SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 831, 1 June 1910, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

| The Pioneer Club. Members of the Pioneer Club were very pleased to have an opportunity of meeting some of the leading members of the Grand Opera Company yesterday, when Mdllc. Bel Sorel, Miss Amy Castles, and Miss Rosina Buckmann, with Mrs. Blarney, wife of the prinio tenore, were the guests of the club for the afternoon. Mdlle. Sorel prefers to speak French, but she makes her English quite fascinating, and even when 0110 is not near enough to hear what she is saying it is charming to watch her animated expressive face. It was disappointing, especially to those who had already met her, that Mdme. Sorel through indisposition was prevented from accompanying her daughter. Miss Castles and Miss Buckmann, of course, are not strangers to Wellington, so this served as an opportunity for them to renew old acquaintances as well as to make new ones. Mrs. Blarney, who is an English lady, was married .just before coming out to Australia on Mr. Blarney's engagement with Mr. Williamson. She found the heat of Australia very trying, but thoroughly enjoys New Zealand's cooler climate. A distinguished visitor to Wellington, present as an honorary member of the club, was Miss Mary Hall, "who, I by the way, intends to tell the story of i her journey through Africa from Cape to ! Cairo, in the Town Hall somewhere towards the end of this month. Hers is | to bo the first of the winter series of j lectures arranged by the Library Committee, and no doubt it- will be very well i attended. During the afternoon • Miss Donaldson played several violin solos very charmingly. . The members of tho committee present were: Mrs. David Nathan, who wore a long black seal coat over her black dress, and a large black hat with plumes; Miss -Phoebe Myers, in costume of grey cloth with black and l white facings, and purple hat; Miss Helyer, dark tailor-made costume, and hat to match; Miss Amy Kane, purple cloth frock with silkembroidered lace of the same shade, and black hat. Mdllc. , Sorel wore a brown frock with a beaver coat, the collar lined with rose pink chiffon, and a beaver hat with brown plumes; Miss Amy Castles wore .a frock of pale mauve crepe de chine, draped with figured chiffon, a sealskin coat, and black hat with very handsome white plumes,, and she carried a large ermine muff; Miss Buckraann's costume was of grey cloth, with small round _ yoke of aluminium net, and with it she wore a black fur tricorne hat, and black fox furs. Mrs. Blarney came in a vieux rose costume, and a hat of a darker shade; Miss Donaldson, dark bine tailored costume, and blue silk hat. The rooms had been very prettily decorated, the reading-room with yellow and white chrysanthemums and grasses, and the drawing-room with rosepink gladioli anemones, and autumn foliage. Melba in London. A Press Association message received last night reports the overwhelming welcome that was accorded to -Madame Melba on Monday night, when she made her reappearance at Covent Garden in "La Boheme." Enthusiastic admirers waited in the queue at the door of the theatre from eleven o'clock in the morning to welcome the great singer. She had a rapturous reception,, the theatre was packed, and the flowers showered on her overflowed from her dressing-room into tho corrid&r, one magnificent .floral offering composed of lilies standing Bft. in height. It was a royal reception, and must have been aIK tho more overwhelming coming at this season. Sister Isabel Farewelled. Sister Isabel Sinclair, the deaconess who for the past five years has been in charge of the Tory Street Mission, was entertained by the members of the mothers' meeting in the Mission Hall on Monday night. Sister Isabel has resigned the position in' Wellington to enter on mission , work in" Auckland, and.,, this gathering was",for the purpose of saying farewell, and of presenting her with a travelling bag, the gift of the mothers to whom Sister Isabel has always been a very true and devoted friend. The donors expressed their appreciation of all Sister Isabel had done for the mission, and in reply Sister Isabel said how much she had enjoyed her work in Wellington, and the kindly feeling that had always been shown to her. A Feilding Presentation. Our Feilding correspondent writes that on Monday tho hoarders at Hastie's Hotel presented a silver afternoon tea-set to Miss Margaret O'Neill'on the eve of her marriage to' Mr. B. Watson, of Wellington. Mr. B. Murphy made the presentation. Miss Phyllis Fell, who has been spending her holidays in Nelson, returned to Napier yesterday; Mr. Henry Hadfield's friends will be glad to hear that satisfactory uews of his health was received by this week's mail. Mr. and Mrs. Hadfield are living just now at Blackheath. Mrs. (Dr.) Putnam, from Palmerston, is in town. Miss Lucy Brandon arrives, to-day from Sydney. 1 Miss Bulkley is visiting Napier, where she is the guest'of Mrs. Lake. \ Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Erie, of New Plymouth, are in town to meet their daughter, Miss Winnie Erie, who arrives from England to-day. The Sisters of Compassion acknowledge with sincere thanks tho receipt of 120 articles of clothing from the Two-garment Society. The death occurred at Nelson on Monday of Mrs. Thomas Smith, of Horokiwi, Pahautanui. The deceased lady, who was a daughter of Mr. Charles Stuart, of Pahautanui, had been in poor healtli for some time past. The body will be interred at Pahautanui. 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