SOCIAL AND PERSONAL ITEM

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 181, 26 April 1924, Page 12

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL ITEM

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR

Mrs. Alfred Caselberg (Masterton) Is visiting Wellington.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tungatt are guests of Mrs. Fred Davis, Levin.

Miss Margaret /Ormond (Hawke s Bay), is the guest of Mrs. 1. Gowliahaw, Christchurch.

A great number of very beautiful ■wreaths were placed at the foot of the Cenotaph yesterday, and after tho service was hold there in the morning, many were token bv representatives of the W.N.K. Girls’ CWo and placed on the graves in tho soldiers’ end sailors burial ground at Karori. All day long, the Cenotaph was a place of pilgrimage and just after the services which were hold in the Opera House and the town Hall in tho afternoon, it was quite impossible to get near it, to many were the people who had gone to look at the flowers and wreaths which were placed there throughout the day. With the passing of Miss Sarah St. Clair Gilfillan. who died on Saturday •'last another link with the very earlv days of Wanganui has been severed, says a Wanganui writer. Ihe deceased lady was 83 years of age at the time of her death, and was a weU known and highly respected citizen of the town. Her death recalls the Gilfillan Massacre which occurred at MataraVa in 1847, when was a struggling settlement. disputes between settlers and the Maoris had arisen, culminating m threats and some disturbances. To quell these a detachment of soldiers was sent to Wanganui in December, 1846. and the natives construed the arrival of this force as the first step towards their expulsion from the district. _ Much excitement arose after the arrival or tho troops, and an unfortunate event precipitated hostilities _on April to, 1847. A midshipman in H.M.B. Calliope accidentally shot a _ native through the cheek, whicn incident was magnified to a deliberate attempt at murder, and tho Maoris demanded blood for blood. On the 18th six natives attacked tho house, of Mr. Uilfillan, a solitary settler living at Matarawa, about six miles from Wanganui, and murdered his wife and three childron. Tho lato Miss Gilfillan, who was then a very young child was spared, though she bore to the time of her' death marks of her injuries. Five of the murderers were seized next day by friendly natives and delivered over to Captain Laye, of the 58th Regiment, ’ who commanded the troops of Wanganui. They were tried by (court-martial and found guilty. Four were executed near where the museum now stands, and the fifth was pardoned a few years ago. The site of the Gilfillan homestead was purphased and presented to the people of Wanganui County as a reserve. The lato Miss Gilfillan was an ardent supporter of tho Wanganui Horticultural Society and the S.P-C.A., and was always willing to assist in anything of a philanthropic nature. To the last she had full possession of her faculties, with a clear memory of tho earliest days of Wanganui.

Weddings to be artistic must have Bouquets to harmonise with frocks. Miss Murray, 36 Willis Street. Deliveries anywhere in Dominion. —Advt.

Sister Carmichael has been appointed senior sister on the staff of tho Greymouth Hospital,. Miss Carmichael at present occupies the position of Sister at the Queen Mary Hospital, Hanmer Springs. Sho received her training in the Auckland Hospital and passed her State examination in 1921, with honours. She was also gold medalist for her hospital examination.

His Excellency tho Governor-Gener-al Lord Jellicoe, has notified the Navy League that he will be present at the Navy League Ball on Monday evening, given in honour of Vice-Ad-oral Sir Frederick L. Field, K.C.8., C M G_ and the officers and midshipmen'of H.M.S. Hood. H.M.S- Repulse, H3I-A.S. Adelaide, and H.M.S. Chatham.

A auiet wedding was solemnised at the Presbyterian Church, Ashburton, recently, when Miss Ivy Honor Copland, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.' Copland, Short Street. Ashburton, was married to Albert A. Baker, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Baker, Lower Hutt. Wellington. The service was conducted by the Rev. A. S. Morrison, of Rakaia, who also, in the unavoidable absence of the organist, presided at the organ as the wedding party’ loft the church. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gown of white satin, simply made, with long train. Her veil was arranged in mob-cap style, and held in place by clusters of orange blossom. She carried a bouquet of white roses, with touches of heliotrope interspersed with maidenhair fern. Her bridesmaid was Miss Rosina Halliday, of ‘■‘Selma,” Pendarves, who wore a dainty frock of soft green ninon, and carried a bouquet of pink roses and fern. The best man was Mr. H. M. Copland, brother of the bride.

At a dinner held to commemorate the 112th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens and the coming of age of the Dickens Fellowship, various dishes were associated with characters from the famous novels. _ The fish was served with “Susan Nipper sauce,” and the poultry with “Sairey Gamp salad,” while the sweets consisted of “Peaches Dolly Varden.” Sir Walter Lawrence, who presided, claimed for Dickens that he was an optimist who never set class against class, but used his magic power to make them think kindly of each other. Mr. T. P. O’Connor suggested that behind the “strange and almost incredible phenomenon” of a Labour Ministry stood tho form of Charles Dickens. Sir Frederick Bridge spoke on his adaptation and coming production of Dickens’s opera, “The Village Coquettes,” which was illustrated by two of the songs.

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