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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 4, 5 July 1910, Page 7

WOMEN IN PRINT.

RespoDS3ibllity walks hand in hand with capacity and power.-tf. 0. Holland.

Miss Neville /Blenheim) is the guest I of Mrs. C. Milii. Mrs. J. W. Marchant has issued invitations for aji At Homo on Wednesday afternoon fpr her daughter, Mrs. Mowbray (Auckland), who is visiting Wellington. The rinking club will meet this week to-morrow afternoon, i/is&ead of Thursday. The Bishop of Wellington and Mrs. Wallishave issued habitations for an At Homo in tho Concert Chamber on Saturday afternooo, on the occasion of the meeting of the Aaumal Synod. The engagement is announced of Miss E. Staveley to Mr. Rowland "Ellis (Singapore). The captain, and officers of H.M.S. Pioneer are giving a dance on 15th instant in tbe Goring-street Hall. The monthly meeting of the St. John of Jeruaal/jm Ambulance 'Nurses' Society was hefo'i yesterday. . The president (Mrs. Erodes) was in the chair. The iollowin/j officials were present :— "Mrs. Moorhd use, Mrs. Tripe, Mrs. 'Balcombe Bro\_j , Mrs. J. P. "Luke, Mrs. <Corrigan, Mrs. Preston, and Mrs. H. B. Fisher (hon. secretary). A pleasant little Episode of the meeting before the J*/ ,1 business began was the graceful reBCiution proposed 'by 'Sirs. Tripe. It offered the sincere congratulations of the - committee upon tho distinguished honour conferred upon Mrs. Rhodes by His Majesty of the dignity of Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Mrs , Tripe went on to say ■ that their guild greatly appreciates how fully their president has deserved this high honour by her untiring efforts in establish-, ing the benevolent work of the St. John Ambulance Association. Mrs. Balcombe! Brown, in seconding '.this resolution,; spoke feelingly of all they owed to Mrs; Rhodes's courageous and persevering' work for the benefit of -the .sick and! suffering. Mrs. Rhodes spoke feelingly, and reviewed at some length the work ' and its developments, and heartily acknowledged the help and co-operation of, her committee, as well as the kind aid of the many friends interested in the work of the District Nursing Guild. A' special list of donations* will be pub- - lished, as well as the following, which are very gratefully acknowledged :—: — Ngatawa children, £1 3s ; A Messrs Beid and Fenwick, ss; "Dr. J. jg Harold Kemp, £2 2s. Tho district" I nurses have paid 912 visits during the E month — eighteen additional cases have § been entered during that term. The a thanks of the committee were 'recorded I for their kindness in admitting free a jg large number of poor children to see B their pictures on 18th Juno. P It sounds .paradoxical, but there was « a mournful pleasure in crying over the 0 sweetly pathetic incidents of poor little H "Pete's" sorrows with Kate. Miss Day js is so lifelike in 'her acting that one's/ |j feelings get;the better of common sense, H and it is impossible for the most proH saic nature not to .give way to the sadS ness so well -simulated. The full house 1 last evening that met Mr. Roberts and. 9 Miss Day was interested from the beH ginning to the end. B The Ladies' Christian Association had H its usual meeting- yesterday afternoon. f Mrs. Menzies presided, and the following ladies 'were ' present: — Mesdames _ Anderson, Yon Dadelszen, Baidham, ~* M'Nicol, Blundell, Warren, Dawson, ! Smith, M'Lean, Miss Lockie. The district visitor, Mrs. Belworthy, reported, having paid "152 visits. The thanks of the committee were passed to (he Mayor for granting their district visitor -a free pass on the trams. A number of needy cases were dealt with, and ten more were reported to the committee "to be enquired into before relief is .given. In describing the crowds and the great heat on the day of the 'late 'King's funeral, a Wellington woman living at Blackheath -says she sa-w both soldiers and policemen pxit into the ambulances in a fainting condition. iShe remarks upon, the absolute silence of the enormous crowd, only tho tramp of the horses and the heavy sound of the.tolling minute bell to be heard. It was part of tho oppressive mounting of a nation deeply moved, and, .like the Egyptian" darkness, it was a silence, "that could be'felt." ' A team of \jen players from th«s "Wellington Ladies' Goli Club played a match at Miramar yesterday. They won by six games to three, and one match was halved. Arrangements aTe being! made ior a match at the Hutt nextj week. '. An enjoyable little dance was given) at the Lower Hutt by Mrs. Kempthorno lael Friday evening. The decorations' were kept entirely to red berries, T>alms,j and ferns, which harmonised with the, w "beautiful Eastern furniture. "Mrs. 1 " Kempthome received her guests in a, handsome frock of crimson chiffon taf-, feta, becomingly relieved with Limerick' * lace. Her wee daughter "Peggy," in > white, won the hearts of all. Among those present were : Mrs. (Dr.) Mirams, * Miss Eliotfc, Mies Barraud, 'Miss S. Barraud, Miss Kingdon, Miss Cuff, Miss / 1 A. Cuff, Miss M. Foster, Miss G. .Fos-' > ter, Miss Humphries, Miss I. Bodmin,Dr. Mirams, Messrs. Watts, Broadfoot," > Kempthome, Jacobsen, Hatton, Alpe,' Turner, Bussell, Hursthouse, Fulton. > On Thursday, at St. Albans Church, Mount Roskill, Auckland, by the Bey. > H. P. Wingfield, Miss Ada E. M. Jat&a,.' y eldest daughter of Mr. T. S. Jacka, of Auckland, and granddaughter of My., > and Mrs. John "Waters, of Pipitea-street, Wellington, was married to 'Mt. "Row- * land P. .Honghton, of 'DanneYirke. The' > bxide, "who was given a-way,byhe3rfa±hev,; wore a dress of white ninon over taffe- > las, with veil and . orange-blossoms, and, k she carried a shower boiujuet. ThGbridesmaids were Misses Minnie Allan > (in heliotrope) and Edna Jacka, sister of the bride (in pink crystalline). "Mr. Cliff Jacka -was best man. A reception 2 was held after the ceremony at Heatherlea, the residence of the bride's parents. The honeymoon is Doiiig spent at 'Hoto3 nut. Our Greytown correspondent writes that Miss Tucker has bsen appointed local librarian, in succession to Miss, Dunn, resigned. Councillors presented JMiss Dunn with & piece of silver plate as a token of esteem. One of the "family socials" which are periodically held- at the Ohira Benevolent Home was last evening made the occasion of a. presentation to Miss E. M'Kay, who recently resigned the position of roth-matron U> lake that of matron at the Home for Aged Needy. A handsome purse, spontaneously subscribed for by the inmates of the Home, was presented lo Miss M'Kay on behalf of the donors by Mr. Jas. Jones, one of the oldest inmates, with appreciative references 'to her kindness during her two years of office. Miss M'Kay was also the recipient at -the »an»o -time of a silver afternoon tea, cream. jug, -and -augfti' b#siui presented by Meuus. Roberta and Jones, tho ovexeeeie of 4_e

