THE SOCIAL WORLD

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1356, 20 April 1916, Page 30

THE SOCIAL WORLD

Announcements of engagements and contributions of interest relating to weddinge and Modal gatherings should bo sent to Dady Editor, “Sporting and Dramatic Seview” Office, Auckland. In all cases the writer’s signature and address must be attached (not for publication). Photographs of wedding groups will be reproduced by arrangement.

Their Excellencies the Governor and the Countess of Liverpool, who have been in residence in Christchurch for the past six weeks, have returned to Wellington, and will remain there until after the session.

During the opening ceremony of the Soldiers’ Club’s new quarters in Auckland, at the Y.M.C.A., the Mayor, Mr. J. H. Gunson, read a message just received from Madam Melba. It ran: “Thinking of all you brave soldiers, and send you my love and blessings. Also sending £5O from Niagara concert.” The message was greeted with hearty applause.

■' His Excellency the Governor has received the command of the King that no dinners, reviews, salutes or other celebrations shall take place this year on the occasion of His Majesty’s Birthday. The King desires that in the time of national crisis the usual ceremonies shall be abandoned.

An interesting wedding was solemnised at St. Barnabas’ Church, Mt. Eden, Auckland, on Monday, April 10, when Mr. Ernest Henry Cleave, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur ' Cleave, of Ellerslie, was married to Miss Dorothy Clendon Young, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. ? Young, of Mt. Eden. The bride, who was given away by her father, looked very charming in a trained white crepe de chine gown richly embossed and finished with a handsomely embroidered tulle veil clustered with orange blossoms. She carried an exquisite bouquet. Miss Gwen Young was bridesmaid and was gracefully frocked in pale pink frosted crepe toned with lace and a hat to corres- , pond set with a large pink rose. Her bouquet was carried out in pale pink. Mr. J. E. Lepine acted as best man. After the ceremony, which was conducted by the Rev. R. J. s^ anton ’ the guests were entertained by the bride’s parents at a wedding brea, - fast at Howie’s, Symonds Street, where the customary toasts were felicitously honoured. The guests included Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cleave (the bridegroom’s parents), Misses Lena and Bertha Cleave Mr and = Mrs. P- Cleave, Mr. A. L. Cleave, Miss Holder, Rev. Stanton and Mrs. Stanton, Mrs. Lodder, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Douglas (Hamilton), Mrs. Me- - The bridegroom’s gift to the bride was a diamond drop neckl et , and amongst numerous Pfesejits re ceived was a handsome silver afternoon tea service from the employees of Messrs. Arthur Cieave and Co., L. . * * * *

The wedding of Mrs A. M. Harvey to Mr. Walter Cooper, both of Christ church, took place in Wellington, at St Paul’s Pro-Cathedral. The bride was g"ven away by Mr F Dunean of Dunedin, and wore a smart navy costume and black hat. Swan acted as groomsman. * Mrs. William Irving, of Christchurch, came up to wppk to meet her husband, D. • in g ; on his return to New Zealanc. ' A Dunedin lady, Miss May Barron, n nf Mr Wm. Barron, of a daughter of • , +n Dunedin Caversham, has returne ori /i the Sir an absence E ? land Continent of over three B -e r at n the a outbreak of the war. and eight months elapsed before, she was enabled to get across the border to Holland. * * * A quiet wedding took place in the Presbyterian Church at Featherston, when Miss Edith May Leng ‘h'rd daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Leng, of Canterbury, was married to Private William Ernest Cottier, of H Company, 12th Reinforcements, and youngest son of Mr. Thomas Cottier, Manchester, England.

The engagement is announced in the Timaru “Herald” of Miss Amy Cooper, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Cooper, Temuka, to the Rev. J. Copeland, formerly of Temuka.

Mr. Raynor White, of St. John’s Methodist Church, Auckland, has been appointed organist and choirmaster of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Christchurch, in succession to Mr. Wilfred Coulson.

At St. Stephen’s Church, Reefton, last week, the wedding took place of Sapper James Foster, of the Engineers, 12th Reinforcements, and Miss M. M. Henderson, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Henderson, of Reefton. Miss I. Henderson, sister of the bride, was bridesmaid. The bride wore a smart saxe blue dress and a black and white velvet hat.

The engagement is announced in Wellington papers of Miss Phyllis Summerell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Summerell, of Masterton, to Lieutenant R. W. Kebbell, second son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Kebbell, “Eridge,” Masterton.

Madame Boeufve and Miss Beatrice Day gave an afternoon tea in Wellington in honour of Mr. Lowry, of Hawke’s Bay, who is the vice-presi-dent of the Anti-German League. Important business in connection with the league was dealt with. A letter received from Lady Stout stated that she had been most successful in forming a league in Auckland, and she had been asked to address several meetings.

A novelty on the course at the Wellington autumn race meeting was a stand for sweets and cigarettes in aid of the Red Cross Fund. Mrs. Thomson and Mrs. Reilly were in charge, and business was very brisk.

Permission to be married in St. James’ is only given when the King wishes to confer special honour. The last occasion on which a wedding took place there was when Miss Page, daughter of the American Ambassador, was married in August.

Dr. A. Kinder, one of the honorary surgeons at the Auckland Hospital, was granted leave of absence by the Auckland Hospital Board in view of his departure on active service.

