SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3188, 12 September 1917, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wedding at Samoa. A wedding in which unusual interest centred took place in the Church of tue London Mission Society in Apia on iugust 2, when Mr. Harold .To.vett, clew of the Native Court in the Samoan Military Administration, second son of Mr. G. H. Jowett, of Potone, Now Zealand, was married to Miss Vida Berry, roundest daughter of Mrs. B. Berry, of Austi-i Street, Wellington. The bride, -vho'was given away by Mr. J. A. Nicol, wore a gown of white crepfr4e-chine and georgette, daintily embroidered, and a veil fastened with a coronet of orange blossoms. Mr. ii. M. Watson, Acting-Judge of the District Court, was best num. The ceremony was performed by thePev. J. W. Sibree, hon. chaplain of the New Zealand Military Forces in Samoa, ai:d was witnessed liy a considerable number of friends. Prior to the -ceremony His Honour Judgo Roberts conducted the civil contract at the courthouse. A reception wa3 afterwards held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Nicol, Jfotootua. The Administrator of the Occupied Territory. Colonel liOß.in, C.8., proposed tho health of the brido and bridegroom, and various other toasts were honoured. The bridegroom itf.s a member of tho'advancc party of tho New Zealand Expeditionary Force to Samoa in August, 1914. Mr. and Mrs. Jowett received the congratulations of their mauy friends, and left tho same day for Fagamalo, in Savaii, where the honeymoon was spent'. ■

N.Z. Volunteer Nursing Sisterhood. Writing to the hon. secretary- of tho Codford Fund in Wellington, MiEs Clara Rogers, ono of tho New Zealand' Volunteer Nursing Sisterhood, at present ill England, says:—"Did you, know that Miss Rout and Miss Higgens (tho latter is instructress at u big cooking school for soldiers just out of Alexandria) have been mentioned in dispatches by General Murray. in EJypt? Haven't tho Volunteer Sisters had greatness thrust upon them? We took a Wellington boy from Walton Hospital out in a chair, wheeled him round the river and up to our place to tea. Another man we'got out the 6ame day had not been ou/t of hospital for ten months, so you can imagine how he emjoyed it. His home is in Taranaki. We have had ■ two moro river excursions to Windsor lately. Tiie first of the two occasions was most delightful, and we were granted passes for nearly one hundred and sixty-o.no to inspect :ho 6tate rooms and royal stables. It was a. fine treat, and all were simply awed with tho splendour of the Castle interior. We took five spinal chair cases and managed to get them into the Albert Memorial Chapel, and through the stables, too, si it was a day out indeed f or them. Last, time throe, of us took two l>adly wounded men out of chairs and drove them round Windsor . Forest. Many thanks for the dCS, which arrived safely. I am enclosing a set of photographs of the last river trip. ' You will notice tint it is out of the Wellington Fu.nd, and I tell the boys they must send the souvenirs to tiioir friends to let them 6ee bow wo are spending tho monsy."

A Wounded World. , in the course of a lecture given recently in tho Kingsway Hall, Professor Gilbert Murray, of Oxford, jaid: ".Speaking as ho did to women, and as a suffragist, lie would remind them that in spite of all that women were doing now ill the world, for which they had been rightly praised, there, wcro ' things to which they should hold fast' which lay quite outside tho sphere of politics or professional triumphs. Was there no place .lor lovo and prayer amid all this carnage! 1 - . "It was unfair to ask who were serving their country best. Tlicy could not judge ■ by the V.C.'s, and titles, anjl the like. Personally, .hotfelt thoro was i ; o service quito like that of tho men v ho had given their lives for others, but'ho would put very high indeed another service, which could be exercised by women to the full as well as men, tho service of those who through all this pcstilonco succeeded in keeping life sweet, and did; not forget their old ideals, and who wore not going to let the world get habituated to wat. s "Katherino Breshkovsky, tho little greyluiired woman who recently received such a tremendous reception when sno returned to Moscow from exile, onco sent this message to her comrades-. 'Day and night wo labour. Instead of meat and drink and hope wo liavo dreams of freedom. This is youth calling to youth through prison walls, and across tho world.' "That was something like a message, aud if they believed, in freedom, purity, and justice they should hoed that call. The permanent work of women, rooted in nature, was moro important than tho material public service called out by any occasion. They could get anyouo to make shells and run motor-cars so long as they paid high wages, but the great majority of men when facing death or nomo great danger thought of some woman, and h« 'needed from that woman what could never bo obtained'by payment, something very simplo and ancient,.some sort of love, faithfulness, and courage. Those of them who believed that women have very great opportunities before them must remember to stress that aspect of vermin's work. "A wounded world." Professor Murray said, in conclusion, "needs all the care that women can give it. Tho world brutaiised and made savage and, in soino cases, with its standards gone, needs bitterly that.women as well,as men should be true to themselves."

