SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19253, 16 February 1926, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS.

Miss Killoen, of Wellington, is staying at Radnor. Miss McLean, Auckland, is on a visit to Hamilton. Miss Quale, of Auckland, has left for Feilding and Wellington.. Mrs. W. N. Abbott, Epsom, has left on a visit to Wellington. Mrs. J. Campbell, Mount Eden, is holiday making in Rotonia. Mrs. V. M. Thomson, of Sydney, is staying at the Grand Hotel. Miss G. Cooke, Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. A. P. Barklie, Geraldine. Mrs. Arthur Taylor and Miss Taylor, of Mount Ederij have left for Rotorua. Mrs. D. Hay, of Hamilton, who ha 3 been staying at Waiheke, has returned. . ■ 1 1,1 X ' Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Walton have left for a fortnight's holiday in the Waikato. Mrs. Hubert Hammond, Hamilton, who has been holiday making at Milford, has returned. Mr. P. Watts and Miss Valerie Watts, of Hamilton, have returned from a trip 'to Sydney. ' ■ /- Mr. and Mrs. MacKinnon, Auckland, are spending a few weeks with Mrs. McDouall, Oamaru. Dr. and Mrs. H. R. Harrover, of Glendale, California, are visitors to the Dominion and are at the Grand Hotel, • Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Hirst, Hamilton Road, who have been visiting the Dunedin Exhibition and Stewart Island, have returned to Auckland. The wives of the Hamilton Rotarians are entertaining Her Excellency Lady Fergusson at luncheon on Yfednesday, February22l(4 1( at Edingthorpe, the residence of Mrs. H. Valuer, River Road. A morning tea was given at the Lyceum Club last week to welcome home Mrs. Fullerton, after an absence of a year in Europe, and to say farewell to Mrs. Ely, who is shortly going to England for a nine months' vacation. I The aw Guido Commissioners is taking plnce in Wellington on February 19 and <2O, under the presidency of Mrs. W. R. Wilson, Dominion Commissioner. Mrs. Ewen Alison is acting-secretary in the absence of Mrs. Ely, who is leaving for England. Dr. Margaret Knight is now brevet commissioner for Auckland. Three anecdotes about the late Queen Alexandra, two humorous and one pathetic, were related by Lord Enutsford, recently, at the Court of Governors of the London Hospital, writes an exchange correspondent. Queen Alexandra, during a surprise visit to the hospital, had remarked to a man with a broken arm upon his injury. Another patient revealed the inquirer's identity. "Yes,'' said the mam, unbelieving; "I always send for a cjueen when I am ill." The Queen, meeting; two eminent surgeons in long white smocks and bandaged heads, mistook one oil them for a patient. " Never mind, my man," she said, laying her hand on his arm, " it will soon be over." Her last letter to Lord Knutsford contained the pathetic passage: "Think of me as I used to be; I am breaking up now."