SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8178, 20 July 1912, Page 12

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs -Hugh Morrison, Blah logic, is in own. Mrs F. Neville is spending a week at Caraka Bay. Miss Dora Booth (Nelson) left yestcr- . iy on a visit to Sydney 'Mrs Coekburn-llood, Wairarapa, is tho ,;u':st of Colonel and M.rs Knox Mr Martin Kennedy, accompanied by Miss Kennedy, left for Sydney by tho . hmaroa last evening. Mrs C. Rattray and Mrs Bridgeman, of Dunedin, passed through Wellington ycsteiduy, en route for Sydney. .Miss Hare, Nelson, left by the Sydney boat yesterday, en route for Singapore, where her marriage to Mr Webb, son of i.iout.-Col, Webb, will take place. Tho Girl Peace Scouts will meet Miss Reynolds, of Dunedin, for observation work at tho corner of Willis and Vivian streets at 2.15 p.m. to-day. Should it be wot they will assemble at Sussex chambers. Wist Sunday too was a remarkably bright and cheering one at tho Y.W.C.A., there being a record attendance at tho afternoon service, about eighty girls being present, the subsequent tea and social hour being thoroughly appreciated. Mrs Balcombo Brown has issued invitations for an “at homo” at her residence, Tinakori road, on Thursday, July 25th, when Miss Winifred Griffiths will speak on tho work done in India by the University Settlement and tho Y.W'.C.A. Foreign Department. Miss Ewart, on severing her connection with the staff of Young's CliemicalCompany, where she has been for several years, received a pleasant proof of the esteem in which she is held by her fellow employees in tho form of a very handsome presentation. Prompted by the keen interest which she takes in tho Girl Peace Scouts movement, her Excellency Lady Islington has consented to preside at a meeting of tho council and committee to be held at Government House on Thursday next. The meeting will bo an important one, as the question of uniforms must bo definitely decided by tho council. Tho ladies', night of tho Wellington Savage Club offers its annual attraction of wit and humour amid exceptionally attractive surroundings to-night at the Town Hall. The charming decorations of the race ball will still be “en evidence,“ and requests for tickets have somewhat taxed the resources of even tho hospitable savages.

The annual dance of the Public Trust Office staff is to be - held in tho Sydney street Schoolroom on Thursday, August Ist. A presentation on behalf of the Public Trust Office of Now Zealand will be made to Sir J. G. Ward. The committee in charge of arrangements are:— Misses Nash ana Mclnemey, Messrs Pordham, Eggleston, King, Nichols, Pearce, Tattle, and' Mulhollaud (bon. sec.). The tide of interest and activity which has so happily, succeeded tho long of “cross currents” which beset the Wellington branch of tho Y.W.C.A. continues. Two receptions given respectively by Mrs McEldowney and Mrs Pearson, Island Bay, have proved most successful affairs. Given with the object of supplementing tho gifts for their stall at the forthcoming “Antarctic Bazaar” in aid of the Y.W.C.A., the efforts of these ladies have been productive of much enthusiasm. The friends of Miss Ida Moran, a talented Wellington artiste, will he glad to learn from the “Sydney Morning Herald” that at a recent successful concert in that city “she carried off heaps of flowers.” The concert was given by the Euterpe 'Trio, of which tho Wellington singer is the leading member. “Miss Moran,” says the “Herald,” “struck the modem note iu song composition—'brevity and something to say’—in the majority of her numbers. Tho mezzosoprano realised unaffectedly the serious vein which runs through Riddle’s ‘A Pearl for Every Tear,' and achieved the right effect of a spontaneous burst of joy in ‘Good Morning’ (R. Snowdon Thomas). Since last appearing iu public Miss Moran has successfully developed oomedy-talent, and her rendering of tho humorous ditty concerning the ‘Bachelor and the Maid’ caused general laughter. Later the ‘mezzo’ was called upon to repeat ‘Where Hides a dainty song with on old-world flavour.”