SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12196, 22 July 1925, Page 5

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs Facer (Auckland), who has come to Wellington, is paying a round of visits. At present 1 she is staying with Mr and'Mrs H. Facer. Karori. Madame Gower-Burns is hack in Christchurch after a stay here. 1 Mr and Mrs Wanganui, are here, staying with Mr and Mrs W. SommerviJlte, Coromandel street.

>- Miss Bita Cracroft Wilson has come up from Christchurch for a visit. , ' . Miss .Lucy Faulkner is returning shbrtl.v to Australia, after a round of visits ini'Hawke’s.Bay. ’ Miss Esme Morgan (Napier) is hero, 'staying with Mrs Tringham. .

Miss Isa Bremner is visiting friends in Napier. "

Mrs. and Miss Strang (Wanganui) are here at. present. They were lately in Napier. • ' Mrs Gerald. Doorly and her children are shortly leaving Dunedin for Melbourne, as Captain Doorly has ” accepted a shore appointment there. Miss M.: Wintle (Nelson) is at present the guest of Mrs A; MoFarlane, Palmerston North. ’ Miss Wintle is spending some weeks in the North Island. •;

Miss Esther Thotnton, Christchurch,, is visiting Wellington,- and is at 'present staying with hpr sister, Mrs Newnham, at Karori.

A very pretty wedding was solemnised in the Foxton Methodist Church on Tuesday, July 14th, hy the Rev. {3. H. D. Peryman, when William Edward, youngest son of Mr and Mrs Wm. Signal, was united to. Christina; Ellen only daughter of. Mrs and -the late Mr C. Honoqe, all well-knqwn residents of Foxtob. The bride, who was given Away hy her brother, jMr W; J. Honore, of. Palmerston North, looked charming in a cream charmeuse, beaded with crystal and clusters of: pastel beads. She wore the orthodox veil arranged "with a double circle of tihy orange' bl oesomi, and carried a rbouquet. The bride was attended by two bridesmaids, Misses Fairy Osborne, a cousin, and • Franoes Honore, a niece,''who were both charmingly. attired in frocks of "pale blue satin geor getto add silver, rosebuds, hats of silver lace with pale blue georgette, rosebuds. Mr' C. Van Slyke, of Wellington officiated as best Wan. The ceremony was fully choral, Mrs B. J. Westwood presiding; at' the' organ." The bride’s present to the bridegroom waß a travelling,’rogi, and that- of the bridegroom to ; the bride a_ string of pearls/ To the bridesmaids were given* gold armlets. Mr., and. Mrs Signal left by motor for the south, where the honeymoon will -be spent. , An interesting-address was given by -Professor Vonj ZedlitZ to a large andichce at the’ 'monthly meeting of the Wellington branch- of the Federation of University Women at Victoria College on Monday evening, the., subjectchosen being .'“■Bull Fights,” this being, as the speaker explained, the only profession whiolf had not been invaded by women. • The origin of,the sport /was generally attributed to the Moors. v who. -bad a game of this description, but which was more like the ' bull-baiting which flourished in England till. about the 17th century, when the Puritans put a stop to it. This sport was gradually devieljwed ini Bpaft . till it became -the modern) bull fight 1 where, the bull 1 ’S' supposed to have' a fair, chance ■against the man. The lecturer gave some interesting details as to how the contests' were arranged and fought. .He remarked, that' in spite of’ the danger attaching to. the sport' accidents were not numerous, there being only two or threo a year, while 2000 bulls and between six and seven thousand. horses were engaged. Tbs speaker advised all his hearers who intended making' . a trip to England to break: their journey at Gibraltar feir a. fortnight when, they would have a good chance of seeing-a bull-fight nt . one of the towns of Southern Spain- A hearty vote ,of thanks was'paased, and supper brought the evening to a close. Scarves are with UB .in all forms, from feathers to tulle and taffetasto marabout, but I found a new version ■ the other, day (writes a London corresfondent). Blub,' green. and orange emroideries on a'dark blue frock had a i scarf composed of three strands of faille ribbon in those colours—each . ribbon a shade wider than its nextdoor neighbour. It was most effective —and new." TrUßt the Parisienne -for thinking ont new ideas. , The latest jumpers are provided with fobs to hang from the breast pockets, 1 and now new sorts of fobs are appearing almost daily. The latest are those' 6f enamel made into three’, or possibly 6nly two initials, each in’ a different colour encased in a black band and hanging from the usual black moire strap ' \ . Miss Caroline H. Kelleher, who has been for 26 years head teacher at Waingawa, Wairarapa, - and has won manv honours for her. pupils, has been appointed headmistress , at Te , Ore Ore School. She will be assisted by Miss. L. I. H. Robinson, who has. been on the Te Ore Ore. staff for the past 4J years. , . ' . 1 . ' Since her return to England Lady Jellicoe has been having quite a busy time attending. affairs connected with: useful organisations,' and speaking' at various functions.. A few days ago she visited the Royal Northern Hospitnl, and opened a new maternity department as a training centre for.midwives. In the ’course of her speech she said she was astonished to learn that North London had only one hospital to serve one million people. She felt that Loudon might take a lessen from New''Zealand; for in that Dominion each small town had its own maternity hospital. In his/welcome to Lady Jellicoe, Sir Philip Sassqon. M.P., treasurer of the hospital, said the problem of the hoard of management had been to provide an efficient hospital service, in keeping with the ever-increasing demands in North; London. The Bishop of Willesden mentioned that the sum* required for its upkeep was £85,000 a year.