NOTES AND NEWS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 107, 11 June 1914, Page 4

NOTES AND NEWS.

Mrs Hayhurst, -who, with her husband, bas been staying at Warner's for a few flays, motored home yesterday. Colonel Hayhurst haß gone north. Mrs Walter Hill, of Avonside r is entertaining a number of her friends at a masked ball on Monday night. Mrs Gower-Burns intends giving her first song recital of the season on Tuesday evening. Mrs Crisp, of Ashburton, who has feeen holidaying in Christchurch for the past week, intends returning home shortly, probably on Saturday. Mr and Mrs Mandel, of Wellington, arc at present on a visit to ' Christehurch.

Captain Wheeler and Mrs Wheeler went north by the Maori last evening. Mrs Holmes and Miss Holmes returned from Sydney by the Maunganui, which fcrrived at Wellington yesterday. Mr and Mrs Staples, who have been visiting Wellington, returned to Christchurch this morning. Miss Alice Saunders is to be farewelled \>\ her frienfcs in the Choral,, Hall next Thursday evening. Miss Hardy, of Canterbury, is the guest of Mrs Arthur Seymour, of Gisborne.

Mr and Mrs John Deans are visiting Auckland, Mr. J. C. Maddison, Mrs Maddison, *nd Dr Jessie Maddison, of Christchurch, are spending a few weeks in Auckland. Mrs Neils Friebnrg, late of Kaikoura, Is visiting her mother, Mrs Luxton, of CbTistchurch, before proceeding to Picton, where she will in future reside. Mrs Buss and Miss N. Buss (Christehureh), left for the north early in the week, and will visit the Waitomo Caves, AueJdand, and Whakatsine before returning home. The engagement is announced of Mr Prank Layer <the well-known AustralSan cricketer and manager of the Australian team which toured New Zealand last season) to Miss Major, of Melbourne. The wedding is fixed for September next. At the annual meeting of the Knox 'Presbyterian Church, which was held/ list night, it was stated that Nurse Stebbstj whose salary the congregation nad undertaken to provide, and who was m this special pense the representative 4>f the Church in the foreign field, had, by the direction of the Foreign Mission Committee, proceeded direct from Liverpool, where she had been residing for a short time, to China. At- present she is chiefly engaged in language study,

-but often makes week-end visits to the iwspital at Ko Tong to see and help a & "' little the work there. " Thero"was a very large attendance at the opening of the new St. Margaret's College yesterday, and after the ceremony an inspection of the fine new building, took place. Interest Beemed chiefly, centred in the >ig, well-equipped cookery room upstairs, where this very necessary branch of - every girl's education will be pursued under the tuition of Miss "Whitcombe. Amongst those who were present, and who were subsequently entertained at afternoon tea by the 3isters at their house in Armagh Street, were his Lordship Bishop Julius and Mrs Julius, Rev. F. N. Taylor and Mrs Taylor, Rev! M'Kenzie Gibson and Miss Gibson, Mrs and Miss Elworthy, Mrs Davis Hunt, Mr and Mrs Batehelor, Mrs Gould, Mrs Speight, Mrs Marsh, Mrs Kennedy Bassett, Mrs H. Cross, Miss Freeman, Mrs Carrington, Mrs Sandetein, Mrs Dalgety, Mrs Francis, Mrs Beth-Smith, Mrs Le • Lievre, Mr C. W. "Wood, Mrs Middlebrook, and very many ethers.

Bird-cage earrings are the very latest thing from gay Paris. The craze for Gipsy jewellery of quaint design has caused the manufacturer to sift his "brain to find something new, and. it has heen demonstrated that, there is really nothing new under the sun. But it is possible to make things seeni different to the human consciousness.

The pendant watch becomes more elaborate each season. The newest ones now, whether enamelled or not, liave an openwork frame beyond, the ■watch edge; others have gem-studded festoons suspended from the watch case. The open frames are more often of platinum than any other metal. Princess Mary, whose fine hunting has again been attracting attention, fully 'deserves the title of "the open-air princess, '' which was once given her. Young as she is, .she can already hold her own in most sports. Her training includes every game and athletic accomplishment judged suitable for her. She can drive, ride, swim, cycle, dance, play golf and hockey, cook, sew, and turn out the daintiest butter pats in the Sandringham model dairy for her father's early tea and toast before the morning ride with her. Princess Mary is almost as good a swimmer as she is a horsewoman, and was one of the competitors in the annual swimming - and diving competitions at the Bath Club. She took part in the contest for the ladies' challenge- shield —50yds breast-stroke, floating, divingj and ornamental swimming—and, though she did not finish first, she proved that she is a graceful and accomplished swimmer. Her great ambition during King Edward's lifetime was to drive a motor car, and she begged her grandfather to allow her to drive one of his in Windsor Forest. " Certainly/' was the smiling reply, "only you must wait a bit until we have time to clear the trees away."