SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19669, 11 December 1933, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs A. E. Kerr. Belmont. Cave, has left on a visit to the North Island. Mrs Haselden. Wellington, is staying with Mrs C. C. W. Haselden. Bank of New South Wales. Miss Margery Edgar Jones, “Otiritiii” is staying with her sister. Mrs J. C. Guinness, “Farmleigh,” Ealing. Miss Mona Hughes, arrived from Christchurch, on Saturday to stay with the Misses Mcllroy, “Kelso,” Sarah Street. Mr and Mrs R. J. Richards (Christ's College), Christchurch have taken a house at Waikouaiti for the Christmas holidays. The engagement is announced in the Waiapu Church Gazette of Miss Mary Maclean, of Waipawa, Hawke's Bay, to the Rev. R. C. Rudyard, of the Melanesian Mission. Captain and Mrs Jackson, Auckland who have been visiting Christchurch, arrived on Saturday, en route for The Hermitage, accompanied by Miss Audrey Wililams, Christchurch. Mr D. B. Courage, and Misses Kitty and Cara Courage, Dorchester, England, who were guests at the Grand left yesterday, for Christchurch. To be born in Kensington Palace is no mean start in life and Lady May Abel Smith’s son may be accounted a lucky little fellow. The most illustrious person born there was Queen Victoria whose parents, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, had been granted apartments in the Palace. Lady May Abel Smith's father and mother, the Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice Countess of Athlone, also live in this historic building in similar circumstances. The lovely red brick Palace of Kensington is an enlargement of the original Nottingham House, built in the reign of Charles II and purchased from the second Earl of Nottingham by William 111 in 1689. Kensington's palace possesses perhaps the prettiest gardens in London and before long Lady May’s little boy will doubtless be seen there in his perambulator. Captain Henry Abel Smith, the father, is still serving in the Royal Horse Guards (the Blues), which regiment moved from Windsor, to Knightsbridge. Thus, Captain Abel Smith has, on leaving the palace, only to cross Kensington Gardens to reach his barracks in Hyde Park. The activities of the Household Cavalry are of the keenest interest to the children who visit the Park, and Lady May’s little boy has great thrills in store for him.

FANCY JEWELLERY The most fashionable jewellery to wear with the present green and brown fashions is coral, jade and amber. Now is the time for those who have old jewellery-boxes to turn them out and find their coral and amber pieces. It doesn't matter what shape or size they are—the new jewellery is in all shapes. Looking-glass jewellery is most popular at the moment. Filigree and beaten silver bracelets —very wide—and some set with coloured stones, are being exhibited. It looks, too, as if chain and mesh bags are returning. If you can afford—and desire—luxuries, it is possible to buy gold :>r silver detachable finger-nails, all ready to slip over your natural nails. They are, however, not cheap. The price is from five guineas to ten guineas, according to value. If you so wish, you can get a watch to match the colour of your outfit. There are those with green, blue or other coloured faces and straps.