SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 796, 20 April 1910, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Stout, whoso letter to "The Times" on women's suffrage • in New Zealand has been published as a leaflet by two women's ■ franchise leagues at Home, has been asked to address many societies interested in the question. She has had to refuse, most; of the requests, but. hopes to. address 'a drawing-room meeting at, Bournemouth, and the Medical. Women's. Debating Society. Lady Stout is my much. impressed by the spirit of good, comradeship among all classes of women, that has been developed through thoir united fight' for the franchise, • and' the • self-sacrificing loyalty they have displayed. The vote, when they win it, will mean much more to the women of England, she says, than the franchise which was won with comparatively little difficulty by the women here.

The marriage of Mr. George Tripo to Miss Meta Bourke took place yesterday afternoon at Waipukurau.' Yesterday Miss .S. I. ■ Hetherington, of Thames, was appointed, assistant matron at the Wellington Hospital vice,!, Miss Crear (resigned). For six years Miss Hetherington, who is a native of the Dominion studied nursing.in London. Several '.certificates of proficiency accom-panied-her application for the position. •. Miss Luckie has returned from a holiday visit to. Auckland. Mr. W. E. Wilson, one .of the proprietors of the "New Zealand Herald/' Auckland, . arrived in Wellington with Mrs. Wilson, .and family a few days ago. ■ They will leave by the lonic on Friday on a visit. to England, and will probably return in about twelve.: time. _Mr.s. Cowx, wife of the. vicar of Waipawa, who has been spending some weeks in Wellington, has returned home. Mrs. John Duncan has been entertained by hor friends.during the past: week or "two at various farewell teas, and yesterday afternoon a most enjoyable' tea was given by Mrs. Tweed, for Mrs. Duncan and for Miss Hilda Moorhousc, who will also be a passenger by the lonic. ■' The annual meeting of the Wellington [Ladies' Christian Association will bo held at 1 St. John's Schoolroom on Thursday at 3 p.m. . In connection with*, the general mission, the Mothers' Union of St. Paul's will hold a series of meetings for. mothers and girls... The first of these was held in the Sydneyi Street Schoolroom last night, when a. number of mothers and senior girls were present. Addresses were do--Uvered by.Mrs. Wallis'and Mrs. Sprofct, who told something of what the approaching mission hopes to accomplish. The meeting was a social one,' there were opportunities for conversation, and supper was served.. At,a meeting pf the Ambulance Association yesterday the resignation' of Nurse Lloyd, a valued member of the Ambulance Brigade, was received with regret, and it was decided to write thanking, her for her. past services. ' '

The extraordinary "Chantecler" millinery, which has such .a vogue (for the time being) in Paris/was seen for the. first time in Australia in "The Arcadians" at. Theatre Royal, Melbourne.' They are replicas of those worn in Paris as the result of Bostand's remarkable play, "Chantecler"—a farmyard romance. Four of the hats in the production cost over .£SO without duty. They are really extraordinary, and" look like the ' complete bird perched ,on .the Jady'6 head. ; Those worn in "The Arcadians"-include a lovely pheasant, an 0w1,..a hen, and a ihuge rooster, and are all.complete with ■wings, tails, and. heads.-,~-They..; ,wer6 seen in the racecourse scene in the second.act, and created quite a sensation. ,'At first the audience stared, in a puzzled and' amused way, and then burst into .loud.applause., , . ... . , , . >••''