SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 524, 3 June 1909, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

__f Noticesof Engagements and Weddings.— •When...reports of weddings.: and. announce* :• ' suents t of y engagements • .are. /sent- .to Dominica " for. publication, the name and ' address of the!, sender should be enclosed, I Dot for publication, but aB an evidence of good faith. Otherwise the announcement! cannot bo published.] A Welllngton Wedding, , , _ Very early . yesterday morning ■•'at St. Potor's Church, Miss 'Baskiville, eldest daughter of • Mrs. - Baskiville, of Kelburno, was married to Mr. Edward Milward Anderson. eldest; son of ;Mr. Edward 'Anderson, of Wellington Terrace. ■ -,'As there had recently been bereavement in the family of the bridegroom,'the wedding .was o very quiet one. The . bride wore 'a white cloth gown with white toque, 'and she carried a white, orayerbook/ Two bridesmaids attended her,. Miss •Laura Baskiville, her sister, 'and Miss Helen ; ; ; Anderson, .both ; wearing pretty frocks of white -muslin and. white chip hats ;■ swathed with silk. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr. Walter Baskiville, and the Rev. Mr. Blackburn officiated,,assisted by the Rev. Mr. Hobday. Mr. Maurice Anderson was best- man. ' After the - wedding a reception ■■:■■ was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, and the bride and bridegroom left for Auckland by the Main Trunk train. , Mrs. 6: M. Anderson wore a taiior-mado travelling dress of striped tweed, with wide hat of black silk swathed with gold silk. - ' Wedding at Lower Hutt. At St. James's, Church, Lower Hutt, yesterday afternoon, a marriage was celebrated by the Kev; Joshua Jones, the 'parties being Miss S. 8.. Ousey,': third ; daughter ofr *1"? J®.*« .Mr. W. J£;' Ousey, of Carterton, and Mr.-W. Harris, of Lower Hutt, late of Crystal. Falls., /The bride was given away by, her .stepfather, 'Mr. C. Wright, andthe bridesmaids wore the Misses Ivy arid Amy ; Wright. Messrs. Saddler and Miller were ■ best man. and groomsman. The .bride's dreiss was, of cream taffeta silk, with ■ silk trimmings,; arid her travelling dress was •.a navy blue .tailor-made costume, worn , with a;merry;,;widow-hat..., The bridesmaids wore . costinnes of, cream serge,-, with :white imerrv ■ widow bats. v. ;.; ■■ >v ■ Weddings. Vo, interesting wedding ' was celebrated at f -bt. l ,Alary l fl,.Church, Mauriceville, yesterday - morning, when: Mr. John;Culloty, of Masterton; was ;: married to Miss Violet Ellen' Carrol, daughter of Mr. J. Carroll, of Mauriceville. Mr. ■■ Michael John VO'Brien, of Masbest man;. and the bridesmaids . wero Miss Iris Rosetta; Carroll, the sister ■ ?! th .° i b " do >: and Miss May Brooks, of " a "" c ey»le- - The ceremony was performed by the Kev. lather Saunderson, of Master- •• ton. •■■'..

