MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 30 May 1923, Page 12

MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr and Mrs Douglas, Christchurch, are staying at tne xj.yu.ro. Mrs Vincent Gerard, newling Street, is in Uimstciiurcn. lurs v. xx. xnpp and Miss Margate„ Tripp, Vi ai-.iti xxoacl, are tnicic lroin unu'i Gorge, wiiei'o they have neen spending tne holidays^ Mr and Mrs hi. x-arry, London, who wore staying at the ixydro, left yesLcraday tor vvoiiington. r . . . Miss Oiwyn Vv ouU, Wai-iti Itoad, is staying in Ciiristciiurch. Mrs Hayter, “Koliesby,” Fairlie, is staving at the Hydro. Mrs Percy unworthy and her children have returned from ChristCh Mr h and Mrs W. T. Ritchie ana family have returned from a holiday at Moeraki. Mrs J. Matheson and Mtss Matheson, Wai-iti Road, are visiting Wellington. „ . . , , ~ Miss B M. Watt, Principal of the Timaru Girls’ High School, returned on Saturday from a holiday m Dune d *Miss Mansell, Temuka, is with Mrs Gordon Wood, Wai-iti Roach Mrs Begg, Highfieid, has returned from Peel "Forest. ■ -\r r .r'!nskill Mrs, Miss, and Mr L. McGaskiu, Elizabeth Street, are visiting Auck la D l r'. Elaine Gurr who Ims ™>sig"ed from the staff of the Pub he Hosp.t, leaves next week for Welhngton, ami later for Auckland, en Engls-ncl. _ The Hisses Shand, Oiaigneaci, returned from Dunedin. vicarage, Mrs Audrey Julius, _ The \ lcaiag , has returned from Christchui ch. 11 V,, Ambrose Hudson, and Mrs W. Ah Hudson, who were staying at tl Grosvenor, have returned to Cluist''TuTnd Airs TV. Thomas, The Rectorv. North Street, have returned h mn a trip to Rotorua, and the W aitorno Ca Mrs Strong, Professor of Domestic. Arts, Otago University is expected in Timaru to-day, and will he the guest of Mrs Bernard Tripp, Orieltou. Airs G Arris, who has been visiting Mount Cook, left yesterday for Dunecl Mr. and Mrs. Esmond Goodwin, “Eversley,” Fairlie, have returned from the north. - • . Mrs. E. Brock, Preston Street, is staying in Christchurch. Miss Rata Tribe, Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs. C. Young, Craighead Street. - Mrs. Arthur Elivorthy, Holme Station, is back from a week in Christchurch.

Mrs. Kane, Wellington, is staying with Mrs. F. E. Baume, BeCren’s Terrace.

Miss F. A. Pilliet, Maori Hill, returned on Monday from Christchurch, where she was the guest of- Lady Clifford. ' F

Mrs. John Stronach, Dunedin, and formerly of Timaru, is visiting 1 Australia.

Miss C. AVooilcombe, Trafalgar Street, is back from a week in Christchurch.

Miss Lily Butler, C.8.E., known p.s the “Mother of Blighty,” has arrived in Christchurch, and is at present the guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Anderson, Hawkesbury Avenue. Lady Patricia Blackwood (the Hon. Mrs. Tabu Rhodes’s cousin) who has been her gue3t for some sonths, is leaving shortly for Alelbourne, where she will stay with Lord and Lady Forster. The engagement is announced of Gladys, fourth daughter of Mr and Mrs. J. Donnes, Palmer Street,- Wellington, to Mr. J. H. Morton, eldest son of Mr. C. 11. Morton, of AVaimate, South Canterbury. Mrs. A. E. ft. Rhodes and Captain and tiie Hon. Mrs. Tahu Rhodes, are shortly leaving for a trip to England, via Canada They will travel to by the Makura. and intend being absent from Christchurch for about seven months.

