SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 26, 25 October 1907, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

WELLINGTON LADIES' CHRISTIAN , . , . ASSOCIATON. , The Wellington : Ladies' Christian Association held-its weekly meeting at St. John's Schoolroom yesterday afternoon, when a number of cases wero dealt with; and relief .given in tho shapa of. grocery tickets and clothing. During the past fortnight the Association has 'been called upon to ; help /in two cases of extreme lieed,' in. each Of which the illness of. tho parent of a large family necessitated tho 'destruction of a 'quantity of clothing by tho: Health Department, and the Association had done its best to mako this loss good, sending to one family fiftyseven articles iof clothing.' ■ The Association •works in conjunction .with , the Benevolent Society, . and .jt : receives a subsidy , from .the Government on .what it. raises by private subscription. It_ also recoiycs a subsidy on what is put to.its account, by the sixpenny club, tho' subscriptions to which last / year amounted to over. £50. i -.-With its .funds the Association .is able to'afford more than essential help,, that is to say, where tho. Benevolent Society gives rations to a family, it is the aim' of the Association to add" a halfcrown grocery ticket; so that milk aild extra nourishing food provided for children and delicate persons. It supplies clothing, now and .old, making in the case of new clothing, wherever; possible, a small chargo;- .so that the repipients may feol they giving some return. This winter there'has been sol nnicll sickness that the Association has been* called upon ,to holji in. an unusually large' number of cases, and has provided largo amounts of. clothing and 'blankets. : : ' '

' : BALL AT, DUNEDIN. -' Last Friday evening saw another'brilliant ball given m the now Art Gallery at Dunedm.(says the "Witness")' when nearly 400 guests were.'present; The ball, which was given by about thirty bachelors •of Dunedin, was one of the; most successful over given hero, .everything possible being done for the pleasure of the guests.' The'ballroom looked beautifully, gay. and bright, the light coloured .iraJls being relieved by 'a decoration of flags suspended by ropes, from the ceiling, so as in.no wise to damage.-tho walls, and in each corner of tho room was a, large-mirror--draped with flags.,-Ono special feature'of the decor rations was tho : arranging of long : rows of bright, rose-coloured -paper in front of the rows. of. electric lights, shedding not only a soft, and-pretty 1 light over the whole room, but also giving a niost becoming tono, making all look their best.

Miss Ashcroft has returned from a visit to Auckland;

Mrs. Stratton Izard is staying with Mrs; Gerald Fitzgerald. ....

Miss Kempthorrie, of Dunedin, has ' returned from her two years' visit to Europe.

, Mrs. ; Fulton is at present visiting Dunedin; and is staying with Mrs. Barnett, Stafford Street. .

Mrs. J. B. M Ewen is going to. Rotorua on Monday noxt to spend some weeks in the Hot Lakes District.

Miss E. J. Wallis, daughter of Mr. J. Wallis,"of. Cambridge, was'married last week, to Mr. T-. M. Roberts; of Hinuera.

Miss Harcourt is : visiting Christclmrch, where she was present at the wedding of Mr. Russell Grace and Miss Noel Stead.

• Mr. F. Allen, of Hpbson Street, intends to .leave New Zealand with his family at the beginning of next year to reside in England.

The latest addition to the list of official shorthand reporters is Miss Violet A. Mills, of the Education Department, who has passed the shorthand reporters'examination under the Shorthand Reporters'' Act, 1900.

Mr. and Mrs. Hill-Jack, with their son and two daughters, have arrived.in Dunedin from England after; an. absence of some fourteen years, and intend once more taking up, their abode at / their residence, . " Romanoff," Roslyn. < y,

An interesting marriage at Dunedin yesterday was that of Mr. 11. D. Bedford, who rc T presented tho city in the last Parliament, to Miss; Brown, . daughter of an. ex-Mayor of Maori Hill,, and a cousin of Mrs. Troup,-.of this'city. '/■..

At St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral yesterday afternoon, Mr. B. S. Lyon, third son of Mr. H. M. Lyon, was married to Miss Mamio Medland, younger daughter of Mr. R. H. Modland, of this city. The Rev. T. H. Sprott porfprmed tho ceremony.

Mr.'and Mrs. Herbert Dix left on Wednesday morning with' their two little sons-for the United States, via Auckland. 1 They intend to stay a fow weeks in Auckland,, arid will catch tho Aorangi at Suva. Mr. Dix is going into business in San Francisco..

Miss Mildred Roes, formerly of Miss Palmer's staff, is roportcd to be thoroughly enjoying her long tour- abroad. When the last mail left. Miss Roes was-in Switzerland. It is oxpccted to be about eighteen months or so before she returns to Now Zealand.

This week's maii brings word of two New Zealand girls who have taken up nursiiig in London—Miss Evelyn Hackworth and Miss Ida Caohcmaille. Miss Hackworth .'has started on a course of training at London Hospital. Her friends will regret to hear that she has fractured her ankle, and was expected to be laid up for some tinio. Miss Cachomaille is at tho Poplar Hospital for Accidonts, and very much interested in her new work.