THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 127, 4 July 1914, Page 7

THE SOCIAL ROUND

NOTES AND NEWS. Their Excellencies Lord and Lady ; Liverpool and Captain Hutton were : passengers by the Wahine . which ar- ; ■ rived iii "Christchurch this' morning. :>-Mr and Mrs G. iPerry, of Feilding, y arrived in Christchurch yesterday. ,- Mrs H. P."'Whinam, who has been staying at the Empire Hotel, Wellington, has gone on to the Hawke's Bay district, where she is at present. Mr R. Proctor, Jthe Christchurch artist, has been painting in Sorrento, the garden city on the Bay of Naples, for the past five weeks (says the "British-Australasian" of May 28). The engagement is announced of Miss Daphne Halse, younger daughter of * « Mrs Wm. Halse, Wellington, to Mr S. X. Jackson, of '' Wirokino,'' Levin. ' x Mr and Mrs Ashton (Canterbury) are visiting Wanganui. Miss Rene Queree" (who left the ; Dominion some time ago to study under Madame Carreno) is expected to arrive in Wellington about July 16. Mrs Aubrey Humphreys (Napier) is visiting her mother, Mrs Hoggard (Weland leaves at the end of this 1 tveek for Auckland, en route for America. She will be joined at Honolulu by Mr Humphreys. Miss Boyle, who went up to Wellington' on left for Auckland the following day. ,: '"- Mrs Gerald Bowen arrived in Wellington on Wednesday from the Malay . States, via Sydney, on a visit to her parents; Mr and Mrs W. H. Helmore, of Christchurch. - She came on to this

' city' yesterday. - ' Mr and Mrs C. Eawlinson, 6f Auck- ' land; and their son, Mr H. Eawlinson, ' who have been away for seven months, -. touring in England, America, and Canada, returned to the Dominion this week from Vancouver. Major J. D. Grant, V.C., and Mrs Grant,: are shortly returning to ! 'lndia. - Major. Grant has filled the position of General Staff Officer in the Otago Military District since 1911. Last week the Dunedin officers presented Mrs Grant -with a silver tea service, and the Southlaud officers also made a presentation bf j& gold wristlet watch. • Miss Hood-Williams, teacher of. short-

I hand and typewriting in tin day at the Christchurch "Technical . College, has resigned her position owing 'to ill-health. At last night's meeting of the Board nf Governors of the College 1 . * Miss Hood-Williams's resignation was accepted with regret, and Miss G. D. Digby was elected in her stead. At a social to the workers in connection with the debt extinction bazaar of the Papanui Methodist Church, the final ..takings -were as> follow:' — : . rElain ; stall, Misses Slieat < and' Simpson,' ; M2; produce stall,' Mrs Keith, £2l; 10/-; fancy stall, Mrs Peters, £2O 11/6;' refreshments, Madames Hill and Marshall, £l4 12/10; sweet stall, Miss Jones, £ls 9/2; kitchen stall, Miss Keetley, £8: 8/9; book stall, Mr M. Lawry, £6 16/4; braU tub, Miss M'Arthur; £3 6/-; shooting gallery, Mr Keir, 6/-; tbtal, £144 15/3: The Eev. Mr Peters, who announced the result, thanked : all those who had worked,so hard in connection with the bazaar, and who had 1 succeeded in making it such a success. The re-' '; mainder; of ■ the' eventing was devoted to

music and games. '•■' A wedding was celebrated at Holy Trinity Church, Wattle Flat (N.S.W., Australia), on June 15, by Archdeacon Neild, when Mr G. Hodgson, of New

.Zealand, was married to Miss Alice Maud Cox, only daughter of Mr James f 'Cbx, of Wattle Plat. The church was -.prettily decorated for the occasion by jV? tM"friends of the bride. The latter,

■'who 1 was given away by her father, wore ' White silk" trimmed with silk and beads. ' Thro* veil was worn over a coronet of orange blossoms, and she carried a bouquet and wore a gold bangle, gifts of : the bridegroom. She was attended "' by Miss E. Neary, dressed in white and blue pailette and a pale blue mob cap. ■ Miss M.' Lewis, the second bridesmaid,

Was; in white' silk,'worn with a champagne silk hat trimmed' With roses and forget-me-hots. ' ' Both' Wore *gdld brooches, gifts of the' bridegroom. Mr P. Cox, of Bathurst, acted as best man. After the ceremony a reception was held at the home. of.- 'the bride's parents, where about thirty guests were entertained. Later Mr and Mrs Hodgson left by motor for Sydney and Newcastle, The bride's travelling dress .was a blue Sicilian costume, and a : hat to match.

Pink is the colour of the present London season. Nearly all the great society balls have been danced in a pink bower : of Dorothy Perkins and other queens of flowers .of the same tint. Pink dresses for the young dancers-have naturally followed, and London, has,: so to gone pink. The shades of this, delightful colour are, however, many, and so everyone has been satisfied. • /{ The modern girl shows a marked ambition not' only to use her brains, but also her hands and arms. Among the lighter-hearted there is a strong disposition ,to try c . feats of strength with boys of their own agel And the victory is 'not always to the" virile sex. The spectacle of a twentieth-century Eosalind -wrestling witli Orlando, instead of heaving sighs among a wilderness of boughs, ia indeed a diverting as well as a significant sign of the times.

It hag been said that a man or woman Who is gentle with flowers may always be trusted. And it is interesting to not that. Lord Kitchener—the iron soldier—has an almost childlike reverence for flowers. A Sydney lady who ▼/as present at the Durbar when he was

in India tells how he personally arranged the flowers for all the functions he gave, allowing no one else to finger the delicate blooms, and the effect was always particularly dainty and artistic. Miss Una Browne, the Melbourne pianist, who had the honour of playing to the Queen and Princess Mary described it as "a delightful experience.' ' She played one of her own compositions, and is to send some of them to Princess Mary, who plays a good deal. The last coming of MacCailian Mhon (the late Duke of Argyll) to his Highlands was full of touching simplicity, a telling contrast to the Royal mourning in Westminster, that seemed symbolical of the life that was ended there* states the "Queen." And those who were present when the coffin, on which were placed the Highland bonnet and plaid with the ancient galley of Lome, as well as a sprig of bog myrtle, badge of the clan of the Campbells, reached the spot where the purple hills, snow tipped in. the distance, kept watch over the still blue waters of Holy Loch, realised that the clansmen who came so silently and sadly from all sides were mourning one who stood for a very real sovereignty indeed, and that a sovereignty inherent and inexplicable, as is the power of patriotism itself, apart altogether from conditions of wealth or worldly power.