THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 867, 20 November 1916, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Miss Irwin (Wellington) is the guest •f Mrs Beadel, Opawa.

Their Excellencies the Governor and Countess of Liverpool intend coming toj Christchurch about the end of November, and will be in residence here for a couple of months. Mrs Vernon Irving left for Wellington on Saturday, but will return in time to assist in tho Rose Fete concert on December 2. Miss Mildred Mannering (Napier) is staying with Mrs Simon Mackenzie, South Canterbury. Mrs W. Day has returned to Christchurch, after a visit to Mount Cook with Mr and Mrs J. P. Newman and Miss Breuda Newman. Miss Eleanor Tesehemaker, Olaio, has gone north to help in the Lowry Bay Convalescent Home. Mr and Mrs J. Preston (Fairlie) are in town. Mr and Mrs a Dinnie (Otira) and Mr and Mrs Muir (Wellington) are amongst the guests at the Clarendon. The marriage took place recently in Scotland of Sister Agnes Williams, formerly of Christchurch. and later of the Gisborne Hospital, to Mr W. Wood, who has a commission in a Scottish regiment now at the front. Mrs Wood, who left New Zealand with the first 50 nurses sent from the Dominion, will continue her work as an Army nurse until the end of the war.

A very pretty wedding took place in Tiniaru last week, the bride being Miss Gwendoline Wood, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Gordon Wood, and the bridegreem Mr John Forbes, Bank of New Zealand, Tokomaru Bay. The bride wore a beautiful gown of white satin, made with a long court train and Limerick laeo veil caught down with orange blossoms. Miss Alwyn Wood (sister) and Miss Rita Howarth, and Miss Joan Manscll (cousins of the bride) were bridesmaids, and Mr Lyn Wood (brother of the bride) best man. Mr L. Mansell and Mr 11. G. Corbett were groomsmen. After the wedding a reception was held at the residence of the bride's parents, at which a large number of guests (including Christehurch relatives and friends) were entertained. Later on Mr and Mrs Forbes left by motor for their honeymoon, the bride travelling in a smart dark saxe coat and skirt, and a bronze straw hat, trimmed with posies of pink and blue flowers.

The King and Queen will not visit Balmoral until peace is restored, and the castle has now been closed for nearly three years. It. is curious that both in 1854 and in 1855 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert made no change whatever in their customary autumn plans, but went to Balmoral for about two months as usual. Great public inconvenience was then caused by the Court being buried in Upper Dcesidc at. some of the crises of the Crimean War. When the present war broke out the King decided that there must be no more visits to Balmoral while it lasted, as he thought it his duty to stay in or near London in order to facilitate public business.

Mrs Pankhurst is less in the public eye just now. yhe is resting quietly and superintending the bringing up of

the four war-babies she has adopted. The babies are particularly well looked after, and their nurseries are replete with every modern convenience. Miss Sylvia Pankhurst looks after babies in the East End.