PICTON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2, 10 July 1912, Page 68

PICTON.

July 0. Enckre Tonrasment At the Mauritai euchre tournament held last week Master M. Bush, playing aa a lady, won the first prise offered to the ladies, and Mr. J. Rudd annexed the men’s. A supper and a dance finished up a pleasant evening. Children’s Party. Mrs. Kenny gave a children’s party on Saturday at her residence, Bridge End, which the little ones enjoyed immensely. All sorts of games were played and e. dainty eupper finished up the evening. Those present were: (Miss Edith Kenny, Misses M. Kenny (Tory Channel), G. Newman, G. Beswick, M. Tripe (Koromiko), G. Haughey, T. Philpotts, M. Nicol, H. Madsen, J. Seott, Masters Paul Kenny, Scott (2), Kenny (2) (Tory Channel), J. Nicol, aud W. Burgess.' “ Afternoons.” Airs. Vidkers’ afternoon on Friday was largely attended. Mrs. Dawkins received a great many guests on her day last Monday. On Tuesday Mrs. Beswick gave a smalt afternoon for Mrs. A. Chaytor (Blenheim). Among those present were: Mrs and the Misses Beswiek (2), Airs. Bone (Christchurch), ‘Mrs. Arthur, Mrs. and the "Misses Allen, Mrs. H. <!. Seymour, Mrs. T. J. Smith, Mrs. Beauchamp, Miss Beauchamp, Mrs. (!. Philpotts, Mrs. Lucena. Church Social. Another of these little gatherings was held in the Anglican Sunday Schoolroom on Wednesday evening, Mesdames David Cragg, Cook, and Miss E. Gragg being managers and hostesses. A very pleasant programme was rendered as follows:—Piano solo. Miss Al. Newman; song, “May Be,” Mr. R. Andrews; “I Cannot Sing the Old Songs” and “'When Birds Go North Again,” Miss Ria Macalister; “The Sad Sea Waves” and “Annie Laurie,” Mrs. Al. Jennings; “The White Squall,” “Rocked in the Cradle of the. Deep.” and “Let Me Like a Soldier Fall,” Air. (Batchelor; “Idle Words” and “Shadow Land,” Mrs Willets; “No One Knows,” Miss Myrtle Cragg; recitations, “An Unauthorised Version” and “Reveries of a Schoolgirl in Church,” Miss Lily Cragg; “The Old Canteen,” Rev. T. j. Smith; reading, “The Little Hatchet” and “Delany at the Telephone,” -Mr. Edwards. Misses Williams, Cragg, and Newman played the accompaniments. Personal. Mr. and Mrs. John Duncan, who were away at the Palmerston North Show, returned home to the Grove on .Saturday. The Rev. John Dickson and Mrs. Dickson have gone South, their friends insisting on a change of scene, after their recent sad bereavement in the death of ■their little girl. Much sympathy is felt for them here and elsewhere. Mrs. Paterson, who has been visiting her daughter. Dr. Ada Paterson, has returned to Dunedin. Mr. and Mrs. A. Chaytor. Farnham, Blenheim, spent several days in Picton this week with Mrs. and the Misses Allen. Miss Fuller, who was sway enjoying her holidays in the North Island, has returned home earlier than she intended owing to the illness of her mother, Mrs. Fuller, of Kent Street. Miss Chaytor, who has been visiting the Hon. T. and Mrs. Mackenzie in Wellington, has returned to Picton. Mrs. McKie and Dr. and Mrs. Brownlee, of Christchurch, who arrived last week to visit Mr. and Mrs. Dickson, have returned home.