CELEBRATED SINGER HONOURED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18545, 20 August 1928, Page 12

CELEBRATED SINGER HONOURED.

In a private reception room at Ballantyne’s on Saturday morning, Mrs Burnes-Loughnan was hostess at a party given in honour of Mr Alfred O’Shea, the eminent Irish-Australian tenor, who is at present visiting Christchurch. Fragrant spring flowers decorated the tea tables, and the gathering was pleasantly informal, Mrs Burnes-Lough-nan arranging that all the guests should have an opportunity of chatting with the distinguished visitor. Mrs Burnes-Loughnan briefly welcomed Mr O’Shea, and the members of his party, and Dr Kennedy, after thanking Mrs Loughnan fQr her hospitality, which she so often extended to visiting artists, expressed the hope that the guests of honour would enjoy their stay in Christchurch, and take away with them happy memories of their tour through the Dominion. Mr O’Shea, on behalf of himself and his two associates, thanked Mrs BurnesLoughnan and Dr Kennedy for their kindness, and expressed pleasure at being once more in the lands of the Southern Cross, after his long sojourn in Europe. Those present were:—The Mayoress (Mrs J. K. Archer), Mrs Burnes-Lough-nan, Dr Kennedy, Lady Clifford, Mrs Deans, Mrs J. E. Russell, Madame GowerBurns, Mrs James flight, Mrs and Miss Gosset, Dr T. L. Crooke, Mrs C. R. Kiver, Miss Rose Tabart, Mrs W. Ma-

chin and Miss Machin, Mrs Fairhurst, Mrs Alfred Bunz. Misses Kathleen Fitzgerald. Claire Hartge, and Raine, members of Mr O’Shea's party. Misses Halmai and Anthea Loughnan, Allison Jennings, Mary Enright, Maude Ashworth, Kathleen Moore, Lilian Harper, Lucy Sproule (Xapier), Messrs Sidney Williamson, Bernard Rennell, Percy Xicholls, Finlay Robb, Harold Prescott and L- Wood.