THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 826, 3 October 1916, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Mrs Woolsley Kaine (Wanganui) camo down to Christehurch this morning, and intends going south later. Mrs Masefield (Akaroa) is in Christ-; church, and is staying :it the Clarendon.j Mr and Mrs A. W. Kendall (Mel-| bourne) are amongst, the guests ;it War-; ner 's. i I Mrs D. D. Macfarlane (Lyndon, is in. town. j Mrs A. W. Rutherford (Brookdule) i came to town yesterday afternoon for a short visit. Mr and Mrs Arrovrsmith returned to| Wellington by last night's terry stea-l mer, after a few days in Christehurch. Mrs ToTiks has returned to Christ-] church, after a visit to Mrs K. (!. Tur-j ner, Beverley Road. Timaru. Miss Norah Campbell (Christehurch) loaves shortly for India, to stay with! her sister, Mrs Cox. Mrs Hansell (Wellington) is the guest of Mrs A. P. Elworthy, Holme Station,! Pareora. Mr Justice Stringer and Mrs Stringer,; who have been staying in Christehurch i ever since their son's wedding last' month, spent last week-end at Timaru. Miss Moan a Rhodes has returned to Timaru, after a visit to her sister, Mrs E. .1. Gordner, Fcndalton. Mrs Stopford (Napier), who has been visiting her mother, Mrs Tripp, Orari Gorge, has returned to the North Island. The engagement is announced from Timaru of Miss livu Howie, third (laughter of Mrs Howie, Merernere Street, to Corporal McLean, of Greyniouth, who lately returned from France. Several letters have been received! by the Red Cross Society from working members, asking if in Lady Jekyll'sl cablegram the word ''rollers'' stands for "roller bandages." The Ladies') Committee would like it; to be understood that ''rollers" does mean roller bandages. The Lower Riccarton Red Cross Branch held two meetings recently to report on the work being done in the district. The report was a good one, the girls' class and the boys' class, under Miss Fisher, being worthy of special mention for excellence in bandage and swab making. A euchre party was held by tiie Riccarton Burgesses' Association, and the proceeds given to the Lower Riccarton Branch; the amount realised was £22 ];">/!). In addition to the usual monthly donations, Mrs ,}. Brown (Mayoress) gave a special dona-

tion of £2. The month'<* work amounted to 212 garments ami WO swabs. Vet another stage and peerage ro i,mine. The Hon. George Brodrick, son laud.heir of Lord Midleton, will marry Miss I'eggy Rush, the actress, within :i {<>w weeks! Miss Rush is a very charming girl, and has been very successful; 'both in England and in America. The i prospective bridegroom, who is :i lieu I tenant in the Surrey Yeomanry, was JA.P.C to Sir lan Hamilton during the Gallipoli business, bur was obliged to j ] return to Kngland after a bad attack' of typhoid fever. It is an interesting 'fact that the Hon. George Brodrick, who is 28, has n stepbrother 22 years! 'younger than himself through his j father's second marriage to Lady St. I Holier's daughter. Lady Margaret Sackvillo, whose war | published under the title of "The Pageant of War," have aroused so much interest, and who has been i working indefatigaldy to gather more | funds for Scottish sailors' and soldiers' cottage homes, is one of the most seri-ious-miude.d and cleverest of our women j writers of verse. The youngest daughter of Constance Lady de la VVarr, her iself a woman of remarkable literary attainments, Lady Margaret, although 'she has inherited much of her mother's I brilliancy as a conversationalist and ] hostess, does not care a great deal for j society. Lady Margaret is the only • member of the clever De la Warr family i wdio has taken to authorship seriously, j though her father and fathor-ii.-law I were bookish, as became men in holy I orders, the seventh Karl de la Warr be ing one of the few reverend peers.