SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3102, 5 June 1917, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

News of Nurses. Stnlfcmirso It. A. Eose, 20/363, has, according to recent London advice, come over from the A'ew Zealand Hospital at Amiens to tho rest home at Sandwich. She had had bronchitis. Staff-nur«e p Jf Eeynolds, 22/87, is on sick leave "from Walton. Stafi'-miioe 11. G. Davies, '"/ltf is at Sandwich from Walton, for rest and change. Shilf-mirso M. B. Hobbs, 22/f"C was ill with measles. " ' Staff-nurse R. G. M'Bac, 22/257, has returned to duty from Sandwich. Sister Jessie I'alconcr (Christcli)irch), who has been at Salonika for some time, working at tho 27th Casualty Clearing Station ia hoping to by in England in July, as her con tract expires at tho ond of 'June. From Bagdad. Hearing, that our soldiers in Mesopotamia, were very short of reading matter a Canterbury lady posted eomo newspapers, and by last mail received tho following acknowledgment, dated April 0, 1917, from a sorgoant in Bagdad:—"Tho packet of newspapers reached us quHo Rifely, and the papers were greatly appro, ciated. Very many thanks. Wβ passed them on to tho French sisters, who did fine work with Townshend's wounded, and liavo not heard from. France.or England for two and a half years. Bagdad, after months in the dreary desert, with its dust and diseaso, is quito a haven. Beautiful old city, typically Eastern. Fairly tolerable temperature, plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables and eggs." An Unconventional Baronot. Confirmation of tho announcement of the approaching marriage of Sir Gonille Cavo-Brown-Cave, the cowboy baronet, has been received in, London. Miss Boltwood, tho bride-elect, is a member of a family who about four years ago left London to try t'heir fortune in Virginia. Last June the baionet, who is a pastor of tho Nazarone Church, conducted a tent mission at Esmojjt. Hiss Boltwood was one of the converts, and afterwards assisted in evangelistic work. Miss Boltwood states that Sir Gcuillo intends selling tho family seat at Stretton Hall, Leicestershire, and is making a permanent homo at Charlotteville. Tho marriage' is expected to take place shortly, after which tho baronet-preacher will no on a mission tour for the summer. The baronet has mot with considerable success in his now rolo of preacher. He has a wealth of experience to draw upon from his varied and strenuous lifo as a sailor, soldier, Arctic explorer, and horse, breaker. When he succeeded to the title as twelfth baronet he was bTeak-iug-in horses at .£2 a head, and known as "Kid Caye, of Half Circle Itanch." He is stated to have had considerable influence among .some of the more boisterious characters of the rugged West.

The Mayoress and her Entertainment Committee will entertain the Twentyseventh Reinforcements at a social evening ia the Tcsra. Hall_ on Wednesday. Other soldiers are cordially invited to attend, aud as usual a very pleasant evening may be looked for.

An interesting little ceremony will take place on "Wednesday afternoon at the Council Chambers (Town Hall) at three o'clock, when Her Excellency tho Countoss of Liverpool will present the voluntary workers' badges to those who are ; entitled to them. The badges, which are ! exactly tho same us those worn by volun. i tarr workers in Britain, aro very neat and attractive-looking, and consist o£ tho two letters "V/W.," headed with a crown. Dr. and Mrs. M'Evedy returned to Wellington from the south at the end of last week. Mrs. A, T, Eton (Mastflrton) is visiting ■Wellington. Miss Teiulall's Tea Rooms, in Routh's Buildings, will bo closed for renovation during tho next fortnight, commencing from Saturday last. Miss Stott, matron of the Wellington Hospital, left yesterday on a visit to Auckland. Mrs. T. Fizgerald lias returned to Feilding from a visit to Wellington. ■ The marrin«e took place last Thursday, in St. Mary's of tho Angels, Boulcott Street,, of Private E. L. Potts and Mis 3 A. Foster, of "Wellington. Miss Teresa MTDnroo was bridesmaid, and Mr. T. Foster the best man. Tho Rev. Father Venning performed the ceremony.

George Eliot on War. A correspondent of a London paper directs attention to this striking passage from chapter 59 of "Daniel Deromla," which was written by Ocorgo Eliot In 1876, and is perhaps her least successful novel: —There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the groat movements of tho world, tho larger, destinies of mankind, which havo lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter lileo an earthquake into their own lives—when, the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or tho rtivo clash of civil .war and grey fathers knon- nothing to seok for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to muko lint and bandages which may servo for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands. Then it is as if the Invisible Power that boon the object of lip-worship and lip-reaignation became visible, according to the- imagery of tho Hebrow poet, making tho names his clmriot, and riding on tho winga of the wind, till tho mountains smoke and the plains shudder under tho rolling, fiery visitation. Often tho good cause, seems to lie prostrate under tho thunder of unrelenting force, tho martyrs live reviled, they die, and no angel ia eeon holding forth the crown and tho palm-branch. Then it is that tho submission of the soul to tho Highest is tested, and even in tho oyes of frivolity lifo looks out from tho scone of human struggle with the awful face of duty, and a, religion shows itself which is something else than a private consolation.

Mrs. Napier JTLean is Waiting Now Plymouth. Colonol Cook, R.A.M.C, nnd Mrs. Cook, formerly of M.isterton, harp now taken up their residence in Auckland. The engagement was recently announced in English papers of Captain Newton Matthews, R.A.M.C., son of Mr. nnd Mrs. I?. J. Matthews, of New Plymouth, to Miss Hilda Best, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Best, of Altadore, Preston, Mrs. Georgo Parker, the horses' friend, died in Melbourne recently after a few weeks' illness.' Sho belonged to Wonthftggi, tut, was a well-known figure in Melbourne, where she went about with tho Ulna Cross pony, Kias Lass. Through, the late Mrs. Parker's efforts Kiss Lass has been tho means of raising over .£6OO for the Blue Cross Fund for Sick and Wounded Horses. Among \the many curious, notable, and pathetic developments arising out of the war, one that has just been brought to tho knowledge of a eentleman in Auckland ia worthy of bein? placed on l'ecord, states the Auckland "Star." From his native town of Airdrie, Scotland, he has received news that one of his nieces thero has lost her husband in the war, and, being left with two young children, she had to think of a way to increaso her meagre income. So, to quoto the words of tho letter, ehe has become "an artist in black and. white"—in other words, she is the lady sweop of Airdrie, earning sometimes as much ap 10a. a day by "soopin' luii/i" (sweeping chimneys). Very early in the war women chimney-sweeps appeared in Germany; latnr, we heard of a few in England; and now the innovation has reaohed "the land o' cakes." How lonjj must tho war last before wo see the lady chimney-sweeps in New Zealand? Miss Brown, matron of the New Plymouth Hospital, has resigned her position, having accepted that of matron of the Cambridge Sanatorium. Mies Brown has just completed 20 years' service on the Btaff of the New Plymouth Hospital, to which sho went as head nurse from Gieborne, succeeding the lnte Miss Fernandez as matron a few months later. I ■