SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 48, 20 November 1907, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Miss Louise Croucher, of Nelson, has just returned home from Germany, whero she has been studying music for some time. During her stay there she won tho highest honours obtainable at tho Leipzig Conservatoriiim of Music, and also earned golden opinions from the professors under whom she studied. Miss Croucher's musical career lias been with the greatest intorest by the Nelson people who knew her as a. very promising student, and before whom she had often appeared at concerts prior to her departure for Leipzig. •' Sho gave a concert in Nelson on November 13, and the audience was aroused to enthusiasm by her masterly performance. One paper, commenting on it, speaks of the characteristics of her playing as being " brilliancy of execution, free bowing, and fine full tone with plenty of volume —indeed, surprising volume —a rare ability to produce harmony, and finally, a marvellous memory." She played a concerto of Tschaikowsky's, a piece bristling with technical difficulties, comprising ■ six movements, and including a cadenza which can only be attempted by a high-class and skilled executant. This lasted for thirty-five minutes, and when she had finished the audience showed its opinion, of the very fine performance in round-after round of applause. On Saturday afternoon, at St. James's Church, Mr. H. E. Carey, of the commercial staff of The Dominion, was married to Miss Olive Cicely Mildred Heaton, of the Hutt. Tho Rev. J. Jones performed the ceremony. Tho bridesmaids were Misses P. Heaton,.Nina Smith, May Heaton, and Flora Scales. Mr. R. Lee was best mSn, and the groomsmen were Messrs. E. D. Heaton, R. Kingdon, and E. P. Richardson. After the ceremony a reception was held'at ".Ridgeside," tho home of the bride's mother. > On Thursday evening, at 7.45, Mrs. Evans, M.A., is to give a lecture on Charles Lamb in the Y.W.C.A. Rooms, under the auspices of the Y.W.C.A. Debating Society. The openjng of the Kelburne Ladies' Bowling Green is to take place this afternoon if the weather proves fine. This event had been arranged \for two previous dates, and each time wet weather made a postponement necessary. ■ ■• ../• It is to he hoped that tho women of Wellington will patronise tho Flower Show to be opened this afternoon by Lady Plunket in the Conceit Room of the Town Hall. The Rose, and Carnation Club takes great pains to make its annual shows a success, but it does, not always meet with tho encouragement it deserves. To-day a committee of ladies has undertaken to provide afternoon tea for visitors at sixpence per head.. Mrs. .Warren, of Tβ Ante, is staying in town, and hopes soon to be able to return to Hawke's Bay with her little son, who is recovering from his recent, operation..