SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 34, 4 November 1907, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Girls' Realm Guild. . The first annual meeting of the Kin Ora Centre of the Girls' Realm Guild was hold on Friday evening at " Himitangi," Clyde Quay, when there was a very good attendance of members. The president, Miss .Elsie Abbott, was in the chair. Plans for work were discussed, and it was agreed that early in. December a handkerchief fete should be held in aid of the funds of tho Guild. Mrs. T. W. Hislop has kindly consented to allow this fete to be held in her grounds, and has promised to provide tea for the visitors. The Centre will ajso make it its business to send supplies of literature to lighthouse keepers by every steamer, and to make clothing for 'an institution in need of such help. A letter sent by a lonely "girl of fifteen in the Chatham Islands to the Girls' Realm Magazine was read, and it was agreed that this centre should correspond with the writer, send her literature, and do whatever else lay in its power to Jiolp her. It has been arranged for a "toy evening" to be held by the Centre in : December, and for the gifts to be. sent to local charities, at Christmas time. The Kia Ora Centre is evidently getting to .work with a will. • Social Doings.' On Friday evening Mrs. Rankine-Browne gave a 'ladies' bridge party which served as a farewell to Mrs. Buchanan, who is leaving town in about a fortnight, and also as anopportunity for Mrs. Rankine-Browne to say farewell to her friends before she leaves for her. long visit to Nelson. Tho pretty rooms were decked with anemones, and delicately coloured stock, and the supper-table beautifully decorated with early nasturtiums. Mrs. Rankir.e-Browiic woro a white taffetas frock with bodice of tambour lace. : Among the guests were: Mrs. Buchanan, in pale bUie silk with pretty lace and seqnin embroidery on the bodice; Mrs. Salmond, striped black silk; Mrs. Tweed, cream net with touches of pale • blue silk on the bodice; Miss Hilda.' Williams, rose-coloured chiffon 'Velvet; Mrs. Pollen, black taffetas with sleevos" and yoke of white net with jet trimmings; and Mrs. Rawsqn, black net covered' with jet and moonlight sequins. , ■ On Thursday afternoon Miss E. Nicoll one of the clerks in the Government Irisur-1 ance Office, who is about to be married, was, presented by members of the staff with a silver cake and hot water jug, and. a case.of silver'tea-spoons. The presentation was made by the secretary,' Mr. Hudson-. ■ On Friday evening the girls of the Insurance and Survey Departments combined to give Miss Nicoll a "kitchen" evening at Miss O'Reilly's in Clifton Terrace, when] many of Miss Nicoll's friends were present, and a very enjoyable evening was spent. A "literary competition" was ,won by Miss Nicoll, and the "word competition" by Miss O'Reilly. Miss Dimant proposed Miss Nicoll's health, which'was'drunk with musical honours. . ..■ r Miss Olive Kirkcaldie's wedding to Mr. Finch takes.place on November 16. ' Major Tuson, Adjutant-General of. the Defence.Council, expects his wife and family to arrive in Wellington in January. They have taken Bishopscpurt for the months of the Bishop's , 'absence! ■ Mr. and Mrs. E. J. f: Zohrab are staying at Day's Bay house for some weeks. Mrs. and Miss Lethbridge are staying at Miss: Partridge's, at Gplder's Hill. Mr. Lethbridge has'been very illj , but is now recovering. ' . ■ '■ . '.