SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12198, 24 July 1925, Page 9

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Madame 'Winnie Fraser,. who has been spending; a few days in Wellington, has gone south to her home in Oamaru-

Mrs Eric Riddiford is in Wellington, staying at Miss Malcolm’s.

Mr and Mrs E. M. Bunt are back, after a trip south.

Mrs A. Gray, who has been in New Plymouth lately, is home again.

Mrs E. P. Gray is ayvny in Christemirch.

Mrs Barnicoat is leaving next month for a trip to England. Mrs Eric Riddiford is traveling with her. Mrs A. Scott and Miss Maud Wilson (Timaru) are here at present. Eater they go on to Hawke’s Bay. Mrs J. McDonald (Rhodesia), who is revisiting New Zealand, is at present in Christchurch, staying with her father, Mr Henderson. Mr and Mrs P. D. Laurie, Chicago, are arriving in Christchurch this week, and intend to settle there. For the last six years they have been living in America. '' " ' '

The Hororata (Canterbury) benedicts are sporting enough .to bold an annual ball, and even have adopted special colours —pink and green. These decorated -the hall last week when the ball was held with great success. There were' 300 guests at the annual ball of the Greonpark benedicts, and'they had chosen a colour scheme of black and gold, with coloured balloons. Miss Noeline M. S. Bruce, daughter of Mr and Mrs A. Selwyn Bruoe, of Opawa, has left Cnristchprch on a visit to Rotorua, and Will later join the Niagara, at Auckland, en route for New York via Canada'. Miss Bruce is entering the Teachers’ College, Columbia ‘University, to take a post-graduate course of study, on completion of which she will proceed to England for further experience in her profession before leturning to New Zealand. Miss Bruce graduated M.A. Dip. Educ. at Canterbury College, and Was a senior scholar in her year. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Economics Society of England, and for the past two and a half years has occupied the position of senior mistress at Westoort Technical High School. Miss Edna Bruce Will accompany her sister to Auckland. The: resignations of Sisters H. Aiken, 1. A. Murray, and Senior Nurse E. Hooper (who has completed her four years’ training) were accepted with iegret ihv ahe Wellington Hospital Board yesterday. , Miks Amy Kane, of Wellington, who after the Women’s International Conference at Washington, proceeded n England, had a-most enjoyable passage across the Atlantic in the famous White Star liner Olympic.; The service on the steamer (a real floating palace) is wonderfnlly good she says, and could hardly he excelled.

Mr Joseph Myers and his sisters, Misses Phoebe ■ and Eleanor Myers (Wellington), were all in a motor accident at Winnipeg a few weeks ago. The latest news is that they are all making good progress. A motor-oar ran into a taxi-cab in which they were returning to the Royal Alexandra Hotel Where they were staying. The taxi was sent over the edge of the road into a ditch, turning on its side. Mr Myers was badly bruised about the head, the Miafces B. and P. Myers escaped with bruising, and Miss E. . Myers’s hand Was badly out. They naturally all suffered from shock. The wives of the U.S. Navy officers who have been detained' in Auckland, en route to Sydney, on account of the strikv were entertained at tea lately, by Mrs Boyle, wife of the American Vice-Consul at Auckland. The wives of the new Zealand Division of the Royal Navy were asked to meet them. Mrs Beale, wife of Commodore Beale, R.N., has arrived inAuckland from Sydney. H.M.S. Dunedin is to he back in Auckland to-day, after some months, spent in the Islands.''';' In a heat that was* like that of a Turkish bath the King and Queen, in the bell foundry of Messrs Giilett and Johnston, at Croydon, - watched five bells being cast. A bouquet was handed to the Queen by Miss Wall, chief typist. This was in the form of a floral bell' tied with blue ribbons. Their Majesties’ visit was made in order that they might see the .carillon of fiftythree hells cast for Park avenufe Baptist Church; New York.. It is the largest and most complete carillon in the world, and is the giff of Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, junior, in memory of his mother.

Dr. Marion Vaughan, medical officer to the Islington Cbondon) Infant Welfare Centre, claims to have had the offer of the most remarkable present ever mode to A woman. After doctor ing a - colony of natives at ohe of the hill stations in India through a verybad- epidemic of bubonic plague she prepared to return to England. Just as she was going she was asked to receive a gift from the villagers as a token of gratitude, and found the gift was twenty-eight blaok babies! Remarkable evidence was given at an. inquest on the six-days-old male child of an omnibus conductor (London). The phild was said to have been born bine, and after its death a post-mortem examination found tljat the heart Was square in shape. The wedding took place at St. Peter’s Church on : Wednesday, Rev. Mr Stanley officiating, between Mill)-,, younger daughter of the late Mr J. W. and Mrs E. Buckley, of Middleton, Lancashire, England, and Wilfred Leonard, second son of Mr and Mrs W. H. Osgood.- of Blenheim, The bride, who was given away by Mr E. Nixey, wore a dainty fiook of white satin, handsome-, Jy trimmed with pearls and white marabout fur. kn<| a h4nd-emhroidered Veil arranged over a Russian'coronet of pearls and orange blossom. She carried a lovely bouquet of white chrysanthemums. heather, and maidenhair fern, with touches of pink, and’Having, a silver horseshoe, outlined in pearls, attached. She was attended! by her sister,; Clare, who wqre a becoming gown of nalest pink broche, modelled on simple lines, and a cap of blue tulle arranged over a Russian coronet of pale pink. Mr Ronald Osgood was best man. After the reception Mr and Mrs Osgood left for Wanganui, prior to embarking for Australia, the bride travelling in a soft gfey velvet frock and blue .brocaded flat, and wearing a handsome fur edit, the gift of the bridegroom.