TABLE TALK.

Otago Witness, Issue 2650, 28 December 1904, Page 65

TABLE TALK.

Monday afternoon. Miss Fitchett, daughter of Dean Fitchett, of Dunedin, and niece of Dr Fitcliett, the well-known educationalist and writer, has been for some 15 years the lady superintendent of the Methodist Ladies' College, Hawthorn, Victoria. Miss FitcLctt is 'on a visit to K^ow Zealand, and an advertisement which appears elsewhere gives the dates of her movements. This famous college has many friends in New Zealand, ancll Miss Fitchett will be happy to interview parents who wish information concerning it ar>d to renew the acquaintance of old students. News has been received of the marriage in London on the 10th November of the second daughter of Mr George Cowie, well known in Dunedin as for years general manager of the Colonial Bank, and afterwards manager of the jjondon branch, to Mr Percy James Mead, of tho Indian civil service, and son of the late Lieutenant-colonel C. J. Mead. The marriage took place at St. Judes. South Kensington, the Rev. Prebendary Eardley-Wilniot officiating A goodly number of ex- New ZeaJanders, includirjg Sir W. B. Perceval, were present at the ceremony, and with a large number of Home and Indian friends some 200 in all, afterwards attended the reception. The presents, which were varied and costly, numbered over 170. Thore wore four bridesmaids and two boy pages to bear the train of the bride, who was given away by her father. WELLINGTON, December 17. The Rose and Carnation Club members gave their fiist animal show this -week. The opening day was Thursday, and the officiating personage his worship th& Mayor. The display was a, charming one; roses and beaut;-

ftil summer flowers were everywhere, whilst the Town Hall, wherein it was held, was transformed into a veritable fairy land, tall, graceful pa/lms, and bamboo canes being in profusion. The attendance has been excellent, and the promoters of the show are to be , heartily congratulated upon the success, artis- ) tioally and financially. Each evening there | was a bright musical programme. j The death of Bishop fladfield, which occ urred at Marton on Sunday last, removes one of our best-known and most revered pioneers, of whoni so few are now left. The Misses Fitzherbert returnee to Wellington by the Gothic, having spent a year at Home. The various concerts recently given at the Town Hall have been a delightiul treat. Each night thousands of people nave thronged the hall, and listened with the greatest pleasure to the programme. Miss Aony Murphy is always a favourite with Wellington audiences, and just now she is in excellent voice. Her singing in "The spectre's bride" was excellent. In this, aa in mO3t of the other works, she was associated with Messrs Graham and Hamilton Hodges, of Auckland. At the orchestral concert Mr P. Graham (for many years tenor in the Carl Rosa Opera Company) evoked tremendous applause for his artistic rendering of "Bianca" (Tosfti), and for encore gave, "I'll sing thee songs of Araby." The audienoes, as I said before, were decidedly numerous, more so than Wellington has ever seen previously. Included were Lady Stout, Mrs Robert Parker and Miss Paiker, Mr and Mrs Dean, Mr, Mrs, and Miss Tolhurst, Mrs Travers, Miisses Coleridge, Mrs Sprott, Misses Quick, Mrs and Miss Holmwood, Mrs Cachernaille, Misses Stuart, Mrs Edwin, Misses Haa-ding, Mrs E. Donne, Mrs Biss, Misses Brindley, etc. December 24. There is tvery prospect of delightful weather for the hojiclays and rhe,heait of the picnicker iFJoie%s£ s a£cording!y. Trains steam out and ferry boats are crowded with merry parties of holiday-makers, whilst every train corning into town seems equally crowded yritli excursionists. A number of Wellington people enjoy giving up housekeeping for the holiday week, so Day's Bay Hotise has proved a big attraction. One can enjoy the seaside_ much better without the drawbacks o> "camping." Mr and Mrs Ewen ara aniang3t those staying tliore. Mrs Macintosh and 1 her daughters are still over at the bay, but -very shortly come to town, having iaken, I am told, Mr Izard's residence, in Hobson street. A "very jolty camping party left to-day for Port Underwood. Mrs Bute is chaperon, aiad arriongst the young people are Misses Bute, Blunddl, Watson,, v and StuarK" .l. l The Moei-aki steamed into Wellington last Saturday crowded with passengers. Their first impressions would not be too pleading, for the day was dreadfully wet. Imdy Onalow_, Lady Dorothy and the Hon. Victor Huia Ons'.ow arrived on that occasion, and also Mr and Mrs Collins, with whom the Countess will stay during hey visit here. The Hon. Huia is to be formally welcomed by the -fribe in iron cur of which he was named, and of which, you know, he is a chief. The celebration, which is to be an elaborate affair, takes place atOtakion .Boxing Day. Lady Onslow contemplates visiting the Buller G-orge, the southern lakes, and then north again, travelling to Rotorua via the Wftugamzi. River. Immediately after the holiday,* Sir Joseph and^Liadv Ward and their family leave for ihe south, where they will make a"n extended stay. Mr and^Mrs Louis 'Schatz (nee 'Miss Connie Buttle) leave early aiext year on a visit to Enaland and the Continent. , Miss Cc-nnip Piouse and her brother. Mt Georg© Prouse, left last week for EnglandTheir parents aro still living in London. Rev. T. and Mrs Pargiter. of Ota.ki, and Miss Elaine Simeon leave by -she Wimmera for England. Miss Rees-Georgc has returned from a< visit to Australia. Mrs Ra-lph Fitzherbert (Levin) is spending I the holidays in -Wellington with her relations.