CHIT CHAT.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1169, 27 July 1894, Page 13

CHIT CHAT.

Miss Colonia’s very interesting London letter takes up so much space this week that I have been obliged to cut Chit Chat very short. Some answers to correspondents are omitted for the same reason.

A dance is 13 be given by a committee of voung ladies who attend the High Schools, at the Masonic Hall on Friday, 3rd. The dance is, I understand, given for the special benefit of tho visiting college football Rams who are to take part in the forthcoming tournament. The following ladies have kindly consented to act as chaperones: —Mesdames Lee, Macgregor, Tripe, Simpson, Stafford and Wallace. The honorary secretaries are Misses S. Macgregor and J. Wallace.

A very pleasant evening party was given by Mrs Rotheram on Wednesday evening. Among the guests were Miss Seed, Miss Horrax, Miss Carroll, Misses Griffiths (2), Miss Wilson and Messrs Seed, Wiggins, Ward and Fox. Miss J. Griffiths and Messrs Wiggins and Rotheram sang during the evening.

Mr J. Roper, a well known resident of ™ the district, was married on Monday week at Hunterville, to Miss C. Woolston.

At Campbelltown, Rangitikei, last week, Mr Fredrick Gustave Krels, a well known resident was married to Miss Elsie Maria Hemmingsen, second daughter of Mr J- Hemmingsen, of Campbelltown. The ceremony took place at the residence of the bride’s parents, the Rev G. Clements being the officiating clergyman. Miss Hemmingsen, the bride’s sister, was the bridesmaid, and Mr W. G. Baylis acted as best man. After a short honeymoon in Wellington, Mr and Mrs Krels take their residence in the Marton block near Rangiwatea.

At Wanganui last week, Mr A. L. Soufflot was married to Miss M. C. Whitlock, eldest daughter of a well known Wanganui resident, Mr T. Whillock. The ceremony, which took place at Christ Church, the Rev T. B. Maclean officiating, was attended by a large number of friends of the happy pair. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a very pretty white costume, with orthodox veil and wreath of orange blossoms, the only bridesmaid, her sister, Miss Blanche Whellock, wearing a light fawn coloured tweed with velvet trimmings. Mr Delaney was the best man. After the wedding breakfast had been partaken of, the happy pair left for New Plymouth, where the honeymoon is to be spent.

There are several very enthusiastic dog “ fanciers’ " amongst the fair sex in Wellington, and they will be interested to learn no doubt that a “ Ladies’ Kennel Club " has recently been formed at Home. Particulars are given in this week’s Kennel Column.

My Featherston correspondent writes as follows :—Dear Aunt Ellen.—The long looked for ball has at last taken place and was a huge success. The hall was beauti fully decorated, the floor in good order, and the music, provided by Professor Deeley’s select orchestra, excellent. There was a very large attendance, quite 400 people being present. Mr Buchanan was to have formerly opened the proceedings, but could not come owing to an important Wairarapa measure keeping him at the House, and so Mr Adam Donald took his place and made a very neat little speech. The M.C.’s were Messrs C. B. Pharazyn, R. Riddick, W, Toogood, Adam Donald, and Monckfcon. These gentlemen performed their duties with great tact and courtesy, and everything went off very smoothly. The supper was very good, and the ladies of the catering committee deserve the highest praise,

The following is a list of some of the more noticeable dresses. Of course it is not complete, but I give as many as I can: —Miss Monckton, black and gold; Mrs Searl, ruby plush; Miss Nicol, old gold and black; Mrs Tait, Empire costume ; Mrs A. McKenzie, black silk ; Mrs Good, black net; Miss Porritt, heliotrope silk ; Mrs W. Nicol, black silk ; Mrs Toogood, black and scarlet; Miss Toogood, black and silver ; Miss N. Riddick, white velvet; Miss Riddick, black; Miss King, black and white; Miss M. Matthews, white satin ; Miss Matthews, pale blue satin; Miss Ussher, crimson net; Miss O’Loughlin, black and mauve : Miss Duck, pink and green ; Mrs Pilmer, black and scarlet; Mrs Urquhart, black and green; Mrs W. McKenzie, black and gold; Miss Symons, crimson and canary . Miss Thomas, white and scarlet; Miss E. Monckton, cream and heliotrope; Miss Dudley, white and orange; Miss Judd, cream and pink; Miss L. Judd, cream and pink; Mrs W. Benton, black satin; Miss McDougal, white cashmere and swansdown ; Miss B. Donald, cardinal silk; Miss Cox, black and pink ; Mrs W. Bicknell, black net and crimson : Mrs H. Smith, black silk and scarlet; Miss Cadenhead, silver spangled net; Miss Tringham, black net; Miss Bunny, white satin pink and net; Miss Jackson, pink cashmere; Miss Donald, black and green ; Mrs Jas. Smith, navy velvet and maize; Miss Ford, black and pale pink ; Miss Jacobsen, ruby plush and white; Mrs Unwin, pongee skirt and red silk body ; Miss Duck, white ; Mrs Trotman, biack and green. Visitors were present from all over the district, some coming from very great distances, but all appeared to enjoy themselves most thoroughly, and the ball was one of the most successful ever given in the Wairarapa.

Miss Alice Rothschild is one of the most enthusiastic women horticulturists in the world, and her collection of roses alone is valued at .£14,000.

