THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 223, 24 October 1914, Page 7

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Mrs Carey-Hill Is visitiug Auckland »t present. Miss Gould was a passenger for Wellington last night. Mrs Maurice Deuniston is visiting *Mrs Denniston, Christchurch. Mr and Mrs Gerald Maling have returned from their trip to the Southern Lakes. Mrs. Blakiston (Hororata) is staying Jn Christchurch as the guest of Mrs Percy Cox. ; Mrs Logan, wife. of Colonel Logan, has left Now Zealand to join her husband in Samoa. / ..." " '' ; Miss Hay, PaTk Terrace, who has Been visiting friends in Timaru, returned } home on Thursday. h Miss Lewis-Bishop returned by the i' Wahine after'spendingsome months in * Wellington with friends. Miss Fitzgerald (Wellington) arrived in Christchurch yesterday by the Monowai, and is staying at Coker's, ; Mrs Phillips and Miss Phillips,. " The - Point, '■' who spent a few days in town this week, have returned home. An afternoon is to-be held at the ►Girls' High School on Wednesday next honour of Lady Eutherford, who is one of the "old girls" of the school. Sir Joseph and Lady Ward, who have recently returned to Wellington from, a ; -trip to Auckland, propose to spend most •-...0f the summer at their, house at Here- * -taunga. .'v .'■ '. ;: " ■"'- : .;*' Mrs Wright arrived 1 from the north : this .and is staying at the •Clarendon. Mrs H: ,A. "Sniith, audther northern visitor, is also at the Clareiidon. - ' Mrs Lawrence who has been . visiting her parents; the Prime Minister ;and Mrs Massey, Wellington, returned to Auckland yesterday, her sister, Miss Massey, accompanying her. '* A naval wedding of interest was that '""."-of Miss Adelaide Schneider, niece of Mrs J. B. Eastham, Wellington, to Lieut. Douglas Cooper, R.N., of y H.M.A.S. Melbourne. The ceremony took place on the 9th inst. at St. .-*_ John's, Toorak,and was performed by the Dean of Melbourne. Miss E. Hurse, who has been spending the last two years in England, -returned to Christchurch this week. Among the passengers, arriving by the lonic, due in Wellington next week from England, are Mr and; Mrs Maturi, Mrs Edwards (wife of Mr Justice Edwards), Mrs Hall-Thompson: (wife of -the Naval Adviser :.to the New Zealand Government), the Misses M. and R. "Hall-Thompson, and Master A. HallThompson, Mrs Julian (Auckland), and Mrs Eutledge (Gisborne). When the last mail ]eit England, .Mr and Mrs Walter Reid "at Lossiemouth, Scotland, where Mt and Mrs Williamson (PalmerstStr North) were to join them, when they intended to return via the Caledonian •Oanal, Oban, and Edinburgh to London. Mrs Reid had joined the Red 'Cross Nursing Corps, and was busy sew- : ring and making up garments for the hospitals, of which,, there.were., several in the district,-which is near Cromarty, :-a naval base. Mr Reid has offered his services for field work. .... ~. At a meeting of ladies held yester- " day afternoon in connection with the Huntly Disaster .Relief Fund,:.it was reported that all -arrangements -were well, in hand for the 'concert-lecture to be .given'fey Professor'Gabbatt and Miss Millicent Jennings on 7 . Thursday evening, an : d.. that, the Teachers' Executive -was engaged in discussing plans and .arrangements for the. Floral, Fete, which on .t>e submitted to the * A letter from Mrs H. Cros's] 'enclosing a donation of money jollec&V'w'&s received with thanks. Mr .and Mrs C. Richardson, who have been spending some time in England, intend leaving "this month on their return to. New Zealand. Just recently they spent a pleasant time in Devonshire, as the guests of Mrs Hoimwood, who has been residing in England for the past few years. • •■>-- . - > A story of a splendid piece of heroism on thepart of a woman comes from France, where the wife of a railway signalman carried on the work in the signal "box while her husband lay dying beside her. It appears her husband was mysteriously shot while on duty, and his wife, hearing his cries, eame quickly to

his assistance, and while attending to „ and caring for the dying man, worked the signals, thus ensuring the safe passage of the many trains on the main line between Paris and Creil; her husband expiring shortly after the attack. But, even more than this did the plucky wife

accomplish, for after her husband was taken to Paris she still worked on at the signals until she was relieved, two hours later, only then collapsing. The attack on her husband seems to be quite a mystery. Plucky acts of this kind under almost heart-breaking circumstances must surely command intense admiration for a woman possessing such wonderful self control and presence of mind, the losing of which would probably have resulted in dire disaster.