PERSONAL NOTES

Wairarapa Age, 10 March 1920, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES

Miss Booth, of Hawarden, Carter;on, leaves next week on an extended rip to Sydney-

Mrs E. H. Waddington, who has been visiting Auckland, returned home yesterday.

Miss J. Nilsson, of Eketahuna, who spent the week-end at Carterton, ireturned to her home yesterday.

The Mayoress of Carterton (Mrs W. Howard Booth) has taken a cottage at Day's Bay, where she is sojourning with her family.

Mrs Dryden, assistant teacher at tho Mauricevillc West School, who has been appointed solo teacher at Makuri, left yesterday to take up her new duties.

Dr. Cecil John Wood, late Bishop of Melanesia, was married in Norwich Cathedral on December 30th to Miss Marjorie Allen Bell, younger daughter of Canon and Mrs Allen Bell. Tho ceremony was performed by the Bishop of Norwich.

A quiet wedding took place in Masterton yesterday, the contracting parties being Mr Daniel Davey, second son of Mr and Mrs R. Davey, of Masterton, and Miss Annie Hausmann, third daughter of Mr and Mrs A. T. Hausmann, also of Masterton.

Speaking of tho marriage of Major John Wilfred Findlay, son of Sir John and Lady Findlay, to Miss Helen B, Rich,, of New York, a correspondent says:—The bride was a graduate of tho Spence College, New York, where she was widely known, being the leader of the Republican party of the United States for the main N.Y. City Division. She also 'founded and ran a technical school for poor children of New York, and took the lead in most of the biggest amateur productions held in New York for war charities. During the war she was in charge of- the New York Auxiliary Rod Cross Depot. Major Findlay met her on board' tho s.s. Olympic in New York on Armistice night at a dinner given by the Commander to celebrate the event. The wedding took < place quietly in Loughton Parish Church, the guests mainly being English and friends and a few officers of Major Findlay's late command in France. Captain fladfield, his late second-in-command, was best man, and his brother, Lieut. J. Lloyd Findlay, M.C., R.A.F., was groomsman. After the ceremony the wedding breakfast took place at the residence of Mr J. Digby Maitland, whose house, beautifully situated near Epping Forest, was originally the property of his ancestors. Major Findlay has, since returning from New Zealand last May, rejoined his old firm in the city—Messrs Burton, Rowe and Viner, Limited, of 11, Queen Victoria street, tho well-known insurance brokers.

For the first time in the history of the Inns of Court women law students dined recently with the Benchars, states a London exchange. They were Miss Helena Normanton, Miss I Cobb, Miss Doherty, and Miss Bruce. The dinner was in the old hall of the j Middle Temple. It is customary there j to mess in fours, and Miss Norman- j ton sat with Mr Hubert Sweeney, Mr j Wells Thatcher, with whom she is now reading, and Mr Holford Knight. She wore for the first time the black gown of the law student, which she borrowed for the occasion, as her own is not yet ready, and her hair was uncovered. No waman ha§ dined in the Middle Temple Hall for more than 300 years, when Queen Elizabeth attended a banquet and danced with tho Templars. "It was all most impressive," said Miss Normanton after the dinner. "I thought it a very great honour, and I can't say how much I appreicated the kindness with which everyone—both officials and members —repeiyed me. I found a I most attractive room had been set apart for us, and everything was done to make us comfortable. I thoroughly enjoyed the dinner, and I'm glad to say that I broke only one rule. I didn't know that members of one mess were not allowed to talk to the members of another, and'l was told that I had made myself liable to a fine by doing so. I was congratulated by a number of benchers and students, and I was also promised briefs. I was invited to become a member of tho two legal debating societies—the Hardwicke and the Union. One bencher said that ho hoped I would become the first lady Chancellor."

The remains of Mademoiselle de Bettignies—the , Fiench "Edith Cavell"—who died from a malady contracted in a German dungeon, will arrive in her native town of Lille next week, and the burial will he marked by a manifestation of sorrow national in character (states the Paris correspondent' of the Daily News of recent date). Locise de Bettignies, like Nurse Cavell, braved everything for her country and its Allies, and she is mourned to-day as a martyr whose shining patriotism and unselfishness won for her the Cross of the Legion of Honour and a high decoration from King George. vWhen the Germans were about to occupy Lille, Louise de Bettignies took note of all that was taking place in the town and vicinity and came to inform the French General Staff, bringing letters for Fernch soldiers, which she concealed between the soles of her boots. Returning to Lille, she continued her work of obtaining information on the position of the trenches, aviation camps, batteries, and movements of troops, which was sent to the French military authorities. Arrested in Belgium, she was tried and condemned to death, the sentence being commuted to life imprisonment. Taken to | Siegburg, Germany, she was imprisoned with Madmeoiselle Thuliez, a coworker of Miss Cavell, and other French women. These women were forced to work for the German army, but Louise de Bettignies induced them to refuse, and for this sho was flung into a black hole, where sho contracted a disease which necessitated an operation and her transference to hospital at Cologne, where she died a few days before the Germans were forced to quit Lille.