WOMAN’S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 118, 12 February 1926, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR

Mrs. Percy Herman (Auckland) is visiting Wellington.

Mrs. W. M. Page (Karori) is visiting Dunedin with Mr. Page.

Mr. and Mrs. Turnbull (Hawke’s Bay) are visiting Christchurch.

Ladv Bell and Miss Cara Johnston are expected back from England short-

Mr. and Mrs. A. Carlyon, Miss Carlyon, and Mrs. Rupert Carlyon (Hawke’s Bay) are visiting Wellington.

Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Wilson (Lower Hutt) returned yesterday from a visit Auckland and Rotorua.

Mrs. Burnes Loughnan and Miss Antheo Loughnan (Christchurch) are. visiting Wellington.

Captain and Mrs. Post intend leaving early in March by the Tahiti for a visit to the United States and England.

Mr. and Mrs. C. Chilman, who have been visiting Christchurch in connection with the wedding of their son, have now gone on to Dunedin.

Mr. Lowrie (Consul-General for the United States) and Mrs. Lowrie are expected back from their visit to America next month.

Miss Violet Barboure, who has been spending some months with relatives in New Zealand, left this week on her return to South Africa.

Mrs. Rhodes-Williams, with her niece, Miss Cushla Macassey, left for the south on Wednesday evening to take part in a croquet tournament in Dunedin.

Miss Beatrice Price (Wellington) and Miss Huddlestone (Ventnor, Isle of Wight) are spending a few days in Christchurch on their return journey from a visit to the West Coast.

An early settler of the Canterbury district, Mrs. Braithwaite, wife of the late Mr. Arthur Braithwaite, the well known sheep breeder, died on Sunday, at the age of 87 years, states an exchange.

At time of writing a correspondent of the “Australasian” states that Miss Orr-Ewing was the guest of His Excellency the Governor and the Countess Stradbroke at State Government House, Melbourne.

The marriage took place at St. Barnabas’s Church, Auckland, of Elsie Marguerite Stranyer, youngest daughter of Mrs. A. W. Smith, to John Edward, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Bish, of Suva. The bride, who entered the church on the arm of Mr. A. W. Smith, wore ivory satin. Her tulle veil was caught to the head with clusters of orange blossoms and pearls. The bridesmaids were Miss Betty Macredie, who wore a frock of vieux rose georgette and tulle veil to match, and little Audrey Martin (niece of the bride), who was dressed in primrose taffeta. Mr. J. Beattie was .best man.

Roval wills are not published, so the public is likely to be left in the dark as to the late Queen Alexandra’s possessions (states an exchange). It is known., however., that she received more .legacies from purely private persons than anv other". Royal personage of the other three generations. Even the United States contributed a legacy bv the will of a Philadelphia Quaker. Ireland has produced some admirers of her late Maiestv, who left her sums for charitable disposal, and the Dominions also. King George has more than once declined participation in an estate. \

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