THE SOCIAL WORLD

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1295, 18 February 1915, Page 26

THE SOCIAL WORLD

On behalf of New Zealand, His Excellency the Governor sent a message of condolence to the Earl of Ranfurly on the death of his son, Viscount Northland, and received the following re ply : —“We thank New Zealand for kind telegram. We are proud of our only son. He gave his life for his country.—(Signed) Ranfurly.”

Mr. and Mrs. Mowbray Tripp, of Orari, Canterbury, have left en route for England.

Mr. and Mrs. Gifford Marshall have returned to Wanganui, after an ex tended tour of the Old Country. * * * *

The Hon. Dr. Pomare, with Mrs. Pomare and family, has gone on a visit to the Chathams.

Five members of the Auckland Hospital nura.ng staff have been selected for service at the front Sisters Carrie Young, Mary Sutherland, Daphne Commons, Emma Harris, and Louisa Clarke.

The engagement is announced of Miss Frida Larsen, elder daughter of the late N. F. B. Larsen, Esq., and Mrs. Larsen, of Auckland, to Mr. R. C. Nixon, only son of the late C. E. Nixon, Esq., of Bombay, India, and Mrs. Nixon, of Auckland. The wedding is to take place early in March.

Mrs. Hume, wife of Major Hume, and Mrs. Temperley, wife of Major Temperley, left by the Remuera last week for England.

Mr. Herbert Radcliffe, of Wellington, chief clerk in the Mines Department, left for Samoa by the Atua last week. He was accompanied by Mrs. Radcliffe.

Mr. W. J. Smeeton, a son of Mr. H. M. Smeeton, of Auckland, has been gazetted as a second lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery.

The Venerable Archdeacon Cassell, Anglican minister of St. Mary’s, Hawera, passed away on February 8, from a serious nervous breakdown. He was 47 years of age.

On February 3rd, at St. John’s Church, Wellington, Miss Ethel May Wallis, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Wallis, Wellington, was married to Mr. Norman E. White, son of Mrs. White, Wellington.

Miss Maud Allan has gone up into the Blue Mountains of New South Wales for two weeks’ rest (with Mrs. Howard Edie) prior to sailing for America.

At the annual general meeting of the Auckland Club, Mr. Stanley Milroy was elected president and Dr. H. D. Bamford vice-president.

The marriage of Mr. S. C. Turner and Miss Beatrice Helena Lilly, youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lilly, took place on February 9th at St. John’s Church, Latimer Square, Christchurch.

Mr. Leo M. Myers, late of Auckland, and now residing in London, has en--I’sted as a private in the Sportsman Battalion, which is attached to the Royal Fusiliers.

Miss Hester Maclean, Assistant Inspector of Hospitals, will be in charge of the 'fifty nurses who are to leave New Zealand for England shortly. The date on which they sail has not yet been decided upon.

/Phe Tsar has awarded a Kieff schoolgirl the Cross of St. George for conspicuous bravery. The girl fought in the trenches as a man. She was thrice wounded.

Mr. John Roberton, son of Dr. Ernest Roberton, of Auckland, has been posted to a commission as second lieutenant in the 9th Service Battalion of Gordon Highlanders, and, by latest mail advices, was proceeding to the new military college at Camberley for preliminary training. For two years previous to the war he was a member of the Cambridge University troop of King Edward’s Horse.

The engagement is announced in the “Dominion” of Miss Cara de Castro, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. de Castro, Talavera Terrace, to Mr. Claude d’Amboise Everard, second son of the late James Talbot d’A.. Everard.

Mrs. C. H. Izard, Wellington, has left for Egypt on a visit co her son.

At the Basilica, Wellington, on February 3, Miss Isabel Darby, daughter of Sergeant Darby, late of Wellington, and now of Westport, was married to Mr. Thomas Campbell, second sen of Mr. T. Campbell, of Karori.

Married men in Canada, says Miss Lefroy, hon. secretary of the British Women’s Emigration Association, are not allowed to join the Expeditionary contingents without the written consent of their wives. Of the married men who wish to volunteer, 40 per cent., had received that permission.

A Presbyterian College for girls was formally opened in Auckland by the Prime Minister, the Hon. W. F. Massey. The Mayor (Mr. C. J. Pair) presided over a large gathering. The institution, which is to be called St. Cuthbert’s College, used to be known as the Mount Eden Collegiate School, and is open to girls of all religious beliefs. Miss I. J. MacDonald, M.A., of Melbourne, is the principal.

The marriage took place in the Sacred Heart Basilica, Wellington, on January 25, of Mr. John McKeowen, of the Chief Engineer’s Office, Railways, Wellington, to Miss C. M. Godsell, of the Accountants’ Branch, G.P.0., Wellington.

A wedding of military interest was solemnised at St. Saviour’s Church, Sydenham, Christchurch, on February 6, when Miss Helen Margaret Richardson, daughter of Colonel Richardson, “Albury,” of Cashmere Hills, was married to Major Richard William Pinwill, of the King’s Own Liverpool Regiment, only son of Captain S. C. Pinwill, Royal Irish Fusiliers, of Trebane, Trobus, Cornwall. Miss Eileen Westenra was bridesmaid and Captain S. A. Robinson, of the Imperial Staff, was best man.

The King has awarded Sir Douglas Mawson and the members of his expedition the medal for polar exploration.

The engagement is announced in the “Post” of Miss Nellie Davies, youngest daughter of the late Mr. C H. Davies, late of Makara, Wellington, to Mr. H. R. Smith, only son of the late Mr. P. H. Smith, late Commissioner of Police, Melbourne, and of Mrs. R. Mitchell, ot Toorak, Melbourne.

Lady Liverpool, in a letter of thanks to the subscribers to the half-crown collection for oilskins for men on the New Zealand, acknowledges the sum of £369 10s. sd. sent from all parts of the Dominion.

Plans have been prepared for the erection of a new residential club for the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Tra ned Nurses’ Association. It will give accommodation for 25 nurses. Mrs. Alfred Kidd is president of the Association.

“Love means life to a woman; a part of life to a man.” * * * *

Mr. and Mrs. James Frost, of Ruahine Cottage, Dominion Road, Auckland, celebrated the diamond jubilee of their wedding on February 12.

Miss Marie Corelli, the well-known novelist, announces that she is organising a gift, probably of music, for the Australasians in Egypt.

“Life would run more easily, she thought, if husbands and wives had the same taste ‘n tears.” —From “The Pastor’s Wife.”

Mr. and Mrs. W. Crichton, Wellington, returned last week from their trip to England.

Mr. W. Green, who has retired from the headmastership of the Pakuranga School after 21 % years’ service, was farewelled at a garden party given by the School Committee. Mr. Garland, chairman of the Auckland Board of Education, made a complimentary speech and presented Mr. Green, on behalf of old pupils and friends, with a purse of sovereigns. Mrs. Green received a gold brooch as a small token of esteem.

A military wedding was celebrated in the Sheffield Presbyterian Church Christchurch, last week, when Sergeant W. Pole, Ist Regiment C.Y.C. was married to Miss Marion Glem third daughter of the late Mr. William Aitken, Parkhead, Glasgow.

Mrs. C. B. Russell, Wellington, gave a charming little afternoon tea at the Hotel Cecil to several members of the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company. Amongst those present were Miss Ethel Morrison, Miss Gladys Moncrieff, Miss Pearl Ladd, Miss Maud Miles, and a number of well-known Wellingtonians.

Mr. G. Hay, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Hay, of Napier, was married on February 10 to Miss R. Roulston, daughter of the late Mr. J. Roulston, of Napier.

The name of Colonel R. Williams, M.P., father of Mrs. Wallis, wife of Bishop Wallis, late of Wellington, appears in the New Year’s Honours List. He has had a baronetcy conferred upon him.

The Rev. F. Sinclaire, M.A., a former Auckland Grammar School boy, and a graduate of the University of New Zealand, has been appointed lecturer in English literature to the University of Melbourne.

Mischel Cherniavsky, the gifted ’cellist, was born in Odessa, Russia, on November 2nd, 1895. It is said that at the age of six he was taken by his father to hear a great Russian ’cellist named Wersbilowitz, and the little Mischel was so moved by the sad, sweet melody that he began to cry, afterwards beseeching his father to buy him a 'cello and teach him to try and play “the same wonderful music.” At first the father laughed, but the boy so persisted that at last a ’cello was bought for him, and he hardly slept by night or ate by day for love of his great treasure, and the father was well repaid with the eager attention the boy gave to his first music lessons. After a brief period of home practising with his father Mischel was sent to study under Professor Popper, of Budapest. Here he remained for one year, and was then made very proud by his teacher telling him: “I have nothing more to teach you.” Mischel completed his studies under Herbert Walenn, of London.

The King and Queen have sent 700,000 Christmas cards —one to every British sailor and soldier at the front. On one side is a phonograph of the King (in khaki) and the Queen, and on the other this message in the King’s handwriting, signed by both the King and Queen: —“With our best wishes for Christmas, 1914. May God protect you and bring you home safe. —Mary R„ George R. 1.” The wounded received a separate card: —“With our best wishes for Christmas, 1914. May you soon be restored to health. — Mary R., George R. 1.”

Cabled information has been received by Mr. C. Z. Clayton, of Auckland, that his son, Mr. J. Cayton, has joined the Royal Sussex Regiment as second lieutenant, and has left England for the front to go on service with his regiment. Mr. J. Clayton left New Zealand with the Main Expeditionary Force, and on arrival in Egypt he went on to England.

In Germany even the hearts of female nurses are under the strictest control of the military authorities (states Reuter’s correspondent from Amsterdam). Three nurses who, according to the “Kreuzzeitung,” fell in love w.th three wounded French soldiers were at once dismissed by the military commander at Dledendofen, who severely reprimanded them, telling them they were not sufficiently patriotic, and were a disgrace to the nursing profession.