THE SOCIAL WORLD

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1310, 3 June 1915, Page 30

THE SOCIAL WORLD

His Excellency the G-overnor and the Countess of Liverpool left Auckland by special train last week for Wellington, where they will take up their residence again.

The engagement is announced of Miss Ethelwyn Hague-Smith, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Hague Smith, Thames, to Mr. Jules C. Malfroy, Clerk of the Court, Thames.

The great social event of the London season was the wedding at St. Margaret’s, Westminster, of the Hon. Neil Primrose, M.P., the younger son of the Earl of Rosebery, and Lady Victoria Stanley, only daughter of the Earl of Derby. Amongst those who attended the ceremony were Queen Alexandra and several other members of the Royal family, also the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith), and the members of the Cabinet. Mr. Primrose, who is 32 years o age, has represented North Cambridgeshire in the House of Commons for the past five years. lie was recently given the post or Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Lady Victoria was born in 1892.

A Timaru paper announces the engagement of Miss Irene Wilson Christchurch, to Dr. Gilmour, of the Timaru Hospital.

The death occurred in Wellington on May 23, at the age of 84, of Mrs. Louisa Turnbull, widow of Mr. Thomas Turnbull, F.R.1.8.A. Her family consists of three sons and a daughter (Mrs. Chapple, wife of Dr. W. A. Chapple, a member of the British House of Commons).

Mr. W. Fraser, M.A., of the Auckland Grammar School, has been appointed to second assistant of the Hamilton High School.

The Hen. R. Heaton Rhodes, Minister tc-’ Public Health and Hospitals, has received numerous offers in NewZealand from ladies willing to do household duties in hospitals that are at present or are likely to be short of nurses owing to the war, and thus leave the staffs free to attend entirely to nursing duties. Mr. Rhodes suggests that those willing to volunteer should communicate with the matrons of hospitals in their respective districts.

Actors are, of all classes, the most impressionable auditors in a theatre. They laugh more easily at humorous situations and are far more quickly touched by sentiment and pathos m plays than any other class of people that I know anything about. Yet certainly they see the wheels revolving when nobody else can see them. —A. E. Thomas, in “New York Post.”

Miss Cameron has been appointed matron-in-chief of the contingent of nurses that left for service aboard last week. She has been matron-in-charge of the St. Helens Hospital, Christchurch, and previous to that was at the Cambridge Sanatorium for two years, and for five years at St. Helens, Christchurch. Miss Cameron was trained in Australia.

The “Dominion” announces the engagement of Miss Doris Collinson, youngest daughter of Mrs. Collinson and the late Mr. H. Collinson, Palmerston North, to Mr. W. H. Heckler, Ihuraua, second son of Mr. J. F. Heckler, Mangamahoe, Wairarapa.

Miss Campbell, matron of the Karitane Home, Dunedin, has resigned her position, and is going to the front with the Other nurses who have been accepted for service.

Of course, chaperones before the war were almost extinct, but since the war, well, girls seem to go here, there and everywhere without giving a thought to the sensitive feelings of Mrs. Grundy (says a writer in a London paper). I met a girl who was flying up to Scotland to see a wounded officer, travelling all night so that she could return the next day as she was on duty at a Red Cross hospital.

The wedding took place recently at St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, Wellington, of Miss Christine (Betty) Turton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Turton, to Mr. Geoffrey Eaton Turner, son of Mr. William Eaton Turner, of Bedford, England. The guests were subsequently entertained to luncheon by Mr. Justice Hosking and Mrs. Hosking.

Miss Flohm, sister of Mr. Bertram Flohm, of Sydney, who came over to New Zealand as judge for the Dunedin competitions, has been spending a holiday in Auckland and Rotorua.

Members of the Victoria League in Wellington are arranging a chain of shilling teas in aid of the medical comforts for the reinforcements, on the same lines as those which are so successful in Auckland.

Auckland’s share in the task of equipping the hospital ship will be £6250 in cash and a-quarter of the articles required.

Besides giving their husbands and sons, French women are coming forward with their hard-earned savings. The following story is told of a charwoman: After years of hard work she had saved £6O. One day she took this sum to the almoner of the Pasteur Institute, now a war hospital. The almoner hesitated about accepting the whole of the sum, and suggested that she should keep part of it to buy comforts for herself or her family in case of sickness. But the woman replied: “Monsieur, 1 have no family; and as for myself, I have worked hard since I was 17, and shall go on working. Take it all, to please me.” The almoner accepted the money, and, after forbidding him to enter her name on his list of subscribers, she went back to her charing.

Mr. H. V. Ramsay, M.A., of the Hamilton High School staff, has been appointed assistant master at the Thames High School.