Home. A programme of vocal and instrumental music, readings, etc., 'by the officers and inmates, assisted by the gramophone not long since for the Borne by olitsiae slibscriplion, was performed, after whicih refreshments ■were provided, and a pleasant evening brought to a close by '"Auld Lang Syne," and hearty .cheers for Miss M'Kay and the other officers. i Apologies were received from the chairman, Mr. J. G. W. Aitken, for his absence, the unavoidably hasty an-angements having prevented his modifying previous engagement-s. A return la-dies' match between the Miramar and Trentham Clubs was played yesterday at Miramar, when the visitors won by six games to three. The results were as "follow, =fche -Trentham players 'being first : — Miss L. 'Brandon, 1, v. Mrs. Freeth, 0 ; Miss Collins, £, v. Miss Gray, A ; Miss R. Brandon, 1, v. Miss CaTter, '0; Miss Tuwibull, 1, v. Miss Turner,- 0; Miss N. Simpson, 0, v. Mrs. Firth, 1 ; Miss F. Brandon, 1, v. 3Vlrs. Spencer, 0 ; Miss G. Ewen, 1, v. Miss Marks, 0; 'Mrs. RoHeston, 0, v. TNliss Didsbury, 1 ; "Mrs. "V. Bell, 0, v. v Mrs. Holmes, I; ' Bliss E. Stafford,!, v. Mrs. Watkins, 0. Yesterday the death was announced ' of Mrs. Howard, wife of Captain F. W. Howard, of "Auckland, and mother of Mrs. Horace Cramond, of Wellington, at the age of 70 years. Mrs. Howard was a daughter 'of Captain J. "R. Clendon, li.N., who was a member of the first Legislative Council 'of 'New Zealand. The late Judge Clendon, of- the Native Land Court, wae a brother. Captain Howard, who came out to New Zealand with -the iate Bishop Selwyn, survives his wife, with a grown-up family of four' sons and two .daughters.