SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 869, 15 July 1910, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

STie Nurses' Ball. • Tho success of the ball'given last year in St. Peter's Hall by the Wellington .Trained ■ Nurses' Association, prepared one for r. similar success this season,, but the'committee themselves must have been unprepared for tho way the Sydney Siroot Hall was last night crowded with guests. Red and white , are tho nurses' colours, and they ruled the decorations. The entry, of tho hall was draped with alternate bands of red and white, which . had a most cheerful effect,' and the stage, ' which was charmingly . decorated; with palms and firry plants, was gay with ecarlet flowers. The programmes bore tho red cross of the nurses' badge, and downstairs in the supper room the tables were adorned with red and white flowers, narcissi, and camellias, and on each were crimson crosses. The ante-rooms were furnished for those who wished to sit out the dances, and'they were decorated with masses of yellow wattle. .So great was the crowd of dancers that t dancing became a matter of . some difficulty and much, dexterity, and tho accommodation on tho stage and ante-rooms was fully taxed. A string band played the dance music. In the throng: it was difficult to single out individuals or.to recognise the nurses, very few of .whom came in their pretty uniforms. Mrs. Gibbs, president of 'the Wellington Trained Nurses' Association, who was presented by the nurses with a beautiful scarlet and white bouquet of white narcissi and rowan' berries, wore a frock, of black satin, with white chiffon guimpe, worked with gold; Miss Hester. M'Lean, black .satin ; and cream lace; Miss Dunlop, 'green chiffon taffetas, with gold ■ embroidery"; V Miss Stewart, black silk, with sequined trimming; Miss Payne, black chiffon with jet sequins; Miss Douchcr, black, with white net: yoke, and pynys of turquoise blue velvet; Mrs. (Dr.) 'Clay, pink silk; Mrs. I. M. B. Fisher, white satin; Dr. Gunn, pale pink satin and cream la'ce; Mrs. .(Dr.) Martin, white satin; Mrs. Waters, ,Waek. tjilk"; Miss Lucas, pink silk; Miss 'Eileen Ward, flowered chine'silk; Mrs. Corrigan, white ninon; Miss Bulldey, pale nine mousselino do'soie;. Miss ..Pascoe, heliotrope silk, .with silver'' sequins; Mrs. Fitchett, blue and white striped eilk;' Miss Holgate, black satin, 'draped' with net; Mrs. J. M'lCenzie, black silk; Mrs.- Gibbons, pale pink; "silk;. Mrs. Wylie.purplo crepe .de chine, with Egyptian"-- scarf; "■ Miss do Castro,'' white satin, with fereen ■ and silver embroidery; Miss A. M'Lean, pink silk; Miss E. Seddon, black- sequined frock; Miss West, flowered silk; .Mrs. Henderson, .w-hite chiffon taffetas; . Miss Sexton*' black requined net; Mrs. (Dr.) Young, white Bilk; Mrs. J. O'Sliea, :.rose-coloured ninon with pearls; Mrs. Chatfield, white. net with hclio'trope sequins; Miss Thompson, pink silk frock with pink.' roses; Mrs. (Dr.) Boyd, black with silk Paisley scarf; Mrs. (Dr.) .Harty, black silk with cream' net'sleeves and -blue trimming; Miss Gentles, black "chiffon taffetas. nnd lace bertha; Miss Amy Kane,'-green satin with tulle overskirt; Miss - M'lCenzie,, white eatin with gold floral spray; Miss 'L.. Pascoe, gold spangled net /over, pink foundation; Mrs. Lcvvoy, black sequined net; Miss Harrison, yellow silk; with touches of'black; Miss Whitehorn, .electric blue silk; Miss Peat, . pale jrink nioussoline de soie; Mrs, -Bailey, green, silk; Mrs.'(Dr.) Hogg, heliotrope silk with silver sequined trimming; Mrs. "Renner,' black beaded net with sequined trimming; Miss Hickey, pale blue frock and sequin's; Miss Dimant, net over white silk; Mrs. Morton,.pink silk; Miss Logan, palo blue satin; Miss Kane, .black frock with slashed sleeves and white under- . sleeves; Mrs. Jameson,- cinnamon brown; Miss Anderson; white silk; Miss Gear, peacock blue charmeuse; Miss Kerr--Hislop (debutante), white silk; Mrs. (l'i./ Kerr-Ifolcp, black net over green silk; .Jliijs E. Si.ihschild,. cream net over pink silk;; Miss .Warburton, pale blue ■ silk; ■Miss Kirk," white ninon over pink silk; Mrs. Henry Hall, white silk; Mrs. . Thompson, black satin with jet trimming; Miss Newall, white silk; Mrs. Rattray, 'pale blue. Among .the nurses who wore uniform were Sisters Pengelly,, Wilson, '.Morris,'Brandon, Huddleston, Nurse Sexton (district nurse), and Mit's Brookes. Miss Beatrice Day, who is intensely interested in all . that concerns nurses, came after the theatre, and other visitors to Wellington were Miss Edwards (South Africa), Miss Hawken (Wanganui), and Miss Maxwell (Auckland). ' - A Wellington Wedding. ■A very pretty .wedding took, place on Wednesday afternoon at the Terrace Congregational Church, when .Miss Nellie Aldous, second