THE SOCIAL WORLD

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1292, 28 January 1915, Page 26

THE SOCIAL WORLD

A cable received in Auckland by her parents announces the marriage at Dublin, on January 7, of Miss Alda Ralph, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Ralph, Princes Street, Auckland, to Mr. J. T. Donovan, M.P., barrister at law.

The engagement is announced of Miss Ethel Monteith, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Monteith, Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, to Mr. A. W. Tayler, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Archdale Tayler, Auckland.

Ever since the war began the Christchurch nurses have given a day’s pay each per week to the War Fund.

Dr. Foote, of Thames, has been chosen, from among nine applicants, for the position of medical superintendent of the Westport District Hospital.

Lord and Lady Ranfurly (says a London correspondent) are both busily engaged in war relief work. The former confines his attention specially to Red Cross and St. John Ambulance, while Lady Ranfurly is assisting in the supply of comforts for the troops.

Mr. George G. Hancox, M.A., of Christchurch, has been appointed science master at the Marlborough High School.

Mr. Harold Vincent Rowe, second son of Mr. T. W. Rowe, of Christchurch, has been awarded a research scholarship at Canterbury College, the value of which is £lOO per annum for two years. Mr. Rowe, who is in h s 21st year, has a brilliant scholastic record.

Mr. Hugo Friedlander, of Ashburton, has been advised that his son, Dr. J. A. Friedlander, F.R.C.S., has received a commission as lieutenant in the R.A.M.C., and has been attached to the 4th Battalion Cheshire Regiment, at present undergoing training at Northampton

Dr. C. E. Maguire, medical superintendent at the Auckland Hospital, has been granted twelve months’ leave of absence to go abroad with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Dr. A. M. Grant, senior resident officer, will be acting-superintendent.

Dr. A. W. Averill, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, accompanied by Mrs. Averill and Lieutenant W. W. Averill, aide-de-camp to His Excellency the Governor, has returned to Auckland after a visit to the North.

Miss Isobel J. Macdonald, M.A., a daughter of the late Professor Macdonald, of the Ormond Theological College, at present senior mistress in the Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Melbourne, has been appointed principal of the Auckland Presbyterian College for Young Ladies, formerly Miss Bews’ Mount Eden Collegiate School.

The Wellington “Post” announces the engagement of Miss Vera Chapman, eldest daughter of Mr. Justice Chapman and Mrs. Chapman, to Mr. Siegfried Eichelbaum, son of Mr. Max Eichelbaum, of Wellington.

Mr. and Mrs. P. Coffey, of Oriental Bay, Wellington, celebrated their golden wedding on January 19.

Miss Hilda M. Cooper, third daughter of Mrs. James Cooper, of Havelock North, was married to Mr. Robert T. Adams, of the staff of Messrs. Field and Luckie, solicitors, Wellington, on January 4.

Miss Bachelor (Dunedin) left last week for Egypt to join Colonel Bachelor.

Lady Angela Forbes and Mrs. Ernest Platt, two English society women, have established a buffet at the Boulogne station for supplying the wounded with tea, coffee, cocoa, and the like.

The late Field-Marshal Lord Roberts left £77,304. The whole amount, except for bequests to servants, is bequeathed to his widow and daughters.

Mrs. Gillies of Auckland, who with her husband has been spending sev- ,

eral months in England, has returned to New Zealand. While in England Mrs. Gillies took an active part in the work which women have organ-

ised in connection with the war sfc V

At the provincial tennis tournament at the New Plymouth Club’s courts, Captain C. H. Weston, who is shortly leaving for Trentham to join the Expeditionary Force, was the recipient of a presentation from his fellow members of the club.

Mr. R. G. H. Blow (son of Mr. H. J. H. Blow, Under-Secretary for Public Works) has passed his examination for the degree of Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music, London. Mr. Blow has had a most successful career at the Royal Academy, and last year won the silver medal. He is expected to arrive in New Zealand next month.

The “British Australasian” of December 3 announces the engagement of Sergeant-Major Merle Bonar, of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, son of the late J. A. Bonar, M.L.C., to Miss F. D- Howard.

