NOTES AND NEWS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 35, 18 March 1914, Page 4

NOTES AND NEWS.

Her Excellency Lady Liverpool has consented to accept the appointment of Warden of the Canterbury Women's Club. Miss Doris Hermann, of Christchurch, lis the guest of Mrs Gordon Reid, Wellington. Mrs B. B. Wood is in Wellington as the guest of her parents, ! Sir Joseph £nd Lady Ward. . Mrs Crosbie (Christchurch) has gone ' to Auckland on a visit. Simply everybody is going along to ' His Majesty's just now, to see that impressive piece of photo-play which ' lias • won such renown under the title of "The Miracle." Mrs E. H. Wilmot, wife of the re-cently-appointed Surveyor-General, is staying at Warner's Hotel, and leaves for Wellington next Saturday morning. Announcements are out for the wedtling of Miss Evelyn Pres.cott Field, ' daughter of Mr and Mrs T. C. Field, of , this city, to SMr Oliver Lang, of Wellington. The wedding will take s. place at St. Mary's Church, Merivale, on Tuesday, April 14, at 2.30 p.m. Mrs Cross and Miss Freeman have decided not to re-open Girton College ; after the end of the presents term, owing to the unsatisfactory state of Miss Freeman's health, wMch has been ' most indifferent for some time past. -The Ladies' Auxiliary Committee in connection' with the Y.WXLA. netted £B3 ,as a result of the Fancy Fair ; Which was opened by Lady j Liverpool .two Saturdays ago. It -was hoped, at • the time, to bring the profit up to : " £IOO, but counter attractions militated against.it. , '' A jubilee concert in connection with the Sunday school was held in the | Trinity College schoolroom last evening. Vocal numbers were contributed ■- / by the Misses Craig, Moya Johnson, * Githa Owen. Elsie Field, and Master Allison, and recitations by Misses Olwin Owen ana Muriel Brewins. Fancy dancing , and chorus singing also J played their parts in the programme. HJhe accompaniments were pliayed by k Miss Eva Boot, A.T.C.L., and Miss i' Owen, the entertainment being. under the joint management of Mrs A. M. Ctwen and Miss Stone. The Missefe Wood (England), who Tifrva : been staying at Warner's, left v yesterday en route for Tahiti, they propose spending a month. ' Miss Lloyd, of the 8.W.T.A., accom- . .panied by Miss Cramp, yesterday paid & visit to the Sunbeam Kindergarten school" and expressed great pleasure at

the conduct and general arrangement 4ft the school. Miss Lloyd is connected ~ ■ -with . various educational and, philanthropic schemes in England, and is - ■. - naturally, greatly interested in the way sitailar matters are managed out Tiere in -the colonies, 1 '■ Earl Grey and Jjady Grey, who are

y at present touring , the North Island, intended to return to England via A ' {Japan sftid America. They now find - it necessary to curtail their trip, and on their return to Sydney from New 1 V -Zealand will cross to San Francisco, and then proceed to Great Britain. ' Miss Trent, who paid a brief visit to [Wellington, returned to Christchurch -. . yesterday.' > it was .recently said, at the conference of schoolmasters in London that ; mothers—and, for that matter, fathers

£3 -well—showed an ever-increasing ten-.

dency to cast their responsibilities upon schoolmaster?. It was, however, upon ' , the loss suffered by boys when mothers \ shirked their duties that they most dwelt. And it isi surely worthy the

5 .attention of those who have little lads ' * that men entrusted with their education should regard the mother's influence as of such paramount importance in the formation of a boy's character. Boys jwho were motherless, or who were sent away to school at a very early age, or ■who had to be sent Home from India, always, so it is said, had a different idea of truthfulness from other boys, and jrere more difficult to appeal to. Nothing replaced the understanding that ought to exist between a boy and his another. That women should have to be told this by men is regrettable, but it is to be h opted thMafcter may not often have to bring such a charge against mothers, declares "the "Pictorial."

The appointment of women as heads jof prisons bids fair to be an epoch in the woman movement (says the "Queen"), and.the experiment is said to answer admirably, so we may expect to see women henceforth sharing largely -in the work of prison reform, as well as proving themselves impartial authorities "when placed in positions of trust.