SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19753, 28 September 1927, Page 7

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. F. C. Guthrie is visiting Wanganui. j Mrs. Brownlow Horrocks is on a visit ! to New Plymouth. Mrs. Norman has returned to Wanganui from a visit to Auckland. Mrs. J. M. Auld has been visiting friends in Wanganui. Miss E. Boves, of New Plymouth, is visiting Auckland and Tauranga. _ Mrs. L. Brown and Miss Rone Brown, of Remuera, have returned from a visit to Rotoraa. Miss Rolleston is staying at the Grand Hotel and will return to Australia by the Aorangi. Mrs. F. Myres, of Christchurch. and | Miss Booth, of Carterton, are staying at j the Grand Hotel. Mrs. Alston and family, of Melbourne. ! arrived by the Niagara and are staying at the Hotel Cargen. j Mrs. Roberts and Miss Roberts, of Johannesburg, arrived from Rotorua yesterday and are staving at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. A. V. McDonald has returned from a visit to Auckland, and is staying with her father, Sir Thomas Mackenzie, in Wellington. Miss Jessie Ross, of Auckland, will leave England for New Zealand in September, via Suez, arriving in Auckland during the first week in November. Mrs. R. Knox, of Mount Eden, expects to winter in France. During the past two months she has been touring in Scotland, says our London correspondent. Miss Dorothy Smith, of Avondale, is staying in London with relatives. She has been touring England and Wales since arriving in the spring. Later she will tour the Cumberland coast. The Misses Loudon, of Auckland, left England by the Orsova for Sydney on August 20. They will join the Ulimaroa on September 30, expecting to be in New Zealand in the first week of October. Mrs. H. Lewis, of Auckland, and Mr. Desmond Lewis, who are spending a few months in London, have recently been to Belgium, where they visited the battlofield area. They intend to return to New j Zealand about Christmas time. Miss L. M. Paterson, of Auckland, has been on a motor tour through England, Scotland and Ireland with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Mackav, Paekakariki. On September 3 Miss Paterson left for Auckland by the Orvieto. Very few of our princesses do not dance now, and, after some years' abstention, both Princess Marie Louise and Princess Helena Victoria have taken to the ballroom floor again. They both danced at a recent ball, where Princess Arthur of Connaught was also dancing. The wardrobe in which the brave Frenchwoman, Mme. Belmont-Gobert, concealed a British soldier, Trooper Fowler, of tho 11th Hussars, cut off from his regiment after Le Cateau and marooned amid lh6 advancing Germans, some of them billeted in the house itself, proves a centre of attraction at the Imperial War Museum, London. This historic piece of furniture has been presented to the museum by Sir Charles Wakefield. One of the most sought-after speakers for numerous Scottish functions is the Duchess of Atholl, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education. She is no fair-weather speaker, and on many occasions has delivered her speeches in torrents of rain, without even a sheltering umbrella. She has infinite tact, quite a firm hand when she has to handle large gatherings such as the recent conference of education experts from all parts of the Empire, and a spontaneous note about her speeches which is very pleasing. Another woman whose public speaking lias improved greatly is Lady Rachel Stuart, wife of the Hon. James Stuart, M.P., who is very active in his constituency of Moray and Nairn. Not everyone remembers that the Little Duchess was a hospital nurse during the war. She is one of several members of tho Royal Family who so served. An interesting connection with these days exists at Glanvs, whither the Duke and Duchess, with Princess Elizabeth, are now staying. On the Glamis Castle estate is a man who was one of the "lucky patients" at, the officers' hospital where the Duchess of York was a" nurse. Some time after the war the Duchess recognised a man who lifted his cap to her as one of her former patients. She spoke to him, found he had run through his gratuity and could not get a job, and asked him to come and stay with her people in Scotland. He accepted the invitation, and has been there ever since, employed on the estate. Lord Aberdeen celebrated his 80th birthday recently, though from his appearance and general activities no one would judge him to be near that age. In a few months' time he and Lady Aberdeen will be celebrating their golden wedding, for it was on November 7, 1877, that he married the Hon. Ishbel Marjoribanks. daughter of the first Lord Tweedmouth and sister of the famous Liberal Whip who married Lady Fanny Churchill, one of Lord Randolph Churchill's sisters Lord and Lady Aberdeen have already received gifu in anticipation of their golden wedding. The National Council of Women in South Africa have given Lady Aberdeen a beautiful fan of gold-coloured ostrich feathers and Lord Aberdeen a heavy gold quarts paper-weight.