Mrs. Robert Sinclair, of Port Chalmers, whoso funeral took place on Friday, was an old and respected resident, of Port Chalmers. She and her husband came to New Zealand in tho barque Wild Deer in 18H5, and after staying a few months in Duncdin removed to Port Chalmers, where they had since resided. 'Mrs. Sinclair took an active part in connection with the Wesleyan Church work. Her main ■ interest, however, centred in her home and tho welfare of her family. Mrs' Sinclair, who was born in. the Shetland Islands 69 years ago, is survived by her husband, throo'sons, and a daughterRobert (marino engineer), Walter (railway stationmaster), Gordon (chqmiat), aud Agnes (school tcacher).

Tho christening outfit which in being raffled for the benefit of tho Red Cross fuuds lias now been moved to Lambtou Quay, and will bo shown in tho windows of the Economic till Thursday afternoon. On Friday it will bo on viow at Ihe Red Cross Depot, in Mercer Street, until 'I. o'clock, when the raffle will bo drawn.

Red Cross Sweet Stall. Mrs. Hiley and Mrs. Dymock are organising a 6weet stall at the Bank of New Zealand corner en Friday next ,in connection with the Hobson Street Shop Day. The stall will be a fascinating one, with rare and delicious sweets. Hoine-mado and the beet of English and French confections will be offered to the public. For many weeks this stall '.as been talked of, and it is anticipated that a large sum will be made by these ladies, whose idea is quito a novelty. There will bo sweets for the soldier, sweets for tho maid,- sweets for the voung, sweets for the old. All set out in a most attractive way, and no one will be expected to pass without sampling the tempting wares, which will be sold for the Sick and Wounded Soldiers' Fund.

An Echo of tho Treaty of Waitangi. Interesting discussions do not often occur in tho House on Tuesday afternoons. It would seorn. as though members had not yet reoov-ered from their .week-' ends, and were only languidly bringing themselves back to the realities (or.makebelieves some people might prefer to call them) of political life. Yesterday the necessity of building a museum in which our Maori relics and archives can find n safe; resting-place was ono of the subjects of discussion, a scheme which, in tho present circumstances, must ba relegated to tho somewhat distant future, according to the Minister of Internal Affairs. An- interesting item of information was incidentally furnished by the Minister in the oouiso of his reply, when ho stated that there was living in Napier a lady who was the only iurvivor of those who had witnessed the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, and he hoped that it might be possible to secure her photograph, to bo added to the historical records of tho WUl]try. She was somo years over ninety, he told his hearers;

Tho Victoria League Concert Party cave an entertainment at the Anglican lnstituto at Trentham Camp on Monday evening. The soloists- were Miss Stella Murray (Christchurch), and • the Misses Haybittle and Sullivan. Tho hall; as usual, was crowded.

Mrs. W. 0. M'lCellar, of the Moeraki Estate, is tho guest of Mrs. W. Wateon, the Terrace.

More than two million American women, 'Mr.' Hoover announced, have enrolled as members of tho food administration, and pledged themselves-to follow its directions as to saving food within tho household. Within sixty days, he said, many more millions will have become members.

Mr. Justice Stringer and Mrs. Stringer left for Gbristchureh at the end of last week. . •

.Mrs. Thorne Georgo (Auckland) is visit, ing, Christchurch.