SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 659, 9 November 1909, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

- [Notices of Engagements and, Weddings - When reports ot weddings and onnounre- • ments of engagements are sent to "Dominica" for publication, the name and address of the sender should be enclosed, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith Otherwise the •nroanoements cannot be published.] Tea at the Windsor. 3'ts Milne yesterday afternoon, at the Hotel Windsor, gave a delightful tea, at which some 40 guests were present. Tea was served in the room at the end of the cafe, which was carpeted and furnished like a drawingrooni, and decorated with a variety 'of beautiful flowers. There was a good deal of music during tho afternoon, among those who took parl; being Mrs. Milne, who tang several songs, and Mrs Montagu, who gave a pianoforte solo Miss Ella Cooper, and Mrs Ihiuer recited Mrs Milne'wore a very pretty frock of petrol blue, with yoke of cream laco and Oriental embroidery 'on bodice and skirt Her cloche hat, of mole-colonred straw was tninmed with a Vrreath of tiny roses Mrs Bollard, her mother, who is at present• staying with Mrs Milne, wore a blaok costume with black and white bonnet. Among other guests present were Mis Fowlds, Mrs. E. M'enzie, Mrs. Duncan, Mrs s Wil=on, Mrs and Miss Cooper, Jlrs Spragg, Mrs. Hamer, Mrs. and the Misses Halley, Mrs. j Clarke, Mr. Harrington, Mrs. Bollard, Mrs. lachmann, Mrs. Schlose, Airs. G Ross, Mrs. ' Jaokson Palmer, Mrs. and Miss M'Gregor, and i Mrs. Malcolm Boss. A Girls' Tea. Miss Vera Fulton was hostess yesterday at '- a very enjoyable girls' tea, given in honour of Misi>,Hoggani, whose marriage to Mr. Humx phnes, of Napier, takes place on the 24th oi this month. Roses decorated the rooms, and the'tea tablo was decorated • with mas. A nurabe" of Miss Hoggard's girl friends were present. , Rose and Carnation Show, ,' Floral decorations are to' receive special attention at (Jus year's Rose and Carnation bhow, which 19 to bo held in the Town Hall on Wednesday, 'November 17. Tho bouquets and buttouholes are to be judged by Mrs Hankine Brown, and tho decorated tables, for which special pnaes are offered, and for which already a number of entries have been rccetved. are to be judged by ballot. A beaufa- \ ful silver tea-=orvice has been presented by several Wellington ladies for the best sii poroses grown within uvcnttles of'the post office. v, » nt l another special prize is being given foi. \ the best six sueetpeas, tastefullj arranged in \ a vase A committee,of nineiladies has bten *-~i2>i orme i to ™>e charge of the arrangements for afternoon tea, and each of these will nave four assistants > acting as waitresses There-used until very recently to be much trouble m giving alternoon tea downstairs jn.that large hall, as, the only tea boiler was in a room off the concert hall, tat -within the last few weeks, boilers have been fitted m downstairs, with other comeniences for making tea, and this will make the tea committee's work easier .than last year. If th<!ri> Am n<, many visitors this year as last, whe n five hundred people were served tfith afternoon tea, the tea committee will feel particular!} grateful the show! MrS> ewn,Dn " '° °P™ Masterton Notes. , «Jnf th P ?" nE; ? f the , tenD 's, season is an event that is always looked ionvard to with much pleasuro m Masterton, and club was oxceptionaUj fortunate sue a f"'t\ 0 ' lts oPomng as Saturdaj proved *°J *.¥» grounds, w ? re looking exceedißgl" M= ( U N. James H £.m » Sclanders, Aitken, others. Mr - Wat son, and manj Miw J Orr of Welhngton, who is spending a twelve months' aoliday in England, h£ already trTrplt od a f ot th s Ol i Countr y soulh «f the I rent, and has paid a brief visit to Pans Having spent some time it London, she iabout to make farther tours in the Midlands aftor which she proposes to visit relations m Ireland, and later contemplates a tour in Scotland Bollard, wife'of Mr Bollard, M.P., and her daughter, Mrs, Milne, leave for Auckland on yJw-J- • MrsiAieo. Fowlds, wife of the Hon. Gta PowJdß who has been, spending a few weeks in Wellington, leaves for Auckland to-daj. Lady Osborne-Gibbes, with her daughter Mrs F. rhorapson, returned to Wellington last \F«eK. ' Her Excellency Lady Plnnket is comin ? down to Wellington on November 1G and will stay in town for some little tuno.