At St. Matthew’s Church, Masterton, on January 19, Mr. Heathcote Mawley, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Mawley, Dilton, Masterton, was married to Miss Kathleen H. Beard, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Beard, of Masterton.

A handsome service of silver plate has been presented to Sir James Mills from the engineers of the Union Steam Ship Company. The presentation was made at the Institute of Marine Engineers, London, by Mr. James Adamson, acting-secretary, and bore the following inscription:—“To Sir James Mills, K.C.M.G., and Lady Mills, from the engineers of the Union Steam Ship Company, upon Sir James’ retirement from the managing directorship of the company.”

Cup Day at Wellington saw Trentham racecourse at its best. The gardens were brilliant with gaily-hued flowers, and additional interest was lent to the scene by the march-past of the troops stat oned at Trentham. Some striking frocking was in evidence on the lawn. Well-known people present included Mrs. W. F. Massey (wife of the Prime Minister) and Miss Isabel Massey, Lady Ward, Miss Harcourt, Mrs. H. D. Bell, Mrs. Hope Lewis (Auckland), Mrs. Findlay, Mrs. Elworthy (Timaru), Mrs. Moorhouse, Mrs. F. Nathan (Palmerston North) ’ Mrs. Hiley, Mrs. W. Turnbull, Mrs’ Salmond, Mrs. Davison (Christchurch) Mrs. Prendergast (Auckland), Mrs’ Bidwill, Mrs. T. H. Lowry, Mrs. Eric Riddiford, Mrs. Kember, Mrs. Bernard Wood (Christchurch), Miss Vavasour (Blenheim), Miss Wilford, Mrs W G Johnstone, Mrs. J. Duthie, Mrs.' A. Young, Mrs. J. Joseph, Mrs. Geo Hume, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan (Auckland).

In opening the recent flower show at Christchurch, Lord Liverpool read a letter from His Majesty the King and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, which showed that they and the people of England appreciated all the efforts which were being made by the colonies during the crisis. His Majesty stated that he was much struck with the splendid way the people of New Zealand had come forward with men, money, and kind, for he realised that the expense must be a great drain on the resources of the country.

At St. Peter’s Church, Wellington, on January 6, Mr. Frederick Nelson Fleming, son of Major Fleming, Royal Artillery, was married to Miss Mabel Lucy Cutfield, daughter of Commander Cut'field, R.N., of Tilford, Surrey.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Miller, of Tyne Street, Carterton, celebrated their golden wedding on January 18. They were married at “Hadfield” Farm, Marton, on January 18, 1865.

Mrs. W. F. Massey, wife of the Prime Minister, is taking steps to form a camp library for the use of ihe men out at Trentham. A promise has been made of from two hundred to two hundred and fifty Looks from the Parliamentary Library as a start, and Mrs. Massey is soliciting further contributions towards the formation of the library.

Jan Cherniavsky, pianist, one of the three world-famous brothers of that name, has been a close student of the progress and development of the European war, and carries about with him a colossal map in a specially made case. The flags of the various nations engaged are regularly moved in their proper order as each batch of news

comes from the front. The three brothers are issuing a map of the four continents, with all the towns they have visited marked red, and as there is hardly a city of importance in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia that they have not visited, their map should be interesting.

The death occurred at Tauranga last week of Mr. John Harris McCaw, aged eighty. He had been a resident of Tauranga for fifty years.

It would be impossible to enumerate the works of fiction which owe their inspiration to the war (writes a Lon- I don correspondent to an Australian i journal). Only H. G. Wells or Arnold | Bennett or Marie Corelli dare launch j one of their own characteristic novels. Lesser public favourites would not be tolerated, and even these giants have to be content with much smaller returns. Every short story, every serial ! story, every Feuillton, every personal sketch, every pamphlet, must have a surcharged war atmosphere. Take up any weekly publication with a large circulation, and you will find it little : else but warlike echoes. The hero of I the factory girl’s novelette is no longer a strawberry duke, he is a ! Colonel of Hussars, or a Major of Ar- ' tillery, and the villain of Suburbia’s ! penny dreadful is no more the burgling desperado, but a highly accomplished i German spy. Some flowerets of Eden we still inherit, but the trail of the German is over them all.