SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 700, 28 December 1909, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

A Scholarly Wedding. . A marriago of '.'unusual • ,interest;• in. nholastie,circles .wiw celebrated last week V in Invercargill, - when Mr. _s George E. Thomson,: M.A., was - . Miss ■ WaryWebb, 'M.A.I' The bride, i,who was,, Kivon. uway :by . brother, -Ulr. J.. 11. '■'fr-Webb, first Vassistant;~';in the Southland Girls' High Sehpol,; and *MigiiedSin';ordeV^tp:'assume>the:position of lady principal of the Girls' High School .at Stratford,aposition; .which : ::/sne:tMiiiquisHed^oMy;: ; before her : marriage. Miss Webb's record. 1 ■ in tho .. primary/..and (secondary .schools and in the ,, -:jihivor^ty.*as.;-cro\vded. , : \wth. : hoaours, 'and as'a: teacher, she was ,vc , Mr! .George Thomson; if probably :one' of.v,the •• most .;«aisti&guishedfscholarsthat has passed . -.through tho University of New Zealand. While'at.Otago.University he. was in the ■■".first:'classr.,ii(;jji'early "every ..[subject ; that; ■ ho took, andi when he graduated Master ■^V®'-. ,, Aits J ;';Trith , gnages, he' completed a '.roiiird• tbiat will ' •' probably not ba equalled-. for : a graft : ■ many-years. Mr. Thomsonfhas-inado languages his special : study, and recently .'-o;i®roceeded..':tb.;;sni'i3' :i .'t6 perfect ; his knowM.pledge': of "r-T'renohi at ;i i ; ne I '-University '-of .j.Vatho -French:. capital;'. AM: the present time; ;. ; - Mr.; Thomson is a lechirer in languages it tho Otago -Univorhtv. - The brides l ; maids wore Miss 1 AtffWtihh, -Miss Cox, .. and Miss Thomson; wiilo the bridegroom . . *as , supported . by. Lis brother as teat ■'•v^an: \r) Tho matron of tile ;' Salvation. Anny Homo for Children Swishes to .thank all -iwho.-have' sent 1 , moriaror. other things to ■j" v ,mafce-fthe children's] Christm as sa ; happy ono< The sum of -Jl7 4s. 3d. -was conj' i.i tributed /by'jthe; Thdnidon rail way (sUifi';-; Professor : and - Mrs. Richmond are canipifig ' at, the -Sounds.:with a largo Mr.: and Mrs. Wmkfield, of Fiji, ,who . arnved ' by. jthe, Corinthic from England' . yesterday, are staying at tho Hotel Bris- . 'tol.'.The y leave to-raorrow for Fiji, via Aucklai d. 1 Professor and Mrs. Salniond, with their '' children, leave'-.next; week,,for. a . visit - io Moeraki. Mrs. Jameson, -of Kclburnc, has gone to ltotorua. Miss Baber- is staying at Muntai. . Miss Daisy'Eeillv . arrived irom London'yesterday, by tne s.s. Cpnnthic, and -. is staying' with Mrs. L.Dwan, Nairn . Street, "'for..a few' days •before" returning to Hawera. Miss Keilly, . who is well 5:. 2' known in ' -musical. % circles, i '.was.; studying : . voice; production. Innder'Mtbe ".'well-known : London teacher, Madam Minna Fischer, whq' is now. considered one. of the'greatest i. teachers in London.-' ri . > ■