SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19525, 26 June 1933, Page 3

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs Staveley and Miss Helen Staveley, Auckland, who were staying at Beverley House, have returned north. Mrs H. Thompson, who was staying at Beverley House, Wai-iti Road, has returned to Methven. Miss Jeanette March, Timaru, is spending a holiday with her parents Mr and Mrs G. March, Loburn. Mr and Mrs M. Wills, Albury, will leave this week on a caravan tour to Nelson and the North Island. Miss Doris Ronaldson, Christchurch, who has been spending some weeks with Miss Dorothy Barron, Elizabeth Street, will return home to-day. Miss Agatha Upham, Christchurch, arrived on Saturday to spend the week-end with Mrs C. H. Gresson, Selwyn Street. Mrs Gerald Murray, “Glenmore,” Mackenzie Country, who has been staying with her mother, Mrs James Scott, Cannington, returned home on Saturday. Mrs K. McLennan and Miss F. MacLean, Ce'ntral Otago, who are the guests of Mrs T. R. Mackay, Wai-iti Road, will leave to-day for Christchurch. The Queen has presented to the United Service Museum, Whitehall, a relief portrait in plaster, framed and under glass, of the famous Duke of Wellington. With it is a small brass case holding about twenty tokens, each the size of a farthing and bearing the name of one of his victories in the Peninsular War. Viscount Milton, Earl Fitzwilliam’s heir, specially chartered two steamships in which more than five hundred tenants from his father’s estates at Wentworth and Malton, Yorks, were taken to Ireland for his wedding, states a London writer. The boats left Liverpool at midnight, and immediately after the ceremony the tenantguests w'ere conveyed home again. Lord Milton, who is twenty-three years old, married Miss Olive Plunket, the youngest daughter of Dr. B. J. Plunket, the former Bishop of Meath, and the wedding took place in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. Contrary to custom, Miss Plunket chose, not white, but very pale blue for her wedding gown. The gown was of satin, cut on Empire lines, and embroidered all over with pale blue pearls and diamante. The fourteen-foot train was similarly embroidered. To carry out the blue colour scheme, the eight bridesmaids wore dresses of deepening shades of blue. Lord Milton experienced some difficulty recently over a wedding present, a portrait of his fiancee, which had been sent to him in Ireland, and was held up at the Free State Customs. Before he was allowed to have it he was made to promise that he would take the picture out of Ireland again.