WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 74, 24 September 1912, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | Subscriber. — Cabinet Pudding: Eggs, 4 (well beaten) ; milk, !£ pints 5 cake, 1 pint cut into dice or crumbs ; sugar, 1 I tablespoonful ; fresh lemon rind, £ one (grated). Stoned raisins and lemon peel or crystalised chprries and angelica to decorate the mould. Grease a mould thickly with butter, decorate it nicely, put in tlie cake crumbs. Mix I the eggs, milk, lemon rind, and suet together, and pour over the cake. Let it stand a little while to soak. Steam one hour. AH custard puddings must stand five minutes to settle before turning them out. Date Pudding : Dates, cut in small dice, lib j suet, chopped finely, ilb ; brown sugar, 2oz ; flour, ilbj bread crumbs, Jib ; eggs, i 1 or 2 : baking powder, 1 teaspoonful: milk, i pint. Mix all the inI gredients. Steam two and a-half to ! three hours. ■ Mrs. Buick has returned from Palmer* I ston North to Caulfield House. ' Mr. and Mrs. Tiaill, who have been a fortnight at the ,Grand Hotel, *nd came to Wellington for the golf meeting, re* turned to Gisborne this morning. Miss Beatrice Day ia at the Grand 1 Hotel. Mrs. Pederson, of Wanganui, and Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, of Feilding, are at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. A. G. Knight, of Dunedin, who has been staying at the Hotel Windsor, left for Rotorua to-day. Miss A. Paterson, of Gisborne, is at the Hotel Windsor. At the Empire Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. W. Cox (Sydney), Mrs. Dickeson (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. A. fl. Wright (t'atea), and the Misses O'Neill (Wanganui). Mrs. Hardwick-Hmith left for a visit to Ghristchurch last night. A quiet wedding took place at St. Thomas's Church, Newtown. on Wednesday, when Mr. E. F. B. Bockett, of "Ohui." Western Lake, l?eatherston, was married to Mrs. h. P. Wakedin (ttee Miss Ethel Bagge), second daughter of the late -Mr. John Bagge, of fiawkstone. Marton. The Rev. W. Fancourt officiated, only relatives being present. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr. Frank Bagge, wore a coat and skirt of blue "poplin, and a hat of tegal straw, trimmed with cornflowers. She carried a prayer book. Miss Dorothy Bagge, niece of the bride, was bridesmaid, and wore a dress of white muslin embroidery and a hat to match, and carried a bouquet of daffodils. Mr. R. B. Bockett attended his brother . as best man. Mr. and Mrs. Bookett left afterwards for a trip to Rotorua,. Last night's Pioneer gathering was most interesting. It is not often one sees so many bonnets—real old-fashioned bonnets, with no leanings towards a toque— gathered together. They framed, too, such sweet old faces, strong, humorous, and calm, and one could not help wondering whether this younger generation would look like that when the burden of many years is upon them. Many of the men, too, were splendid types of hale old age, and their white heads gave the massed audience quite a distinctive note. As the Premier aptly said, the pioneers of New Zealand, as of Canada, were the sifted seed j the picked mell of the nation. The strenuous life, too, \vas not suited to those few who were sickly or incompetent, ahd the residue was something to be proud of. But the programme, too, was as interesting as the audience. Quite apart from the speeches made by His Excellency, the Mayor of Wellington, the Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, and Hie Hon. H. D. Bell, were the reminiscences of the pioneers, of which we could willingly have heard more. Mr. Tonks, especially, has the quaintest style of oratory, and certainly, as he told us, resembles his father, "who was a humonrsonie man. " Mrs. Parsons's sing" ing was charmingly sweet and true, and the hushed audience listened to it with intense pleasure. It was a pretty sight to see her daughters, who both are sweet singers, proudly listening to their mother's song. Not far from me was one who remembered when the singer, a young girl, sang first in pub^c. "Jessie's Dream," too, awoke- old memories, such as the songs of to-day may never hope to possess. But the gem of the programme 1 was "The Boys of the Old Brigade," sung by a pioneer with great empressemeht and considerable action. In the chorus he marched up and down in front of ' the distinguished folk in the front row, and sang with all his heart the spirited words. The old faces in the bonnets and the white-haired men beamed appreciation, and, really, the song deserved the hearty applause it gained. Yesterday, though it could not compensate for the- really dreadful weather we gave the golfers, made some amends. The links and other surroundings were looking exquisite. The colouring of the hills, the gorgeous blaze of the gorse, the velvet green of the birch, and pale emerald of the young willows, with the wide stretches of clear blue sky and the snowy masses of clouds, made up a wonderful setting for a very fine exhibition of golf. The links were wet, it must be admitted, but fto one grumbled, and