SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19731, 2 September 1927, Page 7

SOCIAL NEWS.

Miss A. Ball, of Blenheim, is a visitor to Auckland. Mrs. W. Fell has returned to Mahina Bay after a visit to Auckland. Mrs. H. St. A. Murray, of Christchurch, is staying at the Star Hotel. Mrs. Drummond Holderness has taken up her residence in Remuera Road. Miss Grierson, of Wanganui, is the guest of Mrs. Sinclair Reid, Orakei Road, Remuera. 'Mrs. C. G. Ross, of Wanganui, is on a visit to Auckland and is staying at the Hotel Cargeru Colonel and Mrs. Noel Adams, of Wharekawa, are in town and are staying at the Hotel Cargen. Mrs. Kempthorne, wife of Canon_ Kempthorne, who has been staying at Hotel Stonehurst, has returned to Morrinsville. Mrs. YVhineray and Miss Norah Whineray left by the Aorangi to visit relatives and friends in New York. Later Miss Whineray will proceed to England, where she will study music and dramatic art.

Mrs. J. J. Canavan and her son, Mr. Brian Canavan, are spending a holiday in Australia. They have been staying in Melbourne, and will return to Sydney via Princes 'Highway and Gippsland Lakes, arriving back in Auckland in October. Mrs. F. E. Harry, of Wellington, is on. a visit to the district branches of the Baptist Women's Missionary Union, of which she is the Dominion president. She will also speak at Hamilton on her return journey. A children's party was given by Mrs. Hirst at her home in Remuera yesterday afternoon, when the children of the mem-bers-of the Auckland ex-Service Women's Association were entertained The tables were gaily decorated and the small, guests immensely enjoyed the fun of dipping for gifts from an old-fashioned bran-tub. Mme. de Navarro, who lives at Court Farm, Broadway, Worcestershire, a charming place with lovely rose gardens, beautiful private chapel, fountain and cypress trees, looks so young that it is difficult to realise that she is now sixtyeight. But facts are stubborn things. When in 1883 the beautiful American actress, Mary Anderson, took London by storm, it was stated she was born in July, 1859.

Miss Saekville West, who has won the Hawthornden prize for the best poem of the year, is Mrs. Harold Nicolson, whose husband is in the diplomatic service and son of one of the most experienced diplomats in the world, Lord Carnock. She wrote the poem in Teheran while spending part of her husband's term of duty there with him. This year she went again to Persia, and the pair of them made an adventurous trek part of the way home on foot, accompanied by a donkey.

Miss Clara Hyde, organist of All Souls' Church, Clevedon, who was lately married, and Miss Viola Clare Waters, assistant-organist, who was married' this week, were honoured guests at "gift" afternoons in the Public Hall, when numbers of their friends on both -occasions were present, and a great variety of welcome gifts were brought for their acceptance. Presentations were also made by the vicar. Rev, W. H. Rattray, from the congregation, to Miss Hyde of a silver tea service, and to Miss V. Waters of a silver fruit stand, to mark their appreciation of these ladies'; willing services. Mr. A. Todd, assistant-lay reader, who ha§ removed to Te Awamutu, was also presented with an attache case and silver Eversharp pencil, prior' to leaving the district, as a token of his friends' good wishes and regard.

Lord Nunburnholme, the wealthy young peer, and Lady Mary Beatrice Thynne, youngest daughter of the Marquis of Bath, have become engaged. Lady Mary, who is 24, is an intimate friend of Princess Mary, and was one of her eight bridesmaids at the Westminster Abbey ceremony five years ago. She is one 01 the most beautiful women in the Court circles. When the Prince of Wales stayed at her father's famous house at Longleat, Wiltshire, four years ago, she shouldered many of the hostess' duties which would otherwise have fallen on her delicate mother. Early this year she went away to Africa on a three months' round of visits to her friends. Lord Nunburnholme is a year younger than Lady Mary Thynne. He succeeded his father, a North of England shipping magnate, in 1924. He inherited the bulk of his father's fortune of £302,248. His trustees are creditors-.for £50,395 in .the bankruptcy proceedings against Lord Terrington.