SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19743, 16 September 1927, Page 7

SOCIAL NEWS.

Miss M. Waters is visiting Wellington. Mrs. Marshall; of Masterton, is a visitor to Auckland. Miss Nancv Colbeck, Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. H. S. Fenwick, Christchurch. . * Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Peacock, of Wellington, are the guests of Mrs. H. K* Kirker, Arney Road, Remuera. I . Mrs., Hatrick, who arrived from Sydney this week, is staying with her sister, Miss Martin. Vincent Avenne, Remuera. Visitors staying at the Grand Hotel include Mrs. Innes Jones, Te Miss Spain, Dunedin, and Miss McKellar, Christ-church. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mills, who hs,va been staying with Mrs. John Mills, Parnell, are leaving for their home in Paparoa to-morrow. Ladv Asquith's " Sermons " include* somo 'telling characterisations of public men. but, perhaps, the most interesting passage is a condemnation of thoughtless truests at country house parties (says a London writer). Lady Oxford savs that at her own little country house at Sutton Courtney guests burn holes in her mantelpiece with forgotten cigarettes, break her saucers when feeding their dogs, and fail to turn off the electric light" in their bedrooms. Other English nostesses endorse Lady Oxford's protests. The Michaelmas daisy, which grows so profuselv in the gardens of Lambeth Palace, has a connection with Lambeth, since it was there that it first bloomed in England. It is a North American plant, and was brought to Lambeth in the seventeenth century by the younger Tradescant, son of the gardener to Charles the First, Charles and his Queen, Henrietta. frequently visited the home of the Tradescants at South Lambeth. The name of the illustrious family to whom we owe it is commemorated in the scientific name of the Michaelmas daisy. Aster Tradescantia. A knee brooch of the second century tvpe and bone and bronze hair pins are among the latest discoveries at Caerleon. Monmouthshire, where the site of the famous Roman amphitheatre is being excavated. The second main professional entrance is now completely clear and a depth of about 12ft of earth has been removed from between the massive pier stones fend walls of the entrance The arches which formed the end of the vault had collapsed before the site was buried, but the huge arch stones which were lying as they fell within the entrance have been numbered and stacked on one side.