•: Miss' Jefferies,.-third daughter of a wellKnown' farmer in 'the Bunnythorpe 'district was mama on Tuesday to Mr. Richard Marshall, who is also a' farmer at Bunnythorpe. One hundred; and fifty guests sat down to. the breakfast. At. St.. Mary's, Church, .Carterton, yesterday afternoon, Miss Ellen ; Chapman, oldest daughter of Mr. ft. J. Chapman, a wellknown and -respected citizen of Carterton, was marned, to Mr. * Henry Gardner. The T.' ather Bowe. officiated.' 1 Women and Military Training. .The size of the audience that assembled in the Concert .Hall yesterday afternoon—or ; congregation, as ono speaker called it—to listen to addresses, on the "subject .of.'compulsory military training said a great deal tor the enthusiasm with which the women of Wellington ■ are prepared to champion the proposed movoment, or for tho powers of persuasion of those ladies who attended the former meeting held at Mrs. David Nathan s home. AH who wore at that first meeting agreed that; they would try each to bring twenty friends to the. meeting ,in the' down: Fall, and it; 15 impossible to say howi many times certain .-'.popular ladies wore rung' -w during the , intervening days.' by their; iriends, each of whom was anxious to securo them; as one of the promised score. The honours of tho meeting were, carried off by tho i women , speakers. -Mrs. Atkinson - is of I course a practised public speaker. It was said, by an American '.visitor who had every opportunity of: judging that' not' in America is there a finer woman speaker than' Mrs. A A -,K. Atkinson, but the other ladies .who spoko yesterday; were novices,' and, it was remark-! ablo how well they acquitted themselves, without any sign of nervousness,- whatever may have, been their, secret tremors, and how well ;,they..put ..the., position. -Mrs. ■ David Rathan was eloquent, and persuasive,"and Mrs. Harold Johnston gave a .very compact and effective-little speech. . V . ■ And. yet with it air one realised why Dr Newman , had complained' a few days before ..V 10 1 dullness of' women's, meetings "Horribly dull" he called them; saying that women never applauded,' and therefore mado very vdifßcult. for.'.speakers to address them. There -was applauso yesterday, but -one knew there was not nearly so much appreciation expressed as was felt. Men arc very different; they like to keep going all the time, and when they are- once in tho vein for. , applauso at', any: public meeting, never lose a chaneo.

Coif and Hockey at Pahiatua. At a meeting of the lady members, of the Pahiatua Golf Club, held in St. Peter's Schoolroom on Tuesday, (writes our Pahiatua correspondent), Miss'Eileen Warren waselected captain, and 'MissA. Norton, secretary."'. The Ladies'. Committee consists of tho captain and. secretary, : . and Miss Swainson. . Several - olfcrs of trophies for competition wero received; . A, second^ladies' hockoy, club,. called the' Huia. Hockey Club,' has been/formed, 'with Miss Oxley captain, Miss - J. Spill,me sccretary, .and. Misses 0.. Oxloy, Coimio Saye'rs, Worrell, and Demalmancho the committee. ..... . Mrs., Van Ascli,'. of, Christchurch, returned from a trip to Sydney by the Ulimaroa yesterday." \ /; *, ' ■■ ' - • " ■ Mr.' and Mrs. Sydney Kirkcaldio returned from-a visit to Australia yesterday by tho Ulimaroa. ■ ' ~ ■ • '.- --, ■ Tho Itev. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Evans, of New Plymouth, with Miss Evans, are staying at the Hotel Windsor. -, Hawke's Day papers announce the death, at Ormbndville, on: May 31, of Mrs. Mary Flora 'Webb, eldest daughter of the late Canon-Webb. ' . Mr. and . Mrs. L. Blundell, of Wellington, accouipanlod: by ..their daughter, Mrs. N.

Nolson, of Yokohama, Japan, arrived from Sydney by the Wimmera, and are remaining in Auckland for a fow days. Miss Hopper, . matron of the Mercury Bay Hospital, has • been appointed matron of the Dannevirke Hospital. Miss Hopper (says an exchange) has very high recommendations' from. English hospitals. She has also had experience in South Africa. The new matron-is : the daughter of an army officer, and received her training at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge,. and St. Mary's Hos-pital,-London, where she also held the position of stali-nurse in one of ■ the • largest surgical wards. Since then Miss Hopper Jias held tho following positions:—Charge nurse of the women's ward at,tho Royal Mineral Water Hospital, Bath. Sister in charge of the women's medical.'and opthalmic wards at Ahe East Suffolk Hospital, Ipswich, for four years. Sister in charge of the men's accident and surgical warus of the same hospital for one and a half years. Matron of the. Buslioy Heath Hospital for two years;- night superintendent of tho Natal Government Hospital, South Africa, for three and a half years; matron of tho Mercury Bay Hospital since last October, which position she'now holds. Miss Hopper is . also a registered member of the Royal British Nursing - Association.