SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19777, 26 October 1927, Page 7

SOCIAL NEWS.

Miss J. Knight is visiting Marton. Mrs. H. Dryden is leaving on Friday on a visit to Wellington. Miss Constance Russell is the guest of Mrs. J. Wells, of Wanganui. Mrs. C. Ballantyne, of Remuera, has left on a visit to Dannevirke. Mrs. D. W. Dunlop, of Epsom, is spending a few weeks at Nihotupu. Miss M. Ford returned to Auckland yesterday after a visit to Timaru. Miss Audrey Walton has returned to Auckland after a holiday trip to Wellington and Wanganui. Mrs. V. R. Meredith, who has been visiting Mrs. J, Matthews, Otoiohanga, has returned to Auckland. Miss Esteile Darbyshire, of Auckland, returned to Loudon on September 17 after a visit to friends in Essex. Miss Reeves and Miss Nora Reeves, of Kawau, left Auckland yesterday on a motor toui' of the North Island. Miss Betty (Jotterill, who has been visiting Auckland, Palmerston North and Heretaunga, bas returned to Christchurch. Mr. and Mrs. A A. Martin have returned to their home at Remuera after having spent a month's holiday at Okoroire. Miss Ewart, Auckland, who is visiting England, is at present in London, and intends to proceed to the Continent next month. Mrs. Robert Frater, of Saltburn Road, Takapuna, and her daughters, Mrs. L. Horrocks and Mrs. G. Mahon, are visiting Wellington. Mrs. L. Dacre left Auckland by the Aorangi with her daughter Bobbie, whose marriage to Mr. A. J. Dixon is to take place in Suva early next month. Mrs. Bowman, Lliristcburch, and her daughter, MrS. Piuer, of Duiiedm, have left on an extended visit to Auckland, where they will be the guests of Mrs. G. Body. Mrs. Cuthbert Mitford, formerly of Remuera, who has been the guest of Lady Campbell, at Campbell Town, Glasgow, is now settled in London till the middle of next month, when she will leave for the Continent. Miss E. J. Faulkner, of Auckland, has been in England for six months, visiting relatives and friends in Hereiord, Worcester and Gloucester, and as far north as the Lake District. She will spend Christmas with her relatives. Mrs. W. H. Waterhouse, of Auckland, and Miss H. M. Feaver fOpunaki), are at present staying with relatives m Loudon. With their father, Mr. J. Feaver, they arrived in England in the early summer. Since then they have gone on their several ways, visiting friends, seeing various places of interest in the west and south of England. Miss Feaver has been sketching in Cornwall, Hampshire and Sussex, and Mrs. Waterhouse > has made her headquarters at her father's home in Dorset A very welcome visitor to New Zealand will bo Lady Augusta. Inskip, wife of Sir Thomas W. H. Inskip, K.C., M.P., Solicitor-General, and sister of Lady Alice Fergusson. Lady Augusta, the eldest daughter of the late Earl and Countess of Glasgow, was very popular in the Dominion during her father's term of office as and most people will remember the anxiety felt when she met with a somewhat serious accident while riding. Lady Augusta left England on September 24 by the Aquitania, to connect on October 24 with the Tahiti at San Francisco, for Wellington. She will be accompanied by her son, Lieut. E. L. Orr-Ewing, M.C., who, is to join the staff of the -Governor-General. Lieut. Orr-Ewing's father was the late Mr. C. L Orr-Ewing, M-P. for Ayr Burghs, who died in 1903. This young officer was educated at Harrow and the Roya! Military College, and joined the Black Watch in 1918 at the age of 19. He went out to France in July, 1918, and was present at the last advance in Belgium, lie wr.s wounded in September and gained the Military Cross then After the war he served in India with the Ist Battalion of the Black Watch, for five years.