the crowds of women walked staunchly through the. bogs and the damp grass, to the very last stroke the champion made. Their behaviour Was exemplary, and even breaths, as well as tongues, were held when a difficult putt was being made, though, when it was over, there were many soft exclamations of admiration or disappointment. The . ducks, however, were , not so thoughtful, and the committee should train their live stock to pay more atten« tion to the etiquette of the game. At one crisis their vociferous comments were quite embarrassing ! Probably such habitues oi the links know a good deal about golf, and consider themselves authorities. The Governor made a speech after the prizes were presented, and then came tea, doubly acceptable aftei the excitement and exercise. It was altogether a pleasant afternoon, and a crowd of happy people^despite the fact that Wellington golfers had gained nothing— went back to town. Macintoshes of ehoi silk have had plenty of opportunity of showing themselves during a period of many WeekA of rainy weather, writes our London Correspondent. Some of tho colours are very bright, looking attractive on a dreary day. A leading chad* is fuchsia red shot with fuchsia purple. But not every one ie 60 dating as that union, which demands a striking personality in«ide it. There us a run, tod, on Iho thin oilskin, Avhich is quite transparent, ami looks like a piece of crackly bon-bon wrapping. These oilskins are in crimson, orange, yellow, lemon yellow, white, red-brown,, dark green, and useful grey. When bought by the motor-lady (here is «< ure to he ;i roomy hood of the same ruUbrr aHßchecl to tlio back. R'oovcs art; west oflfii of Kaglan pattern. Aa outevtuiuing story comes from Wui.

! tekauri, seven miles from Waihi. A dance was Leld in the distr^ipt on Friday evening, and an arbitratkmiM from Wai kino was present. The ladies refused to dance with the arbitrationist, and one of the men pTC«cnt called him a "scab." The arbitrationist charged the infeulter, aud gave him a good thrashing. Another who insulted him was treated in like manner, and also a third. The result of it all Was that he became "the hero of the evening, and the girls vied with «ach other in their endeavours to obtain, a dance with the man who tad held his own so well. Last Friday Mr.". Charles E. Liixford, one of the early Wellington settlers, died at Nelson at the age of eighty. In 1842 on the day that the chip Fifeshire struck the. rock at the entrance of Nelson Harbour, she arrived at the fcame port with her parents in the ship Mary Aim. In 1848 she came to Wellington, and in 1852 married the late Mr. C. E. Liixford at the Hutt, then known as Aglionby. Thirty-two years ago she returned to Nelson, where she has been living ever since. She was of a retiring disposition but always took a deep interest an the Methodist Church, of which ehe became a member -soon after her arrival in New Zealand. [ On 14th August Miss Rita Marion I Simpson, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Simpson, of Wellington, New Zealand, was married to Mr. Edwin Nelson Hobson, only son of Mr. Edwin B. Hobson,i of Blackheath (writes our London correspondent). The ceremony, a fully choral one, took place at Christ Church, Westminster, which was beauti* fully decorated with flowers and palms. The Rev. J. F. Kendall performed the ceremony. The bride was given aways by her father, who subsequently entertained about sixty guests at the St. Ermin's Hotel. The two bridesmaids Were Miss Elsie Simpson and Miss Hilda Miles. The future home of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Hobson wilt be at Redhill, Surrey. They have gone abroad for the honeymoon. Another of the very early pioneers died on Sunday in Christchurch, in the person of Mrs. Farr, wife of Mr. S. C. Farr. The deceased lady, who was eighty-seven at the time of her death, j came to New Zealand in the barque The Monarch, which left London on 19th November, 1849, and arrived at Akaroa, after a perilous passage, on 2nd April, 1850. She was married to Mr. Fair, J who came out on the same Vessel, on j 15th June, 1850, that marviage being the first celebrated in Canterbury. A pretty, accomplished, but poor Geneva girl, who wanted" to enter an English family, in England, as governess and also to perfect her English, found her beauty the greatest hindrance to getting work, and after seven months' struggle she has returned home. The girlTtuows several languages, is a good musician and painter, and is modest and patient. She obtained several places, but after a few days or weeks in different families she was dismissed, several mistresses frankly stating that she was too pretty to be employed aa a governess. Other ladies, after the first interview, did not communicate with her again., Finally, she determined to go to America, and in a London hotel hiet by appointment a wealthy American lady, who wanted a French governess for her two children. "My ! You are too pretty to work," said the American lady, and the Swiss girl, t disheartened, has returned home, and is now' seeking a situation in her own country.