SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19985, 18 December 1934, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss Eva Robertson (Geelong, Victoria) is a guest at the Grosvenor. Mrs J. B. Forsyth, Christchurch, will spend the holidays in Geraldine. Miss Margaret Mac Lean. Waimate, is staying in North Canterbury. Mrs T. C. Robinson and Miss Dorothy Robinson (North Canterbury) are staying at the Grand. Mrs H. S. Moore, who was the guest of Mrs R. Crerar. Seaview Terrace, has returned to Christchurch. Miss Joan Hargreaves, Kakahu, is the guest of Mrs Gerald Gerard, “Blackhills,” Hororata. Miss Bell Morton, Dunedin, spent the week-end with her parents, Mr and Mrs H. F. Morton, Beverley Road. Miss Loo Cartwright, Orbell Street, returned on Saturday from a visit to Invercargill. Miss Audrey Kemp. Oamaru. who is staying with Mrs Keith de Castro, Sealy Street, will return home to-day. Miss Janet Paterson, Sefton Street, will leave on Thursday to stay with Mrs R. Dawson-Welsh, Wellington. Mrs Webb, who was the guest of Mrs F. G. M. Raymond. Beverley Road, has returned to Christchurch. Miss Elizabeth Morris, Christchurch, will be the guest of Mrs Owen Blackler, HazeiJpurn, for the holidays. Mr and Mrs W. R. Lascelles, Christchurch, will be visitors to Timaru for the holidays. Mrs P. A. El worthy and Miss Anne Elworthy, Gordon’s Valley, are on a short visit to Christchurch. Mrs Munro, Omarama, who was the guest of Mrs G. A. Bridges, Selwyn Street, left yesterday for Wellington.

Miss Stella McLean, Mere Mere Street, who has been spending a holiday at Hanmer and Governor’s Bay, returned home on Saturday. Mrs Westmacott and Miss Erica Westmacott, Nile Street, returned yesterday from a visit to Mrs Hugh Macfarlane, Waikora, Waihaorunga. Miss Nora Gregory, Craighead Diocesan School, will leave to-morrow to spend the holidays at Parnassus and at Auckland. Mr and Mrs W. N. Seay, Christchurch, left on Saturday for Waimate, where they will spend the Christmas and New Year holidays. Mr and Mrs F. Booth, North Street, are motoring this week to the Marlborough Sounds, where they intend spending the Christmas vacation.

Misses Fonna Macdonald, Orari, and Audrey and Ruth Barker, “Rocky Ridges,” Geraldine, spent the week-end with Misses Anne and Peggy Starky, Whitecliffs. At the Government House ball on Saturday night the Duke of Gloucester had the first dance with Lady Bledisloe, his other partners being Mrs T. C. A. Hislop, wife of the Mayor of Wellington, Mrs Brian Trolove, of Marlborough, Miss Jessie Forbes, younger daughter of the Prime Minister, and Miss Sheila Hudson. Mrs W. H. Walton, Park Lane, was the guest of honour at a delightful bridge-party given by Mrs E. J. LeCren, at her home in Evans Street yesterday afternoon. Mrs LeCren leceived her guests wearing a frock of plum bloom coloured lace with velvet belt. Miss Ethel LeCren, who assisted her mother in the entertainment of the guests, wore a frock of deep blue georgette, patterned in lemon and rose. The rooms were arranged with delphinims, roses and sweet-peas, and in the dining-room were bowls of mauve sweet-peas and pink roses.

If few of the Dukes of St. Albans have come into prominence there was one famous Duchess, Harriot Mellon, the actress, who was a perfect wife for the old age of Thomas Coutts, and eventually married the ninth duke. A very pretty tale is told about the time when she stayed with Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford when she was still a rich widow. There chanced to be several fine ladies in the party who turned up their noses at the actress-banker’s widow —not yet a duchess. But Walter Scott, a man of infinite tact and kindness, presently took a marchioness aside and told her that if she and her friends did not wish to behave properly to one of his guests they should have left before she arrived.