mrs. .Forrest and helpers, wa exceedingly well supplied with a varie< collection of beautifully-worked article: .The sweet stall was in the charge of Mr: Bunthorne and tho Misses Oakley-Browne the Men's Club was responsible for book stall, and the afternoon tea wa attended to by Mrs. Geddes, Mrs. Lissam, and helpers. There were aiso bran-tubs for children, and competitions. The object of tho sale was to raise a sum of •■£3o for church-cleaning purposes, ar this the members of the Women's All anco have be.en working hard to secure Madamo Melba. . ' Mr.'J. C. Williamson received an it teresting letter from Madame'Melba b the last English mail (says an Australia paper). The diva was filled with, er thusiasm over her approaching season t grand opera in Australia, and was espec ally delighted over tho rccent successes c Mr. John M'Corinack and Mr. Edmim Burke at Covent Garden. Of Mr. Edinun Burko she wrote that he was to sin Mephistopheles in "Faust" to her Mai guerite, tho triumph of which has alread been cabled. The present is Mr. Burke' third season at Covent Garden, and nex voar ho is to go to the Metropolitan Oper House, New York. Another item of ir formation was that Melba. had secure tho'services of Frank Rigo as stag manager. Mr. Rigo stage-manage Melba's own opera season in America' few years ago, and has since been assoc: ated with the Metropolitan Opera Housi "For myself," added Madame, "I am bar at work on 'La Tosca,' which I inten giving in Australia." The opera seaso opens in Sydney on September 2. Madam will leave en July 13, and come direct t Sydney. Her stage manager is already o his way hore, find the Italian chorui master, Signor Edoardo Sacerdote, is noi rehearsing the chorus with Mr. Henr Bracey in Melbourne. It may be addc that the Covent Garden arrangement were such that the season was opened b Mme. Tctrazzini in Delibes' "Lakine, both tho Irish tenor and the Irish bass named above appearing in the cast. Th Australian company, as always in sue cases, will be remarkably rosmopohtai Mme. Jeanne Wayda, dramatic sopram is from Toland; Mile. Mario Axanne is Russian light soprano. Mine. Eleanora d Ci«nero« is a Spanish contralto, an< Mdlle. Maria Voluntas fianzenber.j is German. ' The dramatic tenor, Signo Francesco Zeni, is an Italian, and Mi Albert Quesnel is a French Canadian The baritones, Angelo Scandiani and Giul Cristiani, the basso Vito Dammacco, am the conductor. Giuseppe Angelini, ar Italians, though the last-named has livci much in America. There is a second bas singer, Alfred Kaufmann, a German b; birth, who has lived much in England. Mrs. Rolleston, Hair Specialist, se cured when in England and Americ; all the Latest Appliances for Hair am Face treatments. Shampooing, Hairdress ing taught, Electrolysis. Diploma U.S.A Only address: 20G Lambton Quay. Tel, 1598.—Advt. Wife (reading paper): "Here is an ac count of a man in Yorkshire who sold hi: wife for five pounds. Isn't it dreadful?' Husband (thoughtfully): "Well, I dunno Five pounds is a good (leal of money." Millinery College, Humo's Buildings 1(12 Willis Street—Exclusive Styles am Moderate Prices at MISS HAMILTON'S Burberrys to match Costumes, Remodel ling a speciality.* "Did you come out well on Christmas morning, Tommy?" "Ycth, thir. I gol more things than any of my brotherth oi thithters." "Indeed! How did thai come about?" •"I got up two hours before they did." "NAZOL" is more alive than ever, Idealise the experience of not hundreds bui thousands has proved its absolute meril in relioving and curing Nasal Catarrh. Odd in the head, Sore Tliroals. Bronchitis, and Influenza. Sold everywhere Is. Cd. bottle of 60 doses. To win a bet of .£2OO, and to reduce her weight. Miss Dora Harrison, of Long Island, U.S.A., walked from New York to Tamp-a, a distance of 1100 miles. 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Mrs. J. Hills, whose late husband was tlio first Mayor of To Aroha, is leaving by tho lonic for England. At prcsuit sho is staying at tho Windsor Hold. Dr. and Mrs. Nutting (Eltliam) are visiting Wellington, and arc staying at the Hotel Cecil. Mrs. 0. Porritt (ralmerston North) is staying at Day's Bay. Jfrs. A. L. Wilson is away on a visit to Rotorua. Mrs. Reginald Curtis (Ashburton) is visiting her mother, Lady Steward. Mr. and Mrs. Hatton-Millcr, of Tinakori Road,'leave to-day on an extended visit to Mr. Miller's brother in Melbourne. Miss Monica Bunny, who has been staying with Mrs. Arthur Bunny, in Mastcrton, is now tho guest of Mrs. 11. H. Beetham, of "Brancepeth." Mrs. Seifcrr, who ha.i been vij.iting Wellington, has returned to Masterton. Mrs. 0. Smith and her little daughtei j are returning to Masterton from a visit to Auckland next week. Our Masterton correspondent states that Mr. Albert John l'arton, of Cartcrron, was married at the Congregational Church, Masterton, yesterday to Mrs. S. M. Welch. Mr. C. H. Moltzen, of tho Masterton Post Office staff, was married yesterday to Miss Edith Gordon, daughter of Mr. J. W. Gordon. A Press Association telegram states that the London newspapers have favourably noticed Miss Carrie Haasc's recitals of Australian bush ballads at the Savoy. Miss Haase is a Victorian, who had something of a reputation in her native Stato before she went to England.