daughter ,ot" the late Mr. George Aldous, of Wellington, Was married to Mr. Jas. Paterson Hewitt, eldest,son of the late Mr. T. B. Hewitt, also of Wellington, and late overseer of waterworks to the Wellington City Coun-: cil. ' . The bride, who was given away by her brother wore a beautiful cream . cloth robe, richly trimmed with lace'and braid and'a large cream hat with chanticleer feathers, lined with satin, .veiled in chiffon. , She was attended by Miss Ruby Aldous, her sister, who wore a haiufsome lace gown and a black velvet hat with plumes, lined, with pale pink, and two tiny bridesmaids, Miss Hazel Aldous, her niece, and Miss Kitty Barker (niece of the bridegroom), who wore pretty white embroidery dresses and pearl. caps. Mr. Wm. Bayly acted as best man. The Rev. Mr. -Paterson (uncle of tho bridegroom) performed the ceremony, assisted by the liev. J. Reed Glasson. After the ceremony Mrs. Aldous enter-t-iined a number of guests at her home •n Goldies Brae, where the" floral decorations were most artistic. Mrs. Aldous wore black pailt-tle silk and ) black sequined lmt with feathers; Mrs. Hewitt, black tailor-made, 'costume and Mack hat, Miss Aldous, cream serge coshunc- and beaver hat. The_bride's travelling costume was of-Harris .tweed, with large Wedgcwood Jjlue. velvet hat',. The bridegroom's presents to. the bridesmaids ware pearl and turquoise brooches.

A Woodville Wedding. A wedding in which considerable interest was taken was celebrated at Woodville yesterday, when Miss Rosa Davits, secouu daughter of -Mrs. E. Davies, of Woodville, was married to Mr. Sharpe, of the Railway Department. A large number of relatives and friends were present at the wedding at Holy Trinity Church, where the Rev. Eccic-s officiated. After the ceremony Mrs. Davies entertained the guests at a wedding breakfast in (lie Foresters' Hall, and at a "social" in tho evening. ' A Canterbury Pilgrim. (Contributed by an Old Friend.) Another old Canterbury pilgrim has gone io lier rest. M T. S. Duncan, late of Strowaii, Cliristchurch, grand-daughter of the eighth Lord Hollo, died, at Kelburne,' Wellington, on July 13. Born in November, 1828, at Auchtcrarder, near Perth, Scotland (the family seat of her uncle, Major .Hunter),'s'lie had the misfortune, when a mere child, to lose her mother, and as her father never married again she was sent to Edinburgh to a ■boardingtchool to bo educated, where sho romnined until her marriage, in her eighteenth year, to Thomas Smith Duncan, solicitor, son of the Procurator Fiscal for Perthshire. 1 Mr. Dunc'an after his marriage took up the factorship blanch, of his father's business-with much assiduity, but the glamour of colonisation overtook the young couple, and My. and Mrs. Duncan determined to throw in their lot with tile New Zealand Canterbury setfor whose conveyance to New Zealand ' vessels were (lien being fitted out. After the usual preliminaries were arranged, Mrs. Duncan, • with her husband and infant- daughter, left Plymouth for New Zealand' in'the ship Randolph (Captain, Dale), on September 7, 1850, arriving in Lyttelfon' after ail exceedingly fino voyage, on December 1G of that year, being'the second of . the first four ships'to reach pert. Mr. and Mrs.. Duncan soon after arrival bought I land at Decanter Bay, Banks Peninsula, where they resided lor some seven or eight years. Eventually they settled'ill Christehurch, where Mr. Duncan started -in practice .as a solicitor, eventually being appointed Crown Prosecutor and Solicitor, 'lie being t.he originator of the present iirm of -Duncan, Cotterill, and Stringer. Amongst those who' were "in partnership with him in his legal business were Mr. Justice J. S. William-, Mr; cx-Justiee J. 0. Martin, the late (Mr. Andrew Jameson, and Mr. Henry Cotterill. Mrs. Duncan was a woman of grand physi?|tie, and she made a splendid pioneer settler. Her upbringr ing -svas well known, and her courage and example, were great incentives to i\iany less courageous women who. were hardened up by her undaunted spirit and prowess when their hearts were quailing amid the struggles and hardships of early colonisation. ' Miss Jessie Stevenson has been appointed organist of the Presbyterian Church, "Woodville, Miss Hambling having resigned. ■Mrs. Fowlds arrived from Auckland yesterday by the Main Trunk express, awl ■ will-remain in Wellington for some time. Miss Theta- Poynter leaves to-morrow' to visit her mother, at Eltham.' She will return to Wellington early in August, when with her. cousin, Mrs. Freeth, she leaves for South Africa. . . The members of tho City Council are giving a reception to the Mayoress, Mrs. Wilford, at the Town Hall, at four o'clock this afternoon. Mrs. Abbott is giving a private skating parly at the Hint on Monday evening. .