SOCIAL NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXV, Issue 19067, 26 December 1931, Page 16

SOCIAL NOTES.

Mr and Mrs Hercus, Dunedin, are staying at the Balmoral. Miss Vera Kidd, of Invercargill, is the guest of Mrs Edgar Earwaker, Otipua Road, for the holidays.

Mr A. Garland and Misses Garland, Waimate, have taken a house in Sarah Street for the holdays. Mr and Mrs A. M. Robertson, Waiiti Road, have left on a visit to the West Coast.

Miss Marjorie Courteney. Christchurch, is spending the holidays at Waihao Downs.

Mrs Stanley Sparrow. Dunedin, is staying with her mother, Mrs Radcliffe, North Street.

Miss Margaret Anderson and Miss L. Lawrence, Invercargill, are visitors to Timaru.

Mr and Mrs Brown. Christchurch, are staying at “Cadogan,” Sefton Street.

Captain and Mrs S. Satterthwaite, Dunedin, are the guests of Mrs T. W. Satterthwaite, Elizabeth Street.

Miss Diana Or bell, The Levels, will leave to-day to stay with Mrs F. Riley, Dunedin.

Mr and Mrs J. C. Guinness, “Farmleigh,” Ealing, are the guests of Mrs Edgar Jones, “Otiritiri.” Mrs L. S. Talbot, and her family, Te Weka Street, are staying at their hut at the river.

Miss Maberley Beadel, Christchurch, will arrive to-morrow to stay with Mrs E. G. Kerr, “Ardgour,” Sealy Street. Miss Betty Kerr, “Athlone,” Kingsdown, will leave to-day to spend a holiday in the North Island. Miss Dorothy Wilson, Auckland, will arrive to-day to stay with Mrs R. A. Holdgate, Park Lane. Mr and Mrs R. L. Fisher, Christchurch, will arrive to-day to stay with Mrs C. E. Kerr, “Athlone,” Kingsdown.

The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes and Mrs Forbes are spending the Christmas holidays at their home at Cheviot.

Mrs Clark and Mrs Wiseman, Ashburton, have taken Mr A. N. Oakey’s house in Hewlings Street for the holidays.

Miss Betty Pickering, of Hohonu, West Coast, is spending the vacation with her mother, Mrs. H. J. Pickering, Wai-iti Road.

Miss Gladys Watkins has been appointed carillonist to the Wellington War Memorial Carillon Society at a honorarium of £2OO a year.

Sir John Roberts has decided to retire from the board of directors of the Union Steam Ship Company at the end of the year.

Miss Marion Hay, Wai-iti Road, will leave to-morrow to spend a holiday at the Rakaia fishing huts with her sister, Mrs Percy Wright, St. Martin’s, Christchurch.

Mrs E. R. Guinness, Wai-iti Road, who has been on a trip to England, has returned to New Zealand and is staying at Sayes Court, Wellington. Miss Nancy Howell, who is staying with Mrs W. H. Howell, Cave, will leave this week to stay with Mrs J. Carter, Totara Vallfey. Dr. Leslie Will and his son, who were the guests of Mrs Will, “Cadogan,” Sefton Street, have returned to Christchurch. Mr and Mrs J. Allan Oliver, who were the guests of Mrs Will, have left for the south.

The Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, and the Lady Bledisloe, with members of their suite, have arrived in Auckland from Rotorua, and have gone into residence at Government House where they will remain until early in the new year. Lord Bledisloe, with Sih Horn Hanliam, A.D.C. and Mrs. H. C. Veal, travelled by the Rotorua express, and Her Excellency and Lady Norah Jellicoe made the journey by motor-car. Their Excellencies have no public engagements this week, according to present arrangements. Captain Henry Abel Smith, who

married Lady May Cambridge, is not the first member of his family to lead to the altar a bride of royal descent. In the mddle of the eighteenth century Sir George Smith, Bart., eldest son of Abel Smith, banker, of East Stoke, Notts, married the, granddaughter cf Prince Rupert, cavalier and fine Royalist. To-day the Smith baronetcy

has become that of Bromley-Wilson. The family are very proud of their descent and they possess many relics rf Prince Rupert and his daughter, Ruperta, mother of Sir* George Smith s

wife. Several unusual gifts are among the 500 wedding presents. Two Japanese trees have been sent by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, and both Lady Elizabeth Coke and Lady Edward Spencer Churchill chose Chinese trees. Tweeds and travelling shawls are numerous, while from the Dean cf Windsor there are a brown plaid and a print of King Edward. A Russian bell-push has come from Sir Harold and Lady Zia Wernher and a quartz bellpush from the Hon. Mrs Claude Hawker. A particularly romantic gift is an antique bronze frame containing a lock of the hair of Mary Queen of Scots. Didlington Hall, where the first part of the honeymoon was spent, was lent by Captain Herbert Smith, a. cousin of the bridegroom. It is an oldfashioned Norfolk manor house.