A ball, to celebrate the second anniversary of the opening of the Pahautanui Hall, was held at Pahautanui on Friday evening last, and proved a great success. The floor, which was in splendid order, was occupied during the evening by about sixty couples, dancing being kept up till the small hours of the morning to music supplied by the local string band, under Mr A. Nicol, jxxn. Miss Katie Baskiville sang during the evening (by special request) “ Come back to Erin,” with great effect.

A number of ladies attended the annual meeting of St Peter’s ixarishioners last week, but according to the constitution of the church they were unable to vote. Mr T. J. Gale was the champion of the female franchise on this occasion, and he appealed to the incixmbent, the Rev W. 0. Waters, foi advice as to what steps they were to take to enable them to take part in future meetings. The Incumbent said they would have to approach the Diocesan Synod, and when they got over that difficulty—a serious one he thought—they would have to get the proposal through the General Synod. Mr Gale asked would the presentation of a petition be sufficient ? Mr R. P. Johnson suggested that a petition should be presented to the Diocesan Synod, and then one of their own synodsmen could bring the matter before the General Synod. Mr W. Gill said they were living in a very progressive age. The women had got the franchise in another place, and ho did not see any reason why they should not obtain it in the parish. (Applause.) As a synodsman he would be very happy to present any petition from the ladies to the General Synod, and to give it his very cordial support. This announcement was received with applause from the ladies. Mr R. P. Johnson, another synodsman, said he would also be very glad to present a petition. The Incumbent having stated that the best way to deal with the subject was that suggested by Mr Johnson,the subject dropped.

It is Lord Egerton of Tatton who is to marry the Duchess of Bixckingham and Chandos. Lord Egerton, who has been a widower since 1892, is chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal Company. He is 62 years of age. The Duchess of Buckingham recently visited New Zealand.

The Dxxnedin Women’s Franchise Leagxxe has passed a series of resolxxtions to the effect that in view of the unsatisfactory amendment by the Council of the Criminal Code Bill the League calls on the Premier to fulfil his promise to bring in a Bill to raise the age of consent; that the women of the Colony feel it a disgrace that New Zealand should be behind any other country in this matter, and that nothing lower than 16 years will satisfy a great majority of thinking men and women; that the Executive protests against the monstrous provision that after a lapse of

one month after committal of such an unpardonable offence no charge can be brought; that the Executive fails to see on ■what principle, save protecting immorality and making vice safe, laws for the protection of girls and young children shoxild be made to operate so differently to those in favour of property, and suggests that nothing less than six months should be the limit.

St. Luke’s Anglican Church parishioners’ meeting, Oamaru, have carried a xxnanimous resolxxtion approving of the incxxmbent’s act in the Synod in moving that the disability of women be removed, and calling on the Synod to give effect to this principle.

From Our Special Correspondent. London, June 16,

The alleged engagement of Miss Lena D’Arcy, of Qxxeensland, to the Dxxke of Marlborough, is, I hear, being opposed by Mr D’Arcy, who does not relish the strain of insanity in the Churchill family. His Grace, who only came of age a few months ago, is a nice lad. He was very mxxch liked by his brother “ xxndergrads ” at Oxford, and when the authorities at Christchurch declined to let them go to his majority ball at Blenheim last autxxmn they literally “painted the College red,” some three hundred pots of Aspinall’s enamel being xxsed for the purpose. In appearance the Dxxke resembles his maternal gi’andfatlxer, the Duke of Abercorn, rather than the Churchills. He was brought up by his mother the unfortunate Lady Blandford, whom the late Duke treated so shamefully, and natxxrally never got on with his father. They met occasionally as the lad grew xxp, but could scarcely be called friends. The Duke is not the first of his family to marry an Australian; in fact it was at the wedding of his aunt, Lady Sarah Spencer Churchill, to Captain Wilson (Sir Simxxel’s heir) that he met his fiancee. Miss Lena D’Arcy is only jxxst out, and very pi’etty. y* There was a qxiiet little Anglo-Colonial vvedding at Eltham Parish Church on Saturday last, when the Rev W. J. Sowerby, the vicai-, tied the nuptial knot between Mr James C. Chapman, of Wallington, Surrey, and Mary Barnes, the eldest daughter of Mr Fleining-Pinkston O’Reilly, erstwhile of Auckland, New Zealand, and granddaughter of the late John O’Reilly, Blackwood, of Ballymenock, County Down, Ireland. The marriage was by license, Mr O’Reilly giving his daughter away. The bride looked charming in a dress of white silk, the long train of which was edged with roxxleau and ornamented with a trail of orange blossoms. The train was in the care of Master W. P. O’Reilly and Master Gilbert D. Chapman. The bodice was trimmed with real lace, and made with yoke, and on the shoulders were epaulettes of oi’ange blossoms. The bride wore a wreath of orange flowers and a tulle veil. Her bouquet was of xvhite roses, lilies, and stephanotis. Her bridesmaids, Miss Lissie Hannay and Miss Kathleen Pinkston, were dressed in white crepon trimmed xvith cream lace, and hats to match. The happy couple were the recipients of numerous and handsome presents, including several cheques. Mr Fleming P. O’Reilly, by the way, is living at Meadowleigh, New Eltham, Kent, not far distant from the Nitrate King’s domain.