Writing to Mrs. J. H. Gunson, Mayoress of Auckland, General Godley says: “I have pleasure in advising you that the cases of Auckland ‘billies’ arrived safely, and have been distributed in accordance with your wish, and it is believed that every Auckland soldier at present with the force has received one. Owing to the absence of many sick and wounded men, there is a balance, the disposal of which will be entrusted to the senior Auckland officer. The gifts did not reach the majority of the troops until some time in January, but they were none the less welcome on that account. Will you kindly permit me, on behalf of the troops of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, which I have the honour to still command, to tender my very best thanks to the good people of Auckland province for their kindness in providing such a useful gift?”

“People can’t be happy when they’re thinking all the time what other people will think of them. It’s like sleeping in your corsets.”

Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Rhodes, of Christchurch, gave a fiarewell party for Miss Thurston, matron of the Christchurch Hospital,, who is leaving for England shortly to take charge of the New Zealand Military Hospital at Walton-on-Thames. Mrs. Julius, on behalf of the members of the Victoria League and the Lady Visitors’ Hospital Association, presented Miss Thurston with a . purse of sovereigns, the silver purse containing them being the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes.

a meeting of the Auckland French Club the following officers were elected:—-Hon. president, M. Rigoreau, French Consul; president, Professor Maxwell Walker; vice-pre-sidents, Miss Outhwaite and Mr. A. Wyllie; general secretary, M. L. J. Duflou; assistant secretary, Mr. L.

Matheson; librarians, Mdme. Foley and Mr. Elliott; members of council, Mdme. Duflou, Mdlle. Uhlmann, Mdlle. Le Houx, Miss Hall, Messrs. Hall, Major, Clarke and Gresham.

“It’s a woman’s trick to make' a great show of forgiving a man and then never letting him hear the end of it.”’

A writer in the “New Zealand Times,” describing the autumn races in Wellington, says that frocking was on the quiet and sober side, although a few new winter styles were to be seen, a few of the “Postillion hats,” and some fur-edged coats. The loose sac coat, fur-edged, was seen in a few instances, and made the wearers appear to have come from early Victorian days, especially when worn in conjunction with the tiny hats which so closely resemble the “pork pie” of our grandmothers’ days. Amongst those present were: Miss Harcourt, Mrs. T. H. Lowry (H. 8. Mrs. Vivian Riddiford, Mrs. Hiley, Mrs. Wilfred Stead, Mrs. Turnbull, Mrs. E. Riddiford, Mrs. Gillon, Mrs. Arthur Duncan, Mrs. Walter Johnston, Mrs. W. Hume, Mrs. Duthie, Mrs. Gilmer, Mrs. G. Nathan, Mrs. Herbert, Mrs. Cosgrove.

The marriage took place in St. Mary’s Church, Hawera, on April 5, of Miss Sydney Cushla Burnside Tonks, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Tonks, of Hawera, to Dr. T. A. Milroy, of Manaia. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. C. H. Grant Cowen, assisted by the Rev. A. T. B. Page, of Manaia. The bride wore a gown of white silk spotted ninon over pale pink crepe de chine. The bridesmaids were Miss Joyce Tonks, of Christchurch, Miss Rita Goodson, and Miss S. Hamilton, while two little flower girls, Betty Willis and Margaret Good, were also in attendance. The bridesmaids wore pale pink silk taffetas frocks and black taffetas hats lined with velvet The little maids were in white muslin, with pale pink sashes and black velvet hats with pink roses. The best man was Mr. R. L. Hamilton, and the groomsmen Mr. G. J. Bayley and Major Cox. A reception was subsequently held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Tonks.

Here is an echo of Lady Islington (wife of New Zealand’s former Governor) by one of the newsy writers in “London Opinion”: “Society mammas are getting alarmed over the possibility of ‘impossible’ marriages. It is all very romantic, of course, but it would never do for lovely Lady Clara Vere de Vere to elope with Temporary Second-Lieutenant Nocash, for all that she may have nursed him back to recovery; and the only sure way of avoiding that disastrous possibility is to put a curb on the Red Cross activities of Lady Clara. Some mothers, however, have no occasion for alarm. Lady Islington, for example. She has turned her beautiful home at Chesterfield Gardens into an officers’ hospital, and many cases are being treated there. But her pretty 18-year-old daughter, the Hon. Joan Dickson-Poynder, although a war nurse, is not at her mother’s hospital. The scene of the Hon. Joan’s activities is a children’s hospital, where all the tots, I am told, worship her. How some of the other worried Mayfair mammas must envy Lady Islington’s freedom from anxiety!”

“Among the society women who are frightfully keen to do their bit of nursing, there are just a few who really haven’t ‘an earthly’ at the job,” scathingly remarks a London writer. “Some of them have been appointed orderlies in military hospitals, but they find that their ignorance of the menial duties of domestic life militates against their success. One of them the other day, engaged in cutting bread, used a knife tainted with paraffin, with the result that the slices smelt like the offspring of an oillamp. The following day the same heroine was told to scrub a table with

soda. She ingeniously commandeered a syphdn of soda-water, and proceeded to squirt it over the furniture. Thereupon she was informed that she had really better return to her home and comfort the lap-dog, which must be breaking its heart over her absence!” « * » « Writing to an Australian paper a ladys says:—“All flower lovers will. I think, agree that our best white rose is the Frau Karl Drusckii, and to retain that awful name in face of what German kultur has compassed during the war is at once an offence against our sense of the ‘eternal fitness of things,’ and a besmirchment of the intrinsic good qualities of this glorious rose. We all love the rose, but abhor the name. That beautiful production which, by its purity of bloom, appeals to the aesthetic in our nature, and by its dignity of poise and strength of growth commands our respect, should possess a name that would at once suggest something of its-'-own character. My humble

proposition is that the name of ‘Edith Cavell’ should be substituted for the present truly ugly name.