SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12434, 30 April 1926, Page 5

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs A. Young, of Wellington, is visiting Auckland, and is the guest of Mrs Liston Wilson, Remuera. Miss T. Livingstone, M.A., formerly of Wellington (member of L.N.Z.P.), was recently a guest of honour at- a meeting of the Society of Women Writers, Sydney. Mrs Pockley and her sister. Mrs Curlewis (Ethel Turner), leave, for Rotorua to-day. Mrs Curlewis will he in Auckland on May 7th to attend a reception of the League of New Zealand Penwomen. Mrs Barron, Wellington, arrived in Timaru from Oamaru on Saturday, and is staying with Mrs A. Grant, “Aigantighe,” Wai-iti road. Lieutenant-Commander and Mrs Graham Watson, who have been spending a few days at the Hermitage, Mount Cook, are now in Timaru. The Poppy Day collection in Christchurch totalled £6BO. Miss Gwen Hamerton, of Wellington, is the guest of Mrs H. J. Beadel, Papanui, Christchurch. An interesting rumour that Lady, Astor was about to visit New Zealand was dispersed by Miss Basten when speaking before the National Council of Women in Auckland. As national secretary for the council she wrote to the first woman to enter the House of Commons offering greetings and the hope that she was about to tour the Dominion, butt unfortunately had received the reply that at present it was impossible. At the church of the Holy Sepulchre on Tuesday morning, the marriage was celebrated of Miss Elsie Alma Reid, only daughter of Mr and Mrs A. S. Reid, of this city, to Mr Eric L. Williams, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Y. J. Williams, of Waiuku. At St. Paul’s Church, Dallington, Christchurch, the marriage of Maisie, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs D. Foley, Woodham road, Linwood, to Patrick, youngest son of the late Mr and Mrß W. Kelleher, of Johannesburg, . South Africa, took place. The Rev. Father Madden performed the ceremony. Mr and Mrs A. W. Parsons, of Waipukurau, leave Wellington for Sydney by the Ulimaroa on May 7tb, en route to the Old Country. They will join the Ormuz at Sydney, and expect to be away from. New Zealand until the end of the year.

A very pretty wedding of considerable interest locally took place in the Catholic Church, Hamua, on Wednesday last, when Mary Elizabeth, second daughter of Mr and Mrs J. T. Cavanagh, of Hamua, was united in the bonds of holy matrimony to Victor Alexander, sixth son of Mrs Ellen Payne, of Masterton, and formerly of Pahiatua. The Rev. Father Doherty, of Eketahuna, was tl\e officiating clergyman. A link with the days of Charles Dickens was severed reoently by the death at Pickwick, a Wiltshire hamlet on the Bath road, of Mrs David Arufidel, in her 104th year. Mrs Arundel lived for many years near to the coaching station kept , by Moses Pickwick, in the hamlet/ and she had a lively • recollection of -tho coaches in which the novelist often travelled to and from the West Country. Woman’s triumphal march may be traced in mnny directions. A woman barrister appeared reoently for the plaintiff in a breach of promise action. Thirty-five women were among the 17797 candidates op; whom the diploma of member was conferred at a meeting of the council, of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. They had “passed tnfi requisite examinations and complied with the by-laws.”

A London ex-factory girl, Miss Kathleen Woodward, has written a biography of Queen Mary. She wrote tr Her Majesty suggesting that a knowledge of her intimate life would ' makq the biography interesting and valuable, whereupon the Queen gave her facilities for visiting the English and Scottish Royal Palaces, and interviewing those who had associated with the Queen since her infancy. Miss Woodward spent a year gathering material and collecting much information from Royal servants, and then submitted her work to Their Majesties, who caiefully read it, and now have consented to its publication in book form. Miss Woodward served with the W.A.A.C.’s in wartime, and also worked as stewardess, as a club cashier, and “hawked” . sewing machines and photographs in London. Daughter, of -Lord Forster a former Governor-General of Australia, the Hon. Mrs Pitt Rivers is now in Melbourne, playing with the Boucicault Company. She calls herself “Mary Hinton,” after her oM home, “Hinton St. Mary,” but there is no danger. that the identity of the titjpd addition to the stage will be lost. in the pseudonym. Mrs Pitt Rivers, who was well known at the Little Theatre in Sydney as a gifted amateur, lias now adopted acting as a profession. In Barrie’s play, “The Admirable Crichton,” now being staged in Melbourne, she should find her previous experience of shipwrecks useful, for in her journeying in the South Seas she met disaster on a coral reef. She has written two charming songs, Bung by Dame Nellie Melba in Sydney on her last visit. •

The following were guests at the Mount Cook Motor Company’s White Star Hotel, Queenstown.' during the week ending April 26th, 1926:—Mr and Mrs R. P. Palmer, Waverley; Mrs G. Lupton, Waverley; Mr and Mrs Beamish, Hastings; Mj F. S. Wall, Martinborough; Mr B. D. Thomas, Martinborougb'; Mr and Mrs Innes, Masterloo-

A proposal that St. Paul’s parish build and equip a day primary school was brought forward at the meeting of parishioners held last night.