On Friday night Miss Helen Cotterill, Sefton Street, gave a most enjoyable bridge party. Among those 1 playing were Misses Popplewell, F. Clissold, .F. Ziesler, N. Wright, M. Hay, Wilkin, L. Temple, L. Mitchell, D. Sharp, I. Hay ahd B. Torlesse. The first prise was won by Miss L. Hay and the consolation by Miss Popplewell.

The engagement is announced of Mona Geraldine, elder daughter of Mrs Bebhune (Christchurch), and the late George Bcthune (Timaru), to Cecil Ritchie, youngest son of Mr, and Mrs David B. Ilowden (Heretannun).

i Mrs Humphrey Jnnes-Jones, Sefton Street, gave a most enjoyable farewell bridge party for her sister, Mrs Rawson, on Monday night. Those playing'' included Mesdames Curtis, N. K. Cox, H. Hav, L. E. Finch, English, R. H. Joyce, ”E. G. Kerr,. W. FI. Walton, and Misses White and F. Ziesler.

Miss C. E. M. Grimstobe, who has been for seven years supervisor of the telephone exchange in Palmerston North, has been transferred to a similar position in the Dunedin exchange, and is to be succeeded bv Miss MacIntyre, supervisor of the Te Kuiti exchange. On Friday night Mrs W. Gibson (Elisabeth Street), gave a juvenile dance for her daughter. I’he guests included : Misses K.'Robinson, B. Giles, M. Elworthy, R. Elwortby, A. Johnson, Margery Paterson, G. Paterson, M. Rolicston, R. Rolieston, J. Orball, M. Loughnan, M. Gabites, B. Cossins, •J. Cossins, B. Harper and Messrs G. and L.-Palmer, Chapman, B. Baxter, j). and B. Unwin, T. Dialing, George Francis, P. Gresson, J). and G. Barker, H. Elworthy, T. Miller, I). Johnston, P. Loughnan. G. Itmcs-Joiies, D. Orbell, G. Gabites, G. and, S. Armitagc, and A. Steward. j

On Saturday night Mrs Malfrov and Mrs W. D. Revell gave a delightful bridge party in the, Stafford Tea Rooms. Mrs Malfroy wore black charmeuse, beaded in jet, and Mrs Revell a very pretty frock of marocain embroidered in silver, and a silver, girdle. The guests included Mesdames Stavelcv, Thompson, Huddlestqno, A. Grant, W,. Hay, H. Hav, Bannofmau, Maitland, A. Scott. R. If. Joyce, E. G. Kerr, W. Burns, Lindsay, Rawson, Jnnes-Jones, N. K. Cox, Curl.is. Gunn, Davidson, W. Raymond, Finch, Walton, Porritt, Webb, W. Johnstone and English; and Misses Revell, White, M. Hay, F. Ziesler, Wilkin, Popplewell. Wright, Knublcy, Sharp, Rryden, Priest, Cottorill and Watt. The first prize was won by Mrs "Walter Raymond, the second by Mrs Rawson, and the consolation by Mrs Burns. ' Miss Christabel Pankhurst, .exmilitant suffragist, and windowsmasher, lias become an evangelist in Canada. Crowds flocked to hear her. She is a qualified barrister, and her manner of addressing a congregation is said to resemble that of a barrister addressing a jury. There Js a hint of revolt oven in her ascent

to the pulpit.,- for her father, the late Dr. Pankiiurst, a barrister ot' note and legal adviser to tne Manchester Corporation, was an agnostic. She rarely or never ■ mentioned religion in her speeches and writing in England, and the news that she has given seven addresses in the John Knox Church, Toronto, surprised ner friends. The Rev. J. G. Inkster, with the consent of the kirk session, invited her to preach, and at first she refused, saying that she must have time for meditation. She consented later, and preached evening sermons on these themes, among others: “Behold I Stand at the Door and Knock,” “The Signs of the Times,” and “The Sin Question.”