TIMARU SOCIAL NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19270, 6 January 1931, Page 10

TIMARU SOCIAL NOTES.

Mrs F. F. A. Ulrich (Elizabeth Street) is spending a few days at the river. Miss F. Henderson and Miss S. Marrett (Dunedin) are spending a few days in Timaru. The Misses Timlin (Dunedin) left yesterday to stay at the Hermitage for a few days.

Miss Hewatson (England), who has been the guest of Mrs Maurice Har per (Waitawa), has left for the south. Mr and Mrs 11. D. Acland (Christchurch) are staying at Mount Peel Station. Mrs W. H. Orbell and the Misses Orbell (“The Levels”) are the guests of Mr Derick Orbell (“Balmoral”). Mrs Tweedy and Miss Tweedy (Dunedin) have returned to the south after spending the holidays with Mr and Mrs W G. Tweedy (Nile Street). Mrs W. H. Walton and Miss Dorothy Walton (Park Lane) have returned from the Hermitage, and are now staying at their cottage at Peel Forest. Mrs Howley and Mr and Mrs H H Webb (“ Coolavin,” Sefton Street), who have been staying at the Hermitage. Mount Cook, returned home yesterday Mr and Mrs Stewart (Wellington) left yesterday for the grand motor tour, which includes Mount Cook, Queenstown and Dunedin. Mr and Mrs M. A. Johnston (Blen heim; left on Sunday for the north, after spending some days with Mr and Mrs W. Johnston (Sefton Street). Mr and Mrs D. C. Macfarlane ( Mount Paul,” Waiau) motored down from North Canterbury yesterday, and are the guests of Mr and Mrs Charles Miller (Woodbury). Mr and Mrs H. 11. Sterling and Miss Georgina Sterling (Wellington), accompanied by Miss Nicholls (Wellington) who have been staying at the Hermitage, returned to Wellington yesterday Mrs M. Tliomson (Wellington), who was successful in winning the South Canterbury singles championship at the New Year tournament, left on Sunday to join her husband at Mount Cook.

Mrs B. H. Tripp (“ Orielton ”) and Mrs L. E. Turner (England), who left England by the Moldavia, are now in Sydney, and will arrive in New Zealand next week with Mr B. H. Tripp ( Orielton ), who is also in Sydney. Miss Georgina Sterling (Wellington), who spent Christmas and New Year with her parents at the Hermitage, Mount Cook, was awarded a special at the fancy dress ball on New Year’s Eve. Dressed as a moth Miss Sterling gave her fellow guests great pleasure by her beautiful dancing before she changed her costume for that of a young Lido Lady.

Australia is too distant from the hub of the universe to attract royal vice-royalties, but Canada is able (so the cables say) to have its pick of royal princesses for vice-reines. It has had Princess Pat (Lady Patricia Ramsay) and now has the offer of either Princess Mary (Countess of Ilarewood) or Princess Alice (Countess of Athlone). The latter is the daughter of the Duke of Albany, that youngest son of Queen Victoria who died in young manhood leaving a widow of twentytwo and an unborn son. Lady Athlone, who has just completed a successful and extended term as vice-reine of South Africa, is first cousin to the Queen of the Netherlands; her husband is Queen Mary’s younger brother, until 1917 Prince Alexander of Teck. Lady Athlone’s only daughter is one of the several score eligible girls the Prince of Wales has been invited by paragraphists to marry but won’t. The cup presented by Mr T. Stace, of Auckland, for most first prizes in national dancing gained throughout the year 1930 by pupils of Miss Muriel Waugh’s School of Dancing was won bv Miss Doris O'Connor, with twenty-seven first prizes. The gold medal presented by the same donor to the runner-up wa? won by Miss Betty Carnochan, with sixteen first prizes.