SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18762, 16 July 1924, Page 13

SOCIAL NEWS.

% silhouette evening will ba held by fihe f&rts and Craitts circle of the Chib to-morrow when an interesting programme will be presented.

A bridge party in aid of the Phrnket

Society is to be given by Mrs. Alfred JTathan at her residence, Wmkford, Princess Street, to-morrow evening.

The engagement is announced of Miss 'A. M. Riesterer, eldest daughter of rMr. 25. J. Riesterer, Mount Albert, Auckland, to Mr. J. P- Mackay, of Napier, eldest poa of Mrs. A. M. Mackay, Devonporfc,

Her Excellency Lady Jellieoe will be the guest of Mrs. Marmaduke Reth&H, oi Pahau Pastures, for tho North Canterbury hunt and the hunt ball at Culvarden. The date of the ball has been fixed for August 7, the hunt taking place on August 6 (states a Christchurch exchange).

It is many a day since skating parties have been "indulged in as near Christchurch as Homebush. During the exceptionally heavy frosts of tho earlier part cf last week, however, Mr. and Mrs. James Deans held a series of parties of this nature, and great was the fun and exercise enjoyed. For one evening the •young people from the neighbouring districts enjoyed skating by moonlight.

London is full of- rich and happy •lacbeiors. Lord Balfour is the most dis--tmguished, and ono may say tho most seicnre in his Sir Philip Bassoon is the most interesting. There OT9 also Lord Cecil Manners, the Duke of Rutland's half-brother: Mr. Evan Charteris, one of the best-looking of the voung bachelors; and Mr. Maurice Baring, Who is and always has been too busy vith his brilliant pen to condescend to $hmk of the subject of marriage.