THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 884, 9 December 1916, Page 6

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Mrs Ewen and Mrs Nathan (Wellington) are visiting Mount Cook. Their Excellencies the Governor and Lady Liverpool intend being present at the Orchestral Society's concert tonight. Nurse McLean, of the Christchurch Hospital, has taken over charge of the Akaroa, Hospital, relieving Nurse MeCallurn, who has acted as matron for the last five months.

Mr and Mrs Marnier, who have been •visiting the south, arrived in Christchurch last night, and left this morning for their home in Nelson. Mr and Mrs Bates (Barotonga) are Btaying at the Clarendon. Mr, Mrs, and Miss Boulnois (Aylesbury) are in town. Mr John Blundell and his daughter, Mrs Fulton, leave, for Wellington tonight, after a visit to Timaru and Christehurch. Mrs Pryce (Timaru). •who eame up to this city with them. returned home to-day.

Mr and Mrs McCrae (Sydney) are amongst the guests at Warner's. Mr and Mrs Clabburn, who have been staying in Christehurch, are leaving for Wellington tonight. Mr and Mrs Maudslcy (Wellington) are back in Christehurch, after a tour in the south.

Mr and Mrs Ayreton (Upper Highfield) are in town. Mrs Walter Macfarlanq and Miss Macfarlane are returning to Kaiwara to-day.

Mrs Walter Hill, who lias been in the North Island for some weeks, is now back in Christchureh.

Sister Bennett, in charge of the soldiers' ward at the Christchureh Hospital, leaves on December 19, for Trentham, and will join the staff of the hos pital ship Mahcno. Sister McKay, acting uight superintendent, also leaves at the same time, and will join the Mahcno.

The Countess of Glasgow, who is shortly leaving for England, was farewelled on Thursday by the Wellington members of the Red Cross Depot. Lady Stout will accompany the Chief Justico on his trip through the South Island, and will visit Christchureh, Duncdin, and Tnvercargill. They will leave Wellington on Monday. Miss Holmes (Wellington) is spending a week in Timaru, on her way to Dunedin, where she will be the guest of her sister, Lady McLean.

The C.D.C. Band street concerts, in aid of the Lady Liverpool Fund, have averaged £7 12/- a week all through the winter months and up to date. The bandsmen, and particularly their energetic secretary, Mr T. Robinson, must be congratulated on this excellent result. Miss Shirtcliffe, who looks after this department for the Lady Liverpool Fund would like it to be known that more collectors would be welcomed. A hint of how the mind of the younger generation is adjusting itself to the present war state of affairs! A kind old lady stopped in the street the four-year-old youngster of a neighbour and began chatting. The old lady, after a little, said, "Do you go to school?" "No," the child replied. "You see,

I'm only four, ami I'm not tailed up (called up) jet!" The result of having; a father in the group system. We have boon noticing the difference! between the religion of to-day and that j of the earlier years of the last century.! The following direction to people entering church, culled from the " Kules of! Deportment for a Lady, - ' published! early in the nineteenth century, may, throw light upon the standard of piety Cl2joined upon our ancestors: "Bow to your acquaintances, pass on and eom-j j)ose yourself to prayer." A Bishop; of that period is reported to have in-i variably opened the second part of his: Confirmation address with the words,!

"This interesting, and, as I hold, en tii-fly unobjectionable ceremony"!

The full title of the deposed Emperor of Abyssinia is Negusa-Nagasta, or king of kings, for there is many a negus or king under him. In the old-time ceremony of coronation there was one most picturesque incident. Noble maids held a. crimson cord in front of the church door, and the king, approaching on horseback, cried successively, "I am your king, the King of Ethiopia," "I am your king, the King of Israel," but the girls repudiated him. Then he cried, "I am your king, the King of Zioii," and cut the string with his sword, while the damsels tried, "It is a trath; .you are our king! " and acclaimed him with hallelujahs.