THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1012, 10 May 1917, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Mrs (iodl'rev (Wellington) is visiting Mrs HindniHrsh, Timaru. Miss M. Fibs (Invorcargilh is the guest of Mrs Hugh Fnsor, Rakahur't. Mrs Palmer Chapman has returned \o Christchnrch, after a visit to Mrs 11. H. Orholl. Ashburlon. lirs and Miss Hay (Park Terra.ee) have gone on a visit to the North Island. Wis Lyon i Ashburtou) has bee,, spending a few days in Christehureh. Wis Norton Francis has gone to Wellington lor several weeks. Mrs i'. Cooper i Christehureh i is stay iiig with Mrs Sliand at Hay's Lav. Wellington. ■ Mrs Percy Halloustein (Christehureh ) is the guest of Mrs Ila Delist ei n. Iloriot How, Dunedin. Mrs Maokeiras has gone back lo Dim p.din, after a"visit lo her daughter. Mrs t'ogau. Christehureh. Mrs Leslie Wilson has returned to Dunediii, after a visit lo her sister, .Mrs Macl'arlaue (Kuiwaru\ ami afterwards a stay with, friends in this city. Miss Phillips (Temuka i is visiting re ialiv es iii Ila worn. Mr and Mrs Hasil Helming i Aharon) are visiting Christehureh. l)v and Mr- MeHvcdy (Wellington) «re staying at the Clarendon. Mrs R. P.. Dennislon (Dunedin) has left for a trip lo Sydney. Mr and Mis F. Rattray i Dunedin) and Mr and Mrs W. 11. Butler (Welling ton) are staying at the Hinted Service. Mr ami Mr-' Join, Laing (Dunedin) arc staying al Warner's. Mrs Savill is expected lo arrive in *©wn today, and will slay at Warner's ♦or tho next two weeks. Later on she will take a house at Merivale. Mr and Mrs (i. 0. Rutherford returned to Lochiel to day. Miss Dorothy Saunders (Wellington) is visiting friends in this city. Miss 11. B. Cooper, associate lo Mr Justice Cooper, Miss Cert rude Cooper, and Mrs A<lams (Wellington) are visit iug Auckland.

An Anznr wedding was solemnised in :i quiet manner at Upper Takakn on: Monday last, (says the "Colden Ray J Times''), the bridegroom being a Main; Body man, with an ungetatabie Turkish bulled still in his body, his best man be-j ing a fellow-Main Body soldier who got two Turkish bullets right, through him. J The wedding took place at the residence: of the bride's parents, Mr and Mrs] Fvank B. Burnett, of " Hillside," Upper j Taknlui, the bride being (heir second daughter, Miss Hazel Vera Barnett, and the bridegroom being Sergt. John A. liaird, late of Nelson Company, Canter-j bury Infantry, Main Body. The wed-i ding was a very pretty one, and was! •witnessed by quite a gathering of re- j lathes and friends from far and near.! The ceremony was performed by thej Jiev. P. J. Daynes. The couple will j nettle at, Flat Creek, near Carluke, when!! the bridegroom has taken up land andj built, himself a home. I

.Among those in i tie nursing service who have recently been decorated by his Majesty appears the name of Miss Bertrude Fletcher, who is a New Zeakllldor by birth, but obtained her pro iossinnal training in Australia. She was trained in the Royai Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney, and served in (he South African war, and she was at, work In more than one State of what is now the South African Union. As soon as the war broke out Miss Fletcher was engaged as matron to the American Women's War Hospital, Paignton, South Dttvon, where she helped in the (lis mantling of Mr Paris Singer's house. In May, 1915, she wen! up to the Norfolk War Hospital, and helped, in the equipment and organising of their two huge

a%lums. and finally caitif to tin' Rich inonil Military Hospital, whore she has brou sinr-f August. I!) 15. Hxtraordinnry stories of how buried treasure has been recovered liy Belgians from tho battle fi < -1.1 arc toht. " Recently a group tit' a dozen countvy folk came 1d a village on the Sominc l«ttle field, which was once their home. ' Whoa, in 101-t. they lied from the threat of tho Uhlans, ihev did not take 'heir money with thorn, but buried it in their gardons. Now, scarcely daring to hope to iind their treasure in the wilderness of ruin, thev had returned and were allowed to make their quest. A cure showed tho way to one party, (ioing straight to a phuo that was a shapeless sea of day, lie pointed to the edge of a shell rrater. A foot below the soil an Fnglish digger turned up tho hidden money. At an oi hi r point a farmer's wife, among the debris of her old home, led tho way to a spot where a safe containing ."Kl.dOil ftaiii-s was iiiii-m ered. Cortrude Atherton. tho novelist, writing in Iho Now V'ork "Times" on American misunderstand'!!!" of the Japan ese. says: - "Tho Japanese, when their day in California arrived, were by no means devoted, and none too reliable, but. making allowances for a far more independent and mentally gifted race Ihev were an acquisition for which the Slate, plagued with lazy, extortionate servants, tyrannised over by labour unions, should have boon profoundly grateful. The Japanese is excessively frugal; lie exists and conserves his strength on surprisingly little food. Me is economical, and saves instead of

spending ;it tl\i' comer saloon; lie mar lies, when lie. docs marry in this country, a. woman of his own rare, who helps him save instead of faking his hard earned \va,ucs to deck herself in cheap finery or buy porterhouse steaks to take home and fry. In Sau Francisco a .lap ftiiese liov will make Mil dollars a month working for four or live servant less families.:! day; washing the sToops and sidewalks in the morning, cooking a din in i- in one house, a luncheon in another, washing dishes, sweeping, hiring out. as an extra waiter, lie is tired at night and sleeps instead of loafing at saloons. What recreation he has is in study. Personally. 1 find him infinitely move admirable than the politicians who, for their own selfish purposes, agitate against, him, or that, other class so keen on their own rights (hat, they have very little sense of the rights of others." Mr ami Mrs .1. P. dames celebrated their golden wedding at their home. Fell ding, last week. Among the useful and handsome presents received was a purse of sovereigns from the family of the bride and bridegroom. Mr and Mrs James, who were married in St. Bartholomew's Chinch, at. Kaiapoi, Canter bury, on May 1, 18(>7, by the lies. Mr Willoeh, arrived in New Zealand in January, 1857, ami August, lSu'4, respectively. After spending four years in the Canterbury district, Mr and Mrs James decided to settle in Feilding. where they have resided ever since. It. is noteworthy that on their arrival there Feilding consisted of a few tents or V huts, as (hoy were known in those days; also that, the bride's mother (Airs John Curran, of Norsewood), whose age is iff!, still lives, though she was, through feebleness, unable to be present. Mr and Mrs James have reared a family of six sons an.l live daughters. There tire .also .'l9 grandchildren and live greatgrandchildren. Whereas flowers were formerly grown in parts of the camp gardens in France, all the available space will in future be used for the cultivation of vegetables.