Miss Elsy Treweek (Mrs. Collier) came over from Australia last week to sing the part of Santuzza in “Cavalleria Rusticana” with the Royal Wellington Choral Society.

Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Mandy, of Motueka, have gone over to Sydney to spend the winter.

Dr. and Mrs. Short, of Westport, returned last week from a trip to the Islands.

Mr. James Craigie, M.P for Timaru, who is considerably over the fighting age, has asked the local Defence authorities to enrol him as a recruit, stating that he is prepared to go to Europe serving the Empire in any capacity.

The wedding took place at St. John’s Church, Wellington, on May 22, of Miss Margaret Mcßean, daughter of Mrs. Mcßean, of Lyall Bay, to Mr. Malcolm Galloway, of Wellington.

It is stated that the Savoy, London, have installed a new “fork” in their restaurant. It is described as a sort of knife, fork and spoon, all in one, and is intended for wounded soldiers who can only use one hand at meals.

Prior to the New Zealand nurses’ departure for the front, an interesting ceremony took place at Parliament Buildings, when they were presented with their badges by Mrs. W. F. Massey, wife of the Prime Minister. Speeches were made by the Hon. W. F. Massey and the Hon. J. Allen. The Mayoress, Mrs. Luke, on behalf of the Countess of Liverpool Committee, presented each nurse with a box of chocolates.

Miss Nell Grant, who has been for some time charge-nurse at Woodside Private Hospital, in Auckland, is proceeding to England to offer her professional services to the War Office. Nurst Grant is the daughter of Mr. A. Grant, at one time the railway traffic manager at Auckland.

The Dunedin Education Board received from representatives of the teachers in the Dunedin and suburban schools a request that the board would sanction the present sewing syllabus being held in abeyance, so that girls may devote their sewing time to knitting or sewing for patriotic purposes. The board resolved to apply to the department for the necessary permission.

The Red Cross Committee of the Victoria League, Auckland branch, have passed a resolution to the effect that the members under the direction of Mrs. George Bloomfield, immediately organise, among Auckland women, the equipment of Stationary Hospital No. 2, leaving WelI’ngton on June 12.

Sister Phoebe Reynolds, who was trained in the Auckland Hospital, and who has been part owner of Marinoto Private Hospital in Hawera for the past 13 months, left with the nurses who have proceeded to the front.

Miss Beatrice Day, the popular actress, has been advised that her son, Mr. Robin Wall, who passed out of Clifton College (England) in December last, and has since been training with the Inns of Court Officers’ Training Corps, has been given a commission in the Third Lincolnshire Regiment.

On his retirement after 17 years’ service as assistant in the Parliamentary Library, Mr. A. B. Thomson was presented with numerous gifts on behalf of the library staff and the officers of the Legislative Department. The chair was occupied by Sir William Hall-Jones, M.L.C., and the presentation was made by the Hon. William Fraser, M.P. Mr. Thomson has left for Sydney en route to London.

At St. Mary’s Church, Timaru, the other day, Miss Elsie A. Wliliams, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Williams, Timaru, was married to Surgeon-Captain W. S. Wallis, youngest son of the late Mr. John Wallis, of Christchurch. The bridegroom is shortly leaving New Zealand to fill a post at one of the base hospitals provided for New Zealanders at the front.

Dr. Gore-Gillon, of Auckland, who recently went to England to offer his services to the war authorities, has been appointed Lieut.-Colonel of the R.A.M.C., and attached as surgeon to Queen Alexandra’s Military Hospital. He has been given charge of the Queen Alexandra ward, with consulting supervision over King Edward’s ward.

Mr. Hope-Gibbons and family, of Wanganui, have given a donation of £3OO, to be devoted as follows: — £lOO specially for Red Cross, £lOO hospital ship equipment, £lOO as a nucleus of continuous fund that will be required during the war for medi cal comforts for our wounded and convalescent men. Mr. Hope-Gibbons has also offered his residence at Wanganui East as a convalescent home for wounded soldiers.

The engagement is announced in the Wellington “Post” of Miss Christina W. Duncan, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Duncan, of Roseneath, to Mr. J. J. Norman, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Norman, of Waira, Hawke’s Bay, late of Wellington.

The Hastings Patriotic Committee has voted £5OO of its funds for the equipment of the hospital ship. A local amateur musical comedy company, called the “Mascots,” which, within the last few weeks, raised £750 for the Belg’an Fund, won another £7OO by their performance and flag selling.

Miss Gieseking, of Greymouth, was elected “Queen” at the West Coast CarhivaL securing 209,261 votes. The election realised £5347 for the Belgian Fund in addition to the amount taken at the gates.

From “Sunday Pictorial ’: Here is the very latest story of Queen Mary which has the authentic touch. It comes to .me from a good source, and shows -those gifts of sound sense and shrewd criticism that are such striking attributes of our Queen. The other day the Queen attended a function at which a number of fashionable women were knitting for the soldiers. “This is excellent work,” said Her Majesty to a friend, “but I am afraid some of those who knit in public never think of-doing so in their homes.” ■ A

The Lindauer pictures have been handed over to the Auckland city by Mr. H. E. Partridge, and the £lO,OOO purchase money given to Air. Robert Burns, Acting-Consul for Belgium.

The Auckland Women’s Navy League relief fund have offered six iully-equlpepd beds to the hospital ship.

Aladame Melba received first prize for a decorated motor car in a recent patriotic pageant. A Melbourne paper said it was a perfect bower of blue and white, most elaborately and tastefully handled, and was reminiscent of Lohengrin. It was the only thing in the procession which did not look like a motor car, and the prize could only have gone elsewhere by a shocking error of taste.

It is reported that the late Mr. E. W. Knowles, formerly proprietor of the Napier “Telegraph/' left estate valued at nearly £70,000, the bulk of which will c-onstitute an endowment for charitable and educational purposes in Hawke’s Bay.

By the last English mail, Mr. A. B. Wallace, of Masterton, received very encouraging reports concerning the progress that is being made by Miss Thelma Petersen in her musical studies in London (says a Wairarapa paper). On March 23, Miss Petersen had the honour of singing at a great patriotic concert in the London Opera House, at which Her Majesty Queen Alexandra and three thousand people were present. Miss Petersen was the only lady* soloist on the programme, and she was entrusted with the singing of “God Save the King, ’ in which she was accompanied by the Coldstream Guards’ Band. She also sang at a college concert, at which she was again the only lady soloist. The report of the examination at the conclusion of the last term of the Royal College of Music states that Miss Petersen had made very considerable progress, and her voice was much more even and agreeable in quality. She has also taken a first prize in elocution.

A public presentat on by citizens was made to Mr. C. J. Parr, C.M.G., in recognition of his long service to Auckland as mayor. There was a large gathering, amongst those on the platform being the Mayor, Mr. J. H. Gunson, and Airs. Gunson, Air. C. J. Parr and Airs. Parr. Air. H. E. Partridge, Mr. Robert Burns, Acting-Con-sul for Belgium, and Mrs. Burns. Mr. Parr was presented with an illum’nated address and a gold watch and chain, while a handsome piece of plate was given to Mrs. Parr. Eulo-

gis'tic speeches were made by the Mayor, and Messrs. J. H. Upton and A. Al. Myers, ex-mayors.

Aldme. Jane Catulle Mendes, who was leaving France for America to lecture on the German atrocities, received the following touching letter from Mdme. Sarah Bernhardt before the recent operation:—“My darling,— As you have perhaps heard, they are going ,o cut off my leg. Good-bye, my darling; good-bye. But it appears that I was not sufficiently ready for this first performance; the principal artist —my right leg—did not know her part. She has learned it now; and will be charm ng. Well, I send you some photographs. May God help you on your voyage. Tell the American people all that has taken place here. I wrote two articles in America against the Kaiser and the Emperor of Austria, and threats of death reached me at Andernos. What do I care! One can die but once. Goodbye, my darling. I embrace you very, very tenderly.—Sarah Bernhardt.”

Madame Melba is organising an Austral an patriotic day on June 3, on which date she will give a great concert in the Town Hall, Sydney, the proceeds to be wholly and solely devoted to Poland. The organisation and administration of this function are in the hands of Mr. John Lemrnone. Melba’s ambit.on is to surpass any previous results that have been achieved. It is expected that this will constitute a golden day even in the record of her magnificent services. At the entertainment she will herself se.l by auction a British flag, and also the national flags of Scotland and Ireland.. In a special autograph letter Melba will make an appeal to every citizen, of the State whose wealth will permit it to give £lOO. The work is‘ in aid of 8,000,000 Poles, and the funds real.sed will be transmitted through the New South Wales Government to the British Consul-General in Warsaw to be distributed to suffering Poles.

Those who remember Franklin Holding, the gifted violinist, who loured with Madame Nordica, will regret to hear of his death, which occurred suddenly on April 3. Mr. Holding was born in 1886, and was a youthful violin prodigy appearing in public at a very early age. He had a brilliant career, with promise of a great future.

Wife (returning from matinee): ‘Oh, it was too lovely! She had on a pale nite green silk, with bands of passementerie down the front and the grandest diamonds you ever saw, and when she died in the last act, she rolled over four times, and every woman in the house was crying. I never enjoyed